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Historical Fiction - March 2024
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| The Fox Wife by Yangsze ChooSteeped in Japanese folklore, this lush and intricately plotted novel is set in 1908 Manchuria, where teacher-turned-P.I. Bao Gong investigates the identity of a local woman found dead in the snow, while rumors spread in the community about shape-shifting fox spirits. The story of a mysterious, vengeance-seeking young woman named Snow unfolds in parallel, until the narratives converge in unanticipated and historically significant ways. |
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| The Road from Belhaven by Margot LiveseyGrowing up on her grandparents' poor but picturesque farm in 19th-century Scotland, orphan Lizzie Craig discovers she has the second sight. When, at age 16, she follows her suitor Louis to Glasglow, her life grows complex in ways that her gift, inexplicably, failed to warn her about. For fans of: the heroines in Edith Wharton novels. |
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Followed by the Lark
by Helen Humphreys
Composed in short, compelling scenes and inspired by his journals and writing, 'Followed by the Lark' inhabits the life and mind of renowned 19th-century naturalist, poet, and abolitionist Henry David Thoreau, revealing the deep connections between his time and our own.
Helen Humphreys lives in Kingston, ON.
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| The American Queen by Vanessa MillerIn 1865, formerly enslaved Louella Bobo and her pastor husband, William, leave Mississippi with a group of other newly free people and settle in North Carolina, where they found a utopian community known as The Kingdom of the Happy Land. Inspired by true events, this novel by Vanessa Miller (The Light on Halsey Street) illuminates a fascinating chapter of Black history. |
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Redwood Court
by DâeLana R. A. Dameron
Mika Tabor, the baby of the family, learns important lessons from the people who raise her: her hardworking parents, her older sister, her retired grandparents and the community on Redwood Court, who are committed to fostering joy and love in an America so insistent on seeing Black people stumble and fall.
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| Medea by Eilish QuinIn this character-driven and moving mythological retelling, Medea shares her perspective on the events that made her so notorious. Born to a cruel father and a distant mother and losing her brother to prophecy, Medea's early life is mired in tragedy long before meeting Jason and bringing her doomed children into the world. |
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Sisters of Belfast : A novel
by Melanie Maure
Despite they are all the other has, orphaned twin sisters Aelish and Isabel are propelled in opposite directions as they grow up and, separated for decades, each unaware of the other's life, are unexpectedly reunited, bringing to light the painful secrets and seismic deceptions that have kept them apart.
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| The American Daughters by Maurice Carlos RuffinAfter her mother dies of a fever, Ady, a young enslaved woman in antebellum New Orleans, keeps the family dream of freedom alive despite her grief. Ady finds a mother figure in Lenore, a free woman of color, and through her is introduced to an underground network known only as "the Daughters," who work to undermine the nascent Confederacy from the inside. |
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The Trouble with You : A novel
by Ellen Feldman
In NYC in the aftermath of World War II, Fanny Fabricant takes a job as a secretary to the "queen" of radio serials and stumbles on the blacklist that is destroying careers and wrecking lives, forcing her to decide between playing it safe as she's always done or doing what she knows is right.
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Burma Sahib : A novel
by Paul Theroux
An Eton graduate is conscripted as a servant of the British Empire to oversea local policemen in Burma, forcing him to navigate social , racial and class politics in the new novel by the acclaimed author of The Mosquito Coast.
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| The Queen of Sugar Hill by ReShonda Tate BillingsleyThis heartwrenching and well-researched biographical novel tells the moving story of Hattie McDaniel, the first African American to win an Oscar (for her role as Mammy in Gone With the Wind). For fans of Victoria Christopher Murray (The Personal Librarian) and Sherry Jones (Josephine Baker's Last Dance). |
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A Wild and Heavenly Place : A novel
by Robin Oliveira
After a bank failure, a young man from Glasgow travels to Seattle in the Washington Territory to search for his lost love, but finds himself caught up in the city's secrets and the challenges of the Pacific Northwest.
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Queens of London : A novel
by Heather Webb
In 1925 London, brilliant criminal mastermind Alice Diamond, the queen of an all-girl gang with plans on building a dynasty the likes of which no one has ever seen, must outwit and outsmart Britain's first female policewoman who is determined to prove herself by putting Alice out of business—permanently.
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Union Station
by David Downing
Living a comfortable life in 1953 Los Angeles with his family, English journalist John Russell, a former double agent for Soviet and American intelligence, starts researching a World War II conspiracy, bringing him face-to-face with the dangerous instability of a post-Stalin Berlin that was once their home.
Series: John Russell WWII Spy Thriller (8)
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A Sign of Her Own
by Sarah Marsh
Inspired by a true story, describes the life of Ellen Lark, a deaf woman who became a favorite student of Alexander Graham Bell while he raced against Western Union to cast a human voice over wires.
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Mrs. Gulliver : A novel
by Valerie Martin
In 1954, on Verona Island, Lila Gulliver, the proud owner of a high-end brothel, takes in Carità, a young, destitute and beautiful blind force of nature, who catches the eye of the scion of the wealthiest family on the island, setting in motion a passionate chain of events that changes all their lives.
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The idden life of Cecily Larson : a novel
by Ellen Baker
Now 94 and living a quiet life, Cecily Larson, when her family surprises her with an at-home DNA test, finds the unexpected results not only bringing to light the tragic love story she's kept hidden for decades but also calls into question everything about the family she's raised and claimed as her own.
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The Uncharted Flight of Olivia West
by Sara Ackerman
In 1987, when she inherits a piece of land, Emma finds a small plane in disrepair and her great uncle's journal that tells the story of Livy Jones, the woman who piloted his plane when he fell ill, and, with new purpose, works to secure Livy's place in the aviation hall of fame
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