November 2017 list by Sarah Brinkerhoff
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Last Christmas in Paris
by Hazel Gaynor
After seeing her brother and his best friend off to the front in August 1914, a privileged young lady, Evie Elliott, tries to become more involved in the conflict and begins working at her father’s newspaper business.
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On Starlit Seas
by Sara Sheridan
Charged with a mission by the Empress of Brazil, Maria Graham sets off for England with the Brazilian civil war at its height. Newly widowed and a woman travelling alone, the stakes are high and when she accepts roguish smuggler Captain James Henderson's offer of passage on his ship, she gets more than she bargains for.
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The Price of Silence: A First World War Espionage Thriller
by Dolores Gordon-Smith
British secret agent Anthony Brooke wants to expose a gang guilty of blackmail and murder. Then the gang plots a kidnap and Anthony races to find Milly before they do. But she is in German-occupied territory, so Anthony must go behind enemy lines for the rescue and find out why the gang want her, as more than just Milly’s life is in danger.
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The It Girls
by Karen Harper
Promoting themselves from genteel poverty to fame, two beautiful sisters, one a daring fashion designer and the other a writer of scandalous novels, become each other's most staunch supporter and harshest critic in the face of misunderstandings and confidences.
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The Long, Long Trail: War at Home, 1917
by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
The Hunters try to cope as the Great War rages on, with newlywed Diana dealing with her pregnancy alone and David returning from the Front a much-changed man, in the fourth novel of the series following The Land of My Dreams.
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Where We Belong
by Lynn N. Austin
Adventurously atypical Victorian ladies Rebecca and Flora Hawes travel from Chicago to the Sinai desert with their young butler and maid in training on an expedition in search of a rumored biblical manuscript.
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Deadly Cure
by Lawrence Goldstone
In 1899 Brooklyn, Dr. Noah Whitestone is accused of prescribing a lethal dose of medicine that killed a 5-year-old boy, prompting him to joining forces with muckraking journalists to clear his name, find the origins of a deadly experimental drug from overseas and root out the real killer.
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Mrs. Osmond
by John Banville
The prize-winning author of The Sea 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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The Last Man in Europe
by Dennis Glover
April 1947. In a run-down farmhouse on a remote Scottish island, George Orwell embarks on his last and greatest work: Nineteen eighty-four. Forty-three years old and suffering from the tuberculosis that within three winters will take his life, Orwell comes to see the book as his legacy - the culmination of a career spent fighting to preserve the freedoms which the wars and upheavals of the twentieth century have threatened. Completing the book is an urgent challenge, a race against death. |
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The Night Language
by David Rocklin
The Night Language tells the story of a young man, Prince Alamayou of Abyssinia (present day Ethiopia), who is taken from his home and the Abyssinian war to the court of Queen Victoria—a world he knows nothing about.
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