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Historical Fiction April 2024
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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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Table for two : fictions
by Amor Towles
The New York Times best-selling author shares six stories based in New York City, which consider the fateful consequences that can spring from brief encounters, and a novella set in Golden Age Hollywood, told from seven different viewpoints, which stars the indomitable Evelyn Ross.
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The Museum of Lost Quilts : An Elm Creek Quilts Novel
by Jennifer Chiaverini
While staying at Elm Creek Manor to finish her thesis, Summer, the youngest founding member of Elm Creek Quilts, instead researches the antique quilts on display for a fundraiser to renovate the headquarters of the Waterford Historical Society, discovering its troubled history of racism, economic injustice and political corruption, past and present.
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Finding Margaret Fuller
by Allison Pataki
The life and adventures of trailblazing writer and activist Margaret Fuller fill this lush and richly detailed novel by The Accidental Empress author Allison Pataki. Fuller's circle of famous friends included Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Louisa May Alcott, and Nathaniel Hawthorne, who may have based elements of Hester Prynne on her.
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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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Grand Ledge Area District Library 131 E Jefferson St Grand Ledge, Michigan 48837 (517) 627-7014https://gladl.org |
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