Category: Historical Fiction
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The Rose Code by Kate Quinn: Content Guide
Publication Date: Mar 2021 Blurb: 1940. As England prepares to fight the Nazis, three very different women answer the call to mysterious country estate Bletchley Park, where the best minds in Britain train to break German military codes. Vivacious debutante Osla is the girl who has everything—beauty, wealth, and the dashing…
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Behind Five Willows by June Hur: Content Guide
Publication Date: May 2026 Blurb: As the dutiful second-eldest daughter of a poor family, society would have Haewon believe that her only hope of a decent life is to marry well. But during a time of rampant government censorship and book banning, she instead works as an illegal book transcriber…
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The Hired Man by Sandra Dallas: Content Guide
Publication Date: Mar 2026 Blurb: 1937. It’s been seven years since the dust storms started in Colorado. Folks can barely remember a time when the clouds were filled with rain instead of dirt, and when the fields were green instead of brown. High school student Martha Helen Kessler and her…
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The Girl in the Tower by Katherine Arden: Content Guide
Publication Date: Dec 2017 Blurb: Vasilisa has grown up at the edge of a Russian wilderness, where snowdrifts reach the eaves of her family’s wooden house and there is truth in the fairy tales told around the fire. Vasilisa’s gift for seeing what others do not won her the attention…
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The Wish Book Christmas by Lynn Austin: Content Guide
Publication Date: Sep 2021 Blurb: Best friends Audrey Barrett and Eve Dawson are looking forward to celebrating Christmas in postwar America, thrilled at the prospect of starting new traditions with their five-year-old sons. But when the 1951 Sears Christmas Wish Book arrives and the boys start obsessing over every toy…
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The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden: Content Guide
Publication Date: May 2022 Blurb: At the edge of the Russian wilderness, winter lasts most of the year and the snowdrifts grow taller than houses. But Vasilisa doesn’t mind—she spends the winter nights huddled around the embers of a fire with her beloved siblings, listening to her nurse’s fairy tales.…
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The Belle of Chatham by Laura Frantz: Content Guide
Publication Date: Jan 2026 Blurb: In 1777, caught in the crossroads of the American Revolution, sisters Maebel and Coralie Bohannon’s quaint New Jersey village becomes a battleground as they house American officers in their home. Rebellion ripples through their family as members take opposing sides–Patriots and Loyalists–causing a deep chasm…
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Till We Have Faces by CS Lewis: Content Guide
Publication Date: Jan 1956 Blurb: Orual was born ugly and even though she’s a princess, she struggles with the death of her mother and the friction between her sisters. There are two lights in Orual’s life. One is her tutor, the Fox, a Greek slave captured through war. The other…
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Before Dorothy by Hazel Gaynor: Content Guide
Publication Date: June 2015 Blurb: The greatest journey is the one you least expect… Kansas 1932: When news reaches Kansas that her beloved sister has tragically died, Emily Gale must become a mother overnight. Her sister’s orphaned child, Dorothy, desperately needs a home. But Emily doubts her ability to fill…
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The Ivory City by Emily Bain Murphy: Content Guide
Publication Date: Nov 2025 Blurb: The St. Louis World’s Fair, 1904: A miniature city of palaces and pavilions that becomes a backdrop for romance, betrayal—and murder.Cousins Grace and Lillie have been best friends since birth, despite Grace’s vastly inferior social status ever since her mother married for love instead of wealth. When…
