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Historical Fiction February 2024 |
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The Women by Kristin HannahIn 1965, nursing student Frankie McGrath, after hearing the words“Women can be heroes, too,” impulsively joins the Army Nurse Corps and follows her brother to Vietnam where she is overwhelmed by the destruction of war, as well as the unexpected trauma of coming home to a changed and politically divided America.
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A Sign of Her Own by Sarah MarshInspired by a true story, describes the life of Ellen Lark, a deaf woman who became a favorite student of Alexander Graham Bell while he raced against Western Union to cast a human voice over wires.
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The Road From Belhaven by Margot LiveseyIn late-nineteenth-century Scotland, Lizzie Craig, gifted with the ability to see into the future, is courted by Louis, but when she follows him from Belhaven Farm to Glasgow, she learns the limits of his devotion, forcing her to make a terrible mistake until her second sight allows her a second chance.
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Burma Sahibby Paul TherouxAn Eton graduate is conscripted as a servant of the British Empire to oversea local policemen in Burma, forcing him to navigate social , racial and class politics in the new novel by the acclaimed author of The Mosquito Coast.
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The Phoenix Crown by Kate QuinnOffered patronage by Henry Thornton, a charming railroad magnate, in 1906, Gemma, a silver-voiced soprano, and Suling, a Chinatown embroideress, when Henry disappears, along with the fabled Phoenix Crown, are brought together five years later in one last desperate quest for justice.
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A Wild and Heavenly Placeby Robin OliveiraAfter a bank failure, a young man from Glasgow travels to Seattle in the Washington Territory to search for his lost love, but finds himself caught up in the city's secrets and the challenges of the Pacific Northwest.
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Neferura: The Pharaoh's Daughter by Malayna EvansDreaming of forbidden romance and freedom, Neferura, princess and high priestess of Egypt, to escape her vile half-brother, forms an unlikely alliance with a mysterious tattooed wisewoman who offers her a way out, forcing her to decide where her loyalties lie and how much she's willing to sacrifice.
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The Warm Hands of Ghostsby Katherine ArdenIn 1918, field nurse Laura Iven returns to Belgium to uncover the truth about her brother Freddie's supposed death in combat, while Freddie, unable to return to the killing fields, takes refuge with a mysterious man who has the power to make the hellscape of the trenches disappear.
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Where They Lieby Claire CoughlanIn 1968 Dublin, Nicoletta Sarto, an ambitious junior reporter for the Irish Sentinel, investigates the 25-year-old mystery of actress Julia Bridge's disappearance and her link to a woman who facilitated abortions, and becomes immersed in the illegal abortion industry, stirring up long-buried secrets from her own past.
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The Trouble With Youby Ellen FeldmanIn NYC in the aftermath of World War II, Fanny Fabricant takes a job as a secretary to the "queen" of radio serials and stumbles on the blacklist that is destroying careers and wrecking lives, forcing her to decide between playing it safe as she's always done or doing what she knows is right.
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We Are Only Ghosts by Jeffrey L. RichardsIn 1968 New York City, headwaiter Charles Ward, when Berthold Werden, the Nazi officer who was both his savoir and his tormentor, walks into Café Marie, is forced to revisit the pain and the brief, undeniable pleasures of the life he once knew.
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The Hidden Life of Cecily Larsonby Ellen BakerNow 94 and living a quiet life, Cecily Larson, when her family surprises her with an at-home DNA test, finds the unexpected results not only bringing to light the tragic love story she's kept hidden for decades but also calls into question everything about the family she's raised and claimed as her own.
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The Turtle Houseby Amanda ChurchillIn 1999 Texas, Lia Cope, when her grandmother Mineko moves in, connects with her over stories of the Turtle House in Japan and the secrets they both carry, and when Mineko is forced to live in an assisted living community, she and Lia devise a plan to bring a beloved lost place to life.
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The American Daughtersby Maurice Carlos RuffinEnslaved to a businessman in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Ady, when she's separated from her mother, meets Lenore, a free black woman who invites her to join a clandestine society of spies called the Daughters, setting her on a journey toward liberation and imagining a new future.
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