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Historical Fiction June 2020
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To Wake the Giant : A Novel of Pearl Harbor
by Jeff Shaara
The best-selling author of The Frozen Hours draws on extensive research and unprecedented access to the Pearl Harbor memorial and museum archives in a high-suspense, historically accurate thriller inspired by the 1941 attack. Maps.
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The Girls With No Names
by Serena Burdick
What it is: an intricately plotted story of sisterly love, teenage rebellion, and the limited options available to young women in Gilded Age America, inspired by Ireland's notorious Magdalene Laundries.
Read it for: The moving bond between courageous sisters Effie and Luella, who will do anything they can to find each other again after a family secret drives them apart.
Reviewers say: "exquisitely wrought and meticulously researched" (Publishers Weekly).
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The book of lost friends : a novel
by Lisa Wingate
A modern-day teacher discovers the story of three Reconstruction-era women and how it connects to her own students’ lives in this latest from the New York Times best-selling author of Before We Were Yours.
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A long petal of the sea : a novel
by Isabel Allende
Sponsored by the poet Pablo Neruda to flee the violence of the Spanish Civil War, a pregnant widow and an army doctor unite in an arranged marriage only to be swept up by the early days of World War II.
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Tidelands
by Philippa Gregory
In a tale set during England’s mid-17th-century civil war, an herbalist seeking to escape an abusive relationship is targeted by witchcraft mania in her tidelands community. By the #1 New York Times best-selling author of The Other Boleyn Girl.
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Her Last Flight
by Beatriz Williams
Investigating the fate of a forgotten aviation pioneer, a 1947 war correspondent tracks down the pilot’s former student before learning the remarkable story of their complicated and passionate relationship. By the best-selling author of The Golden Hour.
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