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Historical Fiction August 2024 |
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| The Goddess of Warsaw by Lisa BarrBefore achieving Hollywood stardom, Lena Browning was Bina Blonski, a spy in the Warsaw Ghetto. When approached by actress and aspiring filmmaker Sienne Hayes in 2005 Los Angels, Lena consents to a biopic on the condition that she gets to play her older self in the film, only to find that her personal and historical traumas are far from buried. |
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The Safekeep
by Yael van der Wouden
In this "brilliant debut" (Kirkus Review), 30-year-old Isabel lives by routine and discipline in the Dutch countryside in 1961, carefully minding the home she grew up in. Then her older brother brings his graceless new girlfriend Eva to stay with her while he travels. For fans of: gripping, deftly plotted sensual stories.
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The midwife of Auschwitz
by Anna Stuart
Ana Kaminski is pushed through the iron gates of Auschwitz beside her frightened young friend Ester Pasternak. As they reach the front of the line, Ana steps forward and quietly declares herself a midwife--and Ester her assistant. Their arms are tattooed and they're ordered to the maternity hut. Holding an innocent new-born baby, Ana knows the fate of so many are in her hands, and vows to do everything she can to save them.
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The Stone Witch of Florence
by Anna Rasche
Follows a young woman who harnesses the strange, ancient magic of gemstones to investigate a series of shocking crimes in plague-stricken Florence, all the while proving she is more physician than witch. A first novel.
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Roaring Liberty
by Jean Grainger
New York City, 1922 Harp Devereaux is torn. Part of her desperately wants to return to Ireland to finish what she and her family and friends started, and to witness the departure of the British forces from Ireland after eight hundred long years. But the other part finds life in America during the Roaring Twenties too exciting to trade for the sleepy streets of County Cork.
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The Hidden Storyteller
by Mandy Robotham
In 1946, reporter Georgie Young returns to Germany, the country she fled seven years prior, to find it unrecognizable, and amidst the stark horrors of a bombed-out city, is pulled into a world she never expected to see again when she joins forces with a local policeman to solve a murder case.
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Warrior king
by Wilbur A. Smith
In 1820 South Africa, when Ann discovers a little boy, the survivor of a shipwreck, she is left raise the young child, Harry, and as disaster and hardship befall them, she takes them to Nativity Bay, a place bordering the Zulu kingdom, where they embark on a new adventure of loyalty and survival.
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The seven sisters : a novel
by Lucinda Riley
Gathering at their Lake Geneva estate when their adoptive father passes away, six sisters receive tantalizing clues about their true heritage, prompting Maia to journey to Rio de Janeiro to learn the story of her parents' forbidden love. By the best-selling author of The Orchid House.
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| Every Time We Say Goodbye by Natalie JennerIn 1955, Vivien Lowry's promising play in London's West End is critically panned, ending her theatrical career. Encouraged by Peggy Guggenheim, she becomes a script doctor in Rome's burgeoning film industry. Amidst post-war Italy's cultural flux, Vivien navigates personal and professional renewal while confronting the haunting mysteries of her fiancé's wartime fate. This is the 3rd in the Jane Austen Society series, following 2022’s Bloomsbury Girls. |
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| Enlightenment by Sarah PerryIn the small Essex town of Aldleigh, Thomas Hart and Grace Macaulay share a deep connection despite their 30-year age difference. As Grace leaves town to begin her adult life, Thomas becomes obsessed with a vanished astronomer from the 1880s, said to haunt the area. Over two decades, their lives intersect as they grapple with love, fate, and the mysteries of the universe. |
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| The Last Twelve Miles by Erika RobuckDuring the Prohibition Rum Wars, which create a booming smuggling economy, two women masterminds -- Elizebeth Friedman, the inventor of cryptanalysis working for the government, and Marie Waite, on the rise to rumrunner royalty to save her family -- will go to any lengths to rule the Gulf Coast. |
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