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• New Historical Fiction To Read This Fall | Penguin Random House

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  Time travel to distant eras and locales with this collection of historical novels coming to shelves this fall.

• 1794

  the City Between the Bridges : a Novel

  Natt och Dag, Niklas, 1979-

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  This books is set in 18th century Stockholm (Sweden): In 1794 Stockholm, Jean Mickel Cardell, the one-armed watchman, investigates the death of Eric Three Roses' beautiful wife on their wedding night at the behest of the girl's mother, who is…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Canary Girls

  a Novel

  Chiaverini, Jennifer,

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  Early in the Great War, men left Britain's factories in droves to enlist. Struggling to keep up production, arsenals hired women to build the weapons the military urgently needed. "Be the Girl Behind the Man Behind the Gun," the recruitment posters…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Ada's Room

  Otoo, Sharon Dodua,

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  This novel is a feat of imagination and breaks down simplistic notions of history as a straight line; one woman's experience matters to another's 400 years later, on a different continent.

• Coleman Hill

  a Novel

  Foote, Kim Coleman,

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  "In 1916, during the early days of the Great Migration, Celia Coleman and Lucy Grimes flee the racism and poverty of their homes in the post-Civil War South for the "Promised Land" of Vauxhall, New Jersey. But the North possesses its own challenges…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Chinese Groove

  a Novel

  Ma, Kathryn,

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  "Eighteen-year-old Shelley, born into a much-despised branch of the Zheng family in Yunnan Province and living in the shadow of his widowed father's grief, dreams of bigger things. Buoyed by an exuberant heart and his cousin Deng's tall tales about…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Davenports

  Marquis, Krystal,

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  "The Davenports are one of the few Black families of immense wealth and status in a changing United States, their fortune made through the entrepreneurship of William Davenport, a formerly enslaved man who founded the Davenport Carriage Company…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Shoot the Moon

  a Novel

  Arsén, Isa,

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• The Caretaker

  a Novel

  Rash, Ron, 1953-

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  A tender examination of male friendship and rivalry as well as a riveting, page-turning novel of familial devotion, The Caretaker brilliantly depicts the human capacity for delusion and destruction all too often justified as acts of love.

• Chenneville

  a Novel of Murder, Loss, and Vengeance

  Jiles, Paulette, 1943-

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  Union soldier John Chenneville suffered a traumatic head wound in battle only to return home and discover tragedy. Traveling through the unforgiving landscape of a shattered nation in the midst of Reconstruction, John braves winter storms and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Dance Tree

  a Novel

  Hargrave, Kiran Millwood, 1990-

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  "In this gripping historical novel, the internationally bestselling author of The Mercies weaves a spellbinding tale of fear, transformation, courage, and love in sixteenth-century France. Set in an era of superstition, hysteria, and extraordinary…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Wildest Sun

  a Novel

  Lemmie, Asha,

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• All You Have to Do Is Call

  Maher, Kerri,

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• The Gentleman's Gambit

  Dunmore, Evie,

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• The Frozen River

  a Novel

  Lawhon, Ariel,

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• The Fraud

  Smith, Zadie,

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• What Wild Women Do

  a Novel

  Brown, Karma,

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• North Woods

  a Novel

  Mason, Daniel (Daniel Philippe)

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• They're Going to Love You

  a Novel

  Howrey, Meg,

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• All You Have to Do

  Allen, Autumn,

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