Category: Historical Fiction
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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…
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North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell: Content Guide
Publication Date: Jan 1855 Blurb: When her father leaves the Church in a crisis of conscience, Margaret Hale is uprooted from her comfortable home in Hampshire to move with her family to the north of England. Initially repulsed by the ugliness of her new surroundings in the industrial town of…
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Fawkes by Nadine Brandes: Content Guide
Publication Date: July 2018 Blurb: Thomas Fawkes is turning to stone, and the only cure to the Stone Plague is to join his father’s plot to assassinate the king of England. Silent wars leave the most carnage. The wars that are never declared, but are carried out in dark alleys…
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If I Go by Emily Ann: Content Guide
Publication Date: May 2025 Blurb: Beneath the sprawling limbs of southern oaks, where Spanish moss drapes like lace and the scent of salt lingers in the air, Eleanor Davis and Fred Jackson spend their childhood in the heart of 19th century Charleston, South Carolina. Their friendship is as constant as…