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Historical Fiction April 2024
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The secret keeper
by Genevieve Graham
"Twin sisters Dot and Dash Wilson share many things, and while they are practically inseparable, they are nothing alike. Dot is fascinated by books, puzzles, and Morse code, a language taught to both girls by their father, a WWI veteran. Dash's days are filled with fixing engines, dancing with friends, and dreaming of flying airplanes. Dash jumps at the opportunity to train as a pilot with the Air Transport Auxiliary, where she risks her life to ferry aircraft and troops across the battlefields of Europe. Meanwhile Dot is drawn into the Allies' preparations for D-Day. But Dot's loyalties are put to the test once more when someone close to her goes missing in Nazi-occupied territory. With everyone's eyes on Operation Overlord, Dot must use every skill at her disposal to save those she loves before it's too late. Inspired by the real-life stories of women in World War II, The Secret Keeper is an extraordinary novel about the unbreakable bonds of sisterhood and the light of courage during the darkest of nights"
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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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Corbin's fancy
by Linda Lael Miller
Fancy Jordan falls in love with gruff Jeff Corbin as she nurses him back to health, but learns that he is still in love with his brother's wife
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Picture in the Sand
by Peter Blauner
What it's about: Hoping to convince his radicalized grandson to avoid the mistakes of his own youth, businessman Ali Hassan shares long-held secrets about his activities during a politically tumultuous period of Egyptian history.
Picture in the Sand is “historical fiction at its absolute best -- heartfelt, anchored in real events, and extremely well told”.
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The familiar
by Leigh Bardugo
During the Spanish Golden Age, Luzia Cotado, gifted with magic, garners the attention of the disgraced secretary to Spain's king, plunging her into a world where the lines between magic, science and fraud blur—and where she must enlist the help of an embittered immortal familiar whose deadly secrets could destroy them both.
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The great divide : a novel
by Cristina Henrâiquez
An epic novel about the construction of the Panama Canal casts light on the unsung people who lived, loved and labored there. Simultaneous large print.
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Heroes
by Alan Gratz
Aboard the battleship the USS Utah with their Navy pilot fathers during WWII when the ship is attacked by the Japanese, Frank and Stanley find their friendship?—?and dreams?—?in jeopardy when Stanley is seen as the“enemy” because his mother is Japanese American.
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Buffalo flats
by Martine Leavitt
In the Northwest Territories of Canada during the late 1880s, 17-year-old Rebecca Leavitt must overcome the never-ending challenges of pioneer life in her Latter-day Saints community as she works towards owning her own land, calling upon her family, faith and friendships to see her through.
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Night Wherever We Go
by Tracey Rose Peyton
What it's about: In the run-up to the Civil War, six Black women held as slaves on a bleak Texas plantation begin meeting secretly to pursue their shared interests and do anything they can to spite the cruel family who exploits them.
Is it for you? Night deals frankly with the realities of the lives of enslaved people, including the threat of sexual abuse that readers may prefer avoid or be aware of going in.
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The African samurai : a novel
by Craig Shreve
"In 1579, a young soldier is granted the role of samurai, a title that has never been given to a foreigner; he is also given a new name: Yasuke. Not all are happy with Yasuke's ascension. There are whispers that he may soon be given his own fief, his own servants, his own samurai to command. But all of his dreams hinge on his ability to protect his new lord from threats both military and political, and from enemies both without and within. A magnificent reconstruction and moving study of a lost historical figure, The African Samurai is an enthralling narrative about the tensions between the East and the West and the making of modern Japan, from which rises the most unlikely hero"
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