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Historical Fiction April 2019
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Recent and Upcoming Releases |
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Lost Roses
by Martha Hall Kelly
Based on true events, a tale set a generation before Lilac Girls traces the stories of three women, including Caroline Ferriday's mother, a Romanov cousin and a fortune-teller's daughter, against a backdrop of the Russian revolution and World War I.
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Wunderland
by Jennifer Cody Epstein
A German-American woman in 1989 New York City evaluates her relationship with her late mother, whose childhood best friendship was shattered in the wake of a betrayal involving the Hitler Youth movement and a family secret.
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The Red Daughter: A Novel
by John Burnham Schwartz
Defecting to America at the height of the Cold War, the daughter of Joseph Stalin finds her quiet existence upended by controversial associates, CIA suspicion and her relationship with a young lawyer.
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Old Baggage: A Novel
by Lissa Evans
The author of the acclaimed Crooked Heart returns with a comic, charming, and surprisingly timely portrait of a once pioneering suffragette trying to find her new passion in post-WWI era London.
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Death of a New American
by Mariah Fredericks
A follow-up to A Death of No Importance finds ladies' maid Jane Prescott accompanying her employers to a family wedding in Long Island that is threatened by a nanny's murder, mafia threats against their host and dark secrets.
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Triple Jeopardy
by Anne Perry
The lawyer son of Charlotte and Thomas Pitt is forced to defend a disreputable British diplomat in the wake of an embezzlement scandal and rumors of his link to a murder cover-up.
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The City of Flickering Light
by Juliette Fay
It’s July 1921, “flickers” are all the rage, and Irene Van Beck has just declared her own independence by jumping off a moving train to escape her fate in a traveling burlesque show. When her friends, fellow dancer Millie Martin and comedian Henry Weiss, leap after her, the trio finds their way to the bright lights of Hollywood with hopes of making it big in the burgeoning silent film industry.
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Park Avenue Summer
by Renee Rosen
New York City is filled with opportunities for single girls like Alice Weiss, who leaves her small midwestern town to chase her big-city dreams and unexpectedly lands the job of a lifetime working for the first female editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan magazine, Helen Gurley Brown.
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Contact your librarian for more great books!
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