February 2017 List by Sarah Wegener
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Days Without End
by Sebastian Barry
Entering the U.S. army after fleeing the Great Famine in Ireland, 17-year-old Thomas McNulty and his brother-in-arms, John Cole, experience the harrowing realities of the Indian wars and the American Civil War between the Wyoming plains and Tennessee.
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Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk
by Kathleen Rooney
Embarking on a walk across the unsafe landscape of Manhattan on New Year's Eve in 1984, 85-year-old Lillian Boxfish recalls her long and eventful life, which included a brief reign as the highest-paid advertising woman in America, whose career was cut short by marriage and loss.
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No Man's Land
by Simon Tolkien
A tale inspired by the true experiences of the author's grandfather, J. R. R. Tolkien, during World War I traces how an impoverished youth endures the loss of his mother and brutality in a Scarsdale mining community before falling in love, winning a scholarship to Oxford and seeing everything he longs for threatened by World War I.
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The Bear and the Nightingale
by Katherine Arden
A debut novel inspired by Russian fairy tales follows the experiences of a wild young girl who taps the mysterious powers of a precious necklace given to her father years earlier to save her village from dark and dangerous forces.
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The Butcher's Hook
by Janet Ellis
In the wake of the death of her infant brother in 18th-century Georgian London, 19-year-old Anne Jaccob is determined to marry a butcher's apprentice, no matter what her ailing mother and uncaring father think.
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The Fire by Night
by Teresa Messineo
A first novel commemorating the unsung heroines of World War II traces the experiences of two military nurses who fight for survival and care for others in a makeshift medical unit and a POW camp, enduring dangerous existences while waiting for the war to end.
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The Midnight Cool
by Lydia Peelle
A first novel by the award-winning author of Reasons for and Advantages of Breathing is set in World War I Tennessee, where two flawed yet endearing grifters pursue women, wealth and the lucrative mule business for military clients in Europe.
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The Second Mrs. Hockaday
by Susan Rivers
A tale inspired by a true story follows the efforts of a Civil War veteran to discern the truth about his teen bride, who during the two years he was at war was convicted and imprisoned for allegedly having a baby in his absence and killing it.
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The Signal Flame
by Andrew Krivak
Follows three generations of men and women from a war-torn family in Pennsylvania as they grieve those lost during both World Wars and Vietnam.
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The Wicked City
by Beatriz Williams
A follow-up to A Certain Age traces a scandalous Jazz Age love triangle involving a rugged Prohibition agent, a saucy redheaded flapper and a debonair Princetonian from a wealthy family.
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