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Historical Fiction April 2024
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The house on Biscayne Bay by Chanel CleetonAfter the tragic death of her parents, Carmen Acosta arrives at Maribrisa, the grand home of her estranged older sister and her husband on Biscayne Bay. She soon discovers beneath its glittering façade lies a treacherous legacy and she must unravel Maribrisa's secrets to stop history from repeating itself.
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| The London Bookshop Affair by Louise FeinIn this atmospheric and intricately plotted spy novel, the tension of the Cuban Missile Crisis reaches across the Atlantic and into the life of sheltered London bookshop clerk Celia Duchesne. Celia learns a shocking truth about the wartime fate of her sister and an old family scandal comes back to haunt her. |
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The book of thorns by Hester FoxWhen Cornelia joins Napoleon's army as a traveling naturalist with the power to heal, she meets the sister she never knew existed on the opposite side of the battlefield. Together, they must use the magic of flowers to solve the mystery of their mother's death, while fighting for their survival.
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| A Sign of Her Own by Sarah MarshThis is the reflective and richly detailed story of Ellen Lark, a deaf woman who just wants to express herself on her own terms. While studying with Alexander Graham Bell to learn his Visual Speech technique, Ellen begins to question society's shunning of sign language and the pressure deaf people faced to assimilate. |
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All we were promised : a novel by Ashton LattimoreA former enslaved housekeeper escapes to 1837 Philadelphia where she plays servant to her white-passing father and befriends a young abolitionist. She risks everything to help another former slave, brought to the city by her plantation mistress.
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| Mrs. Gulliver by Valerie MartinOn the fictional Caribbean island of Verona where prostitution is legal, the titular Lila Gulliver runs a high-end brothel. In 1954 she takes in Carità Bercy, a charming young blind woman who begins a love affair with a well-connected client that will have dramatic and unexpected fallout for the entire community. |
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| All Our Yesterdays by Joel H. MorrisThis incisive and character-driven prequel is set a decade before the events of Shakespeare's "Scottish Play" and is narrated by the unnamed young woman who would eventually be known as Lady Macbeth. |
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| The Rumor Game by Thomas MullenIn this intricately plotted crime novel, reporter Anne Lemire and FBI agent Devon Mulvey separately, and later together investigate a succession of antisemitic violence in 1943 Boston. Soon they uncover a fascist conspiracy to falsely incriminate members of the local Jewish community and must find a way to convince the authorities to act on their information. |
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The Titanic Survivors Book Club : a novel by Timothy SchaffertParis 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. When one of them unexpectedly dies, he wonders what fate has in store.
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The murder of Mr. Ma by John Shen Yen NeeIn 1924 London, when shy academic Lao She meets larger-than-life Judge Dee Ren Jie, these unlikely allies investigate the murders of Chinese immigrants, all stabbed to death with a butterfly sword and must connect the dots to catch a killer before they become victims themselves.
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