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Reviews of some 20,000+ historical fiction books
Highland Hopes
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Abigail Faith Porter, Granny Abby to her family, was born in 1900. Now over 100, she recalls the first thirty years of life in the ...Read Review
Music of Falling Water
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Like the soft lap of waves on a shore, this tale of a family in early 20th century Alabama gives the reader a ...Read Review
A Way of Life, Like Any Other
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This spare, compelling book was originally published in 1977 and is reissued now with an introduction by Seamus Heaney. A fictionalized account of O’...Read Review
Proud and Angry Dust
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Knox Plains, Texas was a racially divided town in the 1920s, during the coming of age of Moose O’Malley and his uncle ...Read Review
Grand Ambition
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In November 1928, with minimal supplies and a homemade boat, newlyweds Glen and Bessie Hyde left Green River, Utah with the goal of running ...Read Review
Quakertown
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The growing metropolis of 1920s Denton, Texas and the evolution of race relations are examined in Lee Martin’s first full-length novel. Although ...Read Review
The Biograph Girl
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Alternate HistoryBiographical Fiction
The best biographical novels compel us to delve more deeply into the true history behind the characters, and this is no exception. In 1910, ...Read Review
Requiem for a Lost Empire
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Makine, an expatriate Russian who writes in French, presents a poetic and lyrical examination of the trials and struggles of the Soviet people ...Read Review
Rose of Nancemellin
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At the heart of this entertaining upstairs-downstairs tale is an effervescent, energetic working-class heroine who accepts her place in the world but is ...Read Review
Our Arcadia: An American Watercolor
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Can a divorced mother, her best friend, her two young children, three artists and their various lovers live together in the same ...Read Review
