Category: Historical Fiction
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The Lost Baker of Vienna by Sharon Kurtzman: Content Guide
Publication Date: Aug 2025 Blurb: Vienna, 1946: Chana Rosensweig has endured the horrors of war to find herself, her mother, and younger brother finally free in Vienna. But freedom doesn’t look like they imagined it would, as they struggle to make a living and stay safe. Despite the danger, Chana…
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The Bitter End Birding Society by Amanda Cox: Content Guide
Publication Date: Aug 2025 Blurb: Hometown hero Ana Leigh Watkins ventures to Bitter End, Tennessee, to help her great-aunt get her house ready to sell. Bitter End seems an ironic place for Ana to refresh her weary spirit, but she’s desperate for respite from her community’s attention and unwarranted admiration.…
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Under the Tulip Tree by Michelle Shocklee: Content Guide
Publication Date: Sep 2020 Blurb: Sixteen-year-old Lorena Leland’s dreams of a rich and fulfilling life as a writer are dashed when the stock market crashes in 1929. Seven years into the Great Depression, Rena’s banker father has retreated into the bottle, her sister is married to a lazy charlatan and…
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The French Kitchen by Kristy Cambron: Content Guide
Publication Date: Aug 2025 Blurb: Paris, 1952 — An ex-pat wife living in Paris signs up for a cookery class taught by an American chef with an indomitable wit and decidedly French airs–an instructor by name of Julia Child. Amongst classes of the L’Ecole des Trois Gourmandes, with pots and pans and…
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The Queen of Attolia by Megan Whalen Turner: Content Guide
Publication Date: April 2000 Blurb: When Eugenides, the Thief of Eddis, stole Hamiathes’s Gift, the Queen of Attolia lost more than a mythical relic. She lost face. Everyone knew that Eugenides had outwitted and escaped her. To restore her reputation and reassert her power, the Queen of Attolia will go…
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Lady Tan’s Circle of Women by Lisa See: Content Guide
Publication Date: June 2023 Blurb: According to Confucius, “an educated woman is a worthless woman,” but Tan Yunxian—born into an elite family, yet haunted by death, separations, and loneliness—is being raised by her grandparents to be of use. Her grandmother is one of only a handful of female doctors in…
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Yours is the Night by Amanda Dykes: Content Guide
Publication Date: Aug 2021 Blurb: Private Matthew Petticrew arrives in France as part of the American Expeditionary Forces, an arrival which a war-weary France desperately hopes will help to end the turmoil. Having faced unthinkable things on the front, he is captivated by the sound of a lullaby, sung by…
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Rules For Ruin by Mimi Matthews: Content Guide
Publication Date: May 2025 Blurb: On the outskirts of London sits a seemingly innocuous institution with a secretive aim—train young women to distract, disrupt, and discredit the patriarchy. Outraged by a powerful politician’s systematic attack on women’s rights, the Academy summons its brightest—and most bitter—pupil to infiltrate the odious man’s…
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Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands by Heather Fawcett: Content Guide
Publication Date: April 2025 Blurb: Emily Wilde is a genius scholar of faerie folklore who just wrote the world’s first comprehensive encyclopaedia of faeries. She’s learned many of the secrets of the Hidden Ones on her adventures . . . and also from her fellow scholar and former rival Wendell…
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Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett: Content Guide
Publication Date: Jan 2023 Blurb: Cambridge professor Emily Wilde is good at many things: She is the foremost expert on the study of faeries. She is a genius scholar and a meticulous researcher who is writing the world’s first encyclopaedia of faerie lore. But Emily Wilde is not good at people.…
