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Historical Fiction January 2018
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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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Carnegie's maid
by Marie Benedict
Clara Kelley is not who they think she is. She's not the experienced Irish maid who was hired to work in one of Pittsburgh's grandest households.With captivating insight and heart, Carnegie's Maid tells the story of one brilliant woman who may have spurred Andrew Carnegie's transformation from ruthless industrialist into the world's first true philanthropist.
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The girls in the picture : a novel
by Melanie Benjamin
It is 1914, and twenty-five-year-old Frances Marion has left her husband and her Northern California home for the lure of Los Angeles, where she is determined to live independently as an artist. Melanie Benjamin perfectly captures the dawn of a glittering new era—its myths and icons, its possibilities and potential, and its seduction and heartbreak.
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Fools and Mortals
by Bernard Cornwell
Bernard Cornwell makes a dramatic departure with this enthralling, action-packed standalone novel that tells the story of the first production of A Midsummer Night's Dream—as related by William Shakespeare’s estranged younger brother.
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| The Last Man in Europe by Dennis Glover A fictionalized account of the last decade of writer Eric Blair's (a.k.a. George Orwell's) life, which reveals the events and experiences that influenced some of the author's best-known works. |
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The lacemaker by Laura FrantzWhen colonial Williamsburg explodes like a powder keg on the eve of the American Revolution, Lady Elisabeth "Liberty" Lawson is abandoned by her fiancé and suspected of being a spy for the hated British. No one comes to her aid save the Patriot Noble Rynallt, a man with formidable enemies of his own. Liberty is left with a terrible choice.
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The sea house : a novel by Elisabeth GiffordA century after a young vicar investigates his family's link to a Scottish island's selkie legend, a young couple buys a once-grand home by the sea and discovers the bones of a baby with fused legs.
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| A Piece of the World: A Novel by Christina Baker KlineChristina Olson, a disabled woman who lives a solitary life on her family's farm in rural Maine before befriending artist Andrew Wyeth and becoming the subject of his iconic painting, "Christina's World." |
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The railwayman's wife : a novel by Ashley HayA widow, a poet and a doctor seek redemption and a new start through friendship and literature in post-World War II seaside Australia only to confront misunderstandings that compromise their healing.
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| The Wind Is Not a River: A Novel by Brian PaytonIn 1943, journalist John Easley embeds with a bomber crew headed for the Japanese-occupied Aleutian Islands. Shot down over the island of Attu, John and aviator Karl Bitburg must survive while evading enemy soldiers. |
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| The Light Between Oceans: A Novel by M.L. StedmanAn emotionally scarred World War I veteran becomes a lighthouse keeper on a small island off the coast of Australia. When a boat washes ashore carrying an infant girl, he and his wife decide to keep the baby -- a decision with far-reaching consequences. |
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