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Historical Fiction June 2019
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City of Girls
by Elizabeth Gilbert
Beloved author Elizabeth Gilbert returns to fiction with a unique love story set in the New York City theater world during the 1940s. Told from the perspective of an older woman as she looks back on her youth with both pleasure and regret (but mostly pleasure), City of Girls explores themes of female sexuality and promiscuity, as well as the idiosyncrasies of true love.
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| The Confessions of Frannie Langton by Sara CollinsIntroducing: Frannie Langton, a Jamaican servant languishing in Newgate Prison as she awaits trial for the murders of her employers.
Why you might like it: Framed as Frannie's confession, this debut offers Gothic atmosphere, vivid recreations of both West Indian sugar plantations and Georgian London, and a penetrating exploration of Enlightenment-era scientific racism.
Want a taste? "The cold seemed to carry its own smell, like raw meat, and came on me sudden as a cutpurse.” |
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This Storm
by James Ellroy
A corrupt vice cop, a crime-lab whiz facing Japanese internment, a fascist police consultant to Army Intelligence and a rogue profiteer investigate a historically relevant murder in 1942 Los Angeles. By the best-selling author of Perfidia.
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Robert B. Parker's Buckskin
by Robert Knott
When gold is discovered outside the town of Appaloosa, marshals Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch find their problems multiplying as two mining factions fight over the claim and anonymous letters to the editor of the local paper lead them to a series of murders and in pursuit of the killer.
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Mistress of the Ritz
by Melanie Benjamin
The director of the luxurious Hotel Ritz in occupied Paris and his courageous American wife, Blanche Auzello, risk their marriage and lives to support the French Resistance during World War II. By the best-selling author of The Aviator's Wife.
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Much Ado about Lewrie : an Alan Lewrie Naval Adventure
by Dewey Lambdin
After his ship is decommissioned, Alan Lewrie enjoys the quiet, onshore life with his new wife until he accidentally uncovers a dognapping gang in the latest addition to the series, following An Onshore Storm.
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The Tubman Command
by Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman
What it's about: iconic abolitionist Harriet Tubman and her role in the 1863 Raid on Combahee Ferry, in which black soldiers from the 2nd South Carolina Infantry raided lowcountry plantations, destroying Confederate supplies and liberating 750 enslaved men and women.
What sets it apart: This well-researched novel by the author of The Hamilton Affair focuses on Tubman's lesser-known deeds as a scout and spy for the Union Army during the American Civil War.
Further reading: Catherine Clinton's biography Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom.
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The Policewoman's Bureau
by Edward Conlon
Based on the true story of a young policewoman fighting for her place in a male-dominated world, a page-turning novel about the inner workings of the NYPD The Bronx, 1958. Marie Cirile, a young officer with the 44th Precinct, has joined the few women stepping away from the select matronly duties available to female officers to take up series cases. With courage and a stiff upper lip when undercover, Marie is dispatched in often grim and scary circumstances, using her air of innocence and others' prejudice against her to take down degenerates and sex offenders.
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The Summer Country
by Lauren Willig
Inheriting the ruins of a Barbados sugar plantation, a young woman from Victorian Bristol is seduced by the region's dark tropical beauty at the same time her new neighbors take steps to acquire the property for themselves.
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