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The Library Thief by Kuchenga ShenjéFlorence, a white-passing bookbinder in Victorian England, is restoring a collection of rare books in the forbidding Rose Hall when she hears whispers about Lord Belfield’s late wife. When the library is broken into and his wife’s secret diary is burned, she realizes with horror that it may have held the clue to her fate.
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Charles B. Fancher "This multigenerational saga chronicles the interwoven lives of an enslaved Black family and their white owners as the Civil War ends and Reconstruction begins." |
Karen Russell "In a Dust Bowl-era town burdened by the Great Depression, a rag-tag team and a photographer with a time-bending camera grapple with buried secrets." |
Nancy Johnson "A Black mother and her daughter each seek justice and follow their dreams during moments of social reckoning in 1960s Nashville and 1992 Chicago." |
Stephen Graham Jones "In 1912, a pastor documents the confessions of a Blackfeet vampire seeking justice for a historical massacre, intertwining themes of revenge and survival on the reservation." |
Joseph O'Connor "In the final months of WWII, a group known as The Choir successfully smuggles thousands of escapees out of Nazi-occupied Rome via a secret route called the Escape Line." |
Georgia Hunter "In occupied Italy, Jewish best friends Lili and Esti hide orphans in a convent, but when Esti is critically injured, she asks Lili to go on the run with her son toward Allied territory." |
Elyse Durham "Twins Maya & Natasha are Kirov Ballet dancers during the Soviet regime, but when only one can join the company’s American tour, they compete against each other as the Cold War tests their loyalties." |
"In this timely tale of the fight for queer survival, a trans man and his girlfriend flee Nazi persecution in 1930s Berlin, later risking everything to protect a young trans Holocaust survivor from Allied arrest." |
"In 1953 London, Louise finds a secondhand necklace that bears the name of a Paris department store-turned-Nazi prison camp and is convinced that it holds the key to the mysterious death of her friend during the war." |
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