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Historical Fiction April 2024
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Ceremony
by Leslie Marmon Silko
This new novel about Tayo, a World War II veteran of mixed ancestry, and his struggles when he returns to the Laguna Pueblo Reservation, featuring a new foreword by Tommy Orange. Scarred by his experience as a prisoner of the Japanese and further wounded by the rejection he encounters from his people, he regains peace by immersing himself in the Indian past.
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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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| The Painter's Daughters by Emily HowesMolly and Peggy, the titular daughters of 18th century English painter Thomas Gainsborough, are regular subjects in their father's work. As the girls grow older, it becomes apparent that Molly has developed a mental illness of some kind, something which Peggy realizes must be hidden at all costs from their social-climbing mother and emotionally absent father, or Molly might be sent to the notorious Bedlam asylum. |
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The Cook of Castamar
by Fernando J. Muñez
Now a Netflix series, The Duke of Castamar was once a noble figure who played a crucial role in his family's royal council. But ever since his wife's tragic death, he's been living in mourning, forgoing his noble duties. Clara, born into gentility but hard-up since the death of her beloved father, has taken to solitude in her grief, rarely leaving the confines of her beloved kitchen. But she must find a way to make a living, which is how she finds herself travelling to the Duke's great home to work in the kitchen...And when the Duke learns of Clara's talents, he soon finds himself falling for her. In a world of royal duties, sordid affairs and complicated politics, will there be chance for the unlikely romance to blossom?
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| A Sign of Her Own by Sarah MarshThis is the reflective and richly detailed story of Ellen Lark, a deaf woman who just wants to express herself on her own terms. While studying with Alexander Graham Bell to learn his Visual Speech technique, Ellen begins to question society's shunning of sign language and the pressure deaf people faced to assimilate. |
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The British Booksellers
by Kristy Cambron
Rival booksellers Amos and Charlotte, as Coventry is devastated by Luftwaffe's local blitz, must put aside their differences and fight together to help Coventry survive, in this exploration of the unbreakable bonds that unite us through love, loss and the enduring solace that can be found between the pages of a book.
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The Sicilian Inheritance
by Jo Piazza
Inheriting a plot of land in Sicily, along with a bombshell family secret—her great-grandmother Serafina didn't die of illness but was murdered—Sara Marsala races all over the picturesque Italian countryside to solve a mystery and learn the real story of Serafina, putting her in the crosshairs of a killer.
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The Sweet Blue Distance
by Sara Donati
In 1857, young midwife Carrie Ballentyne travels west to the New Mexico Territory for a nursing position, but while helping women give birth in Sante Fe, she discovers her employer is keeping secrets and must ferret out the truth to save his young daughter whom she's come to love.
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| The Rumor Game by Thomas MullenIn this intricately plotted crime novel, reporter Anne Lemire and FBI agent Devon Mulvey separately, and later together investigate a succession of antisemitic violence in 1943 Boston. Soon they uncover a fascist conspiracy to falsely incriminate members of the local Jewish community and must find a way to convince the authorities to act on their information. |
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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 by The Accidental Empress author Allison Pataki. 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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