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Historical Fiction May 2018
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| My Dear Hamilton: A Novel of Eliza Schuyler Hamilton by Stephanie Dray and Laura KamoieEliza Schuyler Hamilton, wife of American founding father Alexander Hamilton -- was a complex and determined woman who contributed much to the birth of the United States while enduring many personal and public tribulations. |
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| Varina by Charles FrazierVarina Davis, wife of Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederate States of America during the U.S. Civil War, learns that her marriage of security and comfort comes at a steep price. |
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| The Room on Rue Amélie by Kristin HarmelThree disparate characters are drawn together in Nazi-occupied Paris: Ruby Benoit, an American newlywed with questions about her secretive French husband; Ruby’s Jewish neighbor, 11-year-old Charlotte Dacher; and British Royal Air Force pilot Thomas Clarke. This poignant tale is based loosely on the true story of an American woman who aided Allied soldiers in Paris as part of a resistance group called the Comet Line. |
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The Baker's Secret by Stephen P. Kiernan After her kind mentor is arrested because of his Jewish heritage, a young baker's apprentice in Normandy engages in discreet resistance activities, baking contraband loaves of bread for the hungry using surplus ingredients taken from occupying forces.
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| Ecstasy by Mary SharrattSet amid the spectacular whirl of turn-of-the-20th-century Vienna, Ecstasy introduces readers to aspiring composer Alma Schindler, who -- while capturing the heart of the much-older conductor Gustav Mahler -- dares to defy the expectations of her time. |
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Dark Lady : A Novel of Emilia Bassano Lanyer by Charlene BallEmilia Bassano Lanyer--poor, beautiful, and intelligent, born to a family of Court musicians and secret Jews, lover to Shakespeare and mistress to an older nobleman--survives to become a published poet in an era when most women's lives are rigidly circumscribed.
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The balcony by Jane DeluryA century-spanning portrait—from the Belle Époque to the present day—of the inhabitants of a French village reveals the deception, despair, love and longing beneath the calm surface of their ordinary lives. 25,000 first printing.
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| The Other Alcott by Elise HooperMay Alcott, sister and rival to Louisa May Alcott and the model for Amy March in Louisa’s classic Little Women, who aspires to greatness in the male-dominated art world. |
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| The Moon in the Palace by Weina Dai RandelIn Tang Dynasty China, 12-year-old Mei believes that her life is over when her father dies and her family is cast out of their home. But Mei’s fortunes change when she is summoned to the emperor’s palace to serve as one of 15 maidens in the Inner Court. |
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