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Historical Fiction September 2019
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Where the Light Enters
by Sara Donati
A black obstetrician returns to Manhattan in 1884 to move in with her best friend and fellow physician after the tragic loss of her family.
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The Third Daughter
by Talia Carner
Bringing to life a dark period of Jewish history and giving a voice to victims whose truth deserves to finally be told, this remarkable story follows a young woman named Batya who is tricked and sold into prostitution until she gets an opportunity to bring down the criminal network that has enslaved so many women.
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The Ventriloquists: A Novel
by E.R. Ramzipoor
A tale based on true events finds a misfit journalist, a forger and a street urchin joining a band of resistance fighters who risk their lives to publish a satiric newspaper mocking the Nazis.
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The Last Train to London : a novel
by Meg Waite Clayton
A tale inspired by the Kindertransports of World War II finds a Jewish teen’s life shattered by the Nazi takeover before he joins a member of the Dutch resistance in a life-risking effort to escape Germany.
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The Lost Daughter : a novel
by Gill Paul
A 1970s housewife’s investigation into her father’s deathbed confession leads to a startling discovery about the true fate of the lost Romanov daughter.
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Out of Darkness, Shining Light : a novel
by Petina Gappah
A sharp-tongued cook and a rigidly pious freed slave confront complicated race dynamics to join the followers of the late Dr. Livingstone on a 19th-century voyage from Africa to the doctor’s home in England.
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The Paris Orphan
by Natasha Lester
An American soldier and an enterprising photographer brave occupied France during World War II to help a young orphan find a family.
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The Secrets We Kept
by Lara Prescott
A tale of spycraft, love and sacrifice inspired by the true story of Doctor Zhivago follows the efforts of two CIA agents to help publish Boris Pasternak’s censored masterpiece against a backdrop of Cold War politics in Moscow.
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The Sisters of Summit Avenue
by Lynn Cullen
Raising four daughters and running her family’s Depression-era Indiana farm for eight years after her husband is infected by a devastating sleeping sickness, a woman reconnects with her estranged, childless sister amid dark family secrets.
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The Starlet and the Spy
by Ji-min Lee
A Korean war survivor is assigned as translator for Marilyn Monroe during a 1954 USO tour to a Korea still struggling to return to normalcy and develops a deep kinship with the star.
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Contact your librarian for more great books!
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