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Historical Fiction June 2017
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Kiss Carlo
by Adriana Trigiani
Establishing a stable home and Western Union Telegraph Office in post-World War II Philadelphia, the hardworking Palazzini family is shattered by their nephew's epiphany in the wake of a telegram that changes everything for the citizens of a small Italian-American village.
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Waves of mercy
by Lynn N Austin
Geesje de Jonge crossed the ocean at age seventeen with her parents and a small group of immigrants from the Netherlands to settle in the Michigan wilderness. Fifty years later, in 1897, she's asked to write a memoir of her early experiences as the town celebrates its anniversary. Reluctantly at first, she soon uncovers memories and emotions hidden all these years, including the story of her one true love. At the nearby Hotel Ottawa Resort, 23-year-old Anna Nicholson is trying to recover from a broken engagement. She begins having nightmares of being aboard a steamship during a violent storm, and begins to question who she is and whether she wants to return to her privileged life in Chicago. Neither Geesje nor Anna, who are different in every possible way, can foresee the life-altering revelations awaiting them before the summer ends. -- adapted from website.
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Back channel : a novel
by Stephen L. Carter
While the Kennedy administration furiously debates about a response to the Cuban Missile Crisis, 19-year-old black Cornell sophomore Margo Jensen becomes an unwitting pawn in escalating tensions between American and Soviet government forces. By the best-selling author of The Impeachment of Abraham Lincoln.
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Driving the king : a novel
by Ravi Howard
Explores race and class in 1950s America, witnessed through the experiences of Nat King Cole and his driver, Nat Weary. Simultaneous.
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The strivers' row spy
by Jason Overstreet
Impulsively marrying a woman who brings him more happiness than he ever imagined, 1920s college graduate Sidney is tapped by J. Edgar Hoover to become the first African-American FBI agent before using his position and talents to navigate ruthless adversaries at the risk of his marriage and safety. A first novel.
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