Category: Historical Fiction
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Stalking Jack the Ripper by Kerri Maniscalco: Content Guide
Publication Date: Sep 2016 Blurb: Seventeen-year-old Audrey Rose Wadsworth was born a lord’s daughter, with a life of wealth and privilege stretched out before her. But between the social teas and silk dress fittings, she leads a forbidden secret life. Against her stern father’s wishes and society’s expectations, Audrey often…
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Running Out of Time by Margaret Peterson Haddix: Content Guide
Publication Date: Oct 1995 Blurb: Jessie lives with her family in the frontier village of Clifton, Indiana. When diphtheria strikes the village and the children of Clifton start dying, Jessie’s mother sends her on a dangerous mission to bring back help. But beyond the walls of Clifton, Jessie discovers a…
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A Good Animal by Sara Maurer: Content Guide
Publication Date: Feb 2024 Blurb: In the farm country outside Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan—a border town where life moves slow and dreams run fast—most kids want out. Not Everett Lindt. He’s set on staying put, rebuilding his family’s sheep farm, and carving a future from the land he loves. Then…
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The Fourth Princess by Janie Chang: Content Guide
Publication Date: Feb 2026 Blurb: Shanghai, 1911. Lisan Liu is elated when she is hired as secretary to wealthy American Caroline Stanton, the new mistress of Lennox Manor on the outskirts of Shanghai’s International Settlement. However, the Manor has a dark past due to a previous owner’s suicide, and soon…
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His Majesty’s Dragon by Naomi Novik: Content Guide
Publication Date: Jan 2006 Blurb: Aerial combat brings a thrilling new dimension to the Napoleonic Wars as valiant warriors ride mighty fighting dragons, bred for size or speed. When HMS Reliant captures a French frigate and seizes the precious cargo, an unhatched dragon egg, fate sweeps Captain Will Laurence from…
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The Key to Deceit by Ashley Weaver: Content Guide
Publication Date: June 2022 Blurb: London, 1940. After years of stealing from the rich and giving to the poor―well, to themselves, anyway―Ellie McDonnell and her family have turned over a new leaf as they help the government’s war effort. It’s true that the straight-laced Major Ramsey didn’t give them much…
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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…