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Historical
by Beth Brower
Emma M. Lion inherits a crumbling London townhouse, an eccentric cast of neighbors, and absolutely no intention of behaving as a proper Victorian woman should. Beth Brower's journal-style series opener is whimsical and warmly funny — closer to a cozy afternoon than a plot-driven page-turner, and all the more charming for it.
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LiteraryHistorical
Hernan Diaz
A celebrated novel about a Wall Street tycoon and his wife in 1920s New York turns out to be only the first of four accounts that contradict one another, each revealing more about money, power and who gets to tell the story. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
Historical
Sandra Dallas
In a Victorian house built for a bride in the Colorado mining town of Georgetown, three generations of women fall in love, make hard choices and keep secrets. Sandra Dallas follows them across half a century. A warm, absorbing family saga.
HistoricalContemporary
Kelli Estes
Exploring her late aunt's island estate near Seattle, Inara Erickson finds a sleeve of silk hidden in the house, embroidered with a story. It leads her to Mei Lein, a Chinese girl driven from her home in 1886. A moving dual-timeline novel about a buried chapter of American history.
