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Historical Fiction April 2024
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The Postcard
by Anne Berest
What it's about: Over a decade after her mother received an anonymous postcard with only the names of her relatives who were killed at Auschwitz, a French woman named Anne decides to investigate where it came from, learn more about her forebears, and reclaim her identity as a Jew.
Read it for: the novel's compelling exploration of both modern and historical French antisemitism.
For fans of: The Ghetto Within by Santiago H. Amigorena; We Were the Lucky Ones by Georgia Hunter.
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| The London Bookshop Affair by Louise FeinIn this atmospheric and intricately plotted spy novel, the tension of the Cuban Missile Crisis reaches across the Atlantic and into the life of sheltered London bookshop clerk Celia Duchesne, who learns a shocking truth about the wartime fate of her sister and the an old family scandal comes back to haunt her. |
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Go as a river
by Shelley Read
A 1940s teenager running her family's peach farm in Colorado meets a young man with a mysterious past and feels an instant connection but must flee to a small shack in the wilderness after tragedy strikes. 200,000 first printing.
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Sisters of Belfast : a novel
by Melanie Maure
Despite they are all the other has, orphaned twin sisters Aelish and Isabel are propelled in opposite directions as they grow up and, separated for decades, each unaware of the other's life, are unexpectedly reunited, bringing to light the painful secrets and seismic deceptions that have kept them apart. Original.
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Miss Morton and the spirits of the underworld
by Catherine Lloyd
While trying to discern whether a spiritualist's powers are real, Lady Caroline is drawn into a much darker mystery when Madam Lavinia is found dead with a note addressed to Caroline, begging her to find her murderer in a world of deception and aggrieved aristocrats.
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The Storm We Made
by Vanessa Chan
Sick of British rule over Malaya (now Malaysia), local housewife Cecily Alcantara agrees to work as a spy after a charismatic Japanese general makes the case for "Asia for Asians." A decade later and under Axis occupation, Cecily and her family must face the unanticipated consequences of her actions.
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A Calder at heart
by Janet Dailey
"Battle-scarred and emotionally ravaged by the loss of his wife and children to Spanish Flu, former US Army Major Logan Hunter heads to Blue Moon to salvage whatever peace he can near the only family he has left. Not only does the Calder clan embrace him, but patriarch Webb Calder helps Logan secure a prime piece of ranching property. Yet settling into his new home is fraught with challenges, especially since Logan's land borders the rival Dollarhide spread, stoking the battle between the families anew and pitting Logan against an adversary who stirs him like no other . . . From her first encounter with Logan Hunter, Dr. Kristin Dollarhide feels an instant connection to the sorrow in his beautiful eyes. As a former military MD, Kristin is no stranger to the devastating effects the war has left on hearts and minds--including her own. Despite her instinct to steer clear, Kristin is powerfully drawn to the handsome widower. Until the raging conflict takes a tragic turn, threatening all hope for their future."
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The caretaker : a novel
by Ron Rash
In 1951, Blackburn Gant, the sole caretaker of a hilltop cemetery in Blowing Rock, North Carolina, is charged with caring for his best friend's wife, Naomi, when he is drafted to serve overseas, and as Blackburn and Naomi grow closer and closer, a shocking revelation upends numerous lives.
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| The Rumor Game by Thomas MullenIn this intricately plotted crime novel, reporter Anne Lemire and FBI agent Devon Mulvey separately, and later together investigate a succession of antisemitic violence in 1943 Boston. Soon they uncover a fascist conspiracy to falsely incriminate members of the local Jewish community and must find a way to convince the authorities to act on their information. |
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The reformatory : a novel
by Tananarive Due
In the Jim Crow South, 12-year-old Robbie Stephens, Jr., who can see ghosts, is sent to The Reformatory where boys forced to work to remediate their so-called crimes have gone missing, while his sister Gloria rallies everyone in Florida to get him out before it's too late.
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Contact your librarian for more great books!
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Lambton County Library 787 Broadway St. Wyoming, Ontario N0N1T0 519-845-3324www.lclibrary.ca |
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