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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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| 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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| The American Queen by Vanessa MillerIn 1865, formerly enslaved Louella Bobo and her pastor husband, William, leave Mississippi with a group of other newly free people and settle in North Carolina, where they found a utopian community known as The Kingdom of the Happy Land. Inspired by true events, this novel by Vanessa Miller (The Light on Halsey Street) illuminates a fascinating chapter of Black history. |
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Daughters of Warsaw
by Maria Frances
Two brave women, separated by time but united by ancestry and a fight for freedom, face the darkness in a dual narrative that weaves historical truths of the 1942 Warsaw Ghetto with present-day Seattle.
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Don't want you like a best friend : a novel
by Emma R. Alban
"A...queer Victorian romance in which two debutantes distract themselves from having to seek husbands by setting up their widowed parents, and instead find their perfect match in each other"
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| Medea by Eilish QuinIn this character-driven and moving mythological retelling, Medea shares her perspective on the events that made her so notorious. Born to a cruel father and a distant mother and losing her brother to prophecy, Medea's early life is mired in tragedy long before meeting Jason and bringing her doomed children into the world. |
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| The American Daughters by Maurice Carlos RuffinAfter her mother dies of a fever, Ady, a young enslaved woman in antebellum New Orleans, keeps the family dream of freedom alive despite her grief. Ady finds a mother figure in Lenore, a free woman of color, and through her is introduced to an underground network known only as "the Daughters," who work to undermine the nascent Confederacy from the inside. |
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The great divide : a novel
by Cristina Henrâiquez
An epic novel of the construction of the Panama Canal casts light on the unsung people who lived, loved and labored there.
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| Ours by Phillip B. WilliamsIn this sweeping and atmospheric debut novel by poet Phillip B. Williams, formerly enslaved people find refuge in the titular Missouri town, created in the 1830s by a remarkable free Black woman and hidden from outsiders. As time goes by, residents begin to question the rules they must follow to keep Ours safe (especially the prohibition on leaving town), and wonder if they are truly free. |
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