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Historical Fiction August 2024 |
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Guns of the vigilantes
by William W. Johnstone
After seeing an entire family murdered, and with the eldest daughter missing, young deputy Dan Caine throws away his badge, forms a vigilante team and goes after the killers because come hell or high water, justice will be served.
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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. Original.
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The Briar Club : a novel
by Kate Quinn
In 1950 Washington, DC, at an all-female boardinghouse called Briarwood, mysterious widow Grace March moves into the attic room, drawing her oddball collection of neighbors into unlikely friendship, but when a shocking act of violence tears the house apart, the women must expose the true enemy in their midst.
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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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The bright sword : a novel of King Arthur
by Lev Grossman
Arriving at Camelot to compete for a spot on the Round Table, a gifted young knight Collum instead finds only a handful of knights left after the Battle of Camlann, and together, joined by Merlin's apprentice Nimue, set out to rebuild Camelot in a world that has lost its balance. Simultaneous.
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The Leap Year Gene of Kit Mckinley
by Shelley Wood
Feburary 29, 1916. A baby is born, but Kit Mckinley inexplicably ages just one year for every four. Part medical mystery par love story, The Leap Year Gene is an unforgettable tour de force that traces the past century's burgeoning understanding of genetics, eugenics and what constitutes 'normal'.
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The Lost Lover
by Karen Swan
Flora MacQueen has always dreamt of more than life on a small Scottish island of St Kilda. So, when she catches the eye of a visiting adventurer and Wealthy businessman James Callaghan, her future seems much brighter. Winter seas separate the lovers...the following summer promises to reunite them.
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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 silver bone : a novel
by Andreæi Kurkov
A perplexing mystery introduces rookie detective Samson Kolechko in Kyiv as he is tackling his first case, set against real life details of the tumultuous early 20th century.
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Accidentally his : a designing debutantes novel
by Sabrina Jeffries
Rafe Wolfford courts Lady Verity as a ruse to discover whether she or anyone else in her party planning company is leaking information to the French, in the third novel of the series following What Happens in the Ballroom. Simultaneous.
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