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Historical Fiction February 2020
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| The Secret Guests by Benjamin BlackWho: the young English princesses Margaret and Elizabeth.
Where: Clonmillis Hall, an estate in the Irish countryside where the princesses have been sent to protect them from the Blitz, complete with assumed names and an MI5 agent posing as their governess.
Why you might like it: While in real life the royal family stayed in England during the entirety of the war, this reimagined story puts the princesses in the neutral Republic of Ireland, where their safety from the war is replaced with the fear of what Irish nationalists might do if their true identities are revealed. |
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Run Me to Earth
by Paul Yoon
Three children orphaned in 1960s Laos meet a dedicated doctor who enlists them as motorcycle couriers in his effort to rescue civilians and find medical supplies in a novel from the award-winning author of Snow Hunters.
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A Long Petal of the Sea
by Isabel Allende
Sponsored by the poet Pablo Neruda to flee the violence of the Spanish Civil War, a pregnant widow and an army doctor unite in an arranged marriage only to be swept up by the early days of World War II.
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Remembrance
by Rita Woods
Looks at present-day Ohio, 1791 Haiti, and 1857 New Orleans, in which house girl Margot is sold just before her 18th birthday and her promised freedom, and, desperate, she escapes and tries to find Remembrance, a rumored stop on the Underground Railroad.
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The Hollows
by Jess Montgomery
A sequel to The Widows finds newly elected sheriff Lily Ross investigating ghost sightings in Moonvale Hollow and the death of a mysterious woman who was killed while walking along a railroad shortcut beneath the Appalachians.
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Light Changes Everything
by Nancy E. Turner
The best-selling author of These Is My Words returns to the world of Sarah Agnes Prine through the wide-eyes of her irrepressible young niece, Mary Pearl, during 1907 in the Arizona territory.
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Westering Women
by Sandra Dallas
Joining other mail-order brides on a dangerous wagon journey to the gold mines of 1852 Chicago, a seamstress with painful secrets discovers strengths she did not know she possessed among a growing sisterhood of fellow women pioneers.
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