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Historical Fiction September 2019
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All the flowers in Paris : a novel
by Sarah Jio
A tale told from alternating viewpoints follows the experiences of a Parisian woman who awakens with no memory of her past before discovering a mysterious cache of letters by a young woman of Jewish ancestry during the Nazi occupation.
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The Chocolate Maker's Wife
by Karen Brooks
An illegitimate nobleman’s daughter is rescued from abuse and drudgery by a chocolate proprietor in 17th-century London, where her high-society popularity is unknowingly threatened by her employer’s secret past.
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The difference
by Marina Endicott
Kay and Thea are half-sisters, separated in age by almost twenty years, but deeply attached. When their stern father dies, Thea returns to Nova Scotia for her long-promised marriage to the captain of the Morning Light. But she cannot abandon her orphaned young sister, so Kay too embarks on a life-changing voyage to the other side of the world. At the heart of The Difference is a crystallizing moment in Micronesia: Thea, still mourning a miscarriage, forms a bond with a young boy from a remote island and takes him on board as her own son. Over time, the repercussions of this act force Kay, who considers the boy her brother, to examine her own assumptions--which are increasingly at odds with those of society around her--about what is forgivable and what is right.
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The Forgotten Village
by Lorna Cook
1943: The world is at war, and the villagers of Tyneham are being asked to make one more sacrifice: to give their homes over to the British army. But on the eve of their departure, a terrible act will cause three of them to disappear forever. 2018: Melissa had hoped a break on the coast of Dorset would rekindle her stagnant relationship, but despite the idyllic scenery, it's pushing her and Liam to the brink. When Melissa discovers a strange photograph of a woman who once lived in the forgotten local village of Tyneham, she becomes determined to find out more about her story. But Tyneham hides a terrible secret, and Melissa's search for the truth will change her life in ways she never imagined possible.
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Ghost fire
by Wilbur A Smith
Torn apart by their parents’ death, Theo seeks redemption by joining the British military during the French Indian War, while his beloved sister navigates her way from abusive guardians into France’s high society. 20,000 first printing.
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A Keeper
by Graham Norton
Returning to Ireland after her mother’s death, Elizabeth Keane is focused only on saying goodbye to that part of her life until, while she is going through her mother’s belongings, she discovers a small stash of letters that reveal a startling truth.
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Lampedusa
by Steven Price
The award-winning author of By Gaslight reimagines the final years of Lampedusa’s last prince, Giuseppe Tomasi, who succumbs to a terminal illness while writing his only novel, The Leopard, amid the Italian aristocracy of the late 1950s.
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The last train to London : a novel
by Meg Waite Clayton
A tale inspired by the Kindertransports of World War II finds a Jewish teen’s life shattered by the Nazi takeover before he joins a member of the Dutch resistance in a life-risking effort to escape Germany.
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The missing sister
by Dinah Jeffreries
Belle Hatton has embarked upon an exciting new life far from home: a glamorous job as a nightclub singer in 1930s Burma, with a host of sophisticated new friends and admirers. But Belle is haunted by a mystery from the past--a 25 year old newspaper clipping found in her parents' belongings after their death, saying that the Hattons were leaving Rangoon after the disappearance of their baby daughter, Elvira. Belle is desperate to find out what happened to the sister she never knew she had--but when she starts asking questions, she is confronted with unsettling rumours, malicious gossip, and outright threats.
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Out of darkness, shining light : a novel
by Petina Gappah
A sharp-tongued cook and a rigidly pious freed slave confront complicated race dynamics to join the followers of the late Dr. Livingstone on a 19th-century voyage from Africa to the doctor’s home in England.
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The things we cannot say
by Kelly Rimmer
In a story of love, loyalty, honor and perseverance, a woman in the present searches for answers to a family mystery from the past that leads to the discovery of a heartbreaking World War II love story, which reveals truths she never expected.
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Tidelands
by Philippa Gregory
In a tale set during England’s mid-17th-century civil war, an herbalist seeking to escape an abusive relationship is targeted by witchcraft mania in her tidelands community. .
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The undertaker's assistant
by Amanda Skenandore
Former slaver Effie Jones must return from the North to Reconstruction-era New Orleans, to earn her living as an embalmer; however, returning home stirs a desire in her to trace her kin against the backdrop of the growing violence and racial turmoil in the city.
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| The Women of the Copper Country: A Novel by Mary Doria RussellStarring: Labor activist Annie Clements, who in 1913 led a strike against a Montana copper-mining company.
Is it for you? Closer in tone to Doc than The Sparrow, this well-researched historical novel unfolds from multiple perspectives, all rendered in lyrical prose.
Want a taste? "Running lengthwise down the peninsula's center, like the blood gutter of a bayonet, are the richest copper desposits on earth." |
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