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Historical Fiction December 2023 |
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| Shoot the Moon by Isa ArsénIn this thought-provoking debut novel, Annie Fisk is hired as a secretary at NASA despite having a physics degree. After she discovers errors in an engineer's calculations for the Apollo 11 space flight, Annie gets a promotion and makes a mysterious, life-altering discovery that could change the future of physics and space travel forever. |
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| Mary and the Birth of Frankenstein by Anne EekhoutAfter an adolescence steeped in Gothic folklore and recovering from a recent tragic loss, a young Mary Shelley arrives at Lake Geneva to visit Lord Byron. Byron challenges his guests to write the best ghost story, which serves as the perfect distraction from Mary’s personal tumult and plants the seed for what will later become her novel Frankenstein. |
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| All You Have to Do Is Call by Kerri MaherInspired by true events, this is the suspenseful and character-driven story of the Jane Collective, an underground network of people dedicated to providing access to birth control and abortion care, which in the 1960s and 1970s were still illegal in many states. |
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| Above the Salt by Katherine VazIn this sweeping and heartwrenching love story, young lovers João and Maria separately flee religious persecution on the island of Madeira and reunite to make new lives in Illinois. After forming a connection with up-and-coming politician Abraham Lincoln, the couple are again separated in the upheaval of the Civil War but share an indelible bond that will shape the rest of their lives. |
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| Straw Dogs of the Universe by Ye ChunSet against the backdrop of rising anti-Chinese sentiment in late 19th-century California, this haunting story follows 10-year-old Sixiang, a rural girl sold to human traffickers who sets out to find her absentee father Guifeng, a railway worker. |
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