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Reading group guides/book club discussion guides for the "Historical Fiction" category.
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Live by Night
by
Dennis Lehane
Hardcover: Oct 2012
Paperback: 14 May 2013
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Live by Night is a riveting epic layered with a diverse cast of loyal friends and callous enemies, tough rumrunners and sultry femmes fatales, Bible-quoting evangelists and cruel Klansmen, all battling for survival and their piece of the American dream. |
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The Headmaster's Wager
: A Novel
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Vincent Lam
Hardcover: Aug 2012
Paperback: 14 May 2013
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A superbly crafted, highly suspenseful, and deeply affecting debut novel about one man's loyalty to his country, his family and his heritage |
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Bring Up the Bodies
: Wolf Hall Trilogy #2
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Hilary Mantel
Hardcover: May 2012
Paperback: 7 May 2013
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The sequel to Hilary Mantel's 2009 Man Booker Prize winner and New York Times bestseller, Wolf Hall, delves into the heart of Tudor history with the downfall of Anne Boleyn. |
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City of Women
: A Novel
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David R.
Gillham
Hardcover: Aug 2012
Paperback: 7 May 2013
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It is 1943 - the height of the Second World War - and Berlin has essentially become a city of women. In this page-turning novel, David Gillham explores what happens to ordinary people thrust into extraordinary times, and how the choices they make can be the difference between life and death. |
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The Sandcastle Girls
: A Novel
by
Chris Bohjalian
Hardcover: Jul 2012
Paperback: 16 Apr 2013
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The Sandcastle Girls is a sweeping historical love story steeped in Chris Bohjalian's Armenian heritage. |
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Blue Asylum
: A Novel
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Kathy Hepinstall
Hardcover: Apr 2012
Paperback: 9 Apr 2013
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In the midst of the American Civil War, a southern plantation owner's wife is arrested by her husband and declared insane for interfering with his slaves. She is sent to an island mental asylum to come to terms with her wrongdoing, but instead finds love and escape with a war-haunted Confederate soldier. |
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