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Historical Fiction June 2024
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The Ballad of Jacquotte Delahaye
by Briony Cameron
An indentured servant to the infamous Blackhand, a ruthless pirate captain, Jacquotte, as she struggles to survive his brutality, must rely on her wits, resourcefulness and friends when she discovers treachery at play, forcing her to decide what price she's willing to pay to secure a better future for them all.
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| The Girls We Sent Away by Meagan ChurchSeventeen-year-old Lorraine wants to be first female valedictorian at her high school and the first woman in space, unusual dreams for a girl in 1960s North Carolina. Her dreams only become more distant when she's sent to a "maternity home" after discovering she's pregnant, but the ambitious and driven Lorraine is determined to make the best of a seemingly dwindling list of possibilities for her future. |
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| All the World Beside by Garrard ConleySet in a small Massachusetts village during the First Great Awakening, this well-researched, heartwrenching tale of faith and forbidden love centers on the very passionate (and equally dangerous) romantic connection that develops between devout preacher Nathaniel Whitfield and the town doctor Arthur Lyman. For fans of The Prophets by Robert Jones Jr. and The Disenchantment by Celia Bell. |
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| The Sweet Blue Distance by Sara DonatiResourceful nurse and midwife Carrie Ballentyne (granddaughter of Elizabeth Middleton, who readers first met in Into the Wilderness) leaves her position at a New York charity hospital in 1857 for a job in the New Mexico Territory, embarking on a journey as rife with danger and distress as it is rich with possibility and opportunities to save lives. |
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| The Book of Thorns by Hester FoxThis atmospheric and magical realism-tinged tale set during the Napoleonic Wars is narrated from the alternating perspectives of two women who don't know they're sisters -- the English Cornelia, who escapes the possibility of an arranged marriage by traveling with the French Army as a botanical healer, and Belgian servant Lijsbeth, who makes the most of her own connection with flowers on the other side of the conflict. |
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The Incorrigibles
by Meredith Jaeger
In 1972 San Francisco, aspiring photographer Judy Morelli, reeling from her husband's betrayal, discovers the mug shot of Annie Gilmurray and becomes invested in her fate, in this emotionally resonant novel that explores the different ways in which we are imprisoned and how we can break free.
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| In the Shadow of the Greenbrier by Emily MatcharBeginning in the early 1900s, this richly detailed and sweeping saga follows the ups and downs of a single Jewish family and their complex (and sometimes mysterious) ties to the iconic luxury resort of the title, located in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. |
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| Double Lives by Mary MonroeIn this atmospheric and compelling 4th entry in Mary Monroe's series of novels set in the status-obsessed, Jim Crow era Black community of Lexington, Alabama, identical twin sisters Fiona and Leona take their childhood trick of occasionally switching places into much more fraught territory as adults, with much higher stakes to match. |
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| Wolf at the Table by Adam RappIn this creepy and atmospheric family saga, award-winning playwright Adam Rapp meditates on violence, mental illness, and the nature of evil, starting with 13-year-old Myra Lee Larkin's brief run-in with a strange man who would later murder an entire family in her neighborhood in 1951, and following her uncanny connections to real-life killers like Richard Speck and John Wayne Gacy. |
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| A Sweet Sting of Salt by Rose SutherlandThis queer retelling of classic Celtic folktale The Selkie Wife takes place in 1830s Nova Scotia, where midwife Jean Langille assists Muirin, a woman going into labor on a nearby beach. The two form a strong bond despite a language barrier, which only grows deeper when Jean mistakes Muirin's behavior for postpartum depression. |
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