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Thriller: Who is Vera Kelly? - Rosalie Knecht
Synopsis: The book is set in New York 1962, where Vera's struggling to pay rent and being able to blend into the underground gay scene. She is working at a radio station, her "wits, sharp tongue and technical skills" get her noticed by a recruiter for the CIA.
She is tasked with wiretapping a congressman and infiltrating young activists in Buenos Aries. Soon she becomes increasingly entangled with the radicals. As the local government begins to break apart, Vera is forced to take extreme measures to protect herself.
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True Crime: The Girl on the Velvet Swing - Simon Baaz
Synopsis: In 1901, a chorus girl, Evelyn Nesbit, would define with a much older architect Stanford White in his townhouse. That evening after drinking champagne, Nesbit would lose consciousness and would awake to find her naked beside White with spots of blood on her bed sheet.
She would not tell any of the rape until Harry Thaw, who would later become her husband. Thaw would shoot White in front of hundreds of theatregoers as an act of revenge. The trial gripped the nation, many Americans agreed he was justified whereas district attorney would argue for a death sentence.
"The Girl on the Velvet Swing, a tale of glamour, excess, and danger, is an immersive, fascinating look at an America dominated by men of outsize fortunes and by the women who were their victims."![]()
Travel: A Line in the River - Jamal Mahjoub
Synopsis: Jamal Mahjoub is a Sudanese exile who returns to the country twenty years after the 1989 coup. In this memoir, he explores the present and past of the country, his memories of his homeland, and his British and Sudanese identity.
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Romance: The Kiss Quotient - Helen Hoang
Synopsis: A thirty-year-old woman with Asperger's can make sense of her life using math, but one thing she can't understand is dating and the intimacy she feels it requires. She hires a male escort to help her, eventually they find their partnership making a lot of sense.
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