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| Fonseca by Jessica Francis KaneMining a real 1952 trip to Mexico by Penelope Fitzgerald, this “masterful” (Publishers Weekly) novel follows the acclaimed English writer who's traveling with her six-year-old son while broke and pregnant. She’s come at the behest of the eccentric Delaney sisters, who’ve dangled an inheritance before her, but it turns out, she's not the only one. For fans of: Penelope Fitzgerald; witty stories starring real people. |
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| The Art of a Lie by Laura Shepherd-RobinsonAfter her husband's violent murder, Hannah Cole still runs her confectionary shop in 1749 London, but money is tighter than ever. She gets a bit of help from a stranger who knew her husband, but Chief Magistrate Henry Fielding thinks she may have been involved in her husband's death, leading her to look for the killer. Read-alikes: Katharine Schellman's The Body in the Garden; Kate Saunders' The Secrets of Wishtide. |
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A Map to Paradise
by Susan Meissner
In 1956 California, actress Melanie Cole is blacklisted by association, reducing her circle to her European maid Eva, her agoraphobic screenwriter neighbor Elwood, and his sister-in-law caregiver, June. When Elwood disappears, Melanie enlists Eva get to close to June and find Elwood as wildfires draw close. Read-alike: Lee Kelly and Jennifer Thorne's The Starlets.
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Above the Salt
by Katherine Vaz
In this sweeping and heartwrenching love story, young lovers João and Maria separately flee religious persecution on the island of Madeira and reunite to make new lives in Illinois. After forming a connection with up-and-coming politician Abraham Lincoln, the couple are again separated in the upheaval of the Civil War but share an indelible bond that will shape the rest of their lives.
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Alchemy of a Blackbird
by Claire McMillan
Based on: a formative period in the life and career of Spanish Mexican surrealist painter Remedios Varo during her flight from Nazi-occupied Paris to the French Riviera, discovering the occultist literature that would inspire her later work while awaiting an exit visa.
Appearances by: Dada artist Benjamin Péret; British Mexican painter and novelist Leonora Carrington; socialite and art collector Peggy Guggenheim, who was Varo's benefactor during the war years.
Reviewers say: Alchemy of a Blackbird is "entrancing, vivid, and lushly illuminating" and features a "scintillating cast of actual and imagined characters" (Booklist).
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Harlem Rhapsody
by Victoria Christopher Murray
In 1919, Jessie Redmon Fauset becomes the first Black woman literary editor of The Crisis magazine, putting her at the forefront of Harlem's cultural renaissance, where she discovers talents such as Langston Hughes and Nella Larsen. But her ambitions and a secret affair with W.E.B. Du Bois threaten it all. Try these next: Piper Huguley's By Her Own Design; Tia Williams' A Love Song for Ricki Wilde.
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