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Historical Fiction March 2024
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| The Fox Wife by Yangsze ChooSteeped in Japanese folklore, this lush and intricately plotted novel is set in 1908 Manchuria, where teacher-turned-P.I. Bao Gong investigates the identity of a local woman found dead in the snow, while rumors spread in the community about shape-shifting fox spirits. The story of a mysterious, vengeance-seeking young woman named Snow unfolds in parallel, until the narratives converge in unanticipated and historically significant ways. |
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You Dreamed of Empires
by Álvaro Enrigue
Told from multiple perspectives, this is an unconventional, metafictional inside look at Tenochtitlan, the capital of the Aztec Empire, at the arrival of the conquistador Hernán Cortés. With Moctezuma spiraling, local nobles fall to infighting and splinter into factions at a time when they'll need unity more than ever before.
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| The Road from Belhaven by Margot LiveseyGrowing up on her grandparents' poor but picturesque farm in 19th-century Scotland, orphan Lizzie Craig discovers she has the second sight. When, at age 16, she follows her suitor Louis to Glasglow, her life grows complex in ways that her gift, inexplicably, failed to warn her about. For fans of: the heroines in Edith Wharton novels. |
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| Neighbors and Other Stories by Diane OliverPosthumously published after the author's untimely death at age 22, this lyrical and incisive story collection is filled with indelible African American characters navigating pivotal moments where their personal anxieties intersect with the difficulties of surviving segregation and poverty in the 1950s and 60s. |
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Last Night at the Hollywood Canteen
by Sarah James
Aspiring screenwriter Annie Laurence has just volunteered to work at the famous Hollywood Canteen, which offered free food and entertainment to the troops during World War II. What started as a way to make industry connections turns into a murder mystery with the death of a gossip columnist, but lucky for her, murder mysteries are Annie's speciality.
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| The Queen of Sugar Hill by ReShonda Tate BillingsleyThis heartwrenching and well-researched biographical novel tells the moving story of Hattie McDaniel, the first African American to win an Oscar (for her role as Mammy in Gone With the Wind). For fans of Victoria Christopher Murray (The Personal Librarian) and Sherry Jones (Josephine Baker's Last Dance). |
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Good Taste
by Caroline Scott
Seeking an escape from her personal problems and a recipe rut, food writer Stella Douglas sets off on a journey across England during the Great Depression. Her mission: map the food history of the nation and discover the quintessential English recipe. Along the way she'll have the chance to find love, adventure, and most importantly, herself.
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Contact your librarian for more great books!
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Caledon Public Library
7 branches to serve you across Caledon 150 Queen St. S., Bolton, ON L7E 1E3 905-857-1400 www.caledon.library.on.ca |
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