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Historical Fiction November 2023 |
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| Nineteen Steps by Millie Bobby BrownInspired by her own family history, Stranger Things star Millie Bobby Brown's debut novel tells the story of Nellie Morris, a young woman in London's East End trying to survive the Blitz, her romance with a dashing American airman, and the tragic 1943 Bethnal Green disaster, where 173 people were crushed to death trying to enter an air raid shelter. |
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| The House of Doors by Tan Twan EngSet in 1920s Malaysia, this lush and character-driven portrait of secrets and colonial excess centers on writer W. Somerset Maugham and his personal, political, and professional entanglements with a pair of English expats whose frosty marriage gets even more fraught during his extended visit to their home. |
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| Coleman Hill by Kim Coleman FooteIn this sweeping family saga and "bibliomythography", two young Black women, Lucy Grimes and Celia Coleman, become friends traveling in the Great Migration north to escape the struggles of life in the Jim Crow South -- a friendship deepened by shared losses and tested by circumstances in their respectable new community Vauxhall, New Jersey. |
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| The Maniac by BenjamÃn LabatutThis well-researched and thought-provoking biographical novel centers on John von Neumann, a Hungarian-American polymath known for his revolutionary work in mathematics, physics, engineering, and computer science, his contributions to the Manhattan Project, and his later tenure at the Pentagon and on the Atomic Energy Commission. |
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| One Blood by Denene MillnerIn this lyrical and moving family saga, three Black women reckon with joys and burdens of motherhood and its connections to womanhood in the midst of the Great Migration, the Civil Rights Era, and the ever-present struggle for women's equality. |
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| Under the Java Moon by Heather B. MooreWhen the Japanese military invades the Dutch East Indies in 1941, Mary Vischer is forcibly relocated with her two children and her mother-in-law to a POW camp. Not only do the miserable conditions make every day a fierce battle to survive, but Mary has no way to reach her husband, who is serving with the Dutch navy, to let him know that they're alive. |
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The Paris Agent
by Kelly Rimmer
In the aftermath of his war-ravaged past, Noah Ainsworth is still haunted by memories of his time as a fearless British operative in France. But a critical head injury left Noah with frustrating memory gaps and a burning question that plagues him--who was the agent who saved his life during that tragic final mission? Determined to find answers, Noah's daughter Charlotte embarks on a quest that leads her to the incredible lives of two ordinary women--Chloe and Fleur--who transformed into fearless spies on foreign soil.
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Comsewogue Public Library
170 Terryville Road
Port Jefferson Station, New York 11776
(631) 928-1212www.cplib.org |
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