Category: Historical Fiction
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The Year of Jubilee by Cindy Morgan: Content Warnings
Publication Date: April 2023 Synopsis: Stifled by tragedy, thirteen-year-old Grace Mockingbird yearns to escape her mother’s controlling, grieving hand and find her voice in a small Kentucky coal mining town. A tragic family loss has driven a wedge between Grace and her mother, who seems to be silently punishing Grace…
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The Man on the Buckskin Horse by Rachel Kovaciny: Content Warnings
Publication Date: April 2024 Synopsis: As the local midwife and sole medical professional in her Nebraska community, Miss Emma always wants to help. When she learns the Owens family’s bitter enemy has hired a gunman to force them from their home, she rushes to the Owens homestead to warn them.…
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The Diamond Eye by Kate Quinn: Content Warnings
Publication Date: March 2022 Synopsis: In 1937 in the snowbound city of Kyiv, wry and bookish history student Mila Pavlichenko organizes her life around her library job and her young son–but Hitler’s invasion of Ukraine and Russia sends her on a different path. Given a rifle and sent to join…
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The Briar Club by Kate Quinn: Content Guide & Warnings
Publication Date: July 2024 Synopsis: Washington, D.C., 1950. Everyone keeps to themselves at Briarwood House, a down-at-the-heels all-female boardinghouse in the heart of the nation’s capital, where secrets hide behind white picket fences. But when the lovely, mysterious widow Grace March moves into the attic, she draws her oddball collection…
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What The Wind Knows by Amy Harmon: Content Warnings
Publication Date: March 2019 Synopsis: Anne Gallagher grew up enchanted by her grandfather’s stories of Ireland. Heartbroken at his death, she travels to his childhood home to spread his ashes. There, overcome with memories of the man she adored and consumed by a history she never knew, she is pulled…
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Summer in the Highlands by Nichole Van, Heidi Kimball, Michele Paige Holmes: Content Warnings
Publication Date: June 2024 Synopsis: Rose has always been different. Since the day she was born, it was clear she had a special fate. Her superstitious mother keeps the unusual circumstances of Rose’s birth a secret, hoping to prevent her adventurous daughter from leaving home… but she can’t suppress Rose’s…
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Beneath A Crescent Shadow: The Balkan Legends by A. L. Sowards: Content Warnings
Publication Date: June 2024 Synopsis: The Balkans, 1373. A devastating battle claimed the lives of Konstantin’s father, uncle, and most of their Serb army, leaving him to rule as a vassal of the Ottoman sultan, a role he is wholly unprepared for. Between war, famine, and a persistent band of…
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The Underground Library by Jennifer Ryan: Content Warnings
Publication Date: March 2024 Synopsis: When new deputy librarian, Juliet Lansdown, finds that Bethnal Green Library isn’t the bustling hub she’s expecting, she becomes determined to breathe life back into it. But can she show the men in charge that a woman is up to the task of running it,…
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Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen: Content Warnings
Publication Date: Dec 1817 Synopsis: The story’s unlikely heroine is Catherine Morland, a remarkably innocent seventeen-year-old woman from a country parsonage. While spending a few weeks in Bath with a family friend, Catherine meets and falls in love with Henry Tilney, who invites her to visit his family estate, Northanger…
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Weaving Roots by Heather Wood: Content Warnings
Publication Date: June 2024 Synopsis: Baltimore, 1828. Spinning. Turning flax to fine linen thread for her family’s weaving business keeps Betha’s hands occupied all day, but it’s the concerns spinning in her heart that never truly rest. How can she give her nephew Henry a secure, loving home when his…
