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Historical Fiction November 2019
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One for the Blackbird, One for the Crow
by Olivia Hawker
After Cora’s husband is jailed for killing her lover, who happens to be the husband of their only neighbor, Nettie Mae, the two women must face the duties of working the land and raising their children on the Wyoming prairie in 1876.
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Secrets of the chocolate house
by Paula Brackston
A sequel to The Little Shop of Found Things finds Xanthe struggling to resume her life in modern Marlborough before an unsettling vision of Samuel compels another journey into the past and a confrontation with a dangerous enemy.
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The Paris orphan
by Natasha Lester
An American soldier and an enterprising photographer brave occupied France during World War II to help a young orphan find a family. By the best-selling author of The Paris Seamstress.
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| Where the Light Enters by Sara DonatiThe short version: The pursuit of justice brings the Savard cousins together in this sequel to The Gilded Hour, set in 1880s Manhattan.
The long version: Black obstetrician Sophie is mourning her husband, while white physician Anna has just lost custody (on religious grounds) of the three orphans she and her Jewish detective husband were fostering. However, they must put grief to one side to catch a serial murderer who, posing as a surgeon, mutilates women seeking abortions. |
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When the plums are ripe
by Alain Patrice Nganang
A follow-up to Mount Pleasant is inspired by the history of World War II Cameroon, where the poet Pouka observes a generation of young men forced to become soldiers in a globe-spanning conflict they do not fully understand.
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Now we shall be entirely free
by Andrew Miller
"One rain-swept February night in 1809, an unconscious man is carried into a house in Somerset. He is Captain John Lacroix, home from Britain's disastrous campaign against Napoleon's forces in Spain. Gradually Lacroix recovers his health, but not his peace of mind - he cannot talk about the war or face the memory of what happened in a village on the gruelling retreat to Corunna. After the command comes to return to his regiment, he sets out instead for the Hebrides, with the vague intent of reviving his musical interests and collecting local folksongs. Lacroix sails north incognito, unaware that he has far worse to fear than being dragged back to the army: a vicious English corporal and a Spanish officer are on his trail, with orders to kill. The haven he finds on a remote island with a family of free-thinkers and the sister he falls for are not safe, at all."--Provided by publisher.
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Ribbons of scarlet : a novel of the French Revolution's women
by Kate Quinn
Six best-selling and award-winning authors trace the events of the French Revolution through the experiences of six remarkable women from different walks of life, including an equal-rights education advocate whose student leads a women’s march to Versailles.
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Marley : a novel
by Jon Clinch
From the acclaimed author of Finn comes a re-imagining of Charles Dickens’ classic A Christmas Carol, with a moving exploration of the twisted relationship between Ebenezer Scrooge and Jacob Marley.
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The nugget
by Peter T. Deutermann
Compelled by the Pearl Harbor attack to serve in some of World War II’s most dangerous air battles, a young naval aviator leads a mission to rescue prisoners from a secluded POW camp. By the award-winning author of Pacific Glory.
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