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Historical Fiction July 2026 |
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Cool Machine
by Colson Whitehead
From #1 New York Times bestselling author and two-time Pulitzer winner Colson Whitehead, an exuberantly entertaining novel that brings to life 1980s New York in the magnificent final volume of his Harlem Trilogy 1981.
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The Half Life
by Rachel Beanland
A novel set on a remote Italian island about a navy wife's reckoning with power, love, and the price of staying silent in the Atomic Age.
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An Infinite Love Story
by Chanel Cleeton
When an astronaut is lost in space, his wife relives their epic love as she attempts to unravel what truly happened to him, in this sweeping love story set against the backdrop of the 1960s Space Race, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Lost Story of Eva Fuentes.
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The Parisian Heist
by Jo Piazza
From the bestselling author of The Sicilian Inheritance and Everyone Is Lying to You comes a propulsive dual-timeline mystery drenched in art-world intrigue and brimming with family secrets, betrayal, and the intoxicating lure of power. Billed as a thriller but more satisfying as historical fiction - Kirkus.
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The Secret Society of Librarians
by Kate Thompson
Meeting through real-life Secret Society of Librarians in London, two women form a close bond. When WW2 hits, they take their libraries underground, creating create a roaming underground library. But when one of them is taken to Poland and a concentration camp, they think there is no chance of ever being reunited again...
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Should the Waters Take Us
by Stephanie Soileau
An epic debut novel that follows one family across four centuries, from France to Acadia to the bayous of Southern Louisiana--a poignant examination of belonging, place, and how individual acts of moral compromise contribute to cycles of injustice and destruction.
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Single Girls
by John Searles
An infectious and utterly charming fictionalization of the iconic Helen Gurley Brown's early years at the helm of Cosmopolitan, and the intrepid group of women she took under her wing to create one of the most talked about magazines of all time.
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Summer of Love
by Kerri Maher
In this moving novel about the transformative power of storytelling, three women make life-changing decisions set in motion by the 1967 Summer of Love in San Francisco, from the USA Today bestselling author of The Paris Bookseller.
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When You Loved Me
by Beatriz Williams
A young widow returns to her late father's New England estate, only to be drawn into the hunt for the rumored pirate treasure that consumed his life, in this thrilling and moving novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Husbands & Lovers.
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Contact your librarian for more great books!
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Comsewogue Public Library
170 Terryville Road
Port Jefferson Station, New York 11776
(631) 928-1212www.cplib.org |
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