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Historical Fiction August 2026 |
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Under Two Flags
by Janis Robinson Daly
Berlin, 1916. Boston-born opera singer Josephine Marzynski is trapped in Germany during World War I. Torn between her music studies and loyalty to America, she discovers the truest anthem of freedom is the one she creates.
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Chelsea Girls
by Catherine Lloyd
A glamorous and revealing biographical novel for readers of Renee Rosen, Allison Pataki, and Fiona Davis, starring one of Swinging London's defining figures, Mary Quant, who made history with the miniskirt, slashed hemlines, and transformed more than fashion, for herself, for her friends, and for a generation.
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| Summer of Love by Kerri MaherPoet Winnie Hartley and her musician boyfriend live together in the midst of 1967 San Francisco's counterculture, but their union is volatile. Further up the coast, Winnie's sister Miranda dedicates herself to the family vineyard and wine business. Forty years later, Miranda's newly sober daughter discovers children's books that perfectly describe her family vineyard and sets out to find the famously anonymous author. Read-alikes: Where the Girls Were by Kate Schatz; California Golden by Melanie Benjamin. |
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| The Intrigue by Silvia Moreno-GarciaIn 1940s Mexico, handsome Ulises charms lonely women to get their money. His newest mark, middle-aged Perla, is the owner of a small-town boardinghouse in picturesque Veracruz. But things don't go as Ulises planned: Perla has a niece who wants in on his scheme. The two team up, but there's still trouble since Perla isn't the needy spinster Ulises thought she was. For fans of: atmospheric, pulp-inspired historical noirs. |
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The Brunswick
by Callie Murray
In 1939 Georgia, Cora Cain runs The Brunswick, her family's struggling general store and hotel. When Thomas Watkins arrives seeking solace after his mother's death, a connection sparks. But their relationship and courage are tested when they shelter Jewish refugee children, including ten-year-old Charlotte, whose father faces persecution in Austria.
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| The Queen's Coronation by Jennifer RyanIn 1953, Buckingham Palace staff prepare for Queen Elizabeth II's coronation while navigating their own lives: Caroline, assistant dresser to the queen, married for convenience and regrets it; beautiful wardrobe assistant Lucy dreams of singing stardom, capturing the attention of a deceitful man; and American Miranda, a temporary secretary, secretly writes about the coronation for her sexist boss in New York. But with new friends, the women might find new paths. Try this next: Christmas with the Queen by Hazel Gaynor and Heather Webb. |
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| Single Girls by John SearlesAfter the success of Sex and the Single Girl, Helen Gurley Brown is named editor of failing Cosmopolitan magazine in 1965. She assembles a team of smart, savvy women, and their lives become the stuff of magazine cover lines (Champagne hot tubs! Clashes with Joan Crawford!). Also covering Gurley's childhood and her later years, this fun read by former Cosmopolitan editor John Searles "sparkles" (Library Journal). Read-alike: Gill Paul's Scandalous Women. |
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The Last Movement
by Robert Seethaler
New York, 1911. Gustav Mahler's recent tenure conducting the New York Philharmonic has been an extraordinary success and a time of feverish artistic defiance. He is arguably the most celebrated musician alive. In America, however, his compositions have turned more inward-looking, for he knows, or suspects, that death is near. This slim, swift triumph of a novel finds him crossing the Atlantic, wrapped in blankets on the deck of the Amerika, bound for Vienna. Gazing over the ocean, Mahler reflects on music, marriage, loss, faith, regret, and the meaning of a life devoted to art.
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The Spy Keeper of Marseille
by Roseanna M. White
In occupied France, a woman becomes a spy for the Resistance and rises to lead the largest intelligence operation in the country in this propulsive new World War II historical novel by bestselling author Roseanna M. White. Marseille, France, 1941. Zelie Bellerose never fit the mold of an army officer's wife. She was too passionate in her convictions, too indifferent to societal expectations. After her husband is killed in the war, Zelie focuses on securing a brighter future for her children, hoping to help free her country from the Nazi regime by joining the Resistance.
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