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Reviews of some 20,000+ historical fiction books
Maria: A Novel of Maria von Trapp
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It’s the 1950s, and your life’s about to be made into a musical by the Tony Award-winning team of Rodgers and ...Read Review
Shelterwood
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This richly imagined dual-timeline tale introduces eleven-year-old Olive Peele and her adopted Choctaw sister, Nessa Rusk. In Oklahoma in 1909, they escape the abusive ...Read Review
The Glassmaker
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Out of the Renaissance and the islands of Murano have come the world’s premier glass artisans, with Venice as the leading trade ...Read Review
Small Bomb At Dimperley
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England 1945, and Dimperley Manor in Buckinghamshire is recovering from the predations of war, having been used as a home for pregnant women whose ...Read Review
Coleman Hill
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A fictionalized family saga, or in the author’s preferred term, a biomythography, Coleman Hill travels through several generations of the Coleman family, ...Read Review
A Crane Among Wolves
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This dense but fast-moving YA adventure begins with 17-year-old Iseul staggering through the forest of medieval Korea, desperate to find and rescue her ...Read Review
The Devil Raises His Own
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California during the Edwardian era is an interesting place. The blurbs call this a “crime saga,” and there is crime and violence galore, ...Read Review
In Silence Cries the Heart
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This is a dual-timeline novel that tells a passionate love story. In 17th-century Scotland, a cattle thief does not normally get the chance ...Read Review
No Perfect Mothers
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Carrie Buck has not lived an easy life. Taken from her mother at a young age, she grows up amid neglect and abuse ...Read Review
Last House
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After fighting in the Pacific, Nick Taylor feels grateful for his post-war prosperity, a fragile blessing. He believes in the promise of American-led ...Read Review