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Historical Fiction June 2017
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The captain's daughter
by Jennifer Delamere
.When Rosalyn Bernay finds herself penninless, she takes work backstage at a theater where she meets injured soldier Nate Moran, who only wanted to heal and return to his regiment in India before meeting Rosalyn.
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Wolf on a string : a novel
by Benjamin Black
Discovering the body of a young woman after arriving in 1599 Prague, an ambitious young scholar and alchemist becomes entangled in the machinations of several ruthless courtiers before attracting the attention of an emperor who would retain the power of the throne.
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The widow Nash : a novel
by Jamie Harrison
The quiet adulthood of a woman who spent her childhood traveling is disrupted by her eccentric father's abrupt death and an investigative journey through early 20th-century America, during which she reads her father's journals for clues to what happened to the proceeds of a lucrative sale.
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The Supremes sing the happy heartache blues : a novel
by Edward Kelsey Moore
The late-in-life marriage of two infamous natives of an Indiana community attracts the return of a famous guitar bluesman while compelling numerous locals to resolve long-standing disputes, from a philanderer who would prove his faithfulness, to a transgender woman who would live authentically.
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The Alice network : a novel
by Kate Quinn
In 1947, pregnant Charlie St. Clair, an American college girl banished from her family, arrives in London to find out what happened to her beloved cousin Rose, who disappeared in Nazi-occupied France during the war, and meets a former spy who, torn apart by betrayal, agrees to help her on her mission.
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Kiss Carlo
by Adriana Trigiani
Establishing a stable home and Western Union Telegraph Office in post-World War II Philadelphia, the hardworking Palazzini family is shattered by their nephew's epiphany in the wake of a telegram that changes everything for the citizens of a small Italian-American village.
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Cocoa Beach : a novel
by Beatriz Williams
Fleeing an oppressive home for the battlefields of World War I France, a Red Cross ambulance driver engages in a passionate affair with a dashing army surgeon before dark secrets separate them and eventually lead her on a quest for answers in seaside Virginia.
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Before we were yours : a novel
by Lisa Wingate
A tale inspired by firsthand accounts about the notoriously corrupt Tennessee Children's Home Society follows the efforts of a Baltimore assistant D.A. to uncover her parents' fateful secrets in the wake of a political attack and a chance encounter with a stranger.
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Genre-blending: Historical Fantasy |
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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.
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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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More genre-blending: Historical Mystery
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Sidney Chambers and the persistence of love
by James Runcie
Discovering the body of a man in the Cambridgeshire woods, priest and detective Sidney Chambers immerses himself in the 1970s counterculture of psychedelic plants; while his longtime friend, Detective Inspector Geordie Keating, investigates the disappearance of a historic religious text.
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