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Historical Fiction March 2024
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Goldenseal : a novel
by Maria Hummel
"Downtown Los Angeles, 1990. Alone in her luxury hotel suite, the reclusive Lacey Crane receives a message: Edith is waiting for her in the lobby. Former best friends, Lacey and Edith haven't spoken to one another in over four decades. As young adults meeting at summer camp in Maine, and later making their way in the glitzy spotlight of postwar Hollywood, Edith and Lacey share a deep-rooted bond that once saved them from isolation and despair, providing comfort from the public and private traumas that they had each endured and which a newly optimistic world was eager to forget. Told through a continuous, twisting conversation that unfolds over the course of a single evening, in which each woman tells her story and reveals long-hidden secrets, the narratives of Edith and Lacey burn with atmosphere, mystery, resentment, and regret"
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City of laughter ; : a novel
by Temim Fruchter
Recovering from the breakup of her first queer relationship and grieving the death of her father. Shiva Margolin, a student of Jewish folklore, decides to visit Poland to walk in the footsteps of the family members who went before her.
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The disappearance of Astrid Bricard
by Natasha Lester
Holding what remains of her mother and grandmother's legacies, Blythe Bricard stiches together the painfully beautiful fabrics of three generations of heartbreak to create something that will shake the foundations of fashion while trying to answer the question: what really happened to her mother?
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The Invisible Hotel
by Yeji Y. Ham
Plagued by dreams of a hotel—a quiet terror she's desperate to escape—Yewon, when she drives a mysterious North Korean refugee to visit her brother at a distant prison, finds her dreams intensifying as the line between reality and illusion begins to blur, revealing an unsettling truth about South Korea's collective heritage.
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The bullet swallower : a novel
by Elizabeth Gonzalez James
In 1964, when Jaime Sonoro, Mexico's most renowned actor and singer, discovers a book telling of the multitude of horrific crimes committed by his ancestors, he must pay for their crimes unless he can uncover the truth about his grandfather, the legendary bandido El Tragabalas, The Bullet Swallower.
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The Djinn waits a hundred years
by Shubnum Khan
Moving into Akbar Manzil, a ruined mansion off the coast of South Africa, Sana stumbles upon the long-forgotten story of Meena, the original owner's second wife who died there tragically 100 years ago, awakening a grieving djinn, an invisible spirit who has haunted the mansion since Meena's mysterious death.
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Hard by a great forest
by Leo Vardiashvili
"A devastating story of one family's border-crossing adventure to rescue one another and make peace with the past, set in the former Soviet republic of Georgia, two years after the occupation of South Ossetia by Russia in 2008"
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Second duke's the charm
by Kate Bateman
Meet Her Majesty's Rebels: three brilliant women who run King & Co., London's most exclusive investigative agency. Original.
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The warm hands of ghosts : a novel
by Katherine Arden
In 1918, field nurse Laura Iven returns to Belgium to uncover the truth about her brother Freddie's supposed death in combat, while Freddie, unable to return to the killing fields, takes refuge with a mysterious man who has the power to make the hellscape of the trenches disappear.
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Cold victory : a novel
by Karl Marlantes
Two women in 1947 Helsinki, one American and one Russian, have their loyalties and friendship put to the test when their husbands drunkenly challenge each other to a secret cross-country ski race at an embassy party pitting freedom against communism.
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