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Historical Fiction December 2021
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An act of love
by Carol Drinkwater
Forced to flee war ravaged Poland, Sara and her parents are offered refuge in a beautiful but dilapidated house in the French Alps. It seems the perfect hideaway, despite haunting traces of the previous occupants who left in haste. But shadows soon fall over Sara's blissful summer, and her blossoming romance with local villager Alain. As the Nazis close in, the family is forced to make a harrowing choice that could drive them apart forever, while Sara's own bid for freedom risks several lives...Will her family make it through the summer together? And can she hold onto the love she has found with Alain?
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Chasing shadows
by Lynn N. Austin
The lives of three women are instantly changed when the Nazis invade the neutral Netherlands, forcing each into a complicated dance of choice and consequence. The Nazi invasion propels these women onto paths that cross in unexpected, sometimes-heartbreaking ways. Yet the story that unfolds illuminates the surprising endurance of the human spirit and the power of faith and love to carry us through.
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The devil and the heiress
by Harper St. George
Fleeing London – and an arranged marriage, American heiress Violet Crenshaw, who is determined to become a published author, must decide whether or not to surrender herself and her newfound freedom when she meets the Earl of Leigh, who has his own agenda.
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Dust off the bones : a novel
by Paul Howarth
After their family’s cattle farm is attacked in the 1890s Australian Outback, two estranged brothers reunite to attempt to revive the business and are called to testify after a reprisal slaughter is perpetrated against the Kurrong.
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Flying angels
by Danielle Steel
After her brother is wounded in the attack on Pearl Harbor, Audrey and her best friend Lizzie enlist in the army as flight nurses.
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Go tell the bees that I am gone : a novel
by Diana Gabaldon
It is 1779 and Claire and Jamie are at last reunited with their daughter, Brianna, her husband, Roger, and their children on Fraser's Ridge. Having the family together is a dream the Frasers had thought impossible. Yet even in the North Carolina backcountry, the effects of war are being felt. Tensions in the Colonies are great and local feelings run hot enough to boil Hell's teakettle. Jamie knows loyalties among his tenants are split and it won't be long until the war is on his doorstep.
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The Godmothers
by Camille Aubray
Four sisters-in-law from a prominent Italian family become godmothers to each other's children and steer the family through World War II and the criminal underworld.
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The heiress gets a duke
by Harper St. George
Forced into a marriage of convenience with Evan Sterling, the Duke of Rothschild, to save her sister, American heiress August Crenshaw pulls every stunt in the book to make him call off the wedding.
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The Love Child
by Rachel Hore
When nineteen-year-old Alice Copeman becomes pregnant, she is forced by her father and stepmother to give up the baby. But all Alice can think about is the small, kitten-like child she gave away, and she mourns the father, a young soldier, so beloved, who will never have the chance to know his daughter. Edith and Philip Burns, a childless couple, yearn for a child of their own and secretly adopt a baby girl, Irene, As two extraordinary stories intertwine across two decades, will secrets long-buried at last come to light?
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The Postmistress of Paris
by Meg Waite Clayton
As German tanks roll across the border and into Paris, an American heiress joins the resistance and becomes known as the Postmistress because she delivers information to those in hiding and uses her charms and skill to house the hunted and deliver them to safety.
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Psycho by the sea
by Lynne Truss
When a gang member disappears during a huge heist, a violent criminal with a penchant for boiling policemen’s heads escapes prison and an American researcher is found dead in Gosling’s department store, three detectives must put their heads together to solve these cases.
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The Red Cross Orphans
by Glynis Peters
Orphan Kitty Pattison is young, naïve and ready to do her bit for the war effort when she volunteers with the Red Cross and meets fellow volunteers Joan Norfolk and Trixie Dunn. Days are spent nursing injured soldiers back to life and nights are spent anticipating bombs falling from the sky and then trawling through the wreckage to save who she can, but the light and laughter she finds with Jo and Trix see Kitty through the darkest hours. And when Kitty starts growing closer to handsome Canadian doctor Michael McCarthy, it's her friends who help her to find the courage to realise that no matter what has happened or what is to come, we all deserve love...
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An unlikely spy : a novel
by Rebecca Starford
Recruited into an elite MI5 counterintelligence unit in 1939, Evelyn Varley poses as a Nazi sympathizer in order to infiltrate a ruthless secret society seeking an alliance with Germany and is forced into an impossible choice.
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