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Historical Fiction March 2020
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Actress: a novel
by Anne Enright
When her Irish-theater-legend mother succumbs to alcohol and instability, Norah draws on her experiences of surviving a crime and growing up in the wings of her mother’s career to rediscover herself as a wife, mother and writer.
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Red Letter Days
by Sarah Jane Stratford
After being caught in the web of hysteria stemming from the hate-mongering Senator McCarthy, a female television writer leaves Hollywood for post-war London where she befriends other exiled Americans including a successful producer who hires blacklisted writers.
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Apeirogon: a novel
by Colum McCann
wo fathers, a Palestinian and an Israeli, navigate the physical and emotional checkpoints of their conflicted world before devastating losses compel them to work together to use their grief as a weapon for peace.
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Children of the Stars
by Mario Escobar
Captured in the Jewish raids of 1942 Paris, brothers Jacob and Moses Stein flee the Velodromo de Invierno and seek refuge in a French community before embarking on a dangerous escape to Argentina.
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The Yellow Bird Sings
by Jennifer Rosner
A mother who goes into hiding when Nazis begin arresting Jewish citizens in Poland considers an impossible choice while struggling to keep her 5-year-old daughter, a musical prodigy, from being overheard.
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Deacon King Kong: a novel
by James McBride
In the aftermath of a 1969 Brooklyn church deacon’s public shooting of a local drug dealer, the community’s African-American and Latinx witnesses find unexpected support from each other when they are targeted by violent mobsters.
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The Deep
by Alma Katsu
Surviving the sinking of the Titanic, Annie takes a job as a nurse on the Britannic before encountering a fellow survivor who forces her to reckon with past demons.
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The Girl in White Gloves
by Kerri Maher
A vivid reimagining of the life of Princess Grace of Monaco follows the experiences of an Oscar-nominated actress who falls unexpectedly in love with a prince before overwhelming loneliness prompts her search for a greater purpose.
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The Lost Diary of M: a novel
by Paul Wolfe
A reimagining of the life of Georgetown socialite Mary Pinchot Meyer traces her marriage to a CIA chief, presidential affair and LSD experiments before her baffling murder a year after JFK’s assassination.
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The Mirror & the Light
by Hilary Mantel
A tale inspired by the final years of Thomas Cromwell describes how after the execution of Anne Boleyn and childbed death of Queen Jane, the former blacksmith’s son orchestrates a desperate plot to fortify England and save his own life.
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