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Historical Fiction April 2024
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| Neferura by Malayna EvansPrincess Neferura, daughter of the formidable female pharaoh Hatshepsut, lives a life of prescribed duty, from her role as the high priestess of Amun to an unwanted marriage to Thutmose, a claimant to the throne. Caught between her mother and her husband, Neferura will have to do her own scheming in order to survive the intrigues of them both. |
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| The London Bookshop Affair by Louise FeinIn this atmospheric and intricately plotted spy novel, the tension of the Cuban Missile Crisis reaches across the Atlantic and into the life of sheltered London bookshop clerk Celia Duchesne, who learns a shocking truth about the wartime fate of her sister and the an old family scandal comes back to haunt her. |
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The Titanic Survivors Book Club
by Timothy Schaffert
Paris bookshop owner Yorick, joining a secret society of other Titanic ticket holders who didn’t board the ship, forms a book club where they can grapple with their good fortune and anxieties through heated discussions of literature, but when one of them unexpectedly dies, he wonders what fate has in store.
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| A Plague on Both Your Houses by Robert LittellInspired by real events, this fast-paced historical thriller combines the star-crossed young love of "Romeo and Juliet" with the upheaval of the collapse of the Soviet Union. As two rival crime organizations fight for control of Moscow amidst economic anarchy, Roman and Yulia form an unlikely connection across ethnic, religious, and territorial lines. |
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| A Sign of Her Own by Sarah MarshThis is the reflective and richly detailed story of Ellen Lark, a deaf woman who just wants to express herself on her own terms. While studying with Alexander Graham Bell to learn his Visual Speech technique, Ellen begins to question society's shunning of sign language and the pressure deaf people faced to assimilate. |
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| Mrs. Gulliver by Valerie MartinOn the fictional Caribbean island of Verona where prostitution is legal, the titular Lila Gulliver runs a high-end brothel. In 1954 she takes in Carità Bercy, a charming young blind woman who begins an (actual) love affair with a well-connected client that will have dramatic and unexpected fallout for the entire community. |
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| The Lost Dresses of Italy by M.A. McLaughlinThree beautifully preserved Victorian dresses unite two women living nearly a century apart in this compelling and richly detailed story of loss and recovery. In 1947, textile historian Marianne Baxter travels to a still-rebuilding postwar Italy to oversee an exhibit of the dresses, which once belonged to celebrated poet Christina Rossetti (who hid them away in 1865 for mysterious reasons). |
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| All Our Yesterdays by Joel H. MorrisThis incisive and character-driven prequel is set a decade before the events of Shakespeare's "Scottish Play" and is narrated by the unnamed young woman who would eventually be known as Lady Macbeth. Author Joel H. Morris paints a sympathetic portrait of this infamous figure and the ups and (many) downs of her early life. |
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| The Rumor Game by Thomas MullenIn this intricately plotted crime novel, reporter Anne Lemire and FBI agent Devon Mulvey separately, and later together investigate a succession of antisemitic violence in 1943 Boston. Soon they uncover a fascist conspiracy to falsely incriminate members of the local Jewish community and must find a way to convince the authorities to act on their information. |
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Double Lives
by Mary Monroe
Depression-era, Southern identical twin sisters decide to switch places when one is being stifled in a passionless marriage and the other is heartbroken over losing her true love, in the fourth novel of the series following Love, Honor, Betray.
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