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Historical Fiction September 2024
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| The Volcano Daughters by Gina María BalibreraIn an El Salvador led by a cruel dictator, sisters Graciela and Consuelo are born into an Indigenous community, but are taken away at different times for different reasons. After a 1932 massacre, the sisters, each believing the other is dead, flee, stopping in France, New York, and California, all while followed by ghosts of their friends, who narrate this sweeping, vibrant debut novel. For fans of: The Bullet Swallower by Elizabeth Gonzalez James.
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The Library Thief
by Kuchenga Shenjé
In Victorian England, white-passing Florence Granger, who her father brought home from Jamaica as a baby, is kicked out after a scandal. Having learned bookbinding from him, she cleverly acquires a position restoring rare books in the forbidding Rose Hall. But events lead her to believe that Lord Belfield's late wife was murdered. For fans of: The Fraud by Zadie Smith; The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray.
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Every Time We Say Goodbye
by Natalie Jenner
In 1955, Vivien Lowry's promising play in London's West End is critically panned, ending her theatrical career. Encouraged by Peggy Guggenheim, she becomes a script doctor in Rome's burgeoning film industry. Amidst post-war Italy's cultural flux, Vivien navigates personal and professional renewal while confronting the haunting mysteries of her fiancé's wartime fate. This is the 3rd in the Jane Austen Society series, following 2022’s Bloomsbury Girls.
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Great circle
by Maggie Shipstead
"After being rescued as infants from a sinking ocean liner in 1914, Marian and Jamie Graves are raised by their dissolute uncle in Missoula, Montana. There --after encountering a pair of pilots passing through town in a beat up Cessna--Marian commences her lifelong love affair with flight. At fifteen, she drops out of school and finds an unexpected and dangerous patron in a wealthy rancher who provides a plane and subsidizes her lessons, an arrangement that will haunt her for the rest of her life, even as it allows her to fulfill her destiny: circumnavigating the globe and piloting her plane over the Arctic Circle. A century later, Hadley Baxter is cast to play Marian in a film that centers on Marian's disappearance over the South Pacific. Vibrant, canny, disgusted with the claustrophobia of Hollywood, Hadley is eager to re-define herself after a romantic film franchise has imprisoned her in the grip of cult celebrity. Her immersion into the character of Marian unfolds, thrillingly, alongside Marian's own story, as the two womens' fates--and their hunger for self-determination in vastly different geographies and times-- collide. Epic and emotional, meticulously researched and gloriously told, Great Circle is a monumental work of art, and a tremendous leap forward for the prodigiously gifted Maggie Shipstead"
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The white lady : a novel
by Jacqueline Winspear
A former wartime operative and trained killer, Elinor White, settling in Kent, England, keeps to herself until the powerful Mackie crime family threatens her neighbors and former wartime colleagues, who know the truth about what happened in 1944, help free her from her past. 100,000 first printing.
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The Christie Affair
by Nina de Gramont
What it is: an atmospheric and intricately plotted attempt to answer the many questions that linger about the 11-day disappearance of author Agatha Christie during December of 1926.
Try these next: A View of the Empire at Sunset by Caryl Phillips; The Arrangement by Ashley Warlick.
Book buzz: " This is an enjoyable reimagining of a scandal whose exact nature remains a puzzle a century later" (Publishers Weekly).
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| Lion's Den by Iris MwanzaIn this evocative debut set in the '90s, young Zambian lawyer Grace Zulu works her first pro bono case: a gay teen dancer has been arrested and beaten. With help from her corporate boss dying of AIDS and others who care, Grace fights prejudice and corruption, even as the teen goes missing. For a contemporary look at LGBTQIA+ life in an African country, try Kwei Quartey's gritty Ghana-set mystery The Whitewashed Tombs.
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Sister stardust
by Jane Green
Inspired by a true story, the New York Times best-selling author reimagines the glamorous and tragic life of fashion icon and socialite Talitha Getty through the eyes of Claire, a young woman in search of adventure who is drawn into Talitha's orbit, forever changing her life
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The marriage portrait
by Maggie O'Farrell
In Florence during the 1550s, captivating young duchess Lucrezia de' Medici, having barely left girlhood behind, marries the ruler of Ferrara, Modena and Reggio, and now, in an unfamiliar court where she has one duty—to provide an heir—fights for her very survival. (historical fiction). Simultaneous.
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Real Americans : a novel
by Rachel Khong
In this intricately woven tapestry of class and striving, race and visibility, and family and inheritance, 15-year-old Nick Chen, who can't shake the feeling his mother is hiding something, sets out to find his biological father—journey that raises more questions than provides answers.
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Contact your librarian for more great books!
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Central Mississippi Regional Library System
100 Tamberline Street
Brandon, Mississippi 39042
601-825-0100
http://www.cmrls.lib.ms.us
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