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Historical Fiction April 2024
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| The London Bookshop Affair by Louise FeinIn this atmospheric and intricately plotted spy novel, the tension of the Cuban Missile Crisis reaches across the Atlantic and into the life of sheltered London bookshop clerk Celia Duchesne, who learns a shocking truth about the wartime fate of her sister and the an old family scandal comes back to haunt her. |
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Can't we be friends : a novel of Ella Fitzgerald and Marilyn Monroe
by Denny S. Bryce
In Hollywood of the 1950s, two icons, Marilyn Monroe and Ella Fitzgerald, defy expectations and find solace in an unlikely friendship forged on their shared strength and vulnerability transcending both race and fame. Booklist calls it, "charming, heartfelt, and above all, celebratory."
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Sharpe's command / : Richard Sharpe and the Bridge at Almaraz, May 1812
by Bernard Cornwell
Sent on an undercover mission to a small village in the Spanish countryside in the early 19th century, far behind enemy lines, the formidable Captain Sharpe and his group of men—with their cunning and courage to rely on—must stop two French armies from meeting on the Almaraz bridge.
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The woman with no name : a novel
by Audrey Blake
When her house bombed and she has nothing left, Yvonne Rudellat prepares to take her own life but fate intervenes, offering her the opportunity to train as a Special Operative Executive where she vows to set Europe ablaze and clear the way for the women who come after.
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| The Lost Dresses of Italy by M.A. McLaughlinThree beautifully preserved Victorian dresses unite two women living nearly a century apart in this compelling and richly detailed story of loss and recovery. In 1947, textile historian Marianne Baxter travels to a still-rebuilding postwar Italy to oversee an exhibit of the dresses, which once belonged to celebrated poet Christina Rossetti (who hid them away in 1865 for mysterious reasons). |
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| All Our Yesterdays by Joel H. MorrisThis incisive and character-driven prequel is set a decade before the events of Shakespeare's "Scottish Play" and is narrated by the unnamed young woman who would eventually be known as Lady Macbeth. Author Joel H. Morris paints a sympathetic portrait of this infamous figure and the ups and (many) downs of her early life. |
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| Finding Margaret Fuller by Allison PatakiThe life and adventures of trailblazing writer and activist Margaret Fuller fill this lush and richly detailed novel. Fuller's circle of famous friends included Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Louisa May Alcott, and Nathaniel Hawthorne, who may have based elements of Hester Prynne on her. |
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