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Historical Fiction April 2017
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The Memory Stones
by Caroline Brothers
An Argentinian woman embarks on a harrowing search in 1976 for her 19-year-old daughter who was ôdisappearedö by the junta while her husband, a doctor forced to flee to Europe, can only witness the destruction of his country and family from afar.
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| The Confessions of Young Nero: A Novel by Margaret GeorgeLucius Domitius Ahenobarbus was born to rule. At least, that's what his mother believes, though it must be noted that Agrippina, a woman with a penchant for poisoning her husbands, may not be the most reliable judge of character. Still, Lucius -- an intelligent, sensitive boy who loves music and chariot races -- can only be an improvement over his uncle, Caligula. Lucius strives to distance himself from his relatives even as he benefits from Agrippina's scheming: by age 16, he's Emperor Nero. However, he quickly discovers that staying in power requires a certain amount of ruthlessness. This novel by the author of The Memoirs of Cleopatra is an unusual coming-of-age story that imagines the life of a notorious ruler. |
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The Yid
by Paul Goldberg
In 1953, state security officials show up to arrest Solomon Levinson, formerly an actor with the now-defunct Moscow State Jewish Theater. Their "operation" goes awry when Levinson, an elderly but spry war veteran, decides he'd rather not be imprisoned in Lubyanka. After violently dispatching the men, Levinson learns that they represent a larger effort on the part of Stalin to exterminate the country's Jews, prompting him to assemble a ragtag team to assassinate the Soviet leader. Like a Yiddish-inflected, Soviet-era take on Quentin Tarantino's film Inglourious Basterds, The Yid infuses meticulous research and multilingual wit into its action-movie plot.
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The Postmistress
by Sarah Blake
The stories of a small Cape Cod postmistress and an American radio reporter stationed in London collide on the eve of the United States' entrance into World War II, a meeting that is shaped by a broken promise to deliver a letter.
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Mistress Shakespeare
by Karen Harper
Her engagement to William Shakespeare broken by his forced marriage to a pregnant Anne Hathaway, Anne Whateley pursues a clandestine affair with the bard that is complicated by Elizabeth I's campaign to eradicate Catholicism.
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The Wife, the Maid, and the Mistress
by Ariel Lawhon
A steamy reimagining of the scandal-marked 1930 disappearance of Justice Joseph Crater explores events decades later from the perspectives of the three women who knew him best, including his Chanel-draped wife, his showgirl mistress and his dutiful housemaid. (historical fiction).
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The Mistress
by Philippe Tapon
Tells the story of Simone, the nurse and mistress of a doctor who is implicated in the death of a Nazi and whose family is also plotting against him.
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