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Historical Fiction April 2024
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Someone Always Nearby
by Susan Wittig Albert
Based on research into a massive collection of over 700 letters, documents, media reports and historical accounts, this novel, set in 1940, centers around Georgia O'Keeffe and Maria Chabot—a young and naïve would-be writer, exploring the dimensions of friendship and the debts we incur to those who make our lives easier.
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The Liberators
by EJ Koh
Spanning continents and four generations of two Korean families forever changed by fateful past decisions made in love and war, this elegantly wrought family saga of memory, trauma and empathy serves as a brilliant testament to the consequences and fortunes of inheritance.
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The Porcelain Maker
by Sarah Freethy
Embarking on a journey to discover the identity of her father, Clara, piecing together the past, discovers a love story dimmed by the rising threat of Nazism, revealing how her father, a Jewish architect, used his talent at making exquisite porcelain figures to stay alive.
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Maude Horton's Glorious Revenge
by Lizzie Pook
In Victorian London, when she discovers her sister's death aboard the Makepeace was no accident and that the ship's scientist Edison Stowe was responsible, Maude Horton, to find the truth, begins shadowing Edison, enacting the ultimate revenge to get justice for her sister.
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The Queen of Sugar Hill
by ReShonda Tate Billingsley
It was supposed to be the highlight of her career, the pinnacle for which she'd worked all her life. And as Hattie McDaniel took the stage in 1940 to claim an honor that would make her the first African-American woman to win an Academy Award, she tearfully took her place in history. Between personal triumphs and tragedies, heartbreaking losses, and severe setbacks, this historic night of winning best supporting actress for her role as the sassy Mammy in the controversial movie Gone With the Wind was going to be life-changing. Or so she thought. Months after winning the award, not only did the Oscar curse set in where Hattie couldn't find work, but she found herself thrust in the middle of two worlds -- Black and White -- and not being welcomed in either.
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The Excitements
by C. J. Wray
Arriving in Paris to receive the Légion d'honneur for their part in the liberation of France, the 90-something Williamson sisters, Britain's most treasured World War II veterans, use this opportunity to settle scores, avenge lost friends and pull off one last, daring heist before their illustrious careers are over.
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The Storm We Made
by Vanessa Chan
Sick of British rule over Malaya (now Malaysia), local housewife Cecily Alcantara agrees to work as a spy after a charismatic Japanese general makes the case for "Asia for Asians." A decade later and under Axis occupation, Cecily and her family must face the unanticipated consequences of her actions.
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The Phoenix Crown
by Kate Quinn
Offered patronage by Henry Thornton, a charming railroad magnate, in 1906, Gemma, a silver-voiced soprano, and Suling, a Chinatown embroideress, when Henry disappears, along with the fabled Phoenix Crown, are brought together five years later in one last desperate quest for justice.
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Sisters of Belfast
by Melanie Maure
Despite they are all the other has, orphaned twin sisters Aelish and Isabel are propelled in opposite directions as they grow up and, separated for decades, each unaware of the other's life, are unexpectedly reunited, bringing to light the painful secrets and seismic deceptions that have kept them apart.
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Followed by the Lark
by Helen Humphreys
Composed in short, compelling scenes and inspired by his journals and writing, 'Followed by the Lark' inhabits the life and mind of renowned 19th-century naturalist, poet, and abolitionist Henry David Thoreau, revealing the deep connections between his time and our own.
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Daughters of Warsaw
by Maria Frances
1942, Warsaw: Young Zofia finds herself leading a double life when she is enlisted to help the fearless Irena Sendler save hundreds of Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto. Every night, Zofia risks her life to shepherd the children to safety. But when the worst happens, she is forced to make her riskiest journey yet to keep Irena's mission alive. Now, Seattle: After yet another miscarriage, heartbroken Lizzie returns to the comfort of her childhood home, where she stumbles upon a hidden photograph of her great-grandmother among a mysterious group of people. On a quest to discover more, Lizzie uncovers a buried past darker and more dangerous than she could ever have imagined... A sweeping and heartbreaking story of two remarkable women, generations apart, each finding courage when all hope is gone.
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Picasso's Lovers
by Jeanne Mackin
In the 1950s, aspiring journalist Alana Olson seeks out one of the women in Picasso's life, who paints a vibrant, yet tragic, picture of his once-vibrant social circle, forcing Alana to contend with her own reality in the male-dominated world of art journalism and the rising threat to civil rights in America.
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The Divorcées
by Rowan Beaird
Lois Saunders thought marrying the right man would cure her loneliness. But in 1951, unhappiness is hardly grounds for divorce - except in Reno, Nevada. At the Golden Yarrow, the most respectable of Reno’s famous “divorce ranches,” Lois finds herself living with other would-be divorcees for the six weeks’ residency that is the state’s only divorce requirement. But it isn’t until Greer Lang arrives that Lois’s world truly cracks open. Greer is unlike anyone Lois has ever met - and she sees something in Lois that no one else ever has. Under her influence, Lois begins to push against the limits that have always restrained her. How far will she go to forge her independence, on her own terms?
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The Diamond of London
by Andrea Penrose
When her formidable intelligence, outspoken opinions and headstrong determination gain her the favor of the beau monde's leading taste-maker Beau Brummell, Lady Hester Stanhope learns to bend the rules of the ton to her own advantage until England is plunged into war, changing her world forever.
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Queens of London
by Heather Webb
In 1925 London, brilliant criminal mastermind Alice Diamond, the queen of an all-girl gang with plans on building a dynasty the likes of which no one has ever seen, must outwit and outsmart Britain's first female policewoman who is determined to prove herself by putting Alice out of business -- permanently.
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