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Historical Fiction October 2020
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Above the Bay of Angels
by Rhys Bowen
The setup: A tragic accident presents an unexpected opportunity for Bella Waverly to pursue her seemingly impossible dream of becoming a chef, but only if she's willing to lie about who she is.
What goes wrong: Now known as Helen, Bella is able to get a job working in Queen Victoria's kitchens, where she begins to make a name for herself. But when a duke dies by poison, Bella is a suspect and must find a way to save herself without revealing that she entered the Queen's service under false pretenses.
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The Abstainer : a novel
by Ian McGuire
An Irish-American veteran of the Civil War, Stephan Doyle, returns to England where he joins a secret society intent on ending British rule in Ireland by any means necessary and must choose sides when his nephew arrives on his doorstep from America, imperiling his new life.
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The Accomplice
by Joseph Kanon
"Seventeen years after the fall of the Third Reich, Max Weill has never forgotten the atrocities he saw at Auschwitz--nor the face of Dr. Otto Schramm, a camp doctor who worked with Mengele on appalling experiments and who sent Max's family to the gas chambers. As the war came to a close, Schramm was one of the high-ranking former-Nazi officers who managed to escape Germany for new lives in South America. Enlisting the help of a German newspaper reporter, an Israeli agent, and the obliging CIA station chief in Buenos Aires, he hunts for Otto. Unable to distinguish allies from enemies, Aaron will ultimately have to discover not only Otto, but the boundaries of his own personal morality, how far he is prepared to go to render justice"
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And Dangerous to Know
by Darcie Wilde
Tasked to recover a packet of letters containing highly sensitive information about the poet Lord Byron’s affair with Lady Melbourne’s unstable daughter-in-law, Rosalind finds her task complicated by the death of an unidentified woman on the Melbourne estate.
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An Appalachian Summer
by Ann H. Gabhart
Volunteering as a horseback frontier nursing courier in the Appalachian Mountains to postpone her loveless society marriage, a Depression-era debutante considers a chance at true love while bonding with people from an entirely different walk of life.
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The Animals at Lockwood Manor
by Jane Healey
Safeguarding a natural history museum collection that has been relocated to a country manor during World War II, Hetty finds herself stalked by an unknown thief who tests the limits of her sanity.
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Beheld : a novel
by TaraShea Nesbit
The best-selling author of The Wives of Los Alamos retraces the story of the Pilgrims from the perspectives of the rebel Billington family, whose disputes with Puritan neighbors under the influence of a newcomer escalate into Plymouth’s first murder.
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The Mayflower bride
by Kimberley Woodhouse
"Mary Elizabeth Chapman boards the Speedwell in 1620 as a Separatist seeking a better life in the New World. William Lytton embarks on the Mayflower as a carpenter looking for opportunities to succeed-and he may have found one when a man from the Virginia Company offers William a hefty sum to keep a stealth eye on company interests in the new colony. The season is far too late for good sailing and storms rage, but reaching land is no better as food is scarce and the people are weak. Will Mary survive to face the spring planting and unknown natives? Will William be branded a traitor and expelled?"--Provided by publisher
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