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Historical Fiction April 2021
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Half life : a novel
by Jillian Cantor
A reimagining of the life of Marie Curie is told through two parallel timelines, including one that reflects her real-world achievements and another that explores how the world might be different had she made other choices. 10,000 first printing.
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The Last Bookshop in London
by Madeline Martin
Taking a job in a London bookshop just as the Blitz begins, Grace finds comfort in the power of words, storytelling and community as the bookshop becomes one of the only remaining properties to survive the bombings. 10,000 first printing.
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Leonora in the Morning Light
by Michaela Carter
A novel inspired by the life of Leonora Carrington follows the experiences of a rising artist who accompanies her lover to 1937 London before the masters of the Surrealist movement are denounced by occupying forces. 75,000 first printing.
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Libertie : a novel
by Kaitlyn Greenidge
Coming of age as a free-born Black woman in Reconstruction-era Brooklyn, Libertie Sampson struggles against her mother’s medical aspirations for her when she finds herself more drawn to a musical career that could compromise her autonomy. 75,000 first printing.
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The social graces
by Renée Rosen
A tale spanning three decades and based on true events imagines the bitter rivalry between Gilded Age hostess Caroline Astor and family newcomer Alva Vanderbilt against a backdrop of the latter’s rejection by the society that both would control. Original.
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Strongheart : the lost journals of May Dodd and Molly McGill
by Jim Fergus
A trilogy conclusion is set in the aftermath of the battle of Little Big Horn and finds the integrated women survivors of a decimated Cheyenne tribe taking up arms against the United States on behalf of Native American territory rights.
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