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Historical Fiction August 2024 |
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Pearly Everlasting
by Tammy Armstrong
Set during the Great Depression, an atmospheric novel about a girl and a bear raised as sister and brother in a remote logging camp examines the lengths to which they'll go to protect each other.
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The Volcano Daughters
by Gina María Balibrera
Spending years under the cruel dictator El Gran Pendejo's regime in El Salvador, sisters Graciela and Consuelo, when genocide strikes the community from which they hail, and each believing the other to be dead, flee across the globe, reinventing themselves until fate brings them back together in the most unlikely of ways.
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| The Heart In Winter by Kevin BarryIn 1891 Montana, young Irish poet Tom Rourke drinks, takes drugs, and falls for Polly Gillespie, the devout mine leader’s new bride. The lovers commit arson, steal money and a horse, and then head west...but a posse is hot on their trail. |
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Miss Morgan's Book Brigade
by Janet Skeslien Charles
1918: As the Great War rages, Jessie Carson takes a leave of absence from the New York Public Library to work for the American Committee for Devastated France. Founded by millionaire Anne Morgan, this group of international women help rebuild devastated French communities just miles from the front. Upon arrival, Jessie strives to establish something that the French have never seen-children's libraries. She turns ambulances into bookmobiles and trains the first French female librarians. Then she disappears. 1987: When NYPL librarian and aspiring writer Wendy Peterson stumbles across a passing reference to Jessie Carson in the archives, she becomes consumed with learning her fate. In her obsessive research, she discovers that she and the elusive librarian have more in common than their work at New York's famed library, but she has no idea that their paths will converge in surprising ways across time.
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The Instrumentalist
by Harriet Constable
A novel of music, intoxication and betrayal is inspired by the true story of Anna Maria della Pietà, a Venetian orphan and violin prodigy who studied under Antonio Vivaldi and became his star musician—and biggest muse.
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The Evolution of Annabel Craig
by Lisa Grunwald
When John T. Scopes is arrested for teaching Charles Darwin's theory of evolution at the local high school in 1925, Annabel Hayes, with her marriage already strained, questions both her beliefs and her vows to her attorney husband when he joins the team defending Scopes.
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| The Lion Women of Tehran by Marjan KamaliIn 1950s Tehran, Ellie's privileged life changes drastically after her father's death, forcing her and her mother into a poorer neighborhood. Lonely and longing for companionship, Ellie finds solace in her new neighbor Homa, and the two form a friendship that lasts for decades, navigating changing fortunes, turbulent politics, and the meaning of friendship. |
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| Shanghai by Joseph KanonHaving escaped the Gestapo, Daniel Lohr arrives in Shanghai, where glamour and squalor coexist. As he becomes embroiled in his uncle Nathan’s underworld life of crime and politics, Daniel must confront his past and navigate a treacherous path to survival in a lawless city on the brink of chaos. |
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Scandalous Women : A Novel of Jackie Collins and Jacqueline Susann
by Gill Paul
In 1965 NYC, editorial assistant Nancy White is ill prepared for the rampant sexism she encounters while working with authors Jacqueline Susann and Jackie Collins, who, due to their scandalous and controversial novels, fight to succeed in a man's world while desperately trying to protect those they love most.
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| Enlightenment by Sarah PerryIn the small Essex town of Aldleigh, Thomas Hart and Grace Macaulay share a deep connection despite their 30-year age difference. As Grace leaves town to begin her adult life, Thomas becomes obsessed with a vanished astronomer from the 1880s, said to haunt the area. Over two decades, their lives intersect as they grapple with love, fate, and the mysteries of the universe. |
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The Briar Club : a Novel
by Kate Quinn
In 1950 Washington, DC, at an all-female boardinghouse called Briarwood, mysterious widow Grace March moves into the attic room, drawing her oddball collection of neighbors into unlikely friendship, but when a shocking act of violence tears the house apart, the women must expose the true enemy in their midst.
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| Masquerade by O.O. SangoyomiSet in a re-imagined 15th century West Africa, this inventive interpretation of the Persephone myth introduces Òdòdó, a young woman blacksmith, who is abducted and seduced into marriage by a ruthless warrior king. As she grows in power and political skill, Òdòdó realizes that she must defy her husband, even if it means risking everything. |
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The Nightingale's Castle : a Novel of Erzsâebet Bâthory, the Blood Countess
by Sonia Velton
Sent to join Countess Erzsébet Báthory's household, Boróka, ignorant of her true history as the Countess's secret daughter, struggles to find her place until she forms an unexpected bond with the Countess, but when powerful forces move against the infamous aristocrat, Boróka must decide where her loyalties lie.
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The Paris Gown : a Novel
by Christine Wells
Three young women in 1950s Paris share a single dazzling Christian Dior gown, in a novel by the author of The Royal Winsor Secret.
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Contact your librarian for more great books!
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Centerville Library
111 W. Spring Valley Rd
Centerville, OH 45458
(937) 433-8091
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Woodbourne Library
6060 Far Hills Ave Centerville, OH 45459
(937) 435-3700
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Creativity Commons
895 Miamisburg Centerville Rd
Centerville, OH 45459
(937) 610-4425
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