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Historical Fiction November 2024 |
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The wealth of shadows
by Moore, Graham
In 1939, Ansel Luxford uproots his family and moves to Washington, D.C., to work on a clandestine project to undermine Nazi Germany, one involving economic warfare, and is plunged into a world of espionage, danger and deceit, especially when his wife takes a job with the FBI, bringing subterfuge to the home front.
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| The Wildes by Louis BayardTaking place in five acts, this lyrical biographical novel explores the effects of playwright Oscar Wilde's extramarital affair and his imprisonment for homosexuality on his young family, movingly depicting the lives of his wife and two sons from the 1890s until the 1920s. Read-alikes: The House of Doors by Tan Twan Eng; My Policeman by Bethan Roberts. |
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The Titanic Survivors Book Club: a Novel
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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| Women's Hotel by Daniel M. LaveryLong-term residents of a women's hotel take turns discussing their lives in 1960s New York City in this witty, quotable debut novel. Unfortunately, their days at the hotel may be numbered amidst its financial problems. Read-alikes: Gill Paul's The Manhattan Girls; Paulina Bren's The Barbizon (a nonfiction book about a real New York women's hotel). |
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Only the brave
by Steel, Danielle
During World War II, Sophia Alexander, after her mother dies and her father is sent to a concentration camp, becomes increasingly involved in the resistance and while working with the convent nuns, the Sisters of Mercy where she risks everything to help those in need—no matter what the cost.
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| The Mesmerist by Caroline WoodsEveryone at the Bethany Home for Unwed Mothers in 1894 Minneapolis is curious about the new girl: she's beautiful, bruised, and refuses to speak. As rumors swirl that she might be a mesmerist who can control others, her roommate May and the home's treasurer Abby look for the truth and discover a mystery and murder. Based on real events, this character-driven novel cleverly combines true crime and women's history. |
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The Hazelbourne ladies motorcycle and flying club
by Simonson, Helen
In the summer of 1919, Constance, sent as a lady's companion to Hazelbourne-on-Sea, is welcomed by Poppy Wirrall, a baronet's daughter who runs a ladies' motorcycle club, but as the country prepares to celebrate its hard-won peace, the club realizes the freedoms they gained during the war are being revoked.
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The Volcano Daughters
by Gina María Balibrera
In an El Salvador led by a cruel dictator, sisters Graciela and Consuelo are born into an Indigenous community, but are taken away at different times for different reasons. After a 1932 massacre, the sisters, each believing the other is dead, flee, stopping in France, New York, and California, all while followed by ghosts of their friends, who narrate this sweeping, vibrant debut novel. For fans of: The Bullet Swallower by Elizabeth Gonzalez James.
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The housekeeper's secret
by Grey, Iona
In a sweeping romance set in a crumbling mansion at the turn of the 20th century, as the days darken, the secrets within grow harder to keep.
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| The End of Drum-Time by Hanna PylväinenIn the 1850s, a Lutheran minister has preached for years in a remote Scandinavian village, trying to convert the native Sámi and others to Christianity. Now, outside influences, local tensions, the conversion of a Sámi shaman, and a forbidden romance between the minister's daughter and a local reindeer herder upend everything in this National Book Award finalist. Read-alikes: Mikael Niemi's To Cook a Bear; Lars Mytting's The Bell in the Lake. |
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