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Historical Fiction November 2023 |
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Fatal legacy
by Lindsey Davis
Taking over her father's private informer business in first century Rome, Flavia Albia helps her aunt track down a pair of deadbeats who owe her money, in the 11th novel of the Flavia Albia mysteries series following Desperate Undertaking.
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| Coleman Hill by Kim Coleman FooteIn this sweeping family saga and "bibliomythography", two young Black women, Lucy Grimes and Celia Coleman, become friends traveling in the Great Migration north to escape the struggles of life in the Jim Crow South -- a friendship deepened by shared losses and tested by circumstances in their respectable new community Vauxhall, New Jersey. |
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Absolution
by Alice McDermott
Sixty years after they lived as wives of American servicemen in early 1960s Vietnam, two women reconnect and relieve their shared experiences in Saigon in the new novel by the author of The Ninth Hour.
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| The House of Doors by Tan Twan EngSet in 1920s Malaysia, this lush and character-driven portrait of secrets and colonial excess centers on writer W. Somerset Maugham and his personal, political, and professional entanglements with a pair of English expats whose frosty marriage gets even more fraught during his extended visit to their home. |
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| Fair Rosaline by Natasha SolomonsIn this thought-provoking feminist retelling of Romeo and Juliet, off-screen character Rosaline takes center stage with a spirited and strong-willed nature, hidden romance with Romeo, and a desperate desire to avoid being sent to the convent her father is determined to consign her to in a week's time. |
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Testament
by Wilbur A. Smith
Under the rule Pharaoh, now restored to his rightful throne, great mage Taita sends his protégé to discover the answer to a millennia-old riddle which has the power to unite the two divided kingdoms of Egypt and save their beloved land from falling into the clutches of evil.
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| The Oceans and the Stars by Mark HelprinWhen interpersonal politics see Navy captain Stephen Rensselaer assigned to a patrol ship far below his rank, he resolves to honorably do his duty despite the insult. But when a nearby hostage situation puts civilians at risk and he's ordered not to interfere, Captain Rensselaer decides that saving lives is worth the risk of a court martial. |
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Again and again : a novel
by Jonathan Evison
Geno is living out his final days in a nursing home, bored, curmudgeonly, and struggling to connect with his nursing assistant, Angel, who he sees as being different from him in every way possible, and unable to understand him in any way. Perhaps no one really can, since Geno has been telling everyone who will listen that he's not just Geno-in fact, he's lived many past lives, dating back 1000 years, and since that first life in Seville, Spain, he has been searching for the love of his life he met then and only one other time since. Is this possible-was his life a miraculous one that let him live, again and again? Or is he crazy, or lonely, rehearsing larger-than-life fantasies to get through the day? As Angel comes to learn the truth about Geno, so do we.
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A Christmas vanishing : a novel
by Anne Perry
Mariah Ellison investigates after accepting an invitation to spend Christmas with a friend and her husband but arrives and discovers her friend has disappeared without a trace and her invitation has been rudely rescinded.
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Who cries for the lost
by C. S. Harris
When the mutilated corpse of Major Miles Sedgewick surfaces in the Thames, Sebastian St. Cyr, to prove the innocence of his oldest and dearest friend, Irish surgeon Paul Gibson, and Gibson's lover Alexi, delves into Sedgewick's life and finds the list of people who wanted him dead growing at every turn.
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