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Historical
by Tracy Chevalier
On the fossil beaches of Lyme Regis in the early 1800s, poor, self-taught Mary Anning finds extraordinary bones and an unlikely friend in Elizabeth Philpot, a middle-class spinster. Together they face a scientific world with no room for women. Based on a true story.
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HistoricalContemporary
Evie Woods
In the 1920s, Opaline Carlisle runs from an arranged marriage to Paris and then Dublin, where she opens a bookshop of her own. A century later in Dublin, Martha, starting her life over, and Henry, a scholar chasing a lost manuscript, stumble on a shop that seems to appear and vanish. A dual-timeline story about books, second chances and a little magic.
Historical
Elizabeth Musser
Provence, summer 1944. In the town of Sisteron, Isabelle Seauve helps the Resistance hide Jewish children. Her fifteen-year-old cousin René reaches her after a German attack, bringing an orphaned Jewish girl with him, while an American army chaplain, Peter Christensen, still carries what he saw in North Africa. Their three stories meet as the Allies bomb the town.
LiteraryHistorical
Marilynne Robinson
In 1956, John Ames — a preacher in a small Iowa town, old and ailing — begins a long letter to the young son he won't live to see grow up. What emerges is a life's accounting: his father and his abolitionist grandfather, a friendship that has cost him, and a hard-won gratitude for ordinary light. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize.
