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Historical Fiction January 2022 |
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| A Net for Small Fishes by Lucy JagoWhat it is: An engaging story of desperation and court intrigue, inspired by the 1613 poisoning of English courtier Sir Thomas Overbury.
Starring: Frances Howard, the unhappily married Countess of Essex, who develops a scandalous extramarital connection with the king's favorite Robert Carr; Anne Turner, a doctor's widow who, after forming an unlikely bond with Frances, reveals her potentially useful set of skills. |
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| The Winter Guest by Pam JenoffWhat it's about: In Nazi-occupied Poland, 18-year-old twins Ruth and Helena are raising their younger siblings in their small mountain town, which puts a strain on their once close relationship. It only gets worse after Helena comes across a stranded American soldier and secretly agrees hide him, a choice that puts their whole family in danger.
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| Beasts of a Little Land by Juhea KimWhat it is: An atmospheric, intricately plotted debut novel that chronicles the unlikely bonds between and defining life experiences of a group of young Koreans living through the Japanese occupation of their country, which ended in 1945.
Starring: Jade, who was sold to a courtesan school at age ten by her desperate parents; sisters Lotus and Luna, daughters of the school's proprietor who dream of following in their mother's footsteps; and JungHo, an orphan who leads a child street gang.
Also available in eBook & eAudiobook on Libby |
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| The Last Checkmate by Gabriella SaabWhat it is: The suspenseful, richly detailed story of Maria, a young woman sent to Auschwitz for working with the Polish Resistance who is spared execution after a camp commandant learns she is a chess master.
Read it for: Maria's deeply moving emotional journey as she tries to survive the camp's horrors and lives each day on a knife's edge.
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| The Sisters Sweet by Elizabeth WeissWhat it's about: Harriet Szász has only ever known life pretending to be a conjoined twin with her sister Josephine. But Josephine runs away to Hollywood to work in the newly burgeoning film industry. Left behind, Harriet is now faced with supporting her washed-up vaudevillian parents and for the first time, discovering her own identity. |
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| Still Life by Sarah WinmanWhat it is: A compelling, character-driven story of war, art, and survival; a loving portrayal of and homage to the city of Florence and its postwar expat community.
Starring: Evelyn Skinner, a 64-year-old English art historian trying to save Tuscan artworks from Nazi destruction; Ulysses Temper, a 24-year-old soldier who meets Evelyn as they shelter together in a wine cellar, waiting out the latest bombing raid.
Also available in eBook on Libby |
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| The Perishing by Natashia DeónWhat it's about: The decade-spanning, unexplained connection between three Black women: a light-skinned woman in a forbidden relationship living in the 1870s; a Prohibition-era Los Angeles Times journalist with no memories of her past and disturbing premonitions of the future; and a murderer living a century later.
Also available in eBook on Libby |
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