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Historical Fiction November 2017
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Mrs. Osmond : a novel
by John Banville
The prize-winning author presents a continuation of the story of Isabel Archer, the heroine of Henry James' The Portrait of a Lady, that finds her receiving an unexpected inheritance and married to a cruel man before finding the courage to return to her home in Italy at the side of an unexpected companion.
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Secrets of Cavendon
by Barbara Taylor Bradford
A latest entry in the Cavendon Hall saga is set in the summer of 1949, when a new generation of the estate is torn by scandal, intrigue and romantic betrayals that force the Inghams and Swanns to protect each other from unimaginable threats.
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A Hope Divided
by Alyssa Cole
The Civil War has turned neighbor against neighbor—but for scientist-spy and free black woman Marlie Lynch and philosophical Union soldier she helps to hide, war could bind them together when they must go on the run on the Underground Railroad to escape a common enemy. By the author of An Extraordinary Union.
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The last Tudor
by Philippa Gregory
A latest historical novel by the best-selling author of The Other Boleyn Girl reimagines the lives of Lady Jane Grey and her two sisters, who respectively endure imprisonment, a secret marriage and marginalization under the suspicious eyes of Tudor queens Mary and Elizabeth.
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The Long, Long Trail : War at Home, 1917 by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles In 1917 the Great War rages on, and for the Hunters, their friends and their servants the war is where they live now. U-boat attacks face Britain with starvation, and then Germany begins a lethal bombing campaign. But even in the darkest hours of war, new life and new hope can burgeon, with the promise that the future might still hold happiness for them all.
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| Caroline: Little House, Revisited by Sarah Elizabeth MillerReports of abundant land in Kansas Territory convince Charles Ingalls that his family's future lies west of the Mississippi. His (pregnant) wife Caroline is apprehensive, but dutifully packs up their belongings and prepares for a 700-mile covered wagon journey. |
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Unforgivable Love: A Retelling of Dangerous Liaisons
by Sophfronia Scott
In this vivid reimagining of the French classic Les Liaisons Dangereuses,and set in 1947 Harlem, this retelling centers around a pact between scheming heiress Mae Malveaux and charming nightclub owner Valiant "Val" Jackson:
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House of Shadows
by Nicola Cornick
Three women across four centuries are united by the rumor of a magical pearl placed at the center of an ancient estate, Ashdown House, by Elizabeth Stuart, the Winter Queen, on her deathbed in 1662.
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Fallen women
by Sandra Dallas
In 1885, wealthy New York socialite Beret Osmundsen investigates the brutal murder of her estranged sister Lillie, entering a dangerous world of prostitution where she discovers the truth about the sister she could not save
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Bittersweet
by Colleen McCullough
The four Latimer sisters, two sets of twins famed throughout 1920s New South Wales for their beauty, train as nurses and become immersed in hospital experiences that spark maturity, independence, and ambitions that involve complicated choices
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The ship of brides : a novel
by Jojo Moyes
In 1946, despite the Navy's ironclad sanctions aboard the HMS Victoria, which is on route to England from Australia, the men and their war brides, who are journeying across the sea to face their unknown futures, find their lives intertwined.
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Médicis daughter : a novel of Marguerite de Valois
by Sophie Perinot
Summoned to the 16th-century French court in the aftermath of a devastating religious war, beautiful young Princess Margot struggles between the manipulations of her ruthless mother, Catherine de Médicis, and her own conscience.
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