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Historical Fiction December 2024 |
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The once and future witches
by Alix E. Harrow
"In the late 1800s, three sisters use witchcraft to change the course of history in a Hugo award-winning author's novel of magic amid the suffragette movement"
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| Polostan by Neal StephensonBorn in 1916, Dawn Rae Bjornberg is raised in Montana by anarchist cowboy relatives and in Russia, where her Leninist father lives. Making her own way as a teen, she sees Depression-era America, the 1933 Chicago World's Fair, the beginnings of the Soviet Union, and then gets mixed up with the KGB. Intricately plotted, this 1st Bomb Light novel is "tremendously entertaining...a glorious achievement from a unique and compelling writer" (Booklist). |
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The Seventh Veil of Salome
by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
In 1955 Hollywood, Mexican newcomer Vera Larios is cast as Salome, the title role in a big-budget movie -- but vengeful actress Nancy Hartley believes Vera stole the role in this atmospheric novel that also explores the first-century life of the titular character. Read-alikes: Miss Del Río by Barbara Mujica; The Only Woman in the Room by Marie Benedict; The Christie Affair by Nina de Gramont.
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Small things like these
by Claire Keegan
In a small Irish town in 1985, coal merchant and family man, Bill Furlong, while delivering an order to the local convent, makes a discovery that forces him to confront both his past and the complicit silences of a town controlled by the church. On the N.Y. Times' list of 100 Best Books of the 21st Century, and Oprah Book Club pick, and now a major motion picture.
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| The Sunflower House by Adriana AllegriAfter the dying uncle who raised her shares that her mother was Jewish, Allina Gottlieb hides her heritage to survive. Even so, she's assaulted by an SS officer and forced to work as a nurse in a Nazi eugenics program, where she meets and grows close to another SS officer, one with his own deadly secret. This debut will please fans of well-researched, immersive World War II novels like those by Jennifer Chiaverini and Heather Morris. |
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The Wildes
by Louis Bayard
Taking 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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Historical Fiction that takes place at Christmas time
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Christmas bells
by Jennifer Chiaverini
A holiday tale inspired by Longfellow's classic poem follows the experiences of a dedicated Boston teacher who, in the face of a somber season, finds inspiration and renewal at the church where she volunteers. By the New York Times best-selling author of Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker.
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A Christmas legacy : a novel
by Anne Perry
After her friend gets unceremoniously fired with no references right before the holidays, Gracie takes the recently-vacated job herself to try and figure out what happened, in a novel of this Victorian Mystery series.
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A Christmas memory
by Richard Paul Evans
Reeling from the loss of his brother in Vietnam, Richard moves with his family from California to his grandmother's abandoned house in Utah, where he finds the holiday spirit with the help of an elderly neighbor and his dog.
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Contact your librarian for more great books!
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