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Historical Fiction February 2022
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The Berlin exchange : a novel
by Joseph Kanon
In 1963 Berlin, Martin Keller, a captured physicist and American who spied for the KGB, is swapped by the British and returns to East Berlin where he needs to know who arranged for his release and why.
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The brothers of Auschwitz
by Malka Adler
This extraordinary biographical novel, told in a poetic style reminiscent of Margaret Atwood, follows the harrowing journey of two brothers, separated by the Holocaust, as they find their way back to each other.
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Carolina built : a novel
by Kianna Alexander
Describes the life of real estate magnate Josephine N. Leary, a freed plantation slave who taught herself how to be a business woman, manage her finances, make smart investments and to ultimately become a successful entrepreneur.
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The Christie affair
by Nina de Gramont
Brilliantly reimagining the unexpected 11-day disappearance of Agatha Christie that captivated the world, this novel is told from the point of Miss Nan O’Dea, who infiltrated the Christies’ wealthy, rarified world to destroy their marriage.
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Free love
by Tessa Hadley
In London in 1067, pretty, dutiful homemaker Phyllis is married to Roger, a devoted father with a career in the Foreign Office. But when the twenty-something son of an old friend pays the Fischers a visit one hot summer evening, and kisses Phyllis in the dark garden after dinner, something in her catches fire. Newly awake to the world, Phyllis makes a choice that defies all expectations of her as a wife and a mother. Nothing in these ordinary lives is so ordinary after all, it turns out, as the family's upheaval mirrors the dramatic transformation of the society around them.
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The Good Wife of Bath
by Karen Brooks
In 1364 England, one of literature’s most unforgettable characters—Chaucer’s Wife of Bath—tells her story in her own words as she rises through society from a cast-off farm girl to a woman of fortune fighting to control her own life.
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Her hidden genius : a novel
by Marie Benedict
Tells the story of Rosalind Franklin, who, despite an environment of harassment and bullying in the late 1940s and 1950s, worked in a stringent, scientific manner and became one of the first scientists to map the structure of DNA.
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The Last Grand Duchess
by Bryn Turnbull
As war approaches, Grand Duchess Olga Romanov trades her gown for a nursing habit, but when troubling rumors about her parents trickle in from the Front and the controversy over Rasputin grows into a fiery protest, a call for revolution threatens to end three hundred years of Romanov rule.
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The magnolia palace : a novel
by Fiona Davis
When mod English model Veronica Weber, while at the Frick museum, chances upon a series of hidden messages, she is led on a hunt that could not only solve her financial woes but could finally reveal the truth behind a decades-old murder in the infamous Frick family.
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The Mitford vanishing : A Mitford Murders Mystery
by Jessica Fellowes
In 1937, with the six Mitford sisters split across political lines, their former maid-turned-PI Louisa Cannon and her policeman husband, at the behest of Nancy Mitford, look into the disappearance of Nancy’s Communist sister Jessica in Spain.
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No journey too far : a novel
by Carrie Turansky
"A family separated, a missing sweetheart, a hidden trunk, and a journey across the ocean all in the name of love--the epic saga of the McAlisters continues in the riveting sequel to No Ocean Too Wide"
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Ramses the damned : the reign of Osiris
by Anne Rice
When Russian assassins with immense supernatural power go after his lover’s father and all who revere him, Ramses and his allies battle these threats while tracing the origins of the great weapon, forcing them to confront a terrifying collision of tortured political power and religious fervor. Original.
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Think of me
by Frances Liardet
In 1974, 10 years after his wife’s death, James, needing a change of scenery, moves into a new house in the beautiful English village of Upton where the discovery of scarf is the catalyst for unlocking new revelations about his past, which gives him purpose and a second chance at love.
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Yonder
by Jabari Asim
Meeting at Placid Hall, a plantation in an unspecified part of the American South, Cato and Willian, subjected to the whims of their tyrannical and eccentric captor, find their friendship fraying when a visiting pastor fills their heads with ideas about independence and love.
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