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Historical Fiction January 2021
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The Thirty Names of Night
by Zeyn Joukhadar
This rich, moving, and lyrical debut novel is to Syria what -- The Map of Salt and Stars follows the journeys of Nour and Rawiya as they travel along identical paths across the region eight hundred years apart, braving the unknown beside their companions as they are pulled by the promise of reaching home at last
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The factory witches of Lowell
by C. S. Malerich
The mill girls of Lowell, Massachusetts go on strike for fair work, affordable room and board and a brighter future with the assistance of Hannah, a boardinghouse resident who has a gift for witchcraft. Original. 15,000 first printing.
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The whispers of war
by Julia Kelly
Three friends struggle between their loyalties to England and each other when one of them is threatened with internment by the British government for her German heritage during World War II. By the award-winning author of The Light Over London.
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A deadly education : a novel
by Naomi Novik
An unwilling dark sorceress destined to rewrite the rules of magic clashes with a popular combat sorcerer while resolving to spare the lives of innocents. By the award-winning author of the Temeraire series.
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| Stories from Suffragette City by M.J. Rose and Fiona Davis, editorsStories From Suffragette City is a collection of short stories from the leading voices in historical fiction that all take place on a single day. The day one million women marched for the right to vote in New York City in 1915. A day filled with a million different stories, and a million different voices longing to be heard. Taken together, these stories from writers at the top of their bestselling game become a chorus, stitching together a portrait of a country looking for a fight, and echo into a resounding force strong enough to break even the most stubborn of glass ceilings.
With stories from:
Lisa Wingate M. J. Rose Steve Berry Paula McLain Katherine J. Chen Christina Baker Kline Jamie Ford Dolen Perkins-Valdez Megan Chance Alyson Richman Chris Bohjalian and Fiona Davis. |
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| Marley by Jon ClinchStarring: Jacob Marley, erstwhile friend and business partner of A Christmas Carol's Ebenezer Scrooge.
What happens: Friends become partners-in-crime become bitter rivals in this atmospheric novel, which traces the men's complicated relationship from their initial boyhood meeting to their dramatic falling out.
You might also like: Louis Bayard's Mr. Timothy, which imagines the post-Christmas Carol fate of Tiny Tim. |
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| Marilla of Green Gables by Sarah McCoyWhat it is: an engaging portrayal of the youth and early adulthood of Marilla Cuthbert, long before the arrival of spirited orphan Anne Shirley to their Prince Edward Island farm.
Read it for: the richly detailed and sympathetic portrait of Marilla's character, which doesn't shy away from her flaws but does much to humanize her as well.
Don't miss: the winks at later events in the original Anne of Green Gables series by Lucy Maud Montgomery; young Marilla's passionate embrace of social causes like the abolitionist movement. |
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Miss Austen
by Gill Hornby
What it is: Cassandra Austen hunts down a trove of letters written by her deceased sister, Jane, and confronts the buried secrets they hold, secrets not only about Jane but also about Cassandra herself. Maps.
Based on: Jane Austen
You might also like: The Other Bennet Sister by Janice Hadlow, for Mary, the bookish ugly duckling of Pride and Prejudice’s five Bennet sisters, emerges from the shadows and transforms into a desired woman with choices of her own.
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| Unforgivable Love: A Retelling of Dangerous Liaisons by Sophfronia ScottWhat it is: a lush, high-drama story of lust, love, and scheming amongst the who's-who of Harlem's postwar elite.
Based on: eighteenth-century French classic Les Liaisons dangereuses.
You might also like: Graffiti Palace by A.G. Lombardo, an Odysseus tale set during the 1965 Watts Riots; Windward Heights by Maryse Condé, a turn of the 20th century Caribbean Wuthering Heights homage. |
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| The Cassandra by Sharma ShieldsWhat it's about: the heartwrenching story of Mildred Groves who, while working as a secretary at a World War II-era military facility, struggles with her dawning awareness of the destructive capability of nuclear weapons and the failure of her colleagues to take her concerns seriously.
Inspired by: the myth of Trojan princess Kassandra, to whom Apollo gave the power of clairvoyance but also cursed to never be believed.
Read it for: the compelling parallels drawn between the looming nuclear threat and the endemic racism and sexism of Mildred's workplace. |
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