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Historical Fiction February 2019
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| That Churchill Woman by Stephanie BarronPresenting: Lady Randolph Churchill -- née Jennie Jerome, the American heiress who snags a titled husband and scandalizes Victorian England's high society with her political ambition and affaires de coeur.
Why you might like it: This biographical novel offers a sympathetic portrait of an intelligent woman who rebels against the restrictive social mores of the late 19th century.
You might also like: Karen Harper's American Duchess or Therese Anne Fowler's A Well-Behaved Woman, about Gilded Age heiresses who seek personal fulfillment within socially advantageous yet emotionally impoverished marriages. |
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| The Only Woman in the Room by Marie BenedictStarring: Hedwig Kiesler, the Austrian Jewish trophy wife who flees 1930s Vienna and reinvents herself as Hollywood star Hedy Lamarr -- while secretly pursuing her dream of becoming an inventor.
About the author: Marie Benedict wrote The Other Einstein, which similarly illuminates the overlooked scientific contributions of women.
Further reading: Margaret Porter's forthcoming novel Beautiful Invention, or the biography Hedy's Folly by Richard Rhodes. |
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The Falcon of Sparta
by Conn Iggulden
The best-selling author of the Emperor series places his latest epic in an ancient Persian empire torn by civil war, where a young soldier leads his decimated Spartan army in a confrontation against an absolute monarch's legendary warriors.
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Daughter of Moloka'i
by Alan Brennert
A sequel to the best-selling Moloka'i follows the story of quarantined leprosy patient Rachel Kalama's daughter, who is raised by adoptive Japanese parents on a California grape farm before her unjust internment during World War II.
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American Duchess : a Novel of Consuelo Vanderbilt
by Karen Harper
The best-selling author of Dark Angel reimagines the life of American heiress Consuelo Vanderbilt as the reluctant and bullied bride of the Duke of Marlborough before she finds the inner strength to fight for women's equality.
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The Victory Garden
by Rhys Bowen
Marrying an Australian pilot during World War I, Emily volunteers to tend the neglected grounds of a Devonshire estate where she finds inspiration and support in an herbalist's long-forgotten journals. By the award-winning author of The Tuscan Child.
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Bangkok Wakes to Rain
by Pitchaya Sudbanthad
A house in flooded Bangkok reflects a confluence of lives shaped by upheaval, from a homesick missionary doctor, to a haunted jazz pianist in the age of rock, to a woman who would escape her political past.
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Cherokee America
by Margaret Verble
From the author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist Maud's Line, an epic novel that follows a web of complex family alliances and culture clashes in the Cherokee Nation during the aftermath of the Civil War, and the unforgettable woman at its center.
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The Cassandra
by Sharma Shields
A woman takes a job at a top-secret research facility during World War II, only to become tormented by visions of what the mission will mean for humankind. By the award-winning author of The Sasquatch Hunter's Almanac.
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Dear George, Dear Mary
by Mary Calvi
A debut novel based on hundreds of historical accounts, letters and personal journals reimagines the unrequited love affair between a young George Washington and controversial New York heiress Mary Philipse as a catalyst for the American Revolution.
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