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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 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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| The Heart in Winter by Kevin BarryIn 1891 Montana, young Irish poet Tom Rourke drinks, takes drugs, and falls for Polly Gillespie, the devout mine leader’s new bride. The lovers commit arson, steal money and a horse, and then head west...but a posse is hot on their trail. This buzzy, critically acclaimed novel “is brutal, hilarious, and fabulously entertaining" (Booklist). For fans of: lyrical Irish writers; Cormac McCarthy. |
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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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| Nero by Conn IgguldenEmpress Agrippina navigates treacherous Roman politics as she vies, amidst ambitious rivals, to secure power and survival for her son. With Nero destined to become Rome's most feared emperor, his mother strategizes to shape his future amid constant threats and perilous opportunities. This is the 1st in a planned trilogy about Nero’s rise to prominence. |
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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.
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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 Tuscan Daughter
by Tessa Harris
Set in Italy during WWII, and based on a true story, 'The Tuscan Daughter' follows Lizzie Thornton as she joins the Italian resistance after war is declared, and falls in love with Vincenzo Baldini, the man running an anti-fascist propaganda magazine. But when someone from her past reappears and threatens to overturn her new life, Lizzie must decide if she has the strength to fight for what, and who, she truly wants.
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| The Lion Women of Tehran by Marjan KamaliIn 1950s Tehran, Ellie's privileged life changes drastically after her father's death, forcing her and her mother into a poorer neighborhood. Lonely and longing for companionship, Ellie finds solace in her new neighbor Homa, and the two form a friendship that lasts for decades, navigating changing fortunes, turbulent politics, and the meaning of friendship. |
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The Scandalous Life of Ruby Devereaux
by Mandy Robotham
When her publisher presents her with an ultimatum, 90-year-old Ruby Devereaux decides it's finally time to reveal the secrets of her infamous life: parties, scandals, men and adventure, taking us on a rollercoaster ride through 1950's New York, the Swinging Sixties, Cold War Berlin, Venice and Vietnam.
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| Shanghai by Joseph KanonHaving escaped the Gestapo, Daniel Lohr arrives in Shanghai, where glamour and squalor coexist. As he becomes embroiled in his uncle Nathan’s underworld life of crime and politics, Daniel must confront his past and navigate a treacherous path to survival in a lawless city on the brink of chaos. |
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The Lost Boy of Santa Chionia
by Juliet Grames
In 1960 Calabria, 27-year-old American Francesca Loftfield, tasked with opening a nursery school in an isolated mountain village, is drawn into the mystery surrounding the identity of a recently discovered human skeleton, forcing her to choose between her charitable mission and her future happiness, between truth and survival.
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The Most
by Jessica Anthony
In 1957, Kathleen, a college tennis champion-turned-Delaware housewife, instead of going to church with her husband and boys, takes a dip in the swimming pool of their apartment complex and refuses to come out, in this tightly wound, consuming story set over the course of eight hours.
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Beyond Summerland
by Jenny Lecoat
After World War II's liberation of Jersey in the Channel Islands, 19-year-old Jean Parris discovers that a teacher who lives above her father's shop might be responsible for his wartime arrest and sets out to uncover the truth.
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