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Historical Fiction February 2019
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That Churchill Woman
by Stephanie Barron
A tale inspired by the life of Winston Churchill's scandal-marked American mother follows the experiences of a wealthy and fiercely independent New Yorker whose whirlwind romance with a duke's son sweeps her disruptively into British royalty and politics.
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The Age of Light: a novel
by Whitney Scharer
A novel inspired by the life of the Vogue model-turned-renowned photographer finds Lee Miller relocating to 1929 Paris, where she becomes the muse and colleague of the mercurial surrealist, Man Ray.
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The Lost Girls of Paris
by Pam Jenoff
After discovering an abandoned, photograph-filled suitcase in Grand Central Station in 1946, a young widow sets out to discover who the people in the pictures are.
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The Wartime Sisters: a novel
by Lynda Cohen Loigman
Reunited after an estrangement at the beginning of World War II, two Brooklyn sisters, one an officer's wife, the other a widow and factory laborer, are shattered by the revelations of a mysterious figure from the past.
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American Spy: a novel
by Lauren Wilkinson
A Cold War FBI intelligence officer joins an undercover task force to seduce a revolutionary African Communist president she secretly admires and comes to love, in a story inspired by true events.
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Annelies
by David R Gillham
An empowering reimagining of Anne Frank as a Holocaust survivor traces her endurance of terrible losses, her struggles to forgive and her development into a highly skilled writer.
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Finding Dorothy: a novel
by Elizabeth Letts
Reimagines the story behind the creation of "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" from the perspective of L. Frank Baum's intrepid wife, Maud, whose hardscrabble life on the Dakota prairie inspires her husband's masterpiece and her advocacy of an exploited Judy Garland.
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Bowlaway: a novel
by Elizabeth McCracken
An unconventional New England family faces scandal, inheritance battles and questions of paternities as viewed through their three generations of owning and operating a candlepin bowling alley in the town of Salford, Massachusetts.
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The Glovemaker
by Ann Weisgarber
In the inhospitable lands of the Utah Territory, a desperate stranger who is pursued by a Federal Marshal shows up on Deborah Tyler's doorstep seeking refuge, setting in motion a chain of events that will turn her life upside down. The man, a devout Mormon, is on the run because the US government has ruled the practice of polygamy to be a felony. But all is not what it seems, and when the Marshal is critically injured, Deborah is faced with life and death decisions that question her faith, humanity, and her future.
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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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