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Historical Fiction June 2024
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| Rough Trade by Katrina CarrascoThis descriptive and stylistically complex follow-up to The Best Bad Things returns readers to the Washington Territory in the late 1880s, where they first met ex-Pinkerton agent Alma Rosales. This time, Alma (living undercover as a man named Jack) must solve a string of murders which are drawing attention to the opium smuggling operation she runs with high-society lover Delphine. |
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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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| 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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| 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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