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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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| Wolves of Winter by Dan JonesIn this sequel to Essex Dogs, which first introduced readers to the titular mercenary crew, the Dogs are still licking their wounds after the battle of Crécy when the siege of Calais begins. King Edward is determined to take the city no matter the cost, plunging the Dogs and their comrades into a long, cold, bitter fight to survive the winter. |
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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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| The Queen of Sugar Hill by ReShonda Tate BillingsleyThis heart wrenching 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). |
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The Chocolate Factory
by Mary-lou Stephens
Love, friendship and dangerous secrets in the early years of Cadbury's Tasmanian factory. A tangled web of ambition and intrigue melts into a tale as delicious and rich as chocolate.
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The Cook of Castamar
by Fernando J. Muñez
Set in early 18th-century Madrid, the plot follows the love story between an agoraphobic cook and a widowed nobleman.
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Code Name Butterfly
by Embassie Susberry
Inspired by the incredible true story of Josephine Baker's role in the French Resistance, this is a heart-wrenching, unforgettable tale of the strength of the human spirit in the darkest days of World War II.
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Pelican Girls : a novel
by Julia Malye
Captures the never-before-told journey of the Baleine Brides: a ship full of young women plucked from a Paris asylum and sent to marry settlers in North America's rough Louisiana Territory.
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