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Historical Fiction April 2024
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Curiosties
by Anne Fleming
This genre-bending novel opens with amateur historian Anne, who has a passion for research into the murkier corners of England in the 1600s. In an archive, Anne has stumbled across an obscure memoir, one that hints at an intricate tapestry of secret lives and loves.
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The great divide : a novel
by Cristina Henrâiquez
An epic novel about the construction of the Panama Canal casts light on the unsung people who lived, loved and labored there.
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The Laundryman's Boy
by Edward Y. C. Lee
Sent to work in a Chinese laundry in Canada, Hoi Wing is immediately thrust into relentless, mind-numbing toil, washing clothes by hand for sixteen hours a day, six days a week. Isolated and friendless, he falls into despair. When he meets Heather, an Irish scullery maid who shares his love of books, Hoi Wing's life immediately brightens. Together, they escape the drudgery of their work by reading novels in a secret hideout. As their friendship grows, they defy the restrictions of their servitude and embark on a plan to better their lives. But Hoi Wing's dreams will not go unchallenged.
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Pelican girls : a novel
by Julia Malye
Captures the never-before-told journey of the Baleine Brides: a ship full of young women plucked from a Paris asylum and sent to marry settlers in North America's rough Louisiana Territory.
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The weaver and the witch queen
by Genevieve Gornichec
Bound by a blood oath to help one another always, Oddny, her sister, Signy, and their friend Gunnhild find their way back to each other and are tested in ways they could never have foreseen, in a novel of Viking Age history and myth.
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