Category: Historical Fiction
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After The Water Brooks by Erica Daneseau: Content Warnings
Synopsis: Once she was lost, but now she’s found. 1981—Kitty and Claude Fisher have built a good life after leaving the small, dusty town of Goldfield, Nevada. Yet, as her fiftieth birthday approaches, Kitty can’t help but feel something is missing from her idyllic life. It doesn’t help that she…
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The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon: Content Warnings
Synopsis: Maine, 1789: The Kennebec River freezes, entombing a man in the ice. Martha Ballard is summoned to examine the body and determine cause of death. As the local midwife and healer, Martha is good at keeping secrets. Her diary is a record of every birth and death, every murder…
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The Weight Of Air by Kimberly Duffy: Content Warnings
Synopsis: In 1911, Mabel MacGinnis is Europe’s strongest woman and has performed beside her father in the Manzo Brothers Circus her entire life. But at his unexpected death, she loses everything she’s ever known and sets off in the company of acrobat Jake Cunningham for America in hope of finding…
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Beyond That, The Sea by Laura Spence-Ash: Content Warnings
Synopsis: As German bombs fall over London in 1940, working-class parents Millie and Reginald Thompson make an impossible choice: they decide to send their eleven-year-old daughter, Beatrix, to America. There, she’ll live with another family for the duration of the war, where they hope she’ll stay safe. Scared and angry,…
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The Book Spy by Alan Hlad: Content Warnings
Synopsis: 1942: With the war’s outcome hanging in the balance, President Roosevelt sends an unlikely new taskforce on a unique mission. They are librarians and microfilm specialists trained in espionage, working with a special branch of the Office of Strategic Services and deployed to neutral cities throughout Europe. By acquiring and…
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The Sisters of Sea View by Julie Klassen: Content Warnings
Synopsis: When their father’s death leaves them impoverished, Sarah Summers and her genteel sisters fear they will be forced to sell the house and separate to earn livelihoods as governesses or companions. Determined to stay together, Sarah convinces them to open their seaside home to guests to make ends meet…
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Beneath His Silence by Hannah Linder: Content Warnings
Synopsis: Second daughter of a baron—and a little on the mischievous side—Ella Pemberton is no governess. But the pretense is a necessity if she ever wishes to get inside of Wyckhorn Manor and attain the truth. Exposing the man who killed her sister is all that matters. Lord Sedgewick knows there’s…
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The Blackout Book Club by Amy Lynn Green: Content Warnings
Synopsis: An impulsive promise to her brother before he goes off to the European Front puts Avis Montgomery in the unlikely position of head librarian in small-town Maine. Though she has never been much of a reader, when wartime needs threaten to close the library, she invents a book club…
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The Picture Bride by Lee Geum-yi: Content Warnings
Synopsis: “Your husband is a landowner,” they told her. “Food and clothing is so plentiful, it grows on trees.” “You will be able to go to school.” Of the three lies the matchmaker told Willow before she left home as a picture bride in 1918, the third hurt the most.…
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The Thread Collectors by Shaunna J. Edwards; Alyson Richman: Content Warnings
Synopsis: 1863: In a small Creole cottage in New Orleans, an ingenious young Black woman named Stella embroiders intricate maps on repurposed cloth to help enslaved men flee and join the Union Army. Bound to a man who would kill her if he knew of her clandestine activities, Stella has…
