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Historical Fiction November 2019
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A Distant Hope
by Ellin Carsta
In this breathtaking and emotional saga, a family must travel far from home to save what they hold dear.
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A fire sparkling
by Julianne MacLean
After a crushing betrayal by the man she loves, Gillian Gibbons flees to her family home for a much-needed escape, but when she finds an old photograph of her grandmother in the arms of a Nazi officer, Gillian's life gets even more complicated. Rattled by the discovery, Gillian attempts to unravel the truth behind the photos, setting her off on an epic journey through the past...
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Five wives
by Joan Thomas
In 1956, a small group of evangelical Christian missionaries and their families journeyed to the rainforest in Ecuador intending to convert the Waorani, a people who had never had contact with the outside world. The plan was known as Operation Auca. After spending days dropping gifts from an aircraft, the five men in the party rashly entered the "intangible zone." They were all killed, leaving their wives and children to fend for themselves. Five Wives is the fictionalized account of the real-life women who were left behind, and their struggles -- with grief, with doubt, and with each other -- as they continued to pursue their evangelical mission in the face of the explosion of fame that followed their husbands' deaths.
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The Guardian of Lies
by Kate Furnivall
Eloïse Caussade is a courageous young Frenchwoman, raised on a bull farm near Arles in the Camargue. She idolises her older brother, André, and when he leaves to become an Intelligence Officer working for the CIA in Paris to help protect France, she soon follows him. Having exchanged the strict confines of her father's farm for a life of freedom in Paris, her world comes alive. But everything changes when André is injured - a direct result of Eloise's actions. Unable to work, André returns to his father's farm, but Eloïse's sense of guilt and responsibility for his injuries sets her on the trail of the person who attempted to kill him.
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Her kind
by Niamh Boyce
A woman seeks refuge with her daughter in the household of a childhood friend. The friend, Alice Kytler, gives her former companion a new name, Petronelle, a job as a servant, and warns her to hide their old connection. Before long Petronelle comes to understand that in the city pride, greed and envy are as dangerous as the wolves that prowl the savage countryside. And she realises that Alice's household is no place of safety. Once again, Petronelle decides to flee. But this time she confronts forces greater than she could ever have imagined and she finds herself fighting for more than her freedom...
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The Oracle of Cumae
by Melissa Hardy
On the day she turns ninety-nine, Mariuccia Umbellino calls for a priest so that she might finally confess to someone the secrets she has been living with for the last seventy-five years. Set in early nineteenth-century Italy, Mariuccia's adventures start with Sibylla, the Oracle of Apollo, and after meeting her, life is never the same.
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A perfect silhouette
by Judith Miller
To help support her family and make use of her artistic skill, Mellie finds employment at a daguerreotype shop, where she creates silhouette portraits, and when romance begins to blossom with one of her charming customers, her life seems to have fallen perfectly into place — or has it?
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The poppy wife : a novel of the Great War
by Caroline Scott
Hired by other families looking for MIA soldiers, a grieving man searches for his own missing brother along the Western Front, where he photographs soldier graves while making life-changing discoveries.
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The Second Sleep
by Robert Harris
Arriving in a remote mid-15th-century Exmoor village, a young priest discovers his late predecessor’s possibly fatal obsession with the ancient coins, glass and human bones strewn throughout the region. By the author of Fatherland. (suspense). Simultaneous.
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The third daughter : a novel
by Talia Carner
Bringing to life a dark period of Jewish history and giving a voice to victims whose truth deserves to finally be told, this remarkable story follows a young woman named Batya who is tricked and sold into prostitution until she gets an opportunity to bring down the criminal network that has enslaved so many women.
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This Mortal Boy
by Fiona Kidman
Albert Black, known as the 'jukebox killer', was only twenty when he was convicted of murdering another young man in a fight at a milk bar in Auckland on 26 July 1955. His crime fuelled growing moral panic about teenagers, and he was to hang less than five months later, the second-to-last person to be executed in New Zealand. But what really happened? Was this a love crime, was it a sign of juvenile delinquency? Or was this dark episode in our recent history more about our society's reaction to outsiders. Black's last words, as the hangman covered his head, were: 'I wish you all a merry Christmas, gentlemen, and a prosperous New Year.
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The vanished bride
by Bella Ellis
In 1845 Yorkshire, a young wife and mother has gone missing from her home, leaving behind two small children and a large pool of blood, and it is up to the Bront sisters to investigate.
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| Where the Light Enters by Sara DonatiBlack obstetrician Sophie is mourning her husband, while white physician Anna has just lost custody (on religious grounds) of the three orphans she and her Jewish detective husband were fostering. However, they must put grief to one side to catch a serial murderer who, posing as a surgeon, mutilates women seeking abortions. |
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The woman who spoke to spirits
by Alys Clare
London, 1880. When accounts clerk Ernest Stibbins approaches the World's End investigation bureau with wild claims that his wife Albertina has been warned by her spirit guides that someone is out to harm her, the bureau's owner Lily Raynor and her new employee Felix Wilbraham are initially sceptical. How are the two private enquiry agents supposed to investigate threats from beyond the grave? But after she attends a seance at the Stibbins family home, Lily comes to realize that Albertina is in terrible danger. And very soon so too is Lily herself.
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