Category: Historical Fiction
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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.…
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Broken Country by Clare Leslie Hall: Content Guide
Publication Date: March 2025 Blurb: Beth and her gentle, kind husband Frank are happily married, but their relationship relies on the past staying buried. But when Beth’s brother-in-law shoots a dog going after their sheep, Beth doesn’t realize that the gunshot will alter the course of their lives. For the…
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Roads of Resistance by A.L. Sowards: Content Guide
Publication Date: July 2025 Blurb: 1940. After her father is murdered, fifteen-year-old Ingrid Lang flees her home in Austria only to become separated from her siblings and stranded in the Dutch city of Arnhem with a pair of broken legs. Her future would be bleak if not for the kindness…
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Keeper of Enchanted Rooms by Charlie N. Holmberg: Content Guide
Publication Date: Nov 2022 Blurb: Rhode Island, 1846. Estranged from his family, writer Merritt Fernsby is surprised when he inherits a remote estate in the Narragansett Bay. Though the property has been uninhabited for more than a century, Merritt is ready to call it home—until he realizes he has no…
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The Incredible Winston Browne by Sean Dietrich: Content Guide
Publication Date: March 2021 Blurb: Folks in Moab live for ice cream socials, baseball, and the local paper’s weekly gossip column. For decades, Sheriff Winston Browne has watched over Moab with a generous eye, and by now he’s used to handling the daily dramas that keep life interesting for Moab’s…
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The Souls of Lost Lake by Jamie Jo Wright: Content Guide
Publication Date: April 2022 Blurb: Wren Blythe has long enjoyed being among the Northwoods, helping her father with programming at a youth camp. But when a little girl in the area goes missing, an all-out search ensues, reviving the decades-old campfire story of Ava Coons, the murderess, who still roams…
