Category: Historical Fiction
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Kill Her Twice by Stacey Lee: Content Guide
Publication Date: April 2024 Blurb: Los Angeles, 1932: Lulu Wong, star of the silver screen and the pride of Chinatown, has a face known to practically anyone, especially to the Chow sisters—May, Gemma, and Peony—Lulu’s former classmates and neighbors. So the girls instantly know it’s Lulu whose body they discover…
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Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two by Joseph Bruchac: Content Guide
Publication Date: Jan 2005 Blurb: After being taught in boarding school that Navajo is a useless language, Ned Begay and other Navajo men are recruited by the Marines to become Code Talkers, sending messages during World War II in their native tongue. What To Expect: Code Talker is a fictional…
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The Bright Years by Sarah Damoff: Content Guide
Publication Date: April 2025 Blurb: Ryan and Lillian Bright are deeply in love, recently married, and now parents to a baby girl, Georgette. But Lillian has a son she hasn’t told Ryan about, and Ryan has an alcohol addiction he hasn’t told Lillian about, so Georgette comes of age watching…
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One Final Turn by Ashley Weaver: Content Guide
Publication Date: June 2025 Blurb: Ellie McDonnell is about to embark on her most perilous mission go to Lisbon, Portugal to save her beloved cousin Toby who has reportedly escaped from a German prisoner of war camp. Toby has been missing since the Battle of Dunkirk and Ellie had all…
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Where the Rivers Merge by Mary Alice Monroe: Content Guide
Publication Date: May 2025 Blurb: 1908: The Lowcountry of South Carolina is at the cusp of change. Mayfield, the grand estate held for generations by the Rivers family, is the treasured home of young Eliza. Free spirited, she refuses to be confined by societal norms. Instead, Eliza revels in exploring…
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How to Solve Your Own Murder by Kristen Perrin: Content Guide
Publication Date: March 2024 Blurb: It’s 1965 and teenage Frances Adams is at an English country fair with her two best friends. But Frances’s night takes a hairpin turn when a fortune-teller makes a bone-chilling prediction: One day, Frances will be murdered. Frances spends a lifetime trying to solve a…
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Wild Reverence by Rebecca Ross: Content Guide
Publication Date: Sep 2025 Blurb: Born in the firelit domain of the under realm, Matilda is the youngest goddess of her clan, blessed with humble messenger magic. But in a land where gods often kill each other to steal power and alliances break as quickly as they are forged, Matilda…
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The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater: Content Guide
Publication Date: Oct 2011 Blurb: It happens at the start of every November: the Scorpio Races. Riders attempt to keep hold of their water horses long enough to make it to the finish line. Some riders live. Others die. At age nineteen, Sean Kendrick is the returning champion. He is…
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The War That Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley: Content Guide
Publication Date: Jan 2015 Blurb: Ten-year-old Ada has never left her one-room apartment. Her mother is too humiliated by Ada’s twisted foot to let her outside. So when her little brother Jamie is shipped out of London to escape the war, Ada doesn’t waste a minute—she sneaks out to join…
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A Holiday by Gaslight by Mimi Matthews: Content Guide
Publication Date: Feb 2025 Blurb: A Dutiful Daughter: Sophie Appersett is quite willing to marry outside of her class to ensure the survival of her family. But the darkly handsome Mr. Edward Sharpe is no run of the mill London merchant. He’s grim and silent. A man of little emotion–or…
