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Historical Fiction June 2020
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| The Immortals of Tehran by Ali AraghiWhat it is: a sweeping saga that follows a cursed Iranian family and its patriarch, a mute poet whose writing takes on mythological significance during the country's 1979 revolution.
Why you might like it: in the vein of classics like The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende, The Immortals of Tehran uses magical realism to enrich the story of one family's journey through important historical moments. And there are cats. Lots and lots of cats. |
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| A Thousand Moons by Sebastian BarryWhat it's about: a makeshift family's story of growth and survival in Reconstruction-era Tennessee, a dangerous place to be for anyone who lives outside the lines.
Starring: Winona Cole, a 16-year-old Lakota girl first introduced in the novel Days Without End; Civil War veterans John Cole and Thomas McNulty, Winona's adoptive fathers; Tennyson and Rosalee, siblings and former slaves who later join the Cole family.
Read it for: the complex characters, lyrical language, and meditations on what it takes to build a family. |
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A mosaic of wings
by Kimberly Duffy
"In 1885, determined to uphold her father's legacy, Nora Shipley joins an entomology research expedition to India. In this spellbinding new land, Nora is torn between saving a young Indian girl and saving her career, and between what she's always thoughtshe wanted and the man she's come to love"
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To have and to hoax : a novel
by Martha Waters
After their marriage has become cold and detached, a Lady and Lord in Regency England each fake accidents and illness in an escalating game of manipulation that includes sanitariums, fake affairs and possibly a rekindled flirtation. Original. 40,000 first printing.
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Hannah's war : a novel
by Jan Eliasberg
An award-winning writer and director reimagines the last months of World War II as an exiled German physicist, Dr. Hannah Weiss, is suspected of being a spy in the top-secret nuclear lab at Los Alamos. Original. 150,000 first printing.
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Lakeshire Park
by Megan Walker
Amelia Moore and Peter Wood find themselves at odds as each of them quest to have their respective unmarried sisters matched with eligible bachelor Sir Ronald when he hosts a house party, but wind up finding a match themselves. Original.
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The Night Raids
by Jim Kelly
During the long hot summer of 1940, DI Eden Brooke, the first on the scene of a bombing, discovers the body of an elderly woman whose granddaughter has gone missing and realizes there is more to the situation than meets the eye.
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Death of an American beauty
by Mariah Fredericks
In 1913, while on a break from her duties as a lady’s maid in Gilded Age New York, Jane Prescott is drawn into a murder investigation after a woman’s body is found outside of a refuge for women run by her uncle .
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Contact your librarian for more great books!
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Culpeper County Library 271 Southgate Shopping Center Culpeper, Virginia 22701 540-825-8691
www.cclva.org
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