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Historical Fiction March 2018
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Death of an unsung hero : A Lady Montfort Mystery
by Tessa Arlen
After a patient at the auxiliary hospital for World War I officers with shell-shock is found murdered, Lady Montfort and her pragmatic housekeeper investigate, in the fourth novel of the series following A Death by Any Other Name.
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Bury What We Cannot Take
by Kirstin Chen
Set against the backdrop of early Maoist China, an emotional tale follows 12-year-old Ah Liam who unwittingly sets in motion a terrible chain of events that forces his family to flee their home on Drum Wave islet and to make an agonizing decision that will have far-reaching consequences.
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Strong-minded and independent Julia Bernay comes to London to study medicine and become a doctor--a profession that has only just opened up to women. She witnesses a serious accident, and through her quick actions saves the life of an ambitious young barrister named Michael Stephenson.
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The Sparsholt affair by Alan HollinghurstA World War II-era Oxford engineering student who hides secret ambitions to join the Royal Air Force and the lonely son of a celebrated novelist forge a fateful bond that reverberates throughout seven decades of shared family life and friendship.
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Brush with shadows by Anna Lee HuberReturning with her husband, Sebastian Gage, to his ancestral home to care for his gravely ill grandfather, Lady Kiera Darby is plunged into a mystery with supernatural undertones when two of Sebastian’s cousins go missing after wandering out into the moors and must help Gage face the ghosts of his past to find the truth.
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In places hidden
by Tracie Peterson
Teaming up with two women in turn-of-the-20th-century San Francisco to search for her missing attorney brother, Camri bonds with a handsome Irishman her brother once saved from a false murder charge before she is targeted by the dangerous forces behind her brother's disappearance.
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The White Russian
by Vanora Bennett
Leaving New York in search of art and adventure in Jazz Age Paris, where she agrees to fulfill her grandmother's dying wish to find a mysterious man from the latter's past, Evie finds herself deep in the heart of the Russian émigré community and its cycles of illicit activities and passionate affairs.
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| The Girl from the Savoy by Hazel Gaynor A chance meeting with an actress and her songwriter brother draws Dolly Lane, a hotel chambermaid with dreams of becoming a chorus girl, into a world of glitz and glamour. |
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| A sweeping saga of two Jewish families linked by tragedy, set in an artfully rendered 1920s Chicago. Benny Lehrmann, turns his back on the family business to join a jazz band,Jazz Palace and Pearl Chimbrova, becomes the proprietress of a speakeasy known as the Jazz Palace. |
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| The Wicked City by Beatriz WilliamsFlapper girl Geneva "Gin" Kelly teams up with Prohibition agent Oliver Anson to track down her abusive stepfather, a notoriously ruthless bootlegger. |
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