January 2017 list by Sarah Wegener
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Fire Angels
by Elizabeth Kern
Three weeks before Christmas, on December 1, 1958, one of the most horrific fires in American history broke out at Our Lady of the Angels elementary school in Chicago, claiming the lives of ninety-two children and three nuns. Fire itself is also a central character in this story, a cunning observer that comes to life whenever a flame is lit.
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This Was a Man: The Final Volume of the Clifton Chronicles
by Jeffrey Archer
A conclusion to the best-selling saga finds Giles discovering the truth about his wife's identity, Emma receiving a job offer from Margaret Thatcher and Lady Virginia pursuing an opportunity to solve her financial problems before a shocking diagnosis throws all of their lives into turmoil.
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To Capture What We Cannot Keep
by Beatrice Colin
A tale set against a backdrop of the late-19th-century construction of the Eiffel Tower follows the romantic relationship between a widow whose precarious financial situation forces her to chaperone two wealthy Scottish charges and a bourgeois family businessman who must marry a suitable wife.
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Valiant Gentlemen
by Sabina Murray
Roger Casement meets Herbert Ward in 1886 while both men are working in the Congo. Despite differences in upbringing and temperament, they form a friendship that endures for the next 40 years, even as the two pursue different paths in life (Ward marries an Argentinean-American heiress, while Casement dedicates himself to humanitarian efforts). However, Casement's staunch support for Irish independence ultimately drives them apart. Valiant Gentlemen's in-depth psychological portraits of its complex leads intensify the novel's emotional impact as estrangement leads to tragedy.
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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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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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Say Goodbye for Now
by Catherine Ryan Hyde
On an isolated Texas ranch, Dr. Lucy cares for abandoned animals. The solitude allows her to avoid the people and places that remind her of the past. Not that any of the townsfolk care. In 1959, no one is interested in a woman doctor. Nor are they welcoming Calvin and Justin Bell, a newly arrived African American father and son.
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The Lady of the Lakes
by Josi S. Kilpack
Nursing a broken heart after his long-distance love, Mina, becomes engaged to another man in 1796, Walter Scott moves to England where he meets an older French girl who shows him the difference between a first love and a true love.
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