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Historical Fiction January 2020
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| Lady Clementine by Marie BenedictStarring: Clementine Churchill, the formidable wife of English statesman Winston Churchill and a political force in her own right.
Behind every great man: This biographical novel explores Clementine's own ambitions, abilities, beliefs, and political influence on her obstinate, better-known husband.
For fans of: Melanie Benjamin's Alice I Have Been and The Aviator's Wife; Nancy Horan's Loving Frank. |
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The poppy wife : a novel of the Great War
by Caroline Scott
Hired by other families looking for MIA soldiers, a grieving man searches for his own missing brother along the Western Front, where he photographs soldier graves while making life-changing discoveries.
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Sword of kings : a novel
by Bernard Cornwell
The latest entry in the series that inspired The Last Kingdom, continuing the epic conquests and challenges of Uhtred of Bebbanburg as they shape a fledgling Britain.
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| Mary Toft; Or, the Rabbit Queen by Dexter Clarence PalmerWhat it's about: medical fraud and societal upheaval; an 18th-century woman who captured the British public's attention when she convinced doctors that she had given birth to rabbits.
Why you might like it: Zooming out from the now-infamous main players involved in the real-life hoax, this novel is told from the perspective of a young surgeon's apprentice whose youth and relative innocence about the world provide an interesting interpretation of the events. |
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Mercy road : a novel
by Ann Howard Creel
In 1917, after Arlene Favier's home burns to the ground, taking her father with it, she must find a way to support her mother and younger brother. If she doesn't succeed, they will all be impoverished. Job opportunities are scarce, but then a daring possibility arises: the American Women's Hospital needs ambulance drivers to join a trailblazing, all-female team of doctors and nurses bound for war-torn France. On the front lines, Arlene and her fellow ambulance drivers work day and night to aid injured soldiers and civilians. In between dangerous ambulance runs, Arlene reunites with a childhood friend, Jimmy Tucker, now a soldier, who opens her heart like no one before. But she has also caught the attention of Felix Brohammer, a charismatic army captain who harbors a dark, treacherous secret. To expose Brohammer means risking her family's future and the promise of love. Arlene must make a choice: stay in the safety of silence or take the greatest chance of her life.
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The Glittering Hour
by Iona Grey
A tale set in pre-World War II England follows an unlikely romance between a penniless painter and a wealthy socialite who is forced by tragedy to make a safe choice. By the award-winning author of Letters to the Lost.
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The wicked redhead : a wicked city novel
by Beatriz Williams
Distancing herself from an unethical employer and unfaithful husband, a woman investigates the story of a previous resident in her Greenwich Village apartment, a Prohibition-era flapper who went missing amid an agonizing moral quandary.
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