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Historical Fiction April 2024
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Clearby Carys DaviesAn impoverished 1840s Scottish minister tasked with evicting a hermit from his island home ends up forming an unlikely connection with the man as the pair navigate language, loss and the legacy of forced displacement.
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Union Station by David DowningLiving a comfortable life in 1953 Los Angeles with his family, English journalist John Russell, a former double agent for Soviet and American intelligence, starts researching a World War II conspiracy, bringing him face-to-face with the dangerous instability of a post-Stalin Berlin that was once their home.
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The Seamstress of Acadieby Laura FrantzCaught between the warring French and English on Canada's rugged shores in 1755, Sylvie Galant is forced from her Acadian home and family and is alone in colonial Virginia. Now the enemy soldier who once tore her world apart might be the key to restoring her shattered past.
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| The Painter's Daughters by Emily HowesMolly and Peggy, the daughters of 18th century English painter Thomas Gainsborough, are regular subjects in their father's work. As the girls grow older, it becomes apparent that Molly has developed a mental illness of some kind, something which Peggy realizes must be hidden at all costs from their social-climbing mother and emotionally absent father, or Molly might be sent to the notorious Bedlam asylum. |
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| Mrs. Gulliver by Valerie MartinOn the fictional Caribbean island of Verona where prostitution is legal, Lila Gulliver runs a high-end brothel. In 1954 she takes in CaritĂ Bercy, a charming young blind woman who begins an (actual) love affair with a well-connected client that will have dramatic and unexpected fallout for the entire community. |
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All Our Yesterdays : A Novel of Lady Macbeth by Joel H. MorrisA novel set 10 years before the events in Shakespeare's classic play follows the life of Lady Macbeth who was married to the violent, sadistic Mormaer of Moray at age 15 and relied on her wits to survive with her young son.
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| Finding Margaret Fuller by Allison PatakiThe life and adventures of trailblazing writer and activist Margaret Fuller fill this lush and richly detailed novel by The Accidental Empress author Allison Pataki. Fuller's circle of famous friends included Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Louisa May Alcott, and Nathaniel Hawthorne, who may have based elements of Hester Prynne on her. |
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The Phoenix Crownby Kate QuinnSan Francisco 1906: Meet Gemma, a golden-haired, silver-voiced soprano whose career desperately needs rekindling, and Suling, a petite and resolute Chinatown embroideress who is determined to escape an arranged marriage. Their paths cross when they are drawn into the orbit of Henry Thornton, a charming railroad magnate whose extraordinary collection of Chinese antiques includes the fabled Phoenix Crown, a legendary relic of Beijing's fallen Summer Palace. Their lives are thrown into turmoil when a devastating earthquake rips San Francisco apart and Thornton disappears, leaving behind a mystery reaching further than anyone could have imagined .
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The Underground Libraryby Jennifer RyanWhen the Blitz destroys Bethnal Green Library in London, librarian Juliet Lansdown, along with two other women, relocates the stacks to the local Underground station where the city's residents shelter nightly. They are determined to lend out stories that will keep spirits up, but soon tragedy after tragedy threatens to destroy what they've built.
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Queens of Londonby Heather WebbIn 1925 London, brilliant criminal mastermind Alice Diamond, the queen of an all-girl gang with plans on building a dynasty the likes of which no one has ever seen, must outwit and outsmart Britain's first female policewoman who is determined to prove herself by putting Alice out of business—permanently.
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