November 2018 list by Sarah Brinkerhoff
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The Collector's Apprentice
by Barbara A. Shapiro
Abandoned in 1922 Paris when she is wrongly accused of theft, 19-year-old Paulien changes her identity and is swept up in the expatriate art world of Gertrude Stein and Henri Matisse while working to recover her father's stolen collection.
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House of Gold
by Natasha Solomons
The outbreak of World War I forces a headstrong Austrian heiress to choose between the family she built and the family she left behind.
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The Kennedy Debutante
by Kerri Maher
This book reimagines the life of rebellious Kathleen "Kick" Kennedy against a backdrop of 1930s London society, where she pursues a forbidden love with the strictly Protestant heir to the Devonshire dukedom
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The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter
by Hazel Gaynor
Pregnant and disgraced, a 1938 Irish teen is sent to stay with a lighthouse keeper relative, where she discovers an unfinished portrait and delves into the story of a woman who lived there a hundred years prior.
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Little
by Edward Carey
The wry, macabre, unforgettable tale of an ambitious orphan in Revolutionary Paris, befriended by royalty and radicals, who transforms herself into the legendary Madame Tussaud.
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Sugar Land
by Tammy Lynne Stoner
Sugar Land is the southern story of Nana Dara, a prison cook at the Imperial State Prison Farm for men in 1923, who—with the help of the blues singer Lead Belly—discovers how to break out of her own physical and emotional prison to become the feisty, lesbian matriarch to a family of Texas misfits.
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Trinity
by Louisa Hall
A kaleidoscopic novel about Robert Oppenheimer--father of the atomic bomb--as told by seven fictional characters. Trinity asks searing questions about what it means to truly know someone, and about the secrets we keep from the world and from ourselves.
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A Well-Behaved Woman: a Novel of the Vanderbilts
by Therese Fowler
Marrying into the newly rich but socially scorned Vanderbilt clan, a formerly impoverished Alva navigates society snubs and dark undercurrents in the lives of her in-laws and friends while testing the limits of her ambitious rule-breaking. By the New York Times best-selling author of Z
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When Winter Comes
by V. A. Shannon
A reimagining of the story of the Donner Party follows the experiences of a survivor who hides her identity from her husband and children before considering a difficult choice when the group's past is misrepresented.
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The Wish Child
by Catherine Chidgey
The story of two German families caught up in the Second World War, The Wish Child is both a love letter of sorts to Berlin, and a terrifying portrayal of the way ordinary Germans were drawn into the Nazi dream.
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The Witch of Willow Hall
by Hester Fox
Two centuries after the Salem witch trials, there’s still one witch left in Massachusetts. But she doesn’t even know it.
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