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Historical Fiction July 2019
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The Burning Chambers
by Kate Mosse
A bookshop owner's daughter who has received an anonymous warning and a young Huguenot convert who needs her help to survive navigate escalating religious divides and the abandonment of friends in 16th-century Toulouse.
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Delayed Rays of a Star: a novel
by Amanda Koe Lee
Inspired by Alfred Eisenstaedt's prophetic 1928 photograph, a historical first novel depicts the richly textured lives of Hollywood icon Marlene Dietrich, first Chinese-American star Anna May Wong and maligned director Leni Riefenstahl.
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Dragonfly: a novel
by Leila Meacham
Teamed together to infiltrate Nazi ranks in occupied Paris, five idealistic American spies from diverse backgrounds begin questioning who they can trust when one of their number is killed.
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The Golden Hour
by Beatriz Williams
Traveling to World War II Nassau to interview the infamous Duke and Duchess of Windsor, an investigator for a New York society magazine uncovers a treasonous plot that is complicated by her romance with an unscrupulous scientist.
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In the Full Light of the Sun
by Clare Clark
Traces the fortunes of three disparate Berliners who, against a backdrop of rising Nazi power, are caught up in an art scandal involving newly discovered van Goghs.
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The Long Flight Home
by Alan Hlad
In September 1940, the events of World War II bring together British pigeon-keeper Susan Shepard, American pilot Ollie Evans and a pigeon on a very special mission named Duchess.
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The Porpoise: a novel
by Mark Haddon
When a young man attempts to rescue the daughter of a wealthy man who is imprisoned on her father's estate, the attempt goes awry, sending him off on a fantastical sea voyage.
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The Tenth Muse
by Catherine Chung
Determined to conquer the Riemann hypothesis in the face of cultural discrimination against women intellectuals, a genius mathematician uncovers a mysterious theorem's unexpected World War II link to her family.
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