July 2017 list by Sarah Wegener
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Hum if You Don't Know the Words
by Bianca Marais
Growing up parallel but very different lives built on apartheid in 1970s Johannesburg, a white girl from a secure family and a Xhosa widow in a rural village meet by chance in the wake of The Soweto Uprising, during which the girl's parents are killed and the widow's daughter goes missing.
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My daughter's legacy
by Mindy Starns Clark
Women of Unfailing Conviction Virginia, 1864 Therese Jennings cannot abide the thought of her family owning slaves. When her wealthy grandfather dies during the Civil War, leaving his slaves and estate to Therese's widowed mother, Therese flees to Richmond. There she works as a tutor by day and a nurse by night. But when trouble befalls her family, how can she reconcile her duty and beliefs?
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Perish from the Earth
by Jonathan F. Putnam
Steamboat owner's son Joshua Speed enlists close friend and fledgling lawyer Abraham Lincoln to defend a young traveling artist who has been wrongly accused of a murder linked to a rigged card game.
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Secret Sisters
by Joy Callaway
Pursuing an education at a late-19th-century college, a young medical student enduring fierce discrimination resolves to both obtain her degree and establish an official women's fraternity that will help students like herself connect with and support one another at the male-dominated institution.
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The diplomat's daughter : a novel
by Karin Tanabe
A Japanese-American woman and a German-American man in a World War II internment camp fall in love before one is extradited and the other enlists in the U.S. Army in the hopes that a Pacific assignment will enable their reunion, a situation that is complicated by her first love and the realities of war.
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The Dress in the Window
by Sofia Grant
Enduring devastating wartime losses, sisters Jeanne and Peggy design and make stunning dresses to meet post-rationing demands and find themselves achieving unexpected prosperity before sibling rivalry and unexpected revelations challenge their partnership.
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The Life She Was Given
by Ellen Marie Wiseman
After being sold to a circus sideshow in 1931, Lilly Blackwood carves out a life for herself as best she can—until tragedy and cruelty collide—and, two decades later, it is up to Julia Blackwood to discover the truth about this older sister that she never knew she had. Original.
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The Velveteen Daughter
by Laurel Davis Huber
The first book to reveal the true story of the woman who wrote The Velveteen Rabbit and her daughter, a world-famous child prodigy artist, (The Velveteen Daughter) explores the consequences of early fame, the effects of mental illness on art and genius, and the inability of a mother to save her daughter from herself.
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Where the Light Falls : a novel of the French Revolution
by Allison Pataki
An idealistic young lawyer, a nobleman's son eager to shed his life of privilege and an independence-seeking widow become inextricably linked in post-Revolution Paris, where violence and instability threaten to undo the uprising's progress. Co-written by the best-selling author of Sisi.
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