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Reviews of some 20,000+ historical fiction books
Freedom Lessons: A Novel
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Told in alternating viewpoints, this impressive novel reaches back in time to the early days of school integration, and to a place in ...Read Review
The Girl in White Gloves: A Novel of Grace Kelly
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In her second venture into historical fiction, after documenting Kathleen “Kick” Kennedy and her debutante days in London, author Kerri Maher turns her ...Read Review
Upturned Earth
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This novel is set in mid-19th century Namaqualand, a mining area of South Africa’s Cape Colony. The terrain is as cruel ...Read Review
This Is Happiness
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The year the rain stops in Faha is the year that changes Noel’s life. The 17-year-old is living with his grandparents when ...Read Review
Muskrat Hill
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This mystery takes place in the small Texas town of Muskrat Hill in the late 19th century. Young Kit Robertson and his best ...Read Review
The Preserve: A Novel
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In February 1948, U.S. Army deserter Wendell Lett hides in Belgium with his young wife and new son. Lett is no coward. He ...Read Review
The Moonshiner’s Daughter
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It is 1960, and Jessie Sasser has inherited a legacy that she does not want: she comes from a long line of moonshiners. In ...Read Review
The Blossom and the Firefly
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Japan, 1945. After being buried alive in the wake of enemy bombings, Hana has become a ghost of herself. At 15, her class serves as ...Read Review
Nightingale Wedding Bells
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In the eleventh book in this series, focusing once more on the nurses at the Nightingale hospital in 1917, Douglas paints an interesting picture ...Read Review
Blood in the Dust
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This is a compelling story of the struggles, hardships and consequent adventures of a group of carefully put together characters who, for one ...Read Review
