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Historical Fiction June 2017
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Eagle and empire
by Alan Smale
Praetor Gaius Marcellinus tries to end the Mourning War between the five nations of Iroqua and the Cahokians in North America in 1218 AD, in the conclusion to the alternative history trilogy following Eagle in Exile.
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Murder in the Bowery
by Victoria Thompson
A latest entry in the series by the best-selling author of Murder in Morningside Heights investigates the murder of a newsboy against the backdrop of the victim's brother's account of a young society woman whose penchant for risky behaviors implicates several suspects in and out of her family.
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The scribe of Siena : a novel
by Melodie Winawer
Taking an unexpected trip to a Tuscan city to settle her brother's estate, a grieving neurosurgeon discovers the journals and paintings of a 14th-century artist before finding herself transported through time to the artist's world just prior to the outbreak of a devastating plague. A first novel.
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A fine retribution : an Alan Lewrie naval adventure
by Dewey Lambdin
While waiting to be offered a new command in 1809, a naval captain takes on a job for an old friend landing battle-sized raids on enemy coasts in the latest addition to the series following A Hard, Cruel Shore.
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| The Movement of Stars by Amy BrillAn oddity in her 19th-century Quaker community, 24-year-old amateur astronomer Hannah Price searches the skies above Nantucket with her telescope each night in the hope of discovering a new comet. Her father expects her to marry (and soon!), but Hannah only cares about astronomy -- until she meets Isaac Martin, a black sailor from the Azores who asks Hannah to teach him the science of navigation. Loosely based on the life of Maria Mitchell, the first American woman to become a professional astronomer, The Movement of Stars is a thought-provoking and dramatic story. |
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| The Lieutenant: A Novel by Kate GrenvilleEighteenth-century English lieutenant Daniel Rooke is gifted at astronomy and mathematics, but hopeless when it comes to interacting with people. The one exception is his surprising friendship with Tagaran, a young Aboriginal girl whom Daniel meets when his ship, the HMS Resolution, arrives in New South Wales, Australia. While his intent is to build an observatory to search for an elusive comet, Daniel soon becomes fascinated by the life and language of Tagaran's people -- to the dismay of both of their cultures. Kate Grenville's novel of Australian history serves as a companion book to her previous novel, the Commonwealth Writer's Prize-winning The Secret River. |
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