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Historical Fiction August 2017
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Beautiful tempest
by Johanna Lindsey
While the Malory and Anderson families set aside longtime rivalries to hunt down a man who has abducted James and Georgina's beloved daughter from her American debutante party, Jack discovers that her captor is an alluring nobleman who would settle an old score against her father.
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The Gustav Sonata
by Rose Tremain
Growing up in a small town in Switzerland where he is sheltered from the echoes of World War II, only child Gustav forges an intense relationship with a mercurial Jewish boy, Anton, a talented pianist who introduces him to the harsh realities of racism, tolerance and cruelty during a friendship spanning more than half a century.
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The pleasures of passion
by Sabrina Jeffries
Forced to marry another man after Niall Lindsey leaves without warning, widow Brilliana Taylor wants nothing to do with him when he returns, until she needs his help in saving her father. By a New York Times best-selling author.
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| The Alice Network: A Novel by Kate QuinnBy 1947, Charlotte "Charlie" St. Clair is desperate to find out what happened to her cousin Rose, who disappeared in Nazi-occupied France during the war. With her college career on hold due to an unplanned pregnancy, Charlie pursues her only lead: hard-drinking retired spy Eve Gardiner, who has her own private reasons for helping Charlie and whose story is revealed in flashbacks. Inspired by the exploits of a real-life World War I intelligence network, this novel sends its flawed, but sympathetic characters on a life-changing journey across post-WWII Europe as they investigate the past and contemplate their futures. |
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Seven stones to stand or fall : a collection of Outlander fiction
by Diana Gabaldon
A collection of seven short stories set in the Outlander universe stars beloved character Jamie Fraser and includes two previously unpublished stories, including "Besieged," a tale about Lord John Grey; and "A Fugitive Green," centering on John's brother, Hal Grey.
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The girl you left behind
by Jojo Moyes
A German Kommandant, occupying a French town in World War I, obssesses over a portrait of Sophie, a woman who risks everything to reunite with her husband; and a century later, Liv, a widow, is caught in a a dispute over the ownership of the valuable work
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Sarah's key
by Tatiana de Rosnay
On the sixtieth anniversary of the 1942 roundup of Jews by the French police in the Vel d'Hiv section of Paris, American journalist Julia Jarmond is asked to write an article on this dark episode during World War II and embarks on investigation that leads her to long-hidden family secrets and to the ordeal of Sarah, a young girl caught up in the raid. 25,000 first printing.
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| TransAtlantic: A Novel by Colum McCannSpanning 150 years and two continents, this family saga from National Book Award-winning author Colum McCann ties Frederick Douglass' 1845 journey to Ireland with the first trans-Atlantic flight made in 1919 by two British aviators and with the work of U.S. Senator George Mitchell on the 1998 Good Friday Agreement. These great men and the events they're connected to are also linked to a servant girl named Lily, who in 1846 leaves Dublin for New York. A meditation on time, memory, freedom, and war, this complex novel is "an experience to savor" (Kirkus Reviews). |
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| The Last Painting of Sara De Vos: A Novel by Dominic SmithParallel narratives unfold and eventually converge in this multi-layered novel, which explores the legacy of fictional 17th-century Dutch painter Sara de Vos. The artist's masterpiece, At the Edge of a Wood, is stolen from Manhattan attorney Marty de Groot's Upper East Side residence in 1957 and replaced with a skillfully executed forgery that remains a secret for decades -- until museum curator Ellie Shipley, who created the fake, is confronted by the two versions of the painting. Don't miss this richly detailed and complex meditation on art and identity by the author of Bright and Distant Shores. |
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| The Perfume Collector: A Novel by Kathleen TessaroA surprise inheritance sends 1950s London socialite Grace Munroe to Paris in search of her mysterious benefactor. Upon arrival, Grace meets elderly Russian perfumer Madame Zed, who tells her the story of Eva d’Orsey, a hotel maid in 1927 New York whose life takes some dramatic and unexpected turns, thanks to a series of fateful encounters. Steeped in the craft and culture of perfumery, this atmospheric novel shifts back and forth in time to reveal the connection between Grace and Eva. |
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