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Historical Fiction April 2024
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| Finding Margaret Fuller by Allison PatakiThe 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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Little underworld
by Christina Harding Thornton
In 1930s Omaha, ex-cop-turned-PI Jim Beely murders the man who assaulted his 14-year-old daughter, crooked cop Frank Tvrdik discovers his crime, and uses it as leverage to get Jim to take down a backstabbing aspiring politician.
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Sharpe's command / : Richard Sharpe and the Bridge at Almaraz, May 1812
by Bernard Cornwell
Sent on an undercover mission to a small village in the Spanish countryside in the early 19th century, far behind enemy lines, the formidable Captain Sharpe and his group of men—with their cunning and courage to rely on—must stop two French armies from meeting on the Almaraz bridge.
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The Storm We Made
by Vanessa Chan
Sick of British rule over Malaya (now Malaysia), local housewife Cecily Alcantara agrees to work as a spy after a charismatic Japanese general makes the case for "Asia for Asians." A decade later and under Axis occupation, Cecily and her family must face the unanticipated consequences of her actions.
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The sweet blue distance
by Sara Donati
In 1857, young midwife Carrie Ballentyne travels west to the New Mexico Territory for a nursing position, but while helping women give birth in Sante Fe, she discovers her employer is keeping secrets and must ferret out the truth to save his young daughter whom she's come to love.
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The Titanic Survivors Book Club : a novel
by Timothy Schaffert
Paris bookshop owner Yorick, joining a secret society of other Titanic ticket holders who didn't board the ship, forms a book club where they can grapple with their good fortune and anxieties through heated discussions of literature, but when one of them unexpectedly dies, he wonders what fate has in store.
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The underground library : a novel
by Jennifer Ryan
When the Blitz destroys Bethnal Green Library in London, librarian Juliet Lansdown, along with two other women, relocates the stacks to the local Underground station where the city's residents shelter nightly, determined to lend out stories that will keep spirits up, but soon tragedy after tragedy threatens to destroy what they've built.
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