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Historical Fiction - June 2024
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| Rough Trade by Katrina CarrascoThis descriptive and stylistically complex follow-up to The Best Bad Things returns readers to the Washington Territory in the late 1880s, where they first met ex-Pinkerton agent Alma Rosales. This time, Alma (living undercover as a man named Jack) must solve a string of murders which are drawing attention to the opium smuggling operation she runs with high-society lover Delphine. |
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Last House : or The Age of Oil
by Jessica Shattuck
"From the New York Times bestselling author of The Women in the Castle comes a sweeping story of a nation on the rise, and one family's deeply complicated relationship to the resource that built their fortune and fueled their greatest tragedy, perfect for fans of The Dutch House and The Great Circle"
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| All the World Beside by Garrard ConleySet in a small Massachusetts village during the First Great Awakening, this well-researched, heartwrenching tale of faith and forbidden love centers on the very passionate (and equally dangerous) romantic connection that develops between devout preacher Nathaniel Whitfield and the town doctor Arthur Lyman. For fans of The Prophets by Robert Jones Jr. and The Disenchantment by Celia Bell. |
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Every Time We Say Goodbye
by Natalie Jenner
A London playwright working as a script doctor in 1955 Rome faces the mystery of what happened to her fiancé during the war, in the new novel by the best-selling author of The Jane Austen Society.
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| The Sweet Blue Distance by Sara DonatiResourceful nurse and midwife Carrie Ballentyne (granddaughter of Elizabeth Middleton, who readers first met in Into the Wilderness) leaves her position at a New York charity hospital in 1857 for a job in the New Mexico Territory, embarking on a journey as rife with danger and distress as it is rich with possibility and opportunities to save lives. |
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Black Shield Maiden
by Willow Smith
Yafeu, an African warrior stolen from her home in the Ghanaian Empire, ignites a revolution in the frozen north of the Vikings and forges an unlikely friendship with a timid princess as the pair fight to control their destinies.
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| Wolf at the Table by Adam RappIn this creepy and atmospheric family saga, award-winning playwright Adam Rapp meditates on violence, mental illness, and the nature of evil, starting with 13-year-old Myra Lee Larkin's brief run-in with a strange man who would later murder an entire family in her neighborhood in 1951, and following her uncanny connections to real-life killers like Richard Speck and John Wayne Gacy. |
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The Hazelbourne Ladies Motorcycle and Flying Club: A novel
by Helen Simonson
In the summer of 1919, Constance, sent as a lady's companion to Hazelbourne-on-Sea, is welcomed by Poppy Wirrall, a baronet's daughter who runs a ladies' motorcycle club, but as the country prepares to celebrate its hard-won peace, the club realizes the freedoms they gained during the war are being revoked.
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| A Sweet Sting of Salt by Rose SutherlandThis queer retelling of classic Celtic folktale The Selkie Wife takes place in 1830s Nova Scotia, where midwife Jean Langille assists Muirin, a woman going into labor on a nearby beach. The two form a strong bond despite a language barrier, which only grows deeper when Jean mistakes Muirin's behavior for postpartum depression. |
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Tomorrow is for the Brave
by Kelly Bowen
In 1939 France, socialite Violet St. Croix, defying her parents' wishes, joins the war effort, and as the Allies are thwarted at every turn and her commanding officer is murdered, she is the only one who can expose a traitor and save countless lives—if only she could find someone to trust.
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Butcher : father of modern gyno-psychiatry
by Joyce Carol Oates
A disgraced doctor's quest for surgical renown in 19th-century America leads him down a horrifying path of experimentation on marginalized women at a New Jersey asylum, until his obsession with a young Irish indentured servant brings about his ultimate destruction.
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This Strange Eventful History: A novel
by Claire Messud
Inspired in part by long-ago stories from her own family's history, this masterful story follows the Cassars over seven decades, starting with patriarch Gaston and his wife Lucienne, whose myth of perfect love sustains them, and ending with Chloe, who believes telling her family's buried stories will bring them all peace.
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Ella : A novel
by Diane Richards
Follows the life of legendary singer Ella Fitzgerald from her escape from an infamous training school/prison that forced her to dance on the street for money to her 1934 first amateur appearance at the Apollo Theatre.
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The Passionate Tudor : A novel of Queen Mary I
by Alison Weir
Allowed to return to court as King Henry VIII's default heir after being declared a bastard, Mary, the first female queen to rule Britain, embarks on a ruthless campaign to force Catholicism on the English by burning hundreds of Protestants at the stake, earning her the name Bloody Mary.
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Daughters of Shandong
by Eve J. Chung
As China's civil war ravages and engulfs their once-privileged lives, four resourceful daughters defy tradition and flee their home as the Communist army closes in, charting a path across a war-torn nation to independence in Taiwan.
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Rednecks
by Taylor Brown
Dramatizing the 1920 to 1921 events of the West Virginia Mine Wars, this powerful story of rebellion against oppression follows a Black WWI veteran and coal miner as he leads a miners' revolt and a Lebanese American doctor who risks his life and career to treat the sick and wounded miners.
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The Safekeep: A novel
by Yael van der Wouden
In 1961, in Dutch countryside, Isabel lives by routine and discipline until her brother leaves his graceless new girlfriend Eva on her doorstep, and as Eva disrespects her house, Isabel develops a fury-fueled obsession that gives way to infatuation, leading to a discovery that unravels all Isabel has ever known.
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The Library Thief : A novel
by Kuchenga Shenjâe
A white-passing bookbinder in Victorian England, Florence, restoring a collection of rare books in the forbidding Rose Hall, hears whispers about Lord Belfield's late wife, and when the library is broken into and his wife's secret diary is burned, she realizes with horror it may have held the clue to her fate.
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The Lost Letters from Martha's Vineyard : A novel
by Michael Callahan
When TV producer Kit O'Neill discovers her late grandmother was Mercy Welles, an Oscar-nominated actress who disappeared just as her career was taking off, she puts her investigative skills to good use, which leads her to Martha's Vineyard—the island that holds the key to the fateful summer that changed everything forever.
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Kairos
by Jenny Erpenbeck
An epic storyteller with the most powerful voice in contemporary German literature, Jenny Erpenbeck has created an unforgettably compelling masterpiece with Kairos. The story of a May-December romance begun in East Berlin at the end of the 1980s: the passionate yet difficult long-running affair of Katharina and Hans hits the rocks as a whole world--the socialist GDR--melts away.
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