November 2019 list by Katherine N.
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Bringing Down the Duke
by Evie Dunmore
Recruiting men of influence to champion the rising women’s suffrage movement of 1879 England, a daring Oxford rebel targets a cold and calculating duke before their unexpected romance threatens to upend the British social order.
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Chimes of a Lost Cathedral
by Janet Fitch
Pregnant and adrift in the countryside amid the devastation of the Russian Civil War, a young woman returns to a decimated Petrograd, where her work caring for war orphans inspires her emergence as a poet. Sequel to The Revolution of Marina M.
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Dominicana
by Angie Cruz
A tale set in the Dominican Republic during the turbulent 1960s, a young teen agrees to marry a man twice her age to help her family’s immigration to America.
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The Dutch House
by Ann Patchett
A tale set over the course of five decades traces a young man’s rise from poverty to wealth and back again as his prospects center around his family’s lavish Philadelphia estate.
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The Lost Daughter
by Gill Paul
A 1970s housewife’s investigation into her father’s deathbed confession leads to a startling discovery about the true fate of the lost Romanov daughter.
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One Good Deed
by David Baldacci
It's 1949. War veteran Aloysius Archer is released from Carderock Prison and sent to Poca City on parole, where he is hired for what seems like a simple job: to collect a debt owed to a powerful local businessman. But when a murder takes place right under Archer's nose, police suspicions rise against the ex-convict.
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This Tender Land
by William Kent Krueger
1932, Minnesota—the Lincoln School is a pitiless place where hundreds of Native American children, forcibly separated from their parents, are sent to be educated. It is also home to an orphan named Odie O’Banion, a lively boy whose exploits earn him the superintendent’s wrath. Forced to flee, he and his brother Albert, their best friend Mose, and a brokenhearted little girl named Emmy steal away in a canoe, heading for the mighty Mississippi and a place to call their own.
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The Ventriloquists
by E. R. Ramzipoor
A tale based on true events finds a misfit journalist, a forger and a street urchin joining a band of resistance fighters who risk their lives to publish a satiric newspaper mocking the Nazis.
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The Water Dancer
by Ta-Nehisi Coates
A Virginia slave narrowly escapes a drowning death through the intervention of a mysterious force that compels his escape and personal underground war against slavery.
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We Are Not Ourselves
by Matthew Thomas
Raised by her Irish immigrant parents in a 1940s Queens apartment where alcohol and company combine in mercurial ways, Eileen marries an unambitious scientist with whom she endures an increasingly psychologically dark family life.
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The World That We Knew
by Alice Hoffman
Sent away to 1941 Paris when Berlin becomes too dangerous for Jewish families, a young girl bonds with her protective mystical golem; while her friend, a rabbi’s daughter, rises to become a defender of their people.
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