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Historical Fiction February 2023 |
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Code name Sapphire
by Pam Jenoff
"Hannah Martel has narrowly escaped Nazi Germany after her fiancé was killed in a pogrom. When her ship bound for America is turned away at port, she has nowhere to go but to her cousin Lily, who lives with her family in Brussels. Fearful for her life, Hannah is desperate to get out of occupied Europe. But with no safe way to leave, she must return to the dangerous underground work she thought she had left behind."
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Essex dogs
by Dan Jones
A group of unruly archers and men-at-arms land on the beaches of Normandy in 1346 to fight for the throne in the fiction debut of the best-selling New York Times historian behind Powers and Thrones. Maps.
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In the upper country
by Kai Thomas
The fates of two unforgettable women—one just beginning a journey of reckoning and self-discovery and the other completing her life’s last vital act—intertwine in this sweeping, powerful novel set at the terminus of the Underground Railroad. Summoned to a neighboring farm to gather testimony from an old woman who killed a slave hunter, Lensinda Martin accepts the woman's proposed barter of a story for a story instead of a confession.
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The Mitford affair : a novel
by Marie Benedict
Between the World Wars, the six Mitford sisters — each more beautiful, brilliant, and eccentric than the next — dominate the English political, literary, and social scenes. Though they've weathered scandals before, the family falls into disarray when Diana divorces her wealthy husband to marry a fascist leader and Unity follows her sister's lead all the way to Munich, inciting rumors that she's become Hitler's mistress. As the Nazis rise in power, novelist Nancy Mitford grows suspicious of her sisters' constant visits to Germany. When she overhears alarming conversations and uncovers disquieting documents, Nancy must make excruciating choices as Great Britain goes to war with Germany.
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The sun walks down
by Fiona McFarlane
In September 1883, the small town of Fairly in the South Australian outback huddles under strange, vivid sunsets. Six-year-old Denny Wallace has gone missing during a dust storm, and the entire community is caught up in the search for him. As they scour the desert and mountains for the lost child, the residents of Fairly confront their relationships, both with one another and with the landscape they inhabit
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The three lives of Alix St. Pierre
by Natasha Lester
In 1943, with WWII raging and men headed overseas to fight, Alix lands a publicity job to recruit women into the workforce. Her skills catch the attention of the U.S. government and she finds herself with an even bigger assignment: sent to Switzerland as a spy. Soon Alix is on the precipice of something big, very big. But how far can she trust her German informant? After an Allied victory that didn’t come nearly soon enough, Alix moves to Paris, ready to immerse herself in a new position as director of publicity for the yet-to-be-launched House of Dior. In the glamorous halls of the French fashion house, she can nearly forget everything she lost and the dangerous secret she carries. But when a figure from the war reappears and threatens to destroy her future, Alix realizes that only she can right the wrongs of the past and finally find justice.
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Historical Fiction You May Have Missed
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Mrs. Lincoln's sisters : a novel
by Jennifer Chiaverini
Devastated by her 1875 suicide attempt, the sisters of widowed former First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln navigate the consequences of their husbands’ choices while advocating for Mary’s needs. By the best-selling author of Mrs. Lincoln’s Dressmaker.
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The Paris hours
by Alex George
Four individuals share an extraordinary day in Paris between the wars, including a maid in possession of a lone surviving Marcel Proust manuscript and a lovesick artist who would repay an impossible debt through a partnership with Gertrude Stein.
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Where the Lost Wander
by Amy Harmon
Set on Overland Trail in 1853, a young widow sets off with her family for a life out West. The journey is fraught with hardship, fear, death and terrible sacrifice. It leads her into the arms of a half-Pawnee man straddling two worlds.
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