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The Vaster Wilds
By Lauren Groff (Fic Grof, Q Grof, CD Fic Grof, eBook, eAudiobook))
A servant girl escapes from a colonial settlement in the wilderness. She carries nothing with her but her wits, a few possessions, and the spark of god that burns hot within her
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Cradles of the Reich
By Jennifer Coburn (Fic Cobu, eBook, eAudiobook)
Heim Hochland, a Nazi breeding home in Bavaria, three women's fates are intertwined. Based on untold historical events, we see inside the Lebensborn Society maternity homes that actually existed in several countries during World War II, where thousands of babies were bred to be raised as part of the new Germany.
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The House is on Fire
By Rachel Beanland (Fic Bean, Q Bean, CD Fic Bean, eBook, eAudiobook)
Richmond, Virginia, 1811 the night after Christmas, the theater catches fire. The tragedy shocks a young nation and tore apart a community in a single night told from the perspectives of four people whose actions during the inferno changed the course of history.
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The Briar Club: a Novel
By Kate Quinn (Fic Quin, Q Quin, CD Fic Quin, eBook, eAudiobook)
Washington, DC, 1950, women at the Briarwood House come together thanks to mysterious widow, Grace March. When a shocking act of violence tears the house apart, the Briar Club women must decide once and for all: who is the true enemy in their midst?
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A Novel Disguise
By Samantha Larsen (M Lars, eBook, eAudiobook)
Set in London 1784, Tiffany Woodall did not murder her half-brother, but she does bury him and assume his identity. Mysteries abound as she tries to solve them without her identity or being discovered.
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The Titanic Survivors Book Club
By Timothy Schaffert (Fic Scha, eBook, eAudiobook)
Yorick was supposed to serve on the Titanic as its librarian. Instead, a superior takes his place. At his Paris bookshop, he receives an invitation to join a secret society of ticket holders who did not board the ship.
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Above the Salt
By Katherine Vaz (Fic Vaz, eBook, eAudiobook)
Fleeing with only what they can carry, John and Mary are separated and arrive at different times and places in a rapidly growing and changing mid-nineteenth-century Illinois. After John and Mary reconnect, conflict looms on the horizon. Social jealousies and betrayals compound the obstacles unleashed by the Civil War.
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When the Jessamine Grow
By Donna Everhart (Fic Ever, Q Ever, eBook, eAudiobook)
An evocative, morally complex novel set in rural 19th century North Carolina, as one woman fights to keep her family united, her farm running, and her convictions whole during the most devastating and divisive period in American history.
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Last House: a Novel
By Jessica Shattuck (Fic Shat, CD Fic Shat, eBook, eAudiobook)
Spanning multiple generations and nearly 80 years, this emotional tour de force follows one American family, during the radical movement of the 1968 against Big Oil, as they are forced to reckon with the consequences of the resources that built their fortune and fueled their greatest tragedy.
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All Our Yesterdays
By Joel H. Morris (Fic Morr, eBook, eAudiobook)
Born in a noble household and granddaughter of a forgotten Scottish king, a young girl carries the guilt of her mother's death and the weight of an unknowable prophecy. Lady Macbeth confronts a world of masculine power and secures the protection of her family.
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The River We Remember: a Novel
By William Kent Krueger (Fic Krue, Q Krue, CD Fic Krue, eBook, eAudiobook)
When the body of a wealthy landowner is found floating in the Alabaster River on Memorial Day in 1958, Sheriff Brody Dern, struggles to solve this murder that has the town of Jewel, Minnesota, up in arms, while putting to rest the demons from his own past.
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The Keeper of Hidden Books
By Madeline Martin (Fic Mart, CD Fic Mart, eBook, eAudiobook)
As bombs rain down on Warsaw and Hitler's forces surround the city, childhood friends Zofia and Janina join the war effort using one of the only weapons that still feel safe to them: literature, fighting to preserve their culture and community and finding hope in each other in order to survive.
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The Covenant of Water
By Abraham Verghese (Fic Verg, eBook, eAudiobook)
Spanning the years 1900 to 1977, The Covenant of Water is set in Kerala, on South India's Malabar Coast, and follows three generations of a family that suffers a peculiar affliction: in every generation, at least one person dies by drowning-and in Kerala, water is everywhere.
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Beyond That, the Sea
By Laura Spence-Ash (Fic Spen, Q Spen, eBook, eAudiobook)
A young girl is sent from London to live in America during World War II and fits in so seamlessly with her new family that she is hesitant to return to post-war England when she is called home.
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Take My Hand
By Dolen Perkins-Valdez (Fic Perk, eBook, eAudiobook)
Montgomery, Alabama 1973. Fresh out of nursing school, Civil Townsend has big plans to make a difference, especially in her African American community. At the Montgomery Family Planning Clinic, she intends to help women make their own choices for their lives and bodies.