Category: Historical Fiction
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With Each Tomorrow by Tracie Peterson and Kimberley Woodhouse: Content Warnings
Publication Date: May 2024 Synopsis: As the formation of Glacier National Park takes Eleanor Briggs and her conservationist father on a journey west to advocate for public lands, her heart carries the weight of a painful past. Since the death of her mother, she has spent her life traveling the…
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Toward the Dawn by Mary Connealy: Content Warnings
Publication Date: June 2024 Synopsis: Kat Wadsworth and Sebastian Jones never imagined their lives would entwine so closely. Forced to flee on a wagon train from a vengeful uncle and an unknown gunman, they live in a hidden canyon with the family that rescued them. But as the days turn…
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Marilla of Green Gables by Sarah McCoy: Content Warnings
Publication Date: Oct 2018 Synopsis: Plucky and ambitious, Marilla Cuthbert is thirteen years old when her world is turned upside down. Her beloved mother dies in childbirth, and Marilla suddenly must bear the responsibilities of a farm wife: cooking, sewing, keeping house, and overseeing the day-to-day life of Green Gables…
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The Midnight Show by Sarah Pennington: Content Warnings
Publication Date: Aug 2020 Synopsis: By day, Dayo Temitrope is a swinging singer, an up-and-coming star with a shining career ahead of her. By night, she’s . . . well, she’s not sure, but whatever she does leaves her every morning with sore feet and worn-out shoes. And after six…
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Drinker of Ink by Shannon Castleton: Content Warnings
Publication Date: Jan 2024 Synopsis: Paris-born Vivienne Lebrun longs for a different life. One where she doesn’t attend college three thousand miles away from her family in New York City. A life where she is sophisticated and has kissed many men, both standing up and sitting down, like the lovers…
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The Wings of Poppy Pendleton by Melanie Dobson: Content Warnings
Publication Date: Sep 2023 Synopsis: 1907. On the eve of her fifth birthday, Poppy Pendleton is tucked safely in her bed, listening to her parents entertain New York’s gilded society in their Thousand Islands castle; the next morning, she is gone, and her father is found dead in his smoking room.…
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Big Lies in a Small Town by Diane Chamberlain: Content Warnings
Publication Date: Jan 2020 Synopsis: North Carolina, 2018: Morgan Christopher’s life has been derailed. Taking the fall for a crime she did not commit, she finds herself serving a three-year stint in the North Carolina Women’s Correctional Center. Her dream of a career in art is put on hold—until a…
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To Charm a Lady by Joanna Barker: Content Warnings
Publication Date: June 2024 Synopsis: Cora Atherton wants nothing more than to finally fall in love—real love, not the unrequited sort. When she is invited to attend a house party without her disapproving, overbearing mother, Cora leaps at the chance, desperate to make a match of her own. That is,…
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The Maid of Ballymacool by Jennifer Deibel: Content Warnings
Publication Date: Feb 2023 Synopsis: Brianna Kelly was abandoned at Ballymacool House and Boarding School as an infant. She has worked there since she was a wee girl and will likely die there. Despite a sense that she was made for something more, Brianna feels powerless to change her situation,…
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Under the Magnolias by T. I. Lowe: Content Warnings
Publication Date: May 2021 Synopsis: Magnolia, South Carolina, 1980: Austin Foster is barely a teenager when her mama dies giving birth to twins, leaving her to pick up the pieces while holding her six siblings together and doing her best to stop her daddy from retreating into his personal darkness.…
