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Historical Fiction July 2025 |
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Typewriter beach : a novel
by Meg Waite Clayton
"Typewriter Beach is the unforgettable story of an unlikely friendship between an Oscar-nominated screenwriter and a young actress hoping to be Alfred Hitchcock's new star."
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I'll be right here : a novel
by Amy Bloom
"Immigrating alone from Paris to New York after the crucible of World War II, Gazala Benamar, still a teenager, becomes fast friends with two spirited sisters, Anne and Alma. When Gazala's lost, beloved brother, Samir, finally joins her in Manhattan, this contentious, inseparable foursome, will last into the twenty-first century, becoming the beating heart of a multigenerational found family. These decades are marked by the business of everyday life and the inevitable surprises of erupting passions, great and small waves of joy and despair, from the beginning of life, to its end."
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33 Place Brugmann
by Alice Austen
Set just prior to and during the Nazi occupation of Brussels, Belgium, this thought-provoking debut examines the challenges and choices of an apartment building's residents, who take turns narrating. They include an architect, his art student daughter, an art dealer, his 18-year-old son, a seamstress, a maid, a widowed colonel, and others. Try this next: The Keeper of Lost Art by Laura Morelli.
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With a vengeance : a novel
by Riley Sager
Anna Matheson lures six people onto a luxury train to expose their crimes against her family a decade earlier, but when a passenger is murdered, she must risk her life to protect those she sought to destroy
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The Jackal's Mistress
by Chris Bohjalian
With her Confederate husband in a Union prison, Libby Steadman runs their gristmill in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley, helped only by her 12-year-old niece, a 60-year-old freedman, and his freed wife. Libby faces many dangers as war surrounds her, especially when she hides an injured Union officer. If you enjoy this fast-paced book, which is based on a true story, try Paulette Jiles' Chenneville or Robert Hicks' Widow of the South.
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A Scheming in Parliament
by Vetsch, Erica
Erica Vetsch's latest installment provides another spirited escape into the Haverly Universe! Painting a deliciously detailed Regency London, Vetsch's well-woven tale stirs wry-humored grins amid breaths shortened by lurking mystery.
Start with book 1: A Thieving at Carlton House
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Bent but not broken
by Mary Monroe
Trapped in a loveless marriage, Naomi Simmons finds hope with a new love, but her husband's stroke and shocking news from her daughter threaten to upend her life in the fifth novel of the series following Double Lives.
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Thus with a kiss I die
by Christina Dodd
Rosie Montague, a 20-year-old free spirit in Verona, finds her life upended when she's tasked by the ghost of Prince Escalus the Elder to solve his murder, all while navigating a love triangle, revolution, and a looming threat that may turn her into a tragic heroine.
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Gabriela and His Grace
by Liana De La Rosa
As the youngest and most rebellious daughter of the overly protective Luna family, Gabriela Luna Valdés claws after her freedom in any way she can. This time, her hunger for adventure has led her aboard a windswept ship bearing for her homeland, away from a mob of fumbling British suitors. But Gabby can’t escape her father’s expectation that she settle down to find a proper husband—a compromise she’s unwilling to make.
Start with book 1: Ana Maria and the Fox
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The Highland Heist
by Pepper Basham
Lord Astley surprises his wife with a trip to America to see her family before they end their honeymoon adventures. But just as they arrive, they find Grace’s sister, Lillias, is the prime suspect in her husband’s murder. To add to the confusion a solicitor arrives to tell the sister’s they are needed in Scotland immediately to claim their mother’s inheritance.
Start with Book 1: The Mistletoe Countess
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Youth Historical Fiction that Adults Will Love
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When we flew away : a novel of Anne Frank, before the diary
by Alice Hoffman
After the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, and as prejudice, loss and terror runs rampant, young Anne Frank learns who she truly is in the face of impossible danger while bearing witness as ordinary people become monsters, and children and families are caught up in the inescapable violence. Simultaneous eBook.
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Song of a blackbird
by Maria Van Lieshout
"In 1943 Amsterdam, Emma Bergsma's world changes when she witnesses Jewish families being forcibly deported to concentration camps. That pivotal moment lights a fire within her, and she decides to join the Dutch Resistance. Before long, Emma is drawn into a clandestine world of printing presses and counterfeiters...In 2011 Amsterdam, teenage Annick's world has changed as well. A search for a bone marrow donor for her beloved oma leads to a shocking revelation: her grandmother was secretly adopted as a child"
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Where the library hides : a novel
by Isabel Ibaänez
Inez Olivera travels to Egypt seeking answers to her parents' mysterious deaths, but her search leads her down a path filled with heartache, betrayal and a dangerous magic that pulls her into the past.
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Artifice
by Sharon Cameron
To help her best friend Truus, who is smuggling Jewish babies out of Nazi-occupied Amsterdam, master forger Isa de Smit sells fake paintings to the Nazis, but soon discovers fake can be difficult to spot both in art and in people. Simultaneous eBook.
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The deep enders : a novel
by Dave Reardon
"With his home destroyed by the attack on Pearl Harbor, Murph Turner stumbles into the exotic town of Broome seeking refuge from the conflict engulfing the world. Instead, the troubled teen discovers a wild and lawless place brimming with espionage, romance, and treachery. Murph is taken under wing by Banjo - a cheeky Aboriginal scamp with a passion for pyrotechnics - and Micki, a beautiful teenager on the run from authorities. Even as Japanese warships close in the coastline, the trio is suddenly thrustinto a murderous adventure - all set against the backdrop of a true WWII tragedy so brutal that it was immediately covered up by the government."
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