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Gilmore Girls meets Oppenheimer in this dual-timeline family saga, set in a Manhattan Project town, about a granddaughter who uncovers her grandmother’s nuclear-age secrets and her own toxic inheritance.
THE HANFORD NECKLACE
The Hanford Necklace by Shannon St. Hilaire
What is the half-life of O’Toole family secrets?
In 2013, Saige is stuck living with her Granny Rosamond in her beige wasteland of a hometown. Desperate for a diagnosis and cure for her mysterious ailments, she uncovers more than she bargained for—a hot rock that shouldn’t exist and a past Rosamond refuses to explain.
That past takes place in the 1940s, when 50,000 people move to an eastern Washington town that doesn’t exist to build something they can’t name. Rosamond is one of them, eager to do her bit for the war effort—and find a husband. When she falls for a charming engineer, she envisions a perfect life. But as the hot war turns cold and her ever-expanding family becomes increasingly troubled, she discovers this nuclear town is no utopia, and she must decide whether to cling to the destructive facade of domestic bliss or face the truth that could save them all.
When Rosamond’s past collides with Saige’s search for healing, half-buried secrets—from the most contaminated place in the Western Hemisphere to the wounds within their own family—can no longer be ignored. Can Saige discover the truth and heal herself without destroying her grandmother’s life?
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In the beginning–before Earth, before humanity, before sin–there was Heaven. And it was perfect.
THE BATTLE FOR HEAVEN AND EARTH
The Battle for Heaven and Earth: A Story of Scripture Novel by Mark M. Yarbrough and Jerry B. Jenkins
This is the story of creation as you’ve never imagined it.
Once united in worship and purpose, the angelic realm is shaken when Lucifer–the most beautiful and exalted of all–questions the authority of God Himself. What begins as subtle pride soon ignites into open rebellion.
As loyalties fracture and one-third of Heaven’s hosts defect, Michael the Archangel is thrust into a role he never imagined: commander of God’s army in a war that was never supposed to erupt. Friendship turns to enmity. Worship becomes warfare. And Heaven itself becomes a battlefield.
From the first spark of dissonance to the thunder of celestial combat, this sweeping epic explores the origin of evil and the agonizing cost of free will. With vivid imagination rooted in deep biblical truth, witness darkness rising against the very throne of God . . . and the divine plan that refuses to be undone, one that stretches from the creation of a new world to a garden paradise, and a fall that echoes through all of human history.
This is not just the story of a rebellion.
It is the story of why it mattered.
And why it still does.
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“Finkle is that rare writer who achieves great effects without seeming to try.” -Roger Ebert
DOROTHEA THROUGH MY EYES
Dorothea Through My Eyes by David Finkle
Nathan and Pete met at Yale. A couple of years after graduation, Nathan is introduced to Pete’s British wife, Dorothea. Over the years, Nathan forms a close relationship with the couple. Dorothea hosts groups of their friends, including Nathan, for dinner parties at their modest apartment in New York, while Pete works on finishing his first novel.
Once Pete’s novel is published, his career begins to gather momentum. He and Dorothea move to London, where they have a son. Nathan is a regular visitor, but as time marches on he becomes a reluctant observer of the slow disintegration of Dorothea, and a dark side to her he hopes he can ignore. A friend to both Dorothea and Pete, Nathan is torn. Should he delve deeper into what is driving Dorothea or can he act as if he didn’t see anything at all?
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