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Historical Fiction December 2020
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Confessions in B-flat
by Donna Hill
A multimedia retelling of Romeo and Juliet follows the 1964 Civil Rights-era relationship between a passive-resistance protégé of Martin Luther King, Jr. and a Harlem black culture supporter of Malcolm X. 25,000 first printing.
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| The Glass House by Beatrice ColinWhat it is: an engaging and intricately plotted story of family dysfunction, fading aristocratic glory, and frustrated female ambition set in rural Scotland just before World War I.
Starring: Antonia McCullough, an aspiring artist who lives a quiet life with her husband on her family's decaying estate Balmarra House; Cicely Pick, the wife of Antonia's estranged brother George, who arrives from Darjeeling with a secret plan to lay claim to Balmarra. |
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Poppy Redfern and the fatal flyers
by Tessa Arlen
A sequel to Poppy Redfern and the Midnight Murders finds Poppy’s first solo script project, a 10-minute short film about the Attagirls pilots of World War II, upended by the suspicious deaths of two women fighters. Original.
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Mortmain Hall
by Martin Edwards
After being framed for murder, a journalist flees to Mortmain Hall where an eccentric female criminologist hosts a group of eclectic people who have all escaped wrongful convictions in the second novel of the series following Gallows Court. Original.
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The eyes of the queen
by Oliver Clements
John Dee, a man destined to become history’s first MI6 agent, protects Age of Enlightenment-era England and a brilliant Elizabeth I from a wartime Spanish plot to conquer nations that would defy its Catholic orthodoxy. 40,000 first printing.
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| Actress by Anne EnrightWhat it is: a character-driven account of the larger-than-life personality and career of Irish acting legend Katherine O'Dell, as told by her novelist daughter Norah.
Read it for: the engaging portrait of well-meaning but complex Katherine, who struggles to navigate fame and single motherhood in an era without models for either.
About the author: Irish writer Anne Enright's previous novels include The Green Road and Man Booker Prize-winning The Gathering. |
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The Sunshine sisters
by Jane Green
Receiving a sobering health diagnosis, a once-uninvolved mother-turned-Hollywood star calls her estranged adult daughters home in the hopes of ending her life, triggering old rivalries and secret fears that challenge family bonds. By the best-selling author of Falling.
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The spy : a novel
by Paulo Coelho
A tale inspired by the life and death of Mata Hari is presented as a series of letters written from prison on the eve of her death and includes her reflections on her childhood in a small Dutch town, her unhappy years as the wife of an alcoholic diplomat, her rise to celebrity in Europe and the choices that led to her execution for espionage.
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The girl who knew too much
by Amanda Quick
Discovering the body of a beautiful actress at the bottom of a pool at an exclusive California hotel, rookie reporter Irene Glasson investigates the victim's secret about an up-and-coming man and becomes drawn to a once-famous master magician whose career was mysteriously cut short.
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| Yesternight by Cat WintersPicture it: Gordon Bay, a bleak town on the Oregon coast where the "Roaring Twenties" are anything but.
The setup: Pioneering child psychologist Alice Lind has arrived to test the IQ of the towns' children and decides to stay with the friendly O'Daire family while she's there.
What goes wrong: Alice unwittingly throws off her hosts' family dynamics, at the same time finding herself drawn towards the handsome patriarch and puzzling over his troubled young daughter who tells disquieting stories about a past life. |
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