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Historical Fiction August 2025 |
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The lost baker of Vienna by Sharon KurtzmanIn 2018, Zoe Rosenzweig becomes obsessed with finding out what happened to her family during the Holocaust. Vienna, 1946: Chana Rosenzweig has endured the horrors of war to find herself, her mother, and younger brother finally free in Vienna. But freedom doesn't look like they imagined it would, as they struggle to make a living and stay safe.
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The last assignment : a novel by Erika RobuckThe perilous and awe-inspiring true story of award-winning photojournalist Dickey Chapelle as she risks everything to show the American people the price of war through the lens of her camera.
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The Stolen Life of Colette Marceau by Kristin HarmelIn Nazi-occupied France, Colette Marceau's mother is executed while her four-year-old sister disappears and is later found dead. Trained by her mother, Colette becomes a jewel thief, targeting the bad to give to the good, and in 2018 Boston, she's still working when a special bracelet linked to her sister appears in a museum. Colette seeks answers, hoping to finally learn what happened decades ago in this dual-timeline tale.
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The French kitchen : a novel by Kristy CambronAs Paris rebuilds in the aftermath of World War II, one ex-pat uses the skills she learned in French kitchens during the war to bring long-held secrets to light.
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A beacon in the night by David LewisBritain has endured the relentless bombing campaign of the Blitz and emerged, scarred but unbroken. The Luftwaffe is pinpointing historic targets, including cathedrals and ancestral homes, with the help of homing beacons placed by the enemy Caitrin is tasked with rooting out the saboteurs placing the beacons.
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This here is love : a novel by Princess Joy L. PerryIn 17th-century Virginia, enslaved girl Bless, freeborn Black child David, and indentured servant Jack Dane each grapple with survival, identity, and belonging as their lives converge on contested land, forcing them to redefine freedom, family and love in a brutal new world.
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Crossfire by Wilbur A SmithIn 1943, British spy Saffron Courtney sails to New York on a mission to rally support for the war effort while secretly hunting a Nazi spy ring within the British Embassy.
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Mrs. Endicott's splendid adventure : a novel by Rhys BowenIn Surrey, England, 1938, blindsided by her husband's divorce appeal, Ellie impulsively heads to the South of France with housekeeper Mavis and elderly friend Dora until their Bentley breaks down in Saint Benet, where Ellie is drawn to fisherman Nico—but war looms. |
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Dear Miss Lake : a novel by A. J. PearceDuring wartime, advice columnist Emmy Lake and the Woman's Friend staff relocate to the countryside, where Emmy balances rural life, a looming wedding and the possibility of war correspondence, in the fourth novel of the series following Mrs. Porter Calling.
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L.A. women by Ella BermanIn 1960s L.A., writer and Hollywood outsider Lane becomes envious when socialite and fellow writer Gala gains fame; 10 years later she betrays Gala by writing a successful book based on her life—her only problem is Gala's now been missing for months.
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The lies they told by Ellen Marie WisemanIn 1930s Virginia, Lena Conti, a young immigrant mother separated from her family at Ellis Island, builds a new life in the Blue Ridge Mountains but must resist a brutal eugenics campaign that targets her community and threatens to take her daughter.
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