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Historical Fiction April 2018
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Circe
by Madeline Miller
A highly anticipated follow-up to the award-winning The Song of Achilles follows the banished witch daughter of Titans as she hones her powers and interacts with famous mythological beings before a conflict with one of the most vengeful Olympians forces her to choose between the worlds of the gods and mortals. 75,000 first printing
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The Home for Unwanted Girls
by Joanna Goodman
Forced to give up her baby in 1950s Quebec when she becomes pregnant with her childhood sweetheart, Maggie makes the wrenching decision to abandon a more secure life to search for her daughter, Elodie, who, after enduring torturous conditions in orphanages and psychiatric hospitals, struggles to survive in an unnerving alien world .
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Nothing Is Forgotten
by Peter Golden
A 1950s New Jersey teen begins broadcasting a hit radio show that features satires of Nikita Khrushchev and discovers something dark about his Russian grandmother's past after she is suspiciously murdered in her candy store.
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| The Sparsholt Affair by Alan HollinghurstWhat it's about: a scandal involving four Oxford chums, whose repercussions will still be felt decades later.
Introducing: narrator Freddie Green; aspiring artist Peter Coyle; dilettante Evert Dax; and David Sparsholt, the engineering student who becomes the object of the trio's mutual obsession.
About the author: Alan Hollinghurst wrote the 2004 Man Booker Prize-winning novel The Line of Beauty. |
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| I Was Anastasia by Ariel LawhonStarring: Two women -- Anna Anderson and Anastasia Romanov -- who may or may not be the same person.
Want a taste? "Am I truly Anastasia Romanov? A beloved daughter. A revered icon. A Russian grand duchess. Or am I an impostor? A fraud. A liar. The thief of another woman's legacy."
You might also like: John Boyne's The House of Special Purpose, which also imagines Anastasia's fate. |
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Varina
by Charles Frazier
Forced by limited prospects to marry much-older widower Jefferson Davis, teenaged Varina Howell finds her expectations as the wife of a Mississippi landowner upended by his appointment as the leader of the Confederacy, a situation that renders her and her children fugitives in a divided and increasingly hostile nation.
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Ecstasy
by Mary Sharratt
Coming of age in the glittering hotbed and cultural whirlwind of turn-of-the-20th-century Vienna, beautiful aspiring composer Alma Schindler loses her heart to the brilliant Gustav Mahler, who demands she give up her music as a condition for their marriage.
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The Magnificent Esme Wells
by Adrienne Sharp
The irrepressible daughter of a two-bit gangster and a movie showgirl comes of age in golden-era Hollywood and a nascent Las Vegas before her beauty captures the attentions of one of the Strip's most powerful men. By the author of The True Memoirs of Little K.
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My Dear Hamilton : A Novel of Eliza Schuyler Hamilton
by Stephanie Dray
The best-selling authors of America's First Daughter draws on thousands of letters and original sources in an epic retelling of the life of Eliza Hamilton that describes her passionate dedication to a fledgling America's independence, her unlikely marriage to penniless but brilliant officer Alexander Hamilton and the turmoil and tragedies that challenged her legacy. 30,000 first printing
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Love and Ruin
by Paula McLain
The best-selling author of The Paris Wife returns to her fan-favorite subject, Ernest Hemingway, in a tale set on the eve of World War II that is inspired by his passionate, stormy marriage to a fiercely independent, ambitious young Martha Gellhorn, who would become one of the 20th century's leading war correspondents.
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A Shout in the Ruins
by Kevin Powers
A sweeping and dramatic novel that spans 100 years and is set in Virginia during the Civil War and a century beyond explores the brutal legacy of violence and exploitation in American society as it examines the fates of the inhabitants of Beauvais Plantation and their descendants. By the author of The Yellow Birds.
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Bachelor Girl
by Kim van Alkemade
A tale inspired by the true story of Yankees owner Jacob Ruppert and his mysterious 1939 bequest traces how a Jazz Age millionaire takes his personal secretary and a young actress under his wing and oversees their growing love for each other before triggering dark rumors with his decision to leave the young woman the bulk of his fortune. By the best-selling author of Orphan #8.
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