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    Historical Fiction

    Cover of The Promise
    Chil­dren’s
    The Promise
    Bridget Hodder and Fawzia Gilani-Williams; Cinzia Battistel, illus.
    Cover of Zhen Yu and the Snake
    Chil­dren’s
    Zhen Yu and the Snake
    Erica Lyons; Renia Metallinou, illus.
    Cover of Counting Lost Stars: A Novel
    Fic­tion
    Count­ing Lost Stars: A Novel
    Kim van Alkemade
    Cover of We Are Not Strangers
    Fic­tion
    We Are Not Strangers
    Josh Tuininga
    Cover of Foreign Seed
    Fic­tion
    For­eign Seed
    Alli­son Alsup
    Cover of The Suicide Museum
    Fic­tion
    The Sui­cide Museum
    Ariel Dorf­man
    Cover of The Lost Gift to the Italian Island
    Fic­tion
    The Lost Gift to the Ital­ian Island
    Bar­bara Josselsohn
    Cover of Sarra Copia: A Locked-in Life
    Fic­tion
    Sar­ra Copia: A Locked-in Life
    Nan­cy Ludmerer
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    Fic­tion
    Wages of Empire
    Michael J. Cooper
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    Fic­tion
    Bon­fire Night
    Anna Bliss
    Cover of Sixty Blades of Grass
    Fic­tion
    Six­ty Blades of Grass
    Eliz­a­beth Millane
    Cover of What We Buried
    Fic­tion
    What We Buried
    Robert Roten­berg
    Cover of The Most Amazing Department Store
    Fic­tion
    The Most Amaz­ing Depart­ment Store
    Sharon Neiss-Arbess
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    Song of Myself: A Gay Man’s Odyssey of Self-Discovery
    Arnie Kantrowitz
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    Fic­tion
    From Sun to Sun
    Ken­neth Wishnia
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    The Strange Beautiful
    Car­la Crujido
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