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Historical Fiction May 2020
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| The Mountains Sing by Nguyễn Phan Quế MaiWhat it is: the sweeping and lyrical multigenerational saga of one family in Vietnam, from the height of the French colonial era to the late 1970s.
Narrated by: Diệu Lan, who lost her life of privilege in the 1930s, weathered the Japanese occupation in the 1940s, and made difficult choices during the famine of the 1950s; Diệu Lan's granddaughter Huong, who develops her survival skills amidst the tumultuous and traumatic years of the American War. |
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Beheld
by TaraShea Nesbit
The best-selling author of The Wives of Los Alamos retraces the story of the Pilgrims from the perspectives of the rebel Billington family, whose disputes with Puritan neighbors under the influence of a newcomer escalate into Plymouth’s first murder.
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Lost Boy Found
by Kirsten Alexander
A Southern historical novel based on the true story of a boy’s mysterious disappearance examines despair, loyalty and the nature of truth.
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A Little Light Mischief
by Cat Sebastian
Lady's maid Molly Wilkins is done with thieving—and cheating and stabbing and all the rest of it. She's determined to keep her hands to herself, so she really shouldn't be tempted to seduce her employer's prim and proper companion, Alice. But how can she resist when Alice can't seem to keep her eyes off Molly?
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Machines Like Me: and People Like You
by Ian McEwan
Presents the story of two lovers in an alternative 1980s London who construct a perfect synthetic human before finding themselves in a morally complex love triangle.
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The Family Mansion
by Anthony C. Winkler
After attempting to kill his brother for his inheritance, twenty-three-year-old Hartley Fudges flees from England to Jamaica where he takes a job as an overseer at a sugar cane plantation during the height of the slave trade.
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An Unconditional Freedom
by Alyssa Cole
Rescued from slavery after his dreams of becoming a lawyer are shattered, Daniel is offered a position with a covert organization of African-American spies, unaware that his new partner is a double agent intent on betraying him.
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At the Wolf's Table
by Rosella Postorino
Forced to risk her life every day as a taster at Hitler's secret headquarters, Rosa and a growing sisterhood of involuntary women conscripts navigate Nazi fanatics, an SS guard's unwanted attention and the escalating war.
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