Category: Historical Fiction
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The Girl from the Hidden Forest by Hannah Linder: Content Warnings
Publication Date: April 2024 Synopsis: Eliza Ellis has stayed hidden in Balfour Forest for as long as she can remember. Perhaps her only friends are the trees, or her little dog, or her story-telling father called Captain. But at least she is safe from the cruel world outside, a world…
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Ross Poldark by Winston Graham: Content Warnings
Publication Date: Jan 1945 Synopsis: Ross Poldark is a heartwarming, gripping, and utterly entertaining saga that brings to life an unforgettable cast of characters and one of the greatest love stories of our age. Ross Poldark returns to Cornwall from war, looking forward to a joyful homecoming with his family…
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The Valentine Writer by Iris Lim: Content Warnings
Publication Date: August 2024 Synopsis: Beloved and sickly since childhood, Mary Danforth lends her pen to her siblings’ courtships while accepting her own inevitable spinsterhood. When her brother returns home with a brooding, handsome captain in tow, Mary strikes up an unlikely friendship with the gentleman that makes her dare…
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Tough Luck by Sandra Dallas: Content Warnings
Publication Date: April 2025 Synopsis: After their mother dies, Haidie Richards and her younger brother, Boots, are put to work in an orphanage. Their father left four years earlier to find a gold mine in Colorado Territory, and since then he’s sent only three letters. Still, Haidie is certain that…
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Honey by Isabel Banta: Content Warnings
Synopsis: It is 1997, and Amber Young has received a life-changing call. It is a chance thousands of girls would die for: the opportunity to join girl group Cloud9 in Los Angeles and escape her small town. She quickly finds herself in the orbits of fellow rising stars Gwen Morris,…
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The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo: Content Warnings
Synopsis: In a shabby house, on a shabby street, in the new capital of Madrid, Luzia Cotado uses scraps of magic to get through her days of endless toil as a scullion. But when her scheming mistress discovers the lump of a servant cowering in the kitchen is actually hiding…
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Kinfolk by Sean Dietrich: Content Warnings
Synopsis: Sometimes it’s the most unlikely meetings that give us life’s greatest gifts. 1970s, Southern Alabama. Sixty-two-year-old Jeremiah Lewis Taylor, or “Nub,” has spent his whole life listening to those he loves tell him he’s no good—first his ex-wife, now his always-disapproving daughter. Sure, his escapades have made him, along…
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The Baker’s Secret by Lelita Baldock: Content Warnings
Synopsis: Riga, 1943. Cycling the streets to deliver fresh loaves, Zenta passes empty houses, curtains open, doors unlocked, their occupants forced out by Russian or German hands. Above the newly built town hall, a Nazi flag waves in the breeze. Since her brother became a soldier and her sister joined the…
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Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford: Content Warnings
Synopsis: In 1986, Henry Lee joins a crowd outside the Panama Hotel, once the gateway to Seattle’s Japantown. It has been boarded up for decades, but now the new owner has discovered the belongings of Japanese families who were sent to internment camps during World War II. As the owner…
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Until Our Time Comes by Nicole Miller: Content Warnings
Synopsis: American horse trainer Adia Kensington is living her dream of working at the famous Janów Podlaski stables in Poland, where they breed the best Arabian horses in the world. But her plans to bring the priceless stallion Lubor to the US are derailed when the German army storms into…
