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Reviews of some 15,000 historical fiction books
The Doll Factory
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Iris paints porcelain faces, ‘threads hair through the holes in the scalp, sometimes curls it with irons heated in the coals,’ in Mrs ...Read Review
Daughters of Northern Shores (A Blackbird Mountain Novel)
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Meet the Norgaard family of rural Appalachia in the late 1800s: Norwegian immigrants who are devout and tough people. Thor, who is deaf, ...Read Review
The Island of Sea Women
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Life for women in Jeju, a remote Korean island, is very different than in other places. Here women are the breadwinners, working outside ...Read Review
Who Slays the Wicked (Sebastian St. Cyr Mystery Book 14)
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At one time, Sebastian St. Cyr, himself, had been hunted for crimes he did not commit. Now, however, on a spring day in 1814, ...Read Review
House of Glass
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Clara Waterfield grew up in the early years of the 20th century with the rare medical condition of having extraordinarily delicate bones, liable ...Read Review
The Office of Gardens and Ponds
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Set in Heian Japan, the book gives us two startlingly opposed worldviews – the imperial court is described in all its effete, rigid, exquisite ...Read Review
Sarah’s War
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In 1777 an embryonic America is fighting a seemingly doomed battle for its existence. Seventeen-year-old fervent patriot Sarah Champion is sent from her Connecticut ...Read Review
Feast Your Eyes
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Lillian Preston is a woman driven to capture her unique world vision through the lens of her camera. In 1953, the seventeen-year old abandons ...Read Review
Gum Moon: A Novel of San Francisco Chinatown
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Gum Moon, Cantonese for ‘Golden Gate,’ indicates the setting for most of this illuminating novel about the slavery of Chinese girls in San ...Read Review
The Parisians
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In Paris on the eve of the Nazi invasion, the Ritz Hotel is the center of life for the rich and famous and ...Read Review