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Historical Fiction April 2024
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| Neferura by Malayna EvansPrincess Neferura, daughter of the formidable female pharaoh Hatshepsut, lives a life of prescribed duty, from her role as the high priestess of Amun to an unwanted marriage to Thutmose, a claimant to the throne. Caught between her mother and her husband, Neferura will have to do her own scheming in order to survive the intrigues of them both. |
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| The London Bookshop Affair by Louise FeinIn this atmospheric and intricately plotted spy novel, the tension of the Cuban Missile Crisis reaches across the Atlantic and into the life of sheltered London bookshop clerk Celia Duchesne, who learns a shocking truth about the wartime fate of her sister and the an old family scandal comes back to haunt her. |
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The Familiar
by Leigh Bardugo
During the Spanish Golden Age, Luzia Cotado, gifted with magic, garners the attention of the disgraced secretary to Spain's king, plunging her into a world where the lines between magic, science and fraud blur—and where she must enlist the help of an embittered immortal familiar whose deadly secrets could destroy them both.
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| The Painter's Daughters by Emily HowesMolly and Peggy, the titular daughters of 18th century English painter Thomas Gainsborough, are regular subjects in their father's work. As the girls grow older, it becomes apparent that Molly has developed a mental illness of some kind, something which Peggy realizes must be hidden at all costs from their social-climbing mother and emotionally absent father, or Molly might be sent to the notorious Bedlam asylum. |
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James : a novel
by Percival Everett
A retelling of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view. Brimming with the electrifying humor and lacerating observations that have made Everett a "cult literary icon" (Oprah Daily), and one of the most decorated writers of our lifetime, James is destined to be a major publishing event and a cornerstone of twenty-first century American literature"
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| Mrs. Gulliver by Valerie MartinOn the fictional Caribbean island of Verona where prostitution is legal, the titular Lila Gulliver runs a high-end brothel. In 1954 she takes in Carità Bercy, a charming young blind woman who begins an (actual) love affair with a well-connected client that will have dramatic and unexpected fallout for the entire community. |
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| All Our Yesterdays by Joel H. MorrisThis incisive and character-driven prequel is set a decade before the events of Shakespeare's "Scottish Play" and is narrated by the unnamed young woman who would eventually be known as Lady Macbeth. Author Joel H. Morris paints a sympathetic portrait of this infamous figure and the ups and (many) downs of her early life. |
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| The Rumor Game by Thomas MullenIn this intricately plotted crime novel, reporter Anne Lemire and FBI agent Devon Mulvey separately, and later together investigate a succession of antisemitic violence in 1943 Boston. Soon they uncover a fascist conspiracy to falsely incriminate members of the local Jewish community and must find a way to convince the authorities to act on their information. |
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Contact your librarian for more great books!
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Click HERE for the full list of this month's new books
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