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Historical Fiction July 2025 |
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Typewriter beach : a novel
by Meg Waite Clayton
"Set in Carmel-by-the-Sea and in 1950s Hollywood-in the days of the studio system and McCarthy-era scaremongering about an America "riddled with communists and homosexuals"-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. a, Typewriter Beach is a heartwarming tale of long-buried secrets; sisterhood and sexism; the importance of free speech, story, and name; and what it means to be family"
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A Tip for the Hangman
by Allison Epstein
Recruited from Cambridge by Elizabeth I's spymaster, scholarship student Kit Marlowe is stationed undercover as a servant in the chilly manor where Mary, Queen of Scots, lives under house arrest. A first novel.
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The Kennedy girl
by Julia Thomas
Mia, an American orphan is swept away to the glitz and glamour of 1960’s Paris when a mysterious customer offers her a modeling job at a famous fashion house. As she gets used to life in Paris and the world of modeling, she finds herself unknowingly caught up in a Cold War espionage plot at the very fashion house she works in.
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| Where the Rivers Merge by Mary Alice MonroeIndependent Eliza Rivers, who was born in South Carolina's Lowcountry in 1900, lives through wars, family turmoil, sexism, business growth, and more. At 88, she draws two young women close, sharing her past and hoping they can keep her beloved land safe from her selfish son in this multigenerational novel, the 1st in the Mayfield duology. Read-alikes: Michael Christie's Greenwood; Dolen Perkins-Valdez's Happy Land. |
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The view from Lake Como : a novel
by Adriana Trigiani
After a painful divorce and family upheaval in working-class Lake Como, New Jersey, draftswoman Jess Capodimonte Baratta flees to Carrara, Italy, where artistic ambition, and new relationships reshape her understanding of love, loyalty, and personal fulfillment
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| The Listeners by Maggie StiefvaterIn January 1942, war comes to West Virginia when the United States government orders the luxury Avallon Hotel to house Axis Power diplomats. Balancing work, worry, and ethical questions, hotel manager June Porter Hudson also gets to know a handsome FBI agent. This atmospheric adult fiction debut by a bestselling YA fantasy novelist has hints of magic and is a "must-read for all historical fiction fans" (Library Journal). Read-alike: Melanie Benjamin's Mistress of the Ritz. |
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