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Historical Fiction July 2017
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The beguiled : a novel
by Thomas Cullinan
"Wounded and near death, a young Union Army corporal is found in the woods of Virginia during the height of the Civil War and brought to the nearby Miss Martha Farnsworth Seminary for Young Ladies. He sets about beguiling the three women and five teenage girls stranded in this outpost of Southern gentility, but as the women are revealed for what they really are, a sense of ominous foreboding closes in on the soldier, and the question becomes: Just who is the beguiled?"
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The diplomat's daughter : a novel
by Karin Tanabe
A Japanese-American woman and a German-American man in a World War II internment camp fall in love before one is extradited and the other enlists in the U.S. Army in the hopes that a Pacific assignment will enable their reunion, a situation that is complicated by her first love and the realities of war.
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The duchess : a novel
by Danielle Steel
A tale set in early 19th-century England, Paris and New York follows the endeavors of a noble orphan who, after being thrown out of her ancestral home by a vicious half-sibling, makes her way to Paris, where she takes in abused streetwalkers and transforms them into upper-crust courtesans in an exclusive bordello.
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The painted queen
by Elizabeth Peters
When a stranger bursts into her elegant Cairo hotel suite and dies from injuries sustained during an interrupted assassination attempt on her life, Amelia Peabody and her husband, Emerson, witness the discovery of one of the most precious Egyptian artifacts while navigating the murderous activities of master-of-disguise, Sethos.
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Perish from the Earth
by Jonathan F. Putnam
Steamboat owner's son Joshua Speed enlists close friend and fledgling lawyer Abraham Lincoln to defend a young traveling artist who has been wrongly accused of a murder linked to a rigged card game.
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The library of light and shadow : a novel
by M. J. Rose
Sought by society patrons who admire her ability to create stunning "shadow portraits" revealing her subjects' most scandalous secrets, a mystical artist in 1925 Manhattan renounces her gift in the wake of a tragedy and flees to southern France, where she confronts toxic people from her past.
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A name unknown
by Roseanna M. White
Having grown up on the streets of London with nobody but a band of former urchins to call family, Rosemary blends into an Edwardian society and supports herself by stealing before questioning the loyalties of a man from a German family.
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The price of blood
by Patricia Bracewell
A follow-up to Shadow on the Crown finds reluctant queen Emma of Normandy forging dubious alliances to protect her children and her crown in the early 11th century while her beleaguered husband governs through brutal policies. Includes two maps.
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| World Without End by Ken FollettTwo centuries after the construction of an elaborate Gothic cathedral in the English town of Kingsbridge, the world is a different place. Although the Church still plays a central role in European life, war and plague have shaken the foundations of society. Beginning on All Hallow's Day in the year 1327, four children witness an event that will influence their lives, as well as the future of their country. . |
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Hild: A Novel
by Nicola Griffith
Set in seventh-century Anglo-Saxon England, this novel envisions the life of St. Hilda of Whitby. When her father is murdered, Hild joins the household of her uncle, King Edwin. Navigating courtly intrigue, as well as a multicultural society prone to violence and unrest, Hild challenges gender roles by becoming an influential religious leader and patron of the arts.
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The angel of Blythe Hall : a historical novel
by Darci Hannah
Returning to her ancestral home on the Borders in 1492, Scottish heiress Isabeau Blythe resolves to restore clan peace and avoid the angel relationships that ruined her father and brother, an effort that is compromised by a ruthless knight, her angel-hunting brother and wild visions of an alluring man.
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