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Historical Fiction August 2020
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The bridge to Belle Island
by Julie Klassen
Investigating a mysterious death on a remote island on the Thames, a disgraced lawyer is unexpectedly drawn to the case’s chief suspect, an enigmatic woman who has been having recurring nightmares about the victim.
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The Color of Air by Gail Tsukiyama Hawaii, 1935: On the Big Island, the town of Hilo is home to a tight-knit community of Japanese immigrants and their families, eking out an existence in the shadow of sugarcane plantations. Also in the background: the volcano Mauna Loa, which is on the verge of its biggest eruption in years.
Featuring: Daniel Abe, a medical student whose return to Hilo coincides with the volcanic disaster; Daniel's estranged father Kenji, who is deep in mourning for Daniel's recently deceased mother Mariko; Maile, Daniel's high school sweetheart who is also back in Hilo after a brush with racist violence in Honolulu. | |
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Daughter of the Reich
by Louise Fein
Questioning her dutiful support of her Nazi father in the wake of her growing attraction to a longtime Jewish friend, Hetty embarks on a secret affair that is challenged by rising anti-Semitism.
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Death and the butterfly : a novel
by Colin Hester
This sweeping multigenerational story follows a cast of interconnected characters as they each experience endless heartbreak and enduring love.
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The hawk and the hare
by Janet Love Morrison
In 1943, twenty-year-old Ewen leaves rural Saskatchewan to serve his country in World War II. While training in England, he meets Reggie, an indigenous soldier from Ontario's Six Nations reserve, and the two young men become unexpected friends in the Royal Hamilton Light Infantry. While the army teaches the two 'Rileys' battlefield tactics, Reggie shares with Ewen his Haudenosaunee skills -- ones that will help the prairie boy become a better scout and may just keep both of them alive. Landing on Juno beach, Reggie and Ewen discover the terrible reality of war on the fields of the Netherlands as the 2nd Canadian Infantry Division moves across northern Europe. Reggie's bravery, skill and natural authority earn him a field promotion, but not the respect of all the men under his leadership.
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The last Mrs. Summers
by Rhys Bowen
Helping her friend inspect a recently inherited but uninhabitable Cornwall property, Georgie investigates a bossy host's suspicions that her husband murdered his first wife, allegations that are complicated by a creepy housekeeper and a long-ago tragedy.
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Miss Graham's Cold War Cookbook
by Celia Rees
Recruited as a spy for the OSS for her educational background and brother’s Oxford connections to help find a war criminal in occupied post-World War II Germany, a young British schoolteacher finds herself surrounded by civilians hiding dubious agendas.
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A mosaic of wings
by Kimberly Duffy
"In 1885, determined to uphold her father's legacy, Nora Shipley joins an entomology research expedition to India. In this spellbinding new land, Nora is torn between saving a young Indian girl and saving her career, and between what she's always thought she wanted and the man she's come to love"
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The nesting dolls : a novel
by Alina Adams
Spanning 1930s Siberia to contemporary Brighton Beach, a family saga finds three generations of women in a Jewish-Russian family making fateful choices in their respective efforts to break free from historical dynamics and pursue personal fulfillment.
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The orphan collector
by Ellen Marie Wiseman
In the fall of 1918, thirteen-year-old German immigrant Pia Lange must venture out in search of supplies, leaving her infant twin brothers alone... As Pia navigates the city's somber neighborhoods, she cannot know that her brothers won't be home when she returns. And it will be a long and arduous journey to learn what happened. Only with persistence, and the courage to face her own shame and fear, will Pia put the pieces together and find the strength to risk everything to see justice at last.
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The pull of the stars : a novel
by Emma Donoghue
A novel set in 1918 Dublin offers a three-day look at a maternity ward during the height of the Great Flu pandemic.
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The Queen's Colonial
by Peter Watt
1845, a village outside Sydney Town. Blacksmith Ian Steele struggles to support his widowed mother. All the while he dreams of a life in uniform, serving in Queen Victoria's army. 1845, Puketutu, New Zealand. Second Lieutenant Samuel Forbes, a poet from an aristocratic English family, wants nothing more than to run from the advancing Maori warriors and discard the officer's uniform he never sought. When the two men cross paths in the colony of New South Wales, they are struck by their brotherly resemblance and hatch a plan for Ian to take Samuel's place in the British army. Ian must travel to England, fool the treacherous Forbes family and accept a commission into their regiment as a company commander. Once in London, he finds love with an enigmatic woman, but must part with her to face battle in the Crimean war. Captain Ian Steele will stare down the relentless Russian military, but he will learn that there are even deadlier enemies close to home.
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Utopia Avenue by David Mitchell Follows the fictional 1960s rock band Utopia Avenue and their journey to stardom, which takes them through a tangled web of drugs, social upheaval, clashing egos, and mental illness. | |
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The woman in red
by Diana Giovinazzo
Forced into early marriage in 19th-century Brazil, Anita is swept into an affair with mercenary resistance leader Giuseppe Garibaldi before joining the violent decade-long effort to liberate Southern Brazil from Portugal. A first novel. 50,000 first printing.
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