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Historical Fiction October 2021
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Beneath a Starless Sky
by Tessa Harris
Lilli Sternberg longs to be a ballet dancer. But outside the sanctuary of the theatre, Munich is no longer a place for dreams. The Nazi party are gaining power and the threats to Jewish families increasing. Even Lilli's family shop was torched because of their faith. When Lilli meets Captain Marco Zeiller during a chance encounter, her heart soars. He is the perfect gentleman and her love for him feels like a bright hope under a bleak sky. But battle lines are being drawn, and Marco has been spotted by the Reich as an officer with potential. A relationship with Lilli would compromise them both. Will Lilli survive the Nazi threats facing her family, and how much is she willing to risk for the man she loves?
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Cloud cuckoo land : a novel
by Anthony Doerr
Follows four young dreamers and outcasts through time and space, from 1453 Constantinople to the future, as they discover resourcefulness and hope amidst peril in the new novel by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of All the Light We Cannot See.
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The collector's daughter : a novel of the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb
by Gill Paul
In 1922, after Lady Evelyn Herbert and her father discover the burial place of Tutankhamun, a series of tragic events leaves her world a darker, sadder place, and 50 years later, she is forced to relive what really happened in the tomb when an Egyptian academic starts asking questions.
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Em
by Kim Thúy
Emma-Jade and Louis are born into the havoc of the Vietnam War. Orphaned, saved and cared for by adults coping with the chaos of Saigon in free-fall, they become children of the Vietnamese diaspora. Em is not a romance in any usual sense of the word, but it is a word whose homonym--aimer, to love--resonates on every page, a book powered by love in the larger sense. A portrait of Vietnamese identity emerges that is wholly remarkable, honed in wartime violence that borders on genocide, and then by the ingenuity, sheer grit and intelligence of Vietnamese-Americans, Vietnamese-Canadians and other Vietnamese former refugees who go on to build some of the most powerful small business empires in the world.
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The Lincoln highway
by Amor Towles
In June of 1954, 18-year-old Emmett Watson, released after serving 15 months for involuntary manslaughter, discovers that two friends from the work farm have hidden themselves in the trunk of the warden’s car and have hatched a different plan for Emmett’s future.
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The living and the lost
by Ellen Feldman
Living and working in a bombed-out Berlin, Millie Mosbach must come to terms with a past decision made in a moment of crisis with the help of a mysterious man who is surprisingly understanding of her demons.
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Matrix
by Lauren Groff
Inspired by: the life and works of Marie de France, the pseudonym of a 12th-century French poet, prioress, and literary pioneer known for her works of hagiography, translation, and chivalric romance. The level of education reflected in her writing has led some historians to conclude that Marie de France was likely related to royalty, with the top candidates being a daughter of King Stephen of England or an illegitimate half-sister of King Henry II of England.
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Undersong
by Kathleen Winter
When young James Dixon, a local jack-of-all-trades recently returned from the Battle of Waterloo, meets writer Dorothy Wordsworth, he quickly realizes he's never met another woman anything like her. The unlikely pair of misfits form a sympathetic bond despite the sometimes troubling chasm in social class between them, and soon Dixon is the quiet witness to everyday life in Dorothy's family and glittering social circle, which includes literary legends Samuel Coleridge, Thomas de Quincy, William Blake, and Charles and Mary Lamb.
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