Category: Historical Fiction
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Embers in the London Sky by Sarah Sundin: Content Warnings
Synopsis: As the German army invades the Netherlands in 1940, Aleida van der Zee Martens escapes to London to wait out the Occupation. Separated from her three-year-old son, Theo, in the process, the young widow desperately searches for her little boy even as she works for an agency responsible for…
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Appalachian Song by Michelle Shocklee: Content Warnings
Synopsis: Bertie Jenkins has spent forty years serving as a midwife for her community in the Great Smoky Mountains of East Tennessee. Out of all the mothers she’s tended, none affects her more than the young teenager who shows up on her doorstep, injured, afraid, and expecting, one warm June…
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The Fountains of Silence by Ruta Sepetys: Content Warnings
Synopsis: Madrid, 1957. Under the fascist dictatorship of General Francisco Franco, Spain is hiding a dark secret. Meanwhile, tourists and foreign businessmen flood into Spain under the welcoming promise of sunshine and wine. Among them is eighteen-year-old Daniel Matheson, the son of an oil tycoon, who arrives in Madrid with…
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The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride: Content Warnings
Synopsis: In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new development, the last thing they expected to find was a skeleton at the bottom of a well. Who the skeleton was and how it got there were two of the long-held secrets kept by the…
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The Wartime Book Club by Kate Thompson: Content Warnings
Synopsis: Jersey, 1943. Once a warm and neighbourly community, now German soldiers patrol the cobbled streets, imposing a harsh rule on the people of the island. Grace La Mottee, the island’s only librarian, is ordered to destroy books which threaten the new regime. Instead, she hides the stories away in secret.…
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The Ladies Rewrite the Rules by Suzanne Allain: Content Warnings
Synopsis: Diana Boyle, a wealthy young widow, has no desire to ever marry again. Particularly not to someone who merely wants her for her fortune. So when she discovers that she’s listed in a directory of rich, single women she is furious, and rightly so. She confronts Maxwell Dean, the…
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Nothing Else but Miracles by Kate Albus: Content Warnings
Synopsis: Down on the farm, Duck sometimes got wild ideas. Once he rode a bike all around the barnyard. It was fun! Then he spotted the big red tractor. “I bet I can drive a tractor,” he said. Duck jumped on. At first it moved very slowly, and it jerked a lot,…
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The Jazz Files by Fiona Veitch Smith: Content Warnings
Synopsis: In 1920, twenty-two year old Poppy Denby moves from Northumberland to live with her paraplegic aunt in London. Aunt Dot, a suffragette who was injured in battles with the police in 1910, is a feisty and well-connected lady. Poppy has always dreamed of being a journalist, and quickly lands…
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The Peasant King by Tessa Afshar: Content Warnings
Synopsis: Jemmah has always thought of herself as perfectly ordinary . . . until she faces extraordinary circumstances. When her mother, the Persian king’s famous senior scribe, is kidnapped, Jemmah and her sister must sneak undetected into enemy territory to rescue her. But infiltrating their adversary’s lands proves easier than…
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Up from Dust by Heather Kaufman: Content Warnings
Synopsis: No stranger to adversity, Martha of Bethany is a woman of dust, undone and unseen in her hurt and loss. After her mother’s untimely death, the responsibility for raising her siblings–Lazarus and Mary–lies heavily on her shoulders. She finds solace in a new friendship and the beginnings of first…
