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Historical Fiction August 2019
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The guest book
by Sarah Blake
The bereaved matriarch of a powerful early-twentieth-century American family makes a fateful decision that reverberates throughout two subsequent generations further impacted by racism, reversed circumstances, and disturbing revelations
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The Electric Hotel
by Dominic Smith
Introducing: French film director Claude Ballard, a pioneer of cinema who once worked with the Lumière brothers and now, in 1962, languishes in obscurity as a resident of Hollywood's Knickerbocker Hotel.
His masterpiece? The Electric Hotel, a film that he made with the help of an Australian stuntman, a seductive French actress, and a theater owner turned movie producer.
Reviewers say: "an irresistible and dizzying international tale of early cinema" (The Washington Post).
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Temptation's Darling
by Johanna Lindsey
"A #1 ""New York Times"" best-selling author blends passion and humor in a dazzling Regency-era novel in which a disastrous debutante becomes the toast of the town with a little help from a friend of Prince Regent."
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The Nickel Boys
by Colson Whitehead
A follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning, The Underground Railroad, follows the harrowing experiences of two African-American teens at an abusive reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida.
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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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Lost roses : a novel
by Martha Hall Kelly
Traces the stories of three women--Eliza Ferriday and her close friend Sofya Streshnayva, a Romanov cousin, and Varinka, a fortune-teller's daughter--against the backdrop of World War I and the Russian revolution
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Woman 99 : a novel
by Greer Macallister
"Shes only a number now. When Charlotte Smiths wealthy parents commit her beloved sister Phoebe to the infamous Goldengrove Asylum, Charlotte knows theres more to the story than madness. She risks everything and follows her sister inside, surrendering her real identity as a privileged young lady of San Francisco society to become a nameless inmate, Woman 99. The longer she stays, the more she realizes that many of the women of Goldengrove arent insane, merely inconvenient and that her search for the truth threatens to dig up secrets that some very powerful people would do anything to kep. A historical thriller rich in detail, deception, and revelation, Woman 99 honors the fierce women of the past, born into a world that denied them power but underestimated their strength."
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The little shop of found things
by Paula Brackston
A woman who takes over an antique shop with her mother finds herself transported back to the 17th century while examining a beautiful silver chatelaine. By the New York Times best-selling author of The Witch's Daughter
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The daughters of Temperance Hobbs : a novel
by Katherine Howe
A follow-up to The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane follows the experiences of a New England history professor and Salem witch descendant who races against time to free her fiancé from a curse
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The girl from Berlin
by Ronald H Balson
Catherine Lockhart and Liam Taggart investigate a German violin prodigy's handwritten records from Berlin's interwar period to resolve a land dispute between a powerful corporation and a woman facing the loss of her Tuscan hills home
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