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Historical Fiction December 2017
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Marlie Lynch has spent the Civil War secretly helping the Union cause by sheltering fleeing slaves, sending coded letters about anti-Confederate uprisings, and giving medical attention to Union prisoners. Unfortunately the Confederate Home Guard suddenly claims Marlie’s home for their new base of operations, disrupting her plans. Unbeknowst to the Confederate guards, escaped prisoner Ewan McCall is sheltering in her laboratory. When the revelation of a stunning family secret places Marlie’s freedom on the line, she and Ewan have to run for their lives into the hostile Carolina night. Following the path of the Underground Railroad, they find themselves caught up in a vicious battle that could dash their hopes of love—and freedom—before they ever cross state lines.
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Ada, the only legitimate child of Lord Byron, was destined for fame long before her birth. but her mathematician mother (estranged from Byron) is determined to save her from her poetic heritage by providing her daughter with a rigorous education grounded in mathematics and science. When Ada is introduced into London society, she develops a friendship with inventor Charles Babbage that will shape her destiny. Intrigued by the prototype of his first calculating machine and his plans for an advanced Analytical Engine, Ada resolves to help Babbage realize his extraordinary vision that she believes could transform the world. Meanshile she passionately studies mathematics, falls in love, discovers the secrets behind her parents’ estrangement, and steps out of her father’s shadow to achieve her own laurels, as well as to champions a new technology that would shape the future.
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Secrets of Cavendon by Barbara Taylor Bradford The year is 1949 and World War II has exacted a terrible price on Britain. The great Yorkshire estate of Cavendon Hall is facing bankruptcy. Its two families, the aristocratic Inghams and their retainers the Swanns, are at odds for the first time over the course that must be taken to save it. In London, the Earl’s niece, Alicia Stanton, is making her mark in the glamorous film world while Victoria Brown, the Swanns’ young wartime evacuee, is starting out as a fashion photographer. Even though the capital is filled with a new energy, for both of the girls, the place where they grew up -- Cavendon -- will always be truly home. But when Cavendon's secrets, long buried in the past, rise to the surface, the Inghams and the Swanns are faced with the challenge to unite to save the family name and the one thing they all hold dear – their future.
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| I, Eliza Hamilton by Susan Holloway Scott"Love is not easy with a man chosen by Fate for greatness," declares Elizabeth Schuyler as she proceeds to recount her long (and sometimes tumultuous) relationship with her husband, Alexander Hamilton. From the couple's first meeting to Hamilton's death in a now-infamous duel, this richly detailed novel provides readers with a glimpse into a couple's marriage and a woman's heart. Readers interested in Alexander's perspective of events may also enjoy Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman's The Hamilton Affair. |
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It is 1884 and for Sara Smythe, working her way up to head housekeeper of a posh London hotel is probobably the best she can do. But when a chance encounter with Theodore Camden, one of the architects of the grand New York apartment house The Dakota, leads to a job offer, her world is suddenly awash in possibility and the opportunity to move to America. Jumping ahead to 1985, Bailey Camden is also seeking new opportunities. When her cousin Melinda (Theodore's biological great-granddaughter) hires her to renovate her Dakota apartment, Bailey jumps at the chance. One hundred years apart, Sara and Bailey are both tempted by and struggle against the golden excess of their respective ages—for Sara, the opulence of a world ruled by the Astors and Vanderbilts; for Bailey, the free-flowing drinks and cocaine in the nightclubs of New York City—and both take refuge and solace in The Dakota. But a building with a history as rich—and often tragic—as The Dakota’s can’t hold its secrets forever, and what Bailey discovers in its basement could turn everything she thought she knew about Theodore Camden—and the woman who killed him—on its head.
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Psychiatrist Andrew Marlowe has a perfectly ordered life. This order is destroyed when renowned painter Robert Oliver attacks a canvas in the National Gallery of Art and becomes his patient. Marlowe finds himself going beyond his own legal and ethical boundaries to understand the secret that torments this genius, a journey that will lead him into the lives of the women closest to Robert Oliver and toward a tragedy at the heart of French Impressionism. Ranging from American museums to the coast of Normandy, from the late nineteenth century to the late twentieth, from young love to last love, The Swan Thieves is a story of obsession, the losses of history, and the power of art to preserve human hope.
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All she left behind by Jane KirkpatrickAlready well-versed in the natural healing properties of herbs and oils, Jennie Pickett longs to become a doctor. But the Oregon frontier of the 1870s is an unforgiving place--especially for a single mother. To support herself and her young son, Jennie finds work caring for an older woman. When her patient dies, Jennie discovers that her heart has become entangled with the woman's widowed husband, a man many years her senior. Their unlikely romance may lead her to her ultimate goal--but the road forward is uncertain.
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