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Historical Fiction April 2024
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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. With incredible attention to detail, vibrant historical atmosphere, and a riveting mystery that illuminates still-timely issues about disinformation, power, and influence in a society plagued by division, Thomas Mullen delivers another powerful thriller. |
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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 an old family scandal comes back to haunt her. |
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The evolution of Annabel Craig : a novel
by Lisa Grunwald
When John T. Scopes is arrested for teaching Charles Darwin's theory of evolution at the local high school in 1925, Annabel Hayes, with her marriage already strained, questions both her beliefs and her vows to her attorney husband when he joins the team defending Scopes.
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| Neferura by Malayna EvansPrincess Neferura, daughter of the formidable female pharaoh Hatshepsut, lives a life of prescribed duty, from her role as the high priestess of Amun to an unwanted marriage to Thutmose, a claimant to the throne. Caught between her mother and her husband, Neferura will have to do her own scheming in order to survive the intrigues of them both. |
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The Celestial Wife
by Leslie Howard
1964. Fifteen-year-old Daisy Shoemaker dreams of life beyond her small, isolated fundamentalist Mormon community of Redemption on the Canada--US border--despite Bishop Thorsen's warning that the outside world is full of sin. According to the Principle, the only way to enter the celestial kingdom is through plural marriage. But Daisy wants to be more than a sister-wife and a mother. So when she is placed with a man forty years her senior, she makes the daring decision to flee Redemption.
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The secret keeper
by Genevieve Graham
Twin sisters Dot and Dash Wilson share many things, and while they are practically inseparable, they are nothing alike. Determined to do their duty during WWll, both girls join the WRENS, Dash as a mechanic and Dot as a typist. Inspired by the real-life stories of women in World War II, The Secret Keeper is an extraordinary novel about the unbreakable bonds of sisterhood and the light of courage during the darkest of nights.
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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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