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Historical Fiction June 2024 *digital editions
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The temple of Fortuna by Elodie HarperAmara's journey has taken her from enslavement in Pompeii's wolf den brothel to her new life as a high-powered courtesan in Rome. While Amara plays for power in Rome's imperial palace, her family is close to the rumbling of Mt. Vesuvius.
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| The Girls We Sent Away *by Meagan ChurchSeventeen-year-old Lorraine wants to be first female valedictorian at her high school and the first woman in space, unusual dreams for a girl in 1960s North Carolina. Her dreams only become more distant when she's sent to a "maternity home" after discovering she's pregnant, but the ambitious and driven Lorraine is determined to make the best of a seemingly dwindling list of possibilities for her future. |
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Flight of the wild swan by Melissa PritchardSweeping yet intimate, Flight of the Wild Swan tells the story of Florence Nightingale, a brilliant, trailblazing woman whose humanity has been obscured beneath the iconic weight of legend. From her adolescence, Nightingale was determined to fulfill her life's calling to serve the sick and suffering. Overcoming Victorian hierarchies, familial expectation, patriarchal resistance, and her own illness, she used her hard-won celebrity as a battlefield nurse to bring the profession out of its shadowy, disreputable status and elevate nursing to a skilled practice and compassionate art. In lush, lyrical detail, Melissa Pritchard reveals Nightingale as a rebel who wouldn't relent.
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The familiar
by Leigh Bardugo
During the Spanish Golden Age, Luzia Cotado, gifted with magic, garners the attention of the disgraced secretary to Spain's king, plunging her into a world where the lines between magic, science and fraud blur—and where she must enlist the help of an embittered immortal familiar whose deadly secrets could destroy them both.
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| The Sweet Blue Distance *by Sara DonatiResourceful 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. |
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| The Book of Thorns by Hester FoxThis atmospheric and magical realism-tinged tale set during the Napoleonic Wars. The alternating narrative is between two women who don't know they're sisters -- the English Cornelia, who escapes the possibility of an arranged marriage by traveling with the French Army as a botanical healer, and Belgian servant Lijsbeth, who makes the most of her own connection with flowers on the other side of the conflict. |
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| In the Shadow of the Greenbrier by Emily MatcharBeginning in the early 1900s, this richly detailed and sweeping saga follows the ups and downs of a single Jewish family and their complex (and sometimes mysterious) ties to the iconic luxury resort of the title, located in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. |
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Ashes in the snow by Oriana RamunnoIn 1943 Auschwitz, when the body of an SS officer is found, Detective Hugo Fischer is sent to investigate the unexplained death of the renowned Nazi and uncovers a truth—that of the Final Solution, forcing him to decide what is most important to him and who, if anyone, he should try to save.
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| I Am Rome by Santiago PosteguilloDramatic and well-researched, this series opener by Spanish crime and historical fiction author Santiago Posteguillo delves into the early life and career of Roman statesman Gaius Julius Caesar. The story is framed around his first big political move -- serving as prosecutor in the corruption trial of Dollabella, a senator and former governor of Macedonia. |
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A beautiful rival : a novel of Helena Rubinstein and Elizabeth Arden by Gill PaulBased on the infamous rivalry between cosmetic moguls Elizabeth Arden and Helena Rubinstein, this stunning novel follows their feud spanning three continents, two world wars and the Great Depression as they, determined to succeed no matter the personal cost, tried to live the American dream.
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| A Sweet Sting of Salt by Rose SutherlandThis queer retelling of classic Celtic folktale The Selkie Wife takes place in 1830s Nova Scotia, where midwife Jean Langille assists Muirin, a woman going into labor on a nearby beach. The two form a strong bond despite a language barrier, which only grows deeper when Jean mistakes Muirin's behavior for postpartum depression. |
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Large Print Editions You Might have Missed! |
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Where the dead wait by Ally WilkesVictorian explorer William Day, 13 years after a failed expedition resulted in abandonment, betrayal and cannibalism, embarks on an uncanny journey into his past to find his missing second-in-command during which he must face up to the things he's done as the restless dead follow closely behind.
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Last house : or The age of oil by Jessica ShattuckFrom the New York Times bestselling author of The Women in the Castle comes a sweeping story of a nation on the rise, and one family's deeply complicated relationship to the resource that built their fortune and fueled their greatest tragedy. Perfect for fans of The Dutch House and The Great Circle.
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Long Island by Colm TâoibâinIn 1976 Lindenhurst, Long Island, Ellis Lacey, an Irishwoman in her 40s with no one to rely on in this still-new country, discovers her husband got a woman pregnant and the woman's husband refuses to raise it, forcing Ellis to decide what she will do and not do in this unexpected situation.
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