Books set primarily in Washington, DC
Washington DC
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The Briar Club: A Novel
by Kate Quinn
Hardcover: Jul 2024
The New York Times bestselling author of The Diamond Eye and The Rose Code returns with a haunting and powerful story of female friendships and secrets in a Washington, DC, boardinghouse during the McCarthy era.
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Horse: A Novel
by Geraldine Brooks
Hardcover: Jun 2022
Paperback: Jan 2024
Winner of the 2022 BookBrowse Fiction Award
A discarded painting in a junk pile, a skeleton in an attic, and the greatest racehorse in American history: from these strands, a Pulitzer Prize winner braids a sweeping story of spirit, obsession, and ...
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Jackie & Me
by Louis Bayard
Hardcover: Jun 2022
Paperback: Jun 2023
Master storyteller Louis Bayard delivers a surprising portrait of a young Jackie Kennedy as we've never seen her before.
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Becoming
by Michelle Obama
Hardcover: Nov 2018
Paperback: Mar 2021
Winner of the 2019 BookBrowse Nonfiction Award
An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United States.
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Life Undercover: Coming of Age in the CIA
by Amaryllis Fox
Hardcover: Oct 2019
Paperback: Sep 2020
Amaryllis Fox's riveting memoir tells the story of her ten years in the most elite clandestine ops unit of the CIA, hunting the world's most dangerous terrorists in sixteen countries while marrying and giving birth to a daughter.
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The Secrets We Kept: A novel
by Lara Prescott
Hardcover: Sep 2019
Paperback: Jun 2020
A thrilling tale of secretaries turned spies, of love and duty, and of sacrifice--inspired by the true story of the CIA plot to infiltrate the hearts and minds of Soviet Russia, not with propaganda, but with the greatest love story of the twentieth ...
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Mighty Justice: My Life in Civil Rights
by Dovey Johnson Roundtree , Katie McCabe
Paperback: Nov 2019
"Dovey Johnson Roundtree set a new path for women and proved that the vision and perseverance of a single individual can turn the tides of history." —Michelle Obama
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American Princess: A Novel of First Daughter Alice Roosevelt
by Stephanie Marie Thornton
Paperback: Mar 2019
"Presidential darling, America's sweetheart, national rebel: Teddy Roosevelt's swashbuckling daughter Alice springs to life in this raucous anthem to a remarkable woman."' - Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author of The Alice Network
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Speak No Evil
by Uzodinma Iweala
Hardcover: Mar 2018
Paperback: Mar 2019
In the long-anticipated novel from the author of the critically acclaimed Beasts of No Nation, a revelation shared between two privileged teenagers from very different backgrounds sets off a chain of events with devastating consequences.
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That Kind of Mother
by Rumaan Alam
Hardcover: May 2018
Paperback: Feb 2019
From the celebrated author of Rich and Pretty, a novel about the families we fight to build and those we fight to keep.
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Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II
by Liza Mundy
Hardcover: Oct 2017
Paperback: Oct 2018
"Code Girls reveals a hidden army of female cryptographers, whose work played a crucial role in ending World War II.... Mundy has rescued a piece of forgotten history, and given these American heroes the recognition they deserve." - Nathalia Holt, ...
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Lincoln in the Bardo
by George Saunders
Hardcover: Feb 2017
Paperback: Feb 2018
In his long-awaited first novel, American master George Saunders delivers his most original, transcendent, and moving work yet.
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