Category: Historical Fiction
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The War That Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley: Content Guide
Publication Date: Jan 2015 Blurb: Ten-year-old Ada has never left her one-room apartment. Her mother is too humiliated by Ada’s twisted foot to let her outside. So when her little brother Jamie is shipped out of London to escape the war, Ada doesn’t waste a minute—she sneaks out to join…
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A Holiday by Gaslight by Mimi Matthews: Content Guide
Publication Date: Feb 2025 Blurb: A Dutiful Daughter: Sophie Appersett is quite willing to marry outside of her class to ensure the survival of her family. But the darkly handsome Mr. Edward Sharpe is no run of the mill London merchant. He’s grim and silent. A man of little emotion–or…
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The Noble Servant by Melanie Dickerson: Content Guide
Publication Date: May 2017 Blurb: The impossible was happening. She, Magdalen of Mallin, was to marry the Duke of Wolfberg. Magdalen had dreamed about receiving a proposal ever since she met the duke two years ago. Such a marriage was the only way she could save her people from starvation.…
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Every Hour Until Then by Gabrielle Meyer: Content Guide
Publication Date: May 2025 Blurb: Gifted with the ability to time-cross between Victorian-era London and World War II Washington, DC, Kathryn faces two lives fraught with danger. In 1938 amid the looming shadow of war, Kathryn is invited to the London Museum as a guest curator to create a groundbreaking…
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The Huntress by Carrie Cotten: Content Guide
Publication Date: Jan 2023 Blurb: Betrayed by their allies, the last of the Picts have escaped to the innermost part of an endless, dark forest, content to remain hidden there forever. Made queen at just a child, Cyrene has given all of her life and heart to the task of…
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Regent by Cher Gatto: Content Guide
Publication Date: Aug 2022 Blurb: If you die in a dream … will you wake up? And if you wake up, would you rather be dead? Justin has a gift. He “sees” other people’s memories when he draws. But in foster care he stopped drawing. He had to. Now he’s…
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A Well-Trained Lady by Jess Heileman: Content Guide
Publication Date: July 2020 Blurb: Arabella Godwin is an Incomparable in London Society—elegant, wealthy, and meticulously trained. Yet, she has nothing to show for her efforts aside from her pretentious reputation and a collection of disappointed suitors. When her plan to secure a promising offer of marriage is temporarily delayed,…
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The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare: Content Guide
Publication Date: June 1961 Blurb: This gripping, action-packed novel tells the story of eighteen-year-old Daniel bar Jamin—a fierce, hotheaded young man bent on revenging his father’s death by forcing the Romans from his land of Israel. Daniel’s palpable hatred for Romans wanes only when he starts to hear the gentle…
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A Rose in West Egg by Storm Shultz: Content Guide
Publication Date: April 2025 Blurb: Had Rose only that day bemoaned her simple life? Yes. Is the dating pool painfully slim for an alopecia girlie? Sure. Would she love to go on a little adventure and along the way find love? Of course. But falling into a copy of The…
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Where Coyotes Howl by Sandra Dallas: Content Guide
Publication Date: April 2023 Blurb: 1916. The two-street town of Wallace is not exactly what Ellen Webster had in mind when she accepted a teaching position in Wyoming, but within a year’s time she’s fallen in love—both with the High Plains and with a handsome cowboy named Charlie Bacon. Life…