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Historical Fiction 11/2016
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F WAR
A story inspired by the real-world love triangle between M. F. K. Fisher, her husband and her lover depicts food writer Mary Frances in 1934 Los Angeles, whose articles become metaphorical for her hunger for passionate fulfillment in a marriage that is no longer intimate or creative.
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F CHE
Settling in the swamps of early 19th-century northwest Ohio, the Goodenough family works relentlessly to establish an apple orchard that reflects respective dreams before their youngest child heads to Gold Rush California to collect seeds for a naturalist.
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Behave by Andromeda Romano-Lax F ROM
A tale inspired by the life of controversial psychologist Rosalie Rayner Watson traces the partnership between a young psychologist and behaviorist pioneer John B. Watson at Johns Hopkins, where they conducted scandalous experiments on hundreds of infants to prove their theories about nurture over nature.
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Beyond the Silence by Tracie PetersonLillian Porter is thrilled to accept a nanny position out west, until she arrives and hears troubling rumors that her employer caused his wife's death; but the accusation doesn't align with the man she comes to know—and love.
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F ARC
In the aftermath of a devastating suicide, Harry Clifton continues his efforts to rescue Anatoly Babakov from a Siberian gulag, while his wife Emma counsels Margaret Thatcher with unexpected consequences and their friends endure heartache and financial setbacks.
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F HEY Kate Malvern is rescued from penury by her aunt Minerva, who brings her to stay at Staplewood. But the household is strange and strainedKate's uncle lives in his own private wing, and her handsome, moody cousin Torquil lives in another.
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F HAR
A conclusion to the trilogy that began with Imperium and Conspirata explores themes of personal freedom in the face of ambition and corruption against a backdrop of such historical events as the collapse of the Roman republic and the assassination of Julius Caesar.
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F CLE
Shocking her blueblood political family by volunteering for the war effort in 1939 London, socialite Mary teaches evacuated and marginalized children and bonds with her employer, Tom, before their romance is challenged by a painful love triangle and the grueling realities of the war.
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F HAM
Desiring nothing more than to tend her family's apple orchard and enjoy time with her loved ones, young Frankie finds her peace threatened by threats of urbanization, disinheritance and college and must choose between clinging to the past and letting go.
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F BRO
A couple races through the destroyed South, relying on the kindness of strangers and foraging from abandoned farms, as they flee a slave hunter, tracking dogs and ex-partisan rangers during the final year of the Civil War.
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F SMI
Banding together for survival after committing a shocking murder in the late 18th-century American South, an escaped slave, a white orphan and a Creek Native American are pursued by a French tracker who is torn between swift justice and uncovering the truth.
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F HAR
Depicts Abraham Lincoln in his 20s and 30s, as he works as a lawyer and in the state legislature and spends time with a fictional poet, Cage Weatherby.
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F SMI
In an intricately woven tapestry of the South of the 1920s and 30s in all its brutal humanity, Delvin Walker, before his hopes for life and love can be realized, is falsely charged with the rape of two white women that leads to his imprisonment where he is forced to make an impossible choice.
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F GRI
A rerelease of a grassroots best-seller by the author of The Kitchen House continues the experiences of Jamie, who in 1830 after escaping slavery passes himself off as a wealthy white silversmith, only to risk everything to save a beloved servant who has been captured and sold in the South.
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F HIG
Based on fact, describes the story of Mary Surratt, who ran a small boarding house where her son brought spies, secessionists and future confederates, including the charming actor John Wilkes Booth, and may have been involved in Lincoln's assassination.
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F CAR
A sequel to The Strangler Vine finds Jeremiah Blake and William Avery reunited in mid-19th-century London by a series of underworld murders that have disturbing ties to a growing movement in support of voting rights.
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F GRE
The best-selling author of The Other Boleyn Girl presents a tale inspired by the daughters of "Kingmaker" Richard, 15th-century Earl of Warwick, who uses his daughters as political pawns before their strategic marriages place them on opposing sides in a royal war that will cost them everyone they love.
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F WRA
Exiled from time after a failed love affair, Waldemar "Waldy" Tolliver is forced to confront a difficult betrayal and his ancestral legacy against a backdrop of historical events in the first half of the 20th century.
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F RAN
Summoned to the emperor's palace to serve as one of his concubines, Mei, who, after her father's death, needs to support her poverty-stricken family, finds herself in a position to seduce the emperor, but instead falls in love with his son and must fight to gain favor with the ruler of China while protecting the man she loves.
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F CAS
In a reimagining of life at Wuthering Heights through the eyes of the Earnshoaw’s loyal servant, young Nelly Dean suffers heartache and betrayals at the hands of those she cherishes most and discovers what it is to know true sacrifice after a new heir is born, unleashing a reign of violence.
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F KER
Approached by famous writer W. Somerset Maugham to help defend against a blackmailer who knows dangerous secrets, Berlin homicide detective and unwilling SS officer Bernie Gunther follows leads back to Hitler's Third Reich and the development of the bomb in Russia.
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F CHE
A legendary opera singer tries to discover who betrayed her secret past as a courtesan when she is offering her a chance at immortality through a libretto that tells her tale .
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F EAS
In 1944, as the German Army begins to shatter before the advancing Soviet forces, two Russian soldiers, burrowed in the crypt of a German church, discover a priceless icon last seen in the grasp of Rasputin, and Stalin calls upon his most trusted investigator, Inspector Pekkala, to unravel the mystery of the icon's past.
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F PAT
A tale inspired by the life of Empress Sisi in 19th-century Vienna places such events as the opening of the Suez Canal, Vienna's World Exhibition and the outbreak of World War I against a backdrop of imperial court temptations, rivalries and cutthroat intrigues.
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F BRO
After her brother—astronomer and composer William Herschel—rescues her from a life of drudgery in Germany and brings her to England, introducing her to a world of music-making and stargazing, Lina is happy in her new role as his assistant—William announces that he is to be married and her whole world begins to collapse.
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M BOW
Learning that her husband has landed in grave danger while deep undercover on a secret assignment, Molly Murphy Sullivan embarks on a dangerous cross-country journey with her young son while contemplating the possibility that corrupt forces may be at work among her husband's colleagues.
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F GOR
Told in the notorious Italian villainess' own voice, a fictionalized account covers her privileged and pampered childhood in Roman palaces to her arranged marriages, and complicated relationship with her brothers.
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F COR
Loyalties and ambitions are put to the test by raids on the wealthy lands and churches of Wessex, where a fragile peace is maintained by the security-minded children of King Alfred and the kingdom's greatest warrior, Uhtred of Bebbanburg.
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