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Historical Fiction August 2024
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The Briar Club : A Novel
by Kate Quinn
In 1950 Washington, DC, at an all-female boardinghouse called Briarwood, mysterious widow Grace March moves into the attic room, drawing her oddball collection of neighbors into unlikely friendship, but when a shocking act of violence tears the house apart, the women must expose the true enemy in their midst.
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Calder Country
by Janet Dailey
Making a deal to keep her smuggler father out of prison, Ruby Weaver agrees to help the Feds break up a bootlegging ring in 1920s Blue Moon, Montana, in the third novel of the series following A Calder at Heart.
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By any other name : a novel
by Jodi Picoult
Across centuries two women, Melina Green and Emilia Bassano, one a modern playwright and the other her Elizabethan ancestor, each fight societal expectations to have their voices heard on the stage in a world that silences female playwrights.
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The fertile earth
by Ruthvika Rao
A story of love and resistance centers on two young people born across social lines, set against a tumultuous political landscape in India.
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The Hidden Book by Kirsty Manning In a novel based on a true story of clandestine courage in World War II, prisoners of war risk their lives to secure evidence of Nazi atrocities. By the author of The French Gift.
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In a League of Her Own : A Novel by Kaia AldersonEffa Manley, an ambitious 1930s Harlem socialite, becomes the unlikely business manager for a Negro Leagues baseball team and fights for respect and success in a segregated world, leading the Newark Eagles to victory.
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A Nurse's Tale by Ola AwonubiBorn Nigerian royalty, Princess Adenrele Ademola trained as a nurse at Guy's Hospital in London and stepped up to serve the people of Britain when war broke out -- facing both the devastation of the Blitz and the prejudice of some of the people she was trying to help. 80 years later, Ade's great-niece Yemi arrives in London clutching the Princess's precious diaries and longs to uncover the mysteries they hold...
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This Bright Dust by Nina BerkhoutIn 1939, as the Great Depression winds down and war in Europe looms, the small Prairie community of Grayley is all but abandoned. Abel Dodds paces his family’s plot, searching for gold his late father buried in an undisclosed location. When his neighbour Jake Wishart drops by to tell Abel he’s leaving town and to ask if Abel can keep an eye on his sister, Una, and her son and grandfather, Abel reluctantly agrees.
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The Volcano Daughters by Gina Maria BalibreraSpending years under the cruel dictator El Gran Pendejo's regime in El Salvador, sisters Graciela and Consuelo, when genocide strikes the community from which they hail, and each believing the other to be dead, flee across the globe, reinventing themselves until fate brings them back together in the most unlikely of ways.
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