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Historical Fiction November 2018
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House of Gold
by Natasha Solomons
The outbreak of World War I forces headstrong Austrian heiress Greta Goldbaum to choose between the family she built in her new life in England and the family she left behind in Vienna.
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A Well-Behaved Woman: A Novel of the Vanderbilts
by Therese Anne Fowler
Marrying into the newly rich but socially scorned Vanderbilt clan, a formerly impoverished Alva navigates society snubs and dark undercurrents in the lives of her in-laws and friends while testing the limits of her ambitious rule-breaking.
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The Collector's Apprentice
by Barbara A. Shapiro
Abandoned in 1922 Paris when she is wrongly accused of theft, 19-year-old Paulien changes her identity and is swept up in the expatriate art world of Gertrude Stein and Henri Matisse while working to recover her father's stolen collection.
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Unsheltered
by Barbara Kingsolver
Traces the experiences of a woman whose efforts to protect her family from sudden unemployment are shaped by the story of an ostracized nineteenth-century science teacher connected to her by their home in the community of Vineland, New Jersey.
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Heads You Win
by Jeffrey Archer
When Alexander Karpenko and his mother must flee Russia, they flip a coin to see if they will emigrate to London or New York and in a single moment, a double twist decides Alexanders future in a story spanning two continents and thirty years.
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The Kinship of Secrets
by Eugenia Kim
The story of two sisters separated by the Korean War follows Miran, who grows up living with her parents in a prosperous American suburb, and her sister Inja who struggles with life in war-torn Korea and ties to a family she doesn't remember.
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The Lake on Fire : a novel
by Rosellen Brown
Fleeing their failing family warm in nineteenth-century Wisconsin, siblings Chaya and Asher depart for Chicago only to discover achieving the American Dream in the Gilded Age is harder than they expect.
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The Latecomers
by Helen Klein Ross
Forced to give up her baby for adoption after the death of her husband in 1908, an Irish teen takes a maid's job at a sprawling New England estate before a mysterious death reveals a five-generation secret.
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Little : a novel
by Edward Carey
Follows the story of a Swiss orphan who, apprenticed to an eccentric wax sculptor in the seamy streets of Paris, learns her craft and hones her art to become the famous Madame Tussaud.
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Marilla of Green Gables : a novel
by Sarah McCoy
Imagines the life of farm girl Marilla Cuthbert from L. M. Montgomery's classic series and describes how premature responsibilities end her dreams and inspire her secret work as an abolitionist.
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