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Historical Fiction August 2021 |
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| The Girl in His Shadow by Audrey BlakeWhat it is: A richly detailed, character-driven story of frustrated ambition and compromise set in Victorian London.
Starring: Nora Beady, an orphan who dreams of becoming a doctor, a taboo profession for a woman of her time; Dr. Horace Croft, who took Nora in as a child and trained her in medicine and anatomy; Dr. Daniel Gibson, a new surgical resident and potential threat to Nora's arrangement "assisting" Dr. Croft at his clinic.
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| The Most Beautiful Girl in Cuba by Chanel CleetonWhat it's about: This well-researched and intricately plotted novel revisits the Pérez family (first introduced in Next Year in Havana), this time through the eyes of socialite Marina, who gets involved with the Cuban struggle for independence from Spain.
Why you might like it: Marina's story runs parallel with that of Grace Harrington, a young reporter whose perspective provides historical context for U.S. involvement on the island.Also available in eAudiobook on OverDrive |
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| The Librarian of Saint-Malo by Mario EscobarWhat it is: The moving and fast-paced story of a young French woman's battle to protect her small seaside town's library (and the people who take refuge there) from Nazi destruction, told in epistolary form.
Starring: Jocelyn Ferrec, the titular librarian; Adolf Bauman, the dissolute Nazi officer Jocelyn is forced to host in her home; Hermann von Choltiz, another officer charged with managing cultural artifacts of Nazi-occupied territories; Marcel Zola, a famous (fictional) Parisian author who becomes Jocelyn's unlikely confidante through letters.
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| The Sweetness of Water by Nathan HarrisWhat it is: The lyrical, haunting story of a diverse group of people attempting to build lives for themselves as the American Civil War draws to a close.
Starring: Prentiss and Landry, two recently freed brothers planning to track down their mother in the North; George and Isabelle Walker, a couple who hire the brothers to work on their Georgia farm; Caleb Walker, George and Isabelle's presumed-dead son, who shares a forbidden romance with another soldier.
Also available in eBook & eAudiobook on OverDrive |
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| Island Queen by Vanessa RileyWhat it is: The engaging and richly detailed story of Dorothy Kirwan Thomas, an 18th and 19th-century Caribbean woman who built a business empire in the Leeward Islands to buy freedom for herself and her family.
Did you know? The real-life Dorothy's descendants include English opera singer Henrietta Simon Sala and her journalist son George Augustus Sala, who attracted the patronage of Charles Dickens and rose to prominence at The Daily Telegraph. |
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| Light Perpetual by Francis SpuffordWhat it's about: In 1944, 168 people died when the Germans bombed a crowded London Woolworths store. Light Perpetual imagines an alternate timeline in which five of the bombing's youngest victims managed to survive.
Read it for: The poignant, compelling descriptions of everyday details, which underline the fragility of life. |
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