Category: Historical Fiction
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Georgana’s Secret by Arlem Hawks: Content Guide
Publication Date: Jan 2021 Synopsis: 1811, HMS Deborah. Georgana Woodall dreams of freedom—freedom from her past and freedom from her secret. She has been living on her father’s ship for years, disguised as a cabin boy named “George.” But hiding her true self is becoming more difficult, and she yearns to…
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By the Light of the Setting Sun by Laura Rollins: Content Guide
Publication Date: Oct 2023 Synopsis: Adam Drake, Earl of Linsfield, has spent years ensuring his brothers’ futures. But an uneasy feeling tugs at him. His young step-sister, neglected by her father, is in need of his care and protection. After traveling to Bath, he finds her unhappy and her father…
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The Last House on the Street by Diane Chamberlain: Content Guide
Publication Date: Jan 2022 Synopsis: 2020. A recently widowed architect moves into the home she and her late husband designed, heartbroken that he will never cross the threshold. But when disturbing things begin to happen, it’s clear that someone is sending her a warning. Who is trying to frighten her…
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The Bletchley Riddle by Ruta Sepetys & Steve Sheinkin: Content Guide
Publication Date: Oct 2024 Synopsis: Summer, 1940. Nineteen-year-old Jakob Novis and his quirky younger sister Lizzie share a love of riddles and puzzles. And now they’re living inside of one. The quarrelsome siblings find themselves amidst one of the greatest secrets of World War II—Britain’s eccentric codebreaking factory at Bletchley…
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Of Gold and Shadows by Michelle Griep: Book Content Guide
Publication Date: Sep 2024 Synopsis: In 1888 Victorian England, Ami Dalton navigates a clandestine dual life. By day, she strives to establish herself as a respected Egyptologist, overcoming the gender biases that permeate academia. But with a heart for rescuing black-market artifacts, she is most often disguised as her alter…
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The Elusive Truth of Lily Temple by Joanna Davidson Politano: Content Guide
Publication Date: April 2024 Synopsis: Peter Driscoll, an underground investigator to the wealthy, has never met anyone like Lily Temple. The beautiful silent-film actress spins fairy tales and plays frivolous roles in front of the cine-camera, but beneath the costumes and stage makeup is a woman with a quick wit–and…
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Hope Like Wildflowers by Pepper Basham: Content Guide
Publication Date: Oct 2024 Synopsis: Kizzie McAdams spent her childhood longing to see beyond the mountains of home, but when her job as a servant in a landowner’s house results in an unplanned pregnancy, her world tips into uncertainty and heartbreak. Disowned by her father, she seeks comfort in the…
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Count the Nights by Stars by Michelle Shocklee: Content Guide
Publication Date: Mar 2022 Synopsis: 1961. After a longtime resident at Nashville’s historic Maxwell House Hotel suffers a debilitating stroke, Audrey Whitfield is tasked with cleaning out the reclusive woman’s room. There, she discovers an elaborate scrapbook filled with memorabilia from the Tennessee Centennial Exposition. Love notes on the backs of…
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Christmas at Sugar Plum Manor by Roseanne M. White: Content Guide
Publication Date: Sep 2024 Synopsis: As the beloved stepdaughter of the Earl of Castleton, Lady Mariah Lyons cherishes her home at Plumford Manor, but her idyllic world will be threatened when the estate passes to Cyril Lightbourne, a childhood friend she hasn’t seen or heard from in years. Once, Mariah…
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The Love Elixir of Augusta Stern by Lynda Cohen Loigman: Content Guide
Publication Date: Oct 2024 Synopsis: On the cusp of turning eighty, newly retired pharmacist Augusta Stern is adrift. When she relocates to Rallentando Springs—an active senior community in southern Florida—she unexpectedly crosses paths with Irving Rivkin, the delivery boy from her father’s old pharmacy—and the man who broke her heart…
