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Read On… Historical Fiction : Reading Lists for Every Taste
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This guide is intended to serve as a resource for librarians who are asked to recommend historical fiction titles or for readers ...Read Review
Burden of Memory
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Elaine Benson arrives at the lake house of a wealthy Canadian family to help the eldest sister write her memoirs. Moira Madison ...Read Review
Bones of the Barbary Coast
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The skeleton of a victim of the 1906 earthquake is uncovered during a San Francisco historic home remodel and is dubbed the “wolfman” ...Read Review
The Rebels of Ireland
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Rutherfurd’s latest bestseller concludes his sweeping look at Irish history first begun in The Princes of Ireland (Dublin in the UK). ...Read Review
A Map of Glass
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Set in Ontario, Jane Urquhart’s latest novel is both contemporary and historical, though the rather disturbing prologue doesn’t make it ...Read Review
Gideon the Cutpurse
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Scriptwriter Linda Buckley-Archer makes a promising debut with Gideon the Cutpurse, the first in a trilogy of young adult time-travel novels. Twelve-year-old ...Read Review
Hearing By Jael
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In 1860, fifteen-year-old Frances Boullet received a forty-volume diary set. Over the years, she recorded the history of her family and her observations of ...Read Review
Rosetta
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As a child, Rose Hall is fascinated with language and stories. When her father reveals that she was named for the port of ...Read Review
White Blood
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This novel reads like a memoir. Born in 1889, Charlie Doig had an English father and a Russian mother. He tells us of his ...Read Review
The World To Come
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The World to Come is, quite simply, one of the best novels I have read in a long time. At the heart of ...Read Review
