July 2019 list by Katherine N.
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The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
by Kim Michele Richardson
During Kentucky’s Great Depression, Pack Horse Library Project member Cussy Mary Carter, a young outcast, delivers books to the hillfolk of Troublesome Creek, hoping to spread learning in these desperate times, but not everyone is keen on her or the Library Project.
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City of Flickering Light
by Juliette Fay
Friends Millie, Henry, and Irene travel to Hollywood in the 1920s with hopes of making it big, but their ambitions are challenged by both the men above them and the prejudices surrounding them.
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The Confessions of Frannie Langton
by Sara Collins
A servant and former slave enduring a sensational trial for her employers' murders reflects on her Jamaican childhood and her apprenticeship under a debauched scientist whose questionable ethics set the stage for a forbidden affair.
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The Darwin Affair
by Timothy Mason
Unsettling connections between an assassination attempt on Queen Victoria and the gruesome murder of a petty thief lead Chief Detective Inspector Charles Field to a shocking conspiracy related to the publication of Darwin's On the Origin of Species.
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The Daughter's Tale
by Armando Lucas Correa
A tale of love and redemption based on the 1944 Oradour-Sur-Glane massacre follows an octogenarian's receipt of a cache of letters, written by her mother during World War II, that uncover decades of secrets.
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Dawson's Fall
by Roxana Robinson
Draws on the true Reconstruction experiences of the author's grandparents as recorded in family journals and letters, in a historical tale that finds a man in 1889 Charleston struggling to navigate his war-scarred country's evolving political, social and moral landscapes.
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Fatal Inheritance
by Rachel Rhys
London 1948. Eve, stuck in a loveless marriage, is struck with good fortune when she inherits a charming villa overlooking the Mediterranean Sea. She uses this opportunity to start over, and, as she rubs shoulders with the rich and famous, challengers to her unexplained fortune emerge.
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The Flight Portfolio
by Julie Orringer
The award-winning author of The Invisible Bridge presents a long-anticipated latest novel based on the story of Varian Fry's extraordinary effort to save the lives and work of Jewish artists fleeing the Holocaust.
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The Long Flight Home
by Alan Hlad
In September 1940, the events of World War II bring together British pigeon-keeper Susan Shepard, American pilot Ollie Evans, and Duchess, a pigeon on a very special mission.
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Metropolis
by Philip Kerr
A Bernie Gunther origin story set during his first weeks on Berlin's Murder Squad. Twentysomething Bernie investigates a particularly violent wave of murders targeting the city's vulnerable prostitutes and homeless veterans.
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Mrs. Everything
by Jennifer Weiner
Two sisters struggle to find their place from the 1950s and beyond. They want to be true to themselves, and yet still adapt to the rapid changes happening throughout the latter half of 20th-century America.
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Over The Fence
by Mary Monroe
Depression-era Southern bootleggers Milton and Yvonne Hamilton discover their neighbors are involved in dubious businesses themselves and threaten to blackmail them in order to hide their own dirty secrets.
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Resistance Women
by Jennifer Chiaverini
Resisting the power grabs of an increasingly formidable Nazi Party in 1930s Berlin, the courageous American wife of a German intellectual and her circle of women friends engage in a clandestine battle to sabotage Hitler's regime.
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The Summer Country
by Lauren Willig
In 1854, a young woman from Bristol inherits the ruins of a Barbados sugar plantation. She is seduced by the region's dark tropical beauty at the same time her new neighbors take steps to acquire the property for themselves.
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Summer of '69
by Elin Hilderbrand
A pregnant eldest sibling, a middle-sister civil rights activist, an infantry soldier brother deployed to Vietnam and a lonely 13-year-old youngest child find their lives upended by troubling family secrets.
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The Tenth Muse
by Catherine Chung
Determined to conquer the Riemann hypothesis in the face of cultural discrimination against women intellectuals, a genius mathematician uncovers a mysterious theorem's unexpected World War II link to her family.
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