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Historical Fiction July 2024
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All the colors of the dark : a novel
by Chris Whitaker
After a string of disappearances in 1975 Missouri, a one-eyed boy heroically thwarts a kidnapping, igniting a chain of events that blur the lines between triumph and tragedy as the townspeople of Monta Clare confront hidden truths.
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| Daughters of Shandong by Eve J. ChungUsing her family history, debut novelist Eve J. Chung depicts an aristocratic mother and three daughters in 1948 China after the men of the family flee the communists, leaving them behind. But the quartet fight for survival, traveling from the country to British Hong Kong and finally Taiwan, as the middle daughter dreams of more. Read-alikes: Afterlives by Abdulrazak Gurnah; The Mercies by Kiran Millwood Hargrave. |
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All the summers in between
by Brooke Lea Foster
The acclaimed author of Summer Darlings and On Gin Lane returns with the story of two former friends who after a chance reunion in the Hamptons are compelled to confront the traumatic incident that severed their bond.
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Enlightenment : a novel
by Sarah Perry
Two unlikely best friends in Aldleigh, England investigate the mystery of a vanished 19th century explorer uncovering a devastating tale of love and scientific pursuit, in the new novel from the author of The Essex Serpent. 150,000 first printing.
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Jackie : a novel
by Dawn Clifton Tripp
This intimate story of love and power, family and tragedy, loss and reinvention offers a glimpse into the world of a deeply private woman who led many lives, forging a legacy out of grief and shaping history even as she was living it.
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Tiananmen Square
by Lai Wen
This mesmerizing coming-of-age novel follows Lai, living near the heart of Beijing, as she opens her heart to the emotional power of literature and her mind to different perspectives, joining the masses of demonstrators and dreamers who display remarkable courage and loyalty in the face of danger as 1989 unfolds. Original.
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Malas
by Marcela Fuentes
When her beloved grandmother passes away, 14-year-old Lulu is drawn to the glamorous stranger who crashed the funeral and their unexpected kinship picks at the secrets of Lulu's family and a curse that reverberates across generation as one woman must make peace with the past and one girl must embrace her future.
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The Briar Club : a novel
by Kate Quinn
In 1950 Washington, DC, at an all-female boardinghouse called Briarwood, mysterious widow Grace March moves into the attic room, drawing her oddball collection of neighbors into unlikely friendship, but when a shocking act of violence tears the house apart, the women must expose the true enemy in their midst.
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Four squares : a novel
by Bobby Finger
"A tender, funny, and fresh novel about a gay writer in New York City whose life is irrevocably altered, and then again thirty years later"
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