Category: Historical Fiction
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The Alice Network
Two women—a female spy recruited to the real-life Alice Network in France during World War I and an unconventional American socialite searching for her cousin in 1947—are brought together in a mesmerizing story of courage and redemption.
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Harlem Shuffle
Ray Carney is trying to establish himself as a business and family man. With cash tight and a baby on the way, Ray is convinced to help his cousin Freddie do one last heist. But can Ray keep himself straight or will this heist get him back in the game or killed?
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The Lions of Fifth Avenue
A story of two women connected through family whose lives center around the New York Public Library and the strange disappearance of priceless books and antiquities.
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The Mountains Sing
An enveloping, multigenerational tale of the Trần family, set against the backdrop of the Việt Nam War.
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The Personal Librarian
A remarkable novel about J. P. Morgan’s personal librarian, Belle da Costa Greene, the Black American woman who was forced to hide her true identity and pass as white in order to leave a lasting legacy that enriched our nation.
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The Night Watchman
Based upon Erdrich’s grandfather’s life as a night watchman and a tribal chairman of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa in North Dakota as he fights the Native American dispossession in the 1950s.
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The Rose Code
A heart-stopping World War II story of three female code breakers at Bletchley Park and the spy they must root out after the war is over.
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Fifty Words for Rain
Nori, a young, biracial girl ends up living with her grandparents after her mother abandons her at their front gate. Mom disappears. An embarrassment to her aristocratic family due to her race, Nori is hidden away until her brother arrives and becomes her ally.
