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Historical Fiction July 2026 |
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| A Fortune of Sand by Ruta SepetysIn 1920s Detroit, Marjorie Lennox secretly joins an elite artist residency, but something feels off about the place, which is backed by a mysterious patron. When rumors spread about missing women, Marjorie investigates. Inspired by real events, A Fortune of Sand is the immersive, well-researched adult fiction debut of a popular YA author. |
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The Paris Thief
by Lisa Rochon
1910: Eighteen-year-old Mathilde has escaped her lonely provincial childhood to become a painter in Montmartre. Moving in bohemian circles, she models for Picasso and lives hedonistically amongst the artists, writers and intellectuals of Paris. But when the Mona Lisa is stolen from the Louvre, and some of Mathilde's friends and lovers become suspects, life takes a dramatic turn. The Paris Thief brilliantly celebrates the resilience of the human spirit in times of immense upheaval and draws readers into a story of hard-fought love and the reasons why enemy armies are driven to plunder and possess beauty.
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Five Weeks in the Country
by Francine Prose
An utterly original novel inspired by the strange friendship between Charles Dickens and Hans Christian Andersen and set during the summer when Dickens's family life exploded. Five Weeks in the Country, a work of imaginative fiction inspired by actual events, is Francine Prose at her dazzling best.
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The Castle in the Glen
by Rhys Bowen
A ghostwriter plunges into danger as she unravels the dark secrets of a powerful Scottish family in a thrilling novel of romance and mystery by the bestselling author of Mrs. Endicott's Splendid Adventure.
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Mistress of the Persian Boarding House
by Marina Nemat
A stirring, intimate novel inspired by the life of Marina's paternal grandmother. Born into the elegant comfort of upper-class Russian society at the turn of the twentieth century, Zina yearns for independence and a life she can call her own. After the Bolsheviks topple the Czarist government, she narrowly escapes with her husband. But once they arrive in Tehran, tragedy strikes again, and she finds herself alone and impoverished. At a modest boarding house, Zina must start over.
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