Category: Historical Fiction
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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…
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Ground Zero by Alan Gratz: Content Guide
Publication Date: Feb 2021 Blurb: It’s September 11, 2001. Brandon, a 9-year-old boy, goes to work for the day with his dad . . . at the World Trade Center in New York City. When two planes hit the towers, Brandon and his father are trapped inside a fiery nightmare…
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Eva Underground by Dandi Daley Mackall: Content Guide
Publication Date: March 2006 Blurb: The year 1978 has been a pretty good one for Eva Lott. She has a terrific best friend, she’s dating the best-looking guy in school, and she just made the varsity swim team. So when her widowed dad says it’s time for them to move,…
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The Lost Story of Eva Fuentes by Chanel Cleeton: Content Guide
Publication Date: Sep 2025 Blurb: London, 2024: When American expat Margo Reynolds is hired to source a book that’s more than one hundred and twenty years old, she thinks her greatest challenge is going to be that there’s only one copy in existence. However, it quickly becomes clear that her…
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Sonora by Jenni L. Walsh: Content Guide
Publication Date: Oct 2025 Blurb: Sonora Webster is penniless but plucky, and despite the looming Great Depression, she follows her wanderlust, answering an advert to dive with horses. Little does she know that she is about to be thrust into a world teeming with danger, excitement, and fierce competition. As…
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The Letter For The King by Tonke Dragt: Content Guide
Publication Date: Jan 1962 Blurb: A young messenger. A secret mission. A kingdom in peril. It is the dead of night. Sixteen-year-old Tiuri must spend hours locked in a chapel in silent contemplation if he is to be knighted the next day. But, as he waits by the light of…
