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Historical Fiction June 2020
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Written with the haunting emotional power of Elizabeth Strout and Barbara Kingsolver, an astonishing debut novel that explores the lingering effects of a brutal crime on the women of one small Texas oil town in the 1970s. It's February 1976, and Odessa, Texas, stands on the cusp of the next great oil boom. While the town's men embrace the coming prosperity, its women intimately know and fear the violence that always seems to follow. In the early hours of the morning after Valentine's Day, fourteen-year-old Gloria Ramírez appears on the front porch of Mary Rose Whitehead's ranch house, broken and barely alive. The teenager had been viciously attacked in a nearby oil field--an act of brutality that is tried in the churches and barrooms of Odessa before it can reach a court of law.
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The Land Beyond the Sea
by Sharon Kay Penman
The young ruler of 12th-century Jerusalem finds his efforts to protect his people complicated by his lifelong struggles with leprosy, threats against his power and a limited number of trustworthy advisors. By the best-selling author of A King’s Ransom.
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The end of October
by Lawrence Wright
Investigating dozens of mysterious deaths in an Indonesian internment camp, a World Health Organization doctor finds himself on a race to uncover the origins of a mysterious killer virus and find a cure before it decimates world populations.
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The book of lost friends : a novel
by Lisa Wingate
A modern-day teacher discovers the story of three Reconstruction-era women and how it connects to her own students’ lives in this latest from the New York Times best-selling author of Before We Were Yours.
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Welcome to the World, Baby Girl!
by Fannie Flagg
The author of Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe returns with a heartwarming comic novel about Dena Nordstrom, America's most popular female newscaster, and the hometown that tells her story. Reader's Guide included. Reprint. 40,000 first printing.
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| Exile Music by Jennifer SteilWhat it's about: the flight of a Jewish family of musicians after the Nazi invasion of Austria destroys their culturally vibrant Viennese community, and their efforts to rebuild their lives in Bolivia.
Why you should read it: While most people are aware of the postwar escapes of Nazis to South American countries like Chile and Argentina, the stories of prewar Jewish refugees are less discussed.
About the author: Jennifer Steil is a journalist and memoirist whose previous novel The Ambassador's Wife was published in 2013. |
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