New For You - Historical Fiction - June 2024Like this list

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• Rough Trade

  Carrasco, Katrina Marie, 1983-

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  Washington Territory, 1888. With contacts on the docks and in the railroad, and with a buyers' market funneling product their way, Alma Rosales and her opium-smuggling crew are making a fortune. They spend their days moving product and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Life of Her Own Also Published With Title: The Trouble With You

  Feldman, Ellen, 1941-

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  When life doesn't give you a happily ever after... New York City, 1945. The war is over, the men are coming home and life can go back to normal for young Fanny Fabricant. But when she loses her rosy future in a single instant, she is…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The House on Biscayne Bay

  Cleeton, Chanel

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  As death stalks a gothic mansion in Miami, the lives of two women intertwine as the past and present collide in New York Times bestselling author Chanel Cleeton’s atmospheric new novel.

• The Girls We Sent Away

  a Novel

  Church, Meagan

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  Powerful and affecting, The Girls We Sent Away is a timely novel that explores autonomy, belonging, and a quest for agency when the illusions of life-as-you-know-it fall away.

• The Good Women of Fudi

  Liu, Hong, 1965-

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  Best friends Jiali and Wu Fang know that no man is a match for them. In their small harbour town of Fudi, they practise sword fighting, write couplets to one another, and strut around dressed as men. Jiali is a renowned poet and Wu Fang is…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Pelican Girls

  a Novel

  Malye, Julia

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  Inspired by a true story a group of women from a Paris asylum who are shipped across the ocean to marry settlers in rough Louisiana territory.

• There's Going to Be Trouble

  a Novel

  Silverman, Jen

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  Two intertwined stories. A woman discovers that her father wasn’t always the private and demure man he is now but was rather caught up in the swirl of the late 60s and the protests against Vietnam.

• I Am Rome

  a Novel of Julius Caesar

  Posteguillo, S. (Santiago)

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  Politics and betrayal, grand battles and impossible odds, shocking villainy and ever greater acts of courage, this is Julius Caesar!

• All We Were Promised

  a Novel

  Lattimore, Ashton

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  A book that has been gaining a lot of attention. Charlotte has managed to escape from White Oaks plantation but her new found freedom is about to be threatened by slavecatchers and a face from the past.

• The Titanic Survivors Book Club

  a Novel

  Schaffert, Timothy

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  A secret society for ticket holders who didn't board the Titanic. This is an ode to love, chance, and the transformative power of books to bring people together.