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Historical Fiction February 2021
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The Paris Library: a novel
by Janet Skeslien Charles
Based on a true story, describes how a lonely, 1980s teenager befriends an elderly neighbor and uncovers her past as a librarian at the American Library in Paris who joined the Resistance when the Nazis arrived.
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Send for Me
by Lauren Fox
A baker’s daughter and her husband flee to America amid increasingly violent anti-Semitism in pre-World War II Germany two generations before her granddaughter learns the astonishing story of their heritage and losses.
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The Four Winds
by Kristin Hannah
A Depression-era woman confronts a wrenching choice between fighting for the Dust Bowl-ravaged land she loves in Texas or pursuing an uncertain future in California.
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The Girl from the Channel Islands
by Jenny Lecoat
After fleeing Vienna, Hedy Bercu, a Jewish woman living on the island of Jersey, is forced to hide in plain sight during the German occupation and to survive must depend on her own courage, her community, and a German soldier she befriends.
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The Nature of Fragile Things
by Susan Meissner
Moving to early 20th-century San Francisco to escape New York tenement life, an Irish mail-order bride uncovers transformative secrets involving a silent child and two other women before her precarious existence is upended by the great earthquake of 1906.
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The City of Tears
by Kate Mosse
A continuation of the story that began with The Burning Chambers is set in Paris, London and Amsterdam and follows the failed efforts of a royal marriage to end a decade-long religious conflict.
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Contact your librarian for more great books!
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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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