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Reviews of some 20,000+ historical fiction books
Eliza Mace (Eliza Mace Mysteries)
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In the first book of a Victorian mystery series, set in the 1870s, the 16-year-old Eliza Mace is in a fix. Her warring ...Read Review
We Are Only Ghosts
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Another novel on the Holocaust… Holocaust survivors… survivors meeting their persecutors after the war. The literary landscape is replete with scores of volumes ...Read Review
Lucifer & the Great Baltimore Brawl
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A sequel to Galloway’s Gamble, this adventure has the Texas Galloway brothers, Jamey and Jake, involved in a horseracing scheme that includes ...Read Review
The Mender: Book 1 of The Mender Trilogy
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Eva is a Mender, a fixer of time. She travels to “shadow” timelines, bringing them in line with the “one true timeline,” a ...Read Review
The Last Line (John Cook)
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Besides the obvious preparations which the British made to defend themselves in 1940 against a German invasion – all that concrete and barbed wire everywhere – ...Read Review
Mary Not Broken
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1930s Mississippi. Fifteen-year-old Mary Johnson rebels against her preacher father’s rules and rural life in Flora, Mississippi. When well-to-do, older Reverend Will ...Read Review
Adam Unrehearsed
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In the way of all enduring fiction, Adam Unrehearsed uses vibrant specificity of time and place to wrench readers into a new world ...Read Review
The Sorrowful Girl (Liam Barrett Gilded Age Novels)
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In 1895, in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, a tramp finds a beautiful young woman dead in the woods. Liam Barrett, a policeman from the nearby town ...Read Review
The Strongest Heart (The Clan Donald Saga)
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The Strongest Heart, Book 3 in the Clan Donald Saga, opens in 1386 when Donald of Islay succeeds his late father as Lord of the ...Read Review
Sweetness All Around
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This novel has exactly the right title. It’s far from saccharine, as it takes a set of discouraging facts—unhappy ten-year-old, deadbeat ...Read Review