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Historical Fiction May 2020
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The May 2020 Historical Fiction Newsletter continues to focus on ebooks and audiobooks available through Handley Regional Library’s (HRL) subscriptions to the Blue Ridge Download Consortium Hoopla and RBDigital. We have some great titles for your consideration this month. You can also access the previous months newsletters to find additional books, ebooks, audiobooks. The April issue was also focused on ebooks and audiobooks. Despite the closure of the HRL buildings we are pleased to announce that the 2020 Adult Summer Reading Program Begins Monday! The link will provide you with the details, but the short description is that you keep logs of the books you read (between memorial day and Labor Day), turn the logs in, and that gets you entered into drawings for fabulous prizes! Not only do you get the pleasure of reading books, but you have a chance to win a prize for doing so. Ebooks and audiobooks count for the summer reading program! |
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Pardonable lies : a Maisie Dobbs novel
by Jacqueline Winspear
Psychologist-sleuth Maisie Dobbs is called in by Sir Cecil Lawton--fueled by a deathbed plea from his dying wife--to investigate the mystery behind the death of his wife's aviator son during World War I, a mission that tests her feelings for her mentor, Maurice Blanche, and brings her face to face with a college friend with ties to the missing pilot.
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The widows of Malabar Hill
by Sujata Massey
A debut entry in a new series by the Agatha Award-winning author of The Sleeping Dictionary introduces Bombay's first female lawyer, Oxford graduate Perveen Mistry, as she investigates a suspicious will on behalf of three Muslim widows living in strict purdah seclusion who become subject to a murderous guardian's schemes for their inheritances.
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We were the lucky ones
by Georgia Hunter
A novel based on the true story of a Jewish-Polish family recounts how the Kurcs are scattered throughout the world by the horrors of World War II and fight respective hardships to survive, reach safety and find each other. Includes a family tree.
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All the light we cannot see : a novel
by Anthony Doerr
A blind French girl on the run from the German occupation and a German orphan-turned-Resistance tracker struggle with respective beliefs after meeting on the Brittany coast.
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The night watchman : a novel
by Louise Erdrich
A historical novel based on the life of the National Book Award-winning author’s grandfather traces the experiences of a Chippewa Council night watchman in mid-19th-century rural North Dakota who fights Congress to enforce Native American treaty rights.
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Lady Clementine
by Marie Benedict
Starring: Clementine Churchill, the formidable wife of English statesman Winston Churchill and a political force in her own right.
Behind every great man: This biographical novel explores Clementine's own ambitions, abilities, beliefs, and political influence on her obstinate, better-known husband.
For fans of: Melanie Benjamin's Alice I Have Been and The Aviator's Wife; Nancy Horan's Loving Frank.
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The golden hour : a novel
by Beatriz Williams
In World War II Nassau to investigate the Duke and Duchess of Windsor for a New York magazine, Lulu Randolph falls for Benedict Thorpe, a scientist who disappears without a trace, sending Lulu on a journey to unravel his complicated family history
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Miss Emily
by Nuala O'Connor
What it's about: the unexpectedly close friendship that develops between young housemaid Ada Concannon and "Miss Emily," none other than celebrated American poet Emily Dickinson, with insight into each woman's mind as they alternate narrating each chapter. Fresh off the boat: Irish immigrant Ada quickly lands a job in Amherst after arriving in America, where her irreverent personality and love of nature endear her to Miss Emily. Emily soon begins to confide in Ada and their bond deepens, but will be tested when tragedy strikes their quiet world. This title is also available as an audiobook on Hoopla.
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Alternative Histories and Historical Fantasy |
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The Underground Railroad : a novel
by Colson Whitehead
After Cora, a pre-Civil War Georgia slave, escapes with another slave, Caesar, they seek the help of the Underground Railroad as they flee from state to state and try to evade a slave catcher, Ridgeway, who is determined to return them to the South. #1 New York Times Bestseller • Winner of the Pulitzer Prize • Winner of the National Book Award • Winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction • Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize
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Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
by Susanna Clarke
All is going well for rich, reclusive Mr Norell, who has regained some of the power of England's magicians from the past, until a rival magician, Jonathan Strange, appears and becomes Mr Norrell's pupil, in a witty fantasy set against the backdrop of nineteenth-century England.
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11/22/63 : a novel
by Stephen King
Receiving a horrific essay from a GED student with a traumatic past, high-school English teacher Jake Epping is enlisted by a friend to travel back in time to prevent the assassination of John F. Kennedy, a mission for which he must befriend troubled loner Lee Harvey Oswald.
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The man in the high castle
by Philip K Dick
A classic work of alternate history, the United States is divided up and ruled by the Axis powers after the defeat of the Allies during World War II. National best-selling winner of the Hugo Award for Best Novel. This title is also available as an ebook in Hoopla.
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