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Historical Fiction July 2024
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Shanghai
by Joseph Kanon
After escaping the Gestapo, Daniel Lohr arrives in Shanghai, where glamor and squalor exist side-by-side, and as he tries to navigate through his uncle's world in the city's fabled nightlife, he tries to stay one step ahead of murder and outrun his own past.
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James
by Percival Everett
This irreverent and lyrical adaptation of Mark Twain classic Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is told from the perspective of Huck's traveling companion Jim, with a deeper exploration of Jim's motivations, courage, intelligence, compassion, and resourcefulness.
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The Woman in the Sable Coat
by Elizabeth Brooks
Nina Woodrow, the titular woman in the sable coat, gets pulled into a tangled web when in 1942, she has an affair with RAF officer Guy Nicholson. Further complicating matters is the nascent connection between Guy's wife Kate and Nina's widowed father Henry, whose unlikely friendship may unearth a shocking, decades-old secret about Nina's mother.
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The Lost Book of Bonn
by Brianna Labuskes
Immediately following World War II, librarian Emmy Clarke is dispatched by the Library of Congress to the real-life Offenbach Archival Depot in Germany to work with the Monuments Men, tracking down and cataloging important works of literature seized by the Nazis and working to return them to their original owners.
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The Sweet Blue Distance
by Sara Donati
Resourceful nurse and midwife Carrie Ballentyne (granddaughter of Elizabeth Middleton, who readers first met in Into the Wilderness) leaves her position at a New York charity hospital in 1857 for a job in the New Mexico Territory, embarking on a journey as rife with danger and distress as it is rich with possibility and opportunities to save lives.
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Mr. Churchill's secretary : a novel
by Susan Elia MacNeal
After German Luftwaffe bomb London, Maggie Hope--trained in math and code breaking, but only able to find a job as Winston Churchill's secretary--uses the unfettered access her position demands to try to unravel a plot to assassinate Churchill himself. A first novel. Original. 12,500 first printing.
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The Romanov brides : a novel of the last tsarina and her sisters
by Clare McHugh
Despite Queen Victoria's dire warnings, princesses Alix and Ella fall in love with Russia and the Romanovs as Ella weds the tsar's brother and Alix marries the heir apparent to the Russian throne, leading to tragic consequences for themselves, their families and for millions in Russia and around the world. Original.
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The other Windsor Girl : a novel of Princess Margaret, Royal Rebel
by Georgie Blalock
A historical novel inspired by the life of of Elizabeth II's sister depicts a glamorous Princess Margaret who sparkles among the aristocrats of post-World War II society before her notorious lifestyle clashes with her sister's royal duties. Original. 50,000 first printing.
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| Familiaris by David WroblewskiIn this sweeping saga, the prequel to the bestseller The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, John Sawtelle and his new wife Mary travel with their friends and dogs to rural Wisconsin in 1919 to make new lives. John and Mary raise two boys (and a lot of dogs) as the novel follows the family over the next three decades in this 2024 Oprah Book Club pick. Read-alikes: North Woods by Daniel Mason; French Braid by Anne Tyler; Lies and Sorcery by Elsa Morante. |
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