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The Cause of Darkness- A Story of the Civil War Genre: Historical Fiction Tears and triumphs, action and adventure: a coming-of-age story set during the last full year of the American Civil War. Was: |
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State of Grace Genre: Historical Fiction ‘The true origins of the tragedy of the Second World War’ Was: |
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Shades of Brilliance Genre: Historical Fiction Young Celeste Gabriele’s existence has gone from one of wealth and privilege in the highest echelons of Venetian aristocracy to dismal poverty in the slums. One day when master artist Luciano Vicente accidentally discovers Celeste’s raw artistic genius and begs her to become his secret protégé, her life will never be the same… Was: |
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Dead Ball Genre: Historical Fiction 2020 Readers’ Favorite International Book Awards Finalist Was: |
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Elisabeth Samson, Forbidden Bride Genre: Historical Fiction In the 18th century tropical Dutch colony of Suriname, wealth is measured by the number of slaves one owns. Was: |
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MIA Genre: Historical Fiction “Never let the fear of striking out keep you from coming up to bat.” BABE RUTH Was: |
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By the Gods of Babylon Genre: Historical Fiction From the lands of Sumer and Babylon—lands that birthed writing, the first author, and the first epic story. Was: |
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Tears of the Gumbo Limbo Genre: Historical Fiction A story of the beauty of nature and the harshness of her realities, Was: |
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Twilight Empress: A Novel of Imperial Rome Genre: Historical Fiction Twilight Empress tells the little-known story of a remarkable woman—Galla Placidia, sister to one of the last Roman Emperors. Roman princess, Gothic captive and queen—Placidia does the unthinkable—she rules the failing Western Roman Empire—a life of ambition, power and intrigue she doesn’t seek, but can’t refuse… Was: |
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Agata, Princess of Iberia Genre: Historical Fiction Agata didn’t start out like a Katniss. Was: |
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Daughter of Light: St. Philomena Genre: Historical Fiction Riveting, fictional account inspired by the life of Saint Philomena. Was: |
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Mounatin: A Novel Genre: Historical Fiction A vivid picture of life in the era when America was born, Mountain is based on the true story of Joseph Mountain — a free black raised by notable white Philadelphians before the revolutionary war. His adopted father — a signer of the Declaration of Independence — gives Joseph a stipend just before war breaks out and sends him abroad for his education… Was: |
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Dawn Empress: A Novel of Imperial Rome Genre: Historical Fiction As Rome reels under barbarian assaults, a young girl must step up. Was: |
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The Noble Brute: Quintus Fabius Maximus Rullianus Genre: Historical Fiction ROME, 325 BCE. Young Quintus is the despair of his revered patrician family. He fights in the pankration ring, drinks with the commoners, and wanders the dark Italia forests. Unkempt, unshorn, and totally incorruptible, the man nicknamed ‘Rullianus’ (the Brute) is content to live out a wild life of leisure. Was: |
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The Palace of the Stars, A Thrilling Adventure in Love, Magic, and Mystery Genre: Historical Fiction A Generous Serving of Gorgeous Escapism Was: |
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The Bishop and the Rose: A Family Saga Genre: Historical Fiction The Bishop and the Rose: A Family Saga is a heart-pounding historical novel. If you like sweeping adventures, epic romances, and heroic wartime deeds, then you’ll adore Victor Wilkie’s stirring drama. Was: |
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Waltz in Swing Time Genre: Historical Fiction Growing up in a strict Utah farm family during the Great Depression, Irene Larsen copes with her family’s hardship by playing piano. Even when an unthinkable tragedy strikes, Irene clings to her dream of becoming a musician. When a neighbor’s farm is foreclosed, Irene’s brother marries the neighbor’s daughter, who moves in with the Larsens and coaches Irene into winning leading roles in musicals… Was: |
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Dance of the Restless Soul Genre: Historical Fiction At sixteen, Lola La Fontaine will be forced to marry one of the richest men in La Belle Epoque France—a man she doesn’t love—and live a lifestyle destined to strangle her personality and ambition. Lola devises a plan to avoid the marriage and achieve her dream to become a famous cabaret star… Was: |
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Alexander Hamilton & Elizabeth Schuyler: A Master Passion Genre: Historical Fiction A MASTER PASSION is the story of the marriage of our brilliant first Secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton, and his wife, Elizabeth Schuyler. It begins with a whirlwind Revolutionary War courtship at Washington’s headquarters. Conflict, however, is built into this marriage… Was: |
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A Rogue for Miss Prim Genre: Historical Fiction Gordon Treadwell thought himself too long in the tooth to get mixed up in a social disaster of epic proportions. In his cups, he makes a preposterous wager, which his stickler father decrees must be honored. The problem is that it involves a prickly and headstrong spinster sitting on a possible scandal of her own… Was: |
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Kelegeen Genre: Historical Fiction Ireland 1846 Was: |
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To Crown A King Genre: Historical Fiction Scotland, 1295. The kingdom is on the verge of rebellion. John Balliol wears the crown, but even his powerful Comyn kin cannot break King Edward of England’s insatiable desire to conquer the northern realm. Was: |
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Sunday’s Child. (Heroines Born on Different Days of the Week, Book 1) Genre: Historical Fiction Georgianne Whitley’s beloved father and brothers died in the war against Napoleon Bonaparte. While she is grieving for them, she must deal with her unpredictable mother’s sorrow, and her younger sisters’ situation caused by it. Was: |
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Seven Aprils Genre: Historical Fiction In April 1860, Dr. Ryder Cole returns home from his studies, sure of his abilities and on fire to serve his country and preserve the Union. A panther attack threatens to cut his life short until a young woman with a rife and a sure-shot eye appears out of the mist. Then she disappears, returning as Tom Boyde, his comrade throughout America’s Civil War, and as Diana, met in a Washington D… Was: |
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The Dumb Class Genre: Historical Fiction If Grease was a rather lighthearted view of the local hoody kids in the nineteen fifties-sixties era, The Dumb Class is a dark-humored, irreverent look at those bygone days. It is funny, poignant and a page-turner from start to finish. The Dumb Class tells about the desires, fears and joys of baby boomer teenagers finding their way along as they deal with the world of parents, siblings, neighbors, teachers, businessmen, doctors, and, of course, the police… Was: |
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To Abandon Rome, AD 593 Genre: Historical Fiction AD 593. Amid the crumbling grandeur of Christian Rome a good man opposes both Archdeacon and Pope. He stands against them as a bulwark for the common people. Was: |
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A Man Called Smith Genre: Historical Fiction A battle-scarred father. A disillusioned daughter. Can a grieving widower rebuild his splintered family to find peace at last? Was: |
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CROSSWORD Genre: Historical Fiction A fictional novel, expanded from a true event and incorporating both historic and fictional characters, this story takes you on a wild ride from the United States to Norway to Switzerland and on to Germany. Suspense, action and mystery are all present in this novel of espionage, endurance, bravery and betrayal… Was: |
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Fog Coast Runaway Genre: Historical Fiction To escape her dangerous family, Was: |
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The Midnight Midwife Genre: Historical Fiction Out of love, a mother hides her child’s differences from the world. Was: |
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The Secret Life of Mrs. London Genre: Historical Fiction The Love Triangle Between Houdini, Jack London and his wife, Charmian.San Francisco, 1915. As America teeters on the brink of world war, Charmian and her husband, famed novelist Jack London, wrestle with genius and desire, politics and marital competitiveness. Charmian longs to be viewed as an equal partner who put her own career on hold to support her husband, but Jack doesn’t see it that way…until Charmian is pulled from the audience during a magic show by escape artist Harry Houdini, a man enmeshed in his own complicated marriage… Was: |
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Lady Charlotte’s Dilemma Genre: Historical Fiction What is a well-brought up young lady to do when she finds herself becoming a vampyre? Lady Charlotte Chalmers obeys her Mama, reads her Bible and abides by the strict rules of polite society. But a girl needs to eat. And that is Lady Charlotte’s dilemma. Was: |
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Truncate Genre: Historical Fiction A unique Victorian era suspense story heightened with a touch of mystery and romance. The focus rests on the efforts of the unwitting protagonist to thwart attempts on his life instead of the usual ace detective or the latent genius of an amateur sleuth so typical of the genre. The plot centers on the survival of an unsuspecting member of the rising London commercial gentry toward the end of the nineteenth century… Was: |
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Western Apprehension Genre: Historical Fiction In the southwest edge of the Great Plains in 1886, veteran US Marshal, Ben Corrigan, is on his way to the town of Iron Horse Junction to escort a jailed murderer, Frank Jameson, to Santa Fe in the territory of New Mexico for trial. Frank gun downed the town’s deputy sheriff while the deputy attempted to arrest him for killing a cattle buyer in a saloon brawl… Was: |
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Becoming Carlotta: A Biographical Novel Genre: Historical Fiction Hazel Tharsing was born in California in 1888. Intensely shy, she learned to meet the world as the glamorous actress Carlotta Monterey, by far the greatest acting role of her twenty-year career. Counted among the most beautiful women in America, she married a British aristocrat in London, the twenty-year-old son of her mother’s lover in San Francisco, a famous artist in New York, and America’s greatest playwright, Eugene O’Neill… Was: |
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Henrietta Jones: The boy with the broken nose Genre: Historical Fiction The first Henrietta Jones had a daughter, and she has grown up to be more extreme and full of the devil than anyone else in 1895 Victorian London. Was: |
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Red Creek Genre: Historical Fiction The 1960s . . . America in flux . . . cultural and political divisions . . . racial conflict . . . the physical landscape itself is changing as suburbs spread across the countryside. Was: |