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Reviews of some 25,000+ historical fiction books
The War Begins in Paris
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A story of two women. One is famous, an audacious, beautiful, headline-grabber who is both loved and hated; the other is hardly noticed. ...Read Review
The Enemy of Love (Aria Book)
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1943 was a difficult year for Italy. Until July it fought as an ally of Germany against the British and Americans in Tunisia and ...Read Review
The Madstone
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Nineteen-year-old Benjamin is living a quiet life as a tradesman in a small Texas town during the post-Civil War Reconstruction era when he ...Read Review
A Beautiful Rival: A Novel of Helena Rubinstein and Elizabeth Arden
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Backstabbing. Competition. Sabotage. Who knew the beauty business could be so ugly? This is the somewhat true story of two intrepid entrepreneurs. New ...Read Review
The Redemption of Isobel Farrar
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This is a poignant, if occasionally sentimental musing on mortality, ageing, forgiveness, and the regrets of a long life. In 1926, 39-year-old WWI veteran ...Read Review
California Golden
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“Never fall in love with someone who doesn’t need you,” the father of preteens Mindy and Ginger Donnelly tells them in 1957 as ...Read Review
Brock’s Spirit
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General Brock is dead, but his sense of honor, justice, and bold service lives on in Jonathan Westlake. Only a handful of people ...Read Review
The Map Colorist
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Although young Anneke van Brug rarely ventures outside of her Amsterdam neighborhood, it is the age of Dutch exploration, and she grows up ...Read Review
The Lizzie and Belle Mysteries: Portraits and Poison
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Children/Young AdultMystery/Crime
London 1777. Lizzie Sancho, daughter of a teashop owner, and Dido Belle, an heiress living with her aunt and uncle at Kenwood House, have ...Read Review
The Roaring Days of Zora Lily: A Novel
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Greta Garbo’s white satin gown from the 1923 film, The Star, is the centerpiece at the Smithsonian’s Hollywood Glamour Exhibition in 2023. As ...Read Review
