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Historical Fiction December 2020
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The Mystery of Mrs. Christie
by Marie Benedict
Claiming amnesia after going missing for more than a week in late 1926, up-and-coming mystery author Agatha Christie pens a chilling story that brashly implicates her war-hero husband. By the author of The Other Einstein.
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The Arctic Fury
by Greer Macallister
Secretly hired by an eccentric Lady Franklin to lead a team of women explorers into the Arctic to recover Captain Sir John Franklin’s lost expedition, Virginia Reeve survives a harrowing quest, only to find herself on trial for murder.
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Germania : a novel of Nazi Berlin
by Harald Gilbers
Reactivated against his will by the Gestapo in the bombed-out capital of the Reich in 1944, Jewish detective Richard Oppenheimer investigates a serial killer who has been leaving Nazi-connected victims at war memorials.
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| Death and the Maiden by Ariana Franklin and Samantha NormanThe long-awaited final entry in the series of novels that began with Mistress of the Art of Death.
Italian-born physician Adelia Aguilar is first brought to England by king Henry II to investigate suspicious deaths using her medical training.
This posthumously published novel was completed by journalist and film critic Samantha Norman, the daughter of original author Ariana Franklin. |
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| The Lost Shtetl by Max GrossKreskol is an insular Polish shtetl so isolated that its residents escaped the horrors of the Holocaust and the rest of the 20th century.
A divorcee's flight from the village inadvertently sets off a chain of events that will drag Kreskol and its people into the 21st century, for better or worse.
Read it for: the surprising moments of absurdity and laugh-out-loud humor in this thought-provoking novel. |
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| Actress by Anne EnrightA character-driven account of the larger-than-life personality and career of Irish acting legend Katherine O'Dell, as told by her novelist daughter Norah.
An engaging portrait of well-meaning but complex Katherine, who struggles to navigate fame and single motherhood in an era without models for either.
Irish writer Anne Enright's previous novels include The Green Road and Man Booker Prize-winning The Gathering. |
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The Only Woman in the Room
by Marie Benedict
She possessed a stunning beauty. She also possessed a stunning mind. Could the world handle both? Her beauty almost certainly saved her from the rising Nazi party and led to marriage with an Austrian arms dealer. Underestimated in everything else, she overheard the Third Reich's plans while at her husband's side, understanding more than anyone would guess. She devised a plan to flee in disguise from their castle, and the whirlwind escape landed her in Hollywood. She became Hedy Lamarr, screen star. But she kept a secret more shocking than her heritage or her marriage: she was a scientist. And she knew a few secrets about the enemy. She had an idea that might help the country fight the Nazis...if anyone would listen to her.
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| Isadora by Amelia Gray A moody and character-driven depiction of iconoclastic dancer and choreographer Isadora Duncan, set primarily in 1913 just after the drowning deaths of her two young children.
Read it for: the lyrical writing style, which perfectly fits the drama and sensuality of the woman herself.
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| The Crooked Path by Irma JoubertLettie Louw is a young woman in pre-apartheid South Africa who is determined to become a doctor like her father. Marco Romanelli is an Italian immigrant whose physical and mental health were deeply scarred by his experiences in World War II.
Marco and Lettie meet and decide to marry for less-than-romantic reasons, neither expecting to fall in love. But as the years go by they do develop a bond, which faces its ultimate test when Marco's fragile health deteriorates. |
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The Golden Hour
by Beatriz Williams
In World War II Nassau to investigate the Duke and Duchess of Windsor for a New York magazine, Lulu Randolph falls for Benedict Thorpe, a scientist who disappears without a trace, sending Lulu on a journey to unravel his complicated family history.
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