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Historical Fiction May 2019
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A bend in the stars
by Rachel Barenbaum
In World War II-era Russia, an ambitious young doctor and her scientist brother race against Einstein to solve one of the greatest mysteries of the universe.
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The binding : a novel
by Bridget Collins
In a magical world where books are repositories of individual lives, a reviled Bookbinder's apprentice crafts elegant memory volumes to help troubled customers before discovering that others in his profession use their skills for dark ends.
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City of flickering light
by Juliette Fay
Friends Millie, Henry, and Irene travel to Hollywood in the 1920s with hopes of making it big, but their ambitions are challenged by both the men above them and the prejudices surrounding them.
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The daughter's tale : a novel
by Armando Lucas Correa
A tale of love and redemption based on the 1944 Oradour-Sur-Glane massacre follows an octogenarian's receipt of a cache of letters, written by her mother during World War II, that uncover decades of secrets.
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The guest book
by Sarah Blake
The bereaved matriarch of a powerful early-20th-century American family makes a fateful decision that reverberates throughout two subsequent generations further impacted by racism, reversed circumstances and disturbing revelations. By the best-selling author of The Postmistress.
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How we disappeared : a novel
by Jing-Jing Lee
Six decades after a Japanese woman is forced into sexual slavery during World War II, a 12-year-old boy's effort to investigate his ailing grandmother's mumbled confession triggers a fateful chain of events. A first novel.
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The lost girls of Paris
by Pam Jenoff
After finding an abandoned suitcase filled with photographs, Grace Healey soon learns the case belonged to the leader of a network of female secret agents deployed during World War II.
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| The Quintland Sisters: A Novel by Shelley WoodWhat it's about: In 1934, quintuplets are born to a poor family in rural Ontario. Teenage midwife Emma Trimpany, who helps deliver all five girls, tells their story.
Inspired by: the real-life Dionne sisters of Canada, the first known quintuplets to survive infancy and reach adulthood.
You might also like: Ami McKay's The Birth House, another engaging, well-researched historical novel about rural Canadian midwives. |
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The Satapur moonstone
by Sujata Massey
India's only female lawyer in 1922 helps the royal ladies of Satapur by getting involved in the power plays and ancient vendettas of the palace in the second novel of the series following The Widows of Malabar Hill.
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The song of the jade lily
by Kirsty Manning
Returning to Australia to attend her grandfather's deathbed, a heartbroken woman learns the remarkable story of her grandmother, a Jewish refugee who forged a fateful friendship with a local in World War II Shanghai.
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Wunderland : a novel
by Jennifer Cody Epstein
A German-American woman in 1989 New York City evaluates her relationship with her late mother, whose childhood best friendship was shattered in the wake of a betrayal involving the Hitler Youth movement and a family secret.
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You Will Be Safe Here
by Damian Barr
Describes the parallel lives of two South African teenage boys separated by a century, one who was held in a concentration camp during the second Boer War, the second who was put into a training camp by his parents.
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