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Friday, January 14, 2011
New Historical Fiction
The Death Instinct by Jed Rubenfeld
Blending fact and fiction in a brilliantly convincing narrative, Jed Rubenfeld has forged a gripping historical unsolved mystery about terror, war, greed, and the darkest secrets of the human soul, framed by the bomb that devastated Wall Street in 1920.
The Paris Wife
by Paula McLain
Hadley Hemingway, Ernest Hemingway's first wife, brings to life the Paris of the Lost Generation, populated by fascinating characters including Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, and Gerald and Sara Murphy.
Mr. Chartwell
by Rebecca Hunt
Charismatic and dangerously seductive, the spirit of Mr. Chartwell unites the eminent statesman Winston Churchill with vulnerable Esther Hammerhans, a librarian at the House of Commons. Can they withstand Mr. Chartwell’s strange, powerful charms and his stranglehold on their lives?
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