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Reviews of some 20,000+ historical fiction books
Unshaken
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Francine Rivers’ third novella in her Lineage of Grace series continues with the same simple charm of the previous novellas. Unshaken is the ...Read Review
A Curse of Silence: A Mystery of Ancient Egypt
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This is the fourth of Lauren Haney’s Lieutenant Bak series. A rumor sweeps down the Nile, from Kemet to Wawat: Queen Hatshepsut ...Read Review
Stone Tables
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Biographical FictionInspirational
Card once again produces an enjoyable story of biblical fiction, his Stone Tables is the story of Moses and the Exodus, but with ...Read Review
Sarah: Women of Genesis
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As the second daughter of a king-in-exile, young Princess Sarai has been promised as a priestess to the Temple of Asherah. But when ...Read Review
Tutankhamen: The Life and Death of the Boy-King
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Christine El Mahdy, an Egyptologist at Liverpool University, has written a chatty, engaging, and well-researched account covering the few known facts about Tutankhamen ...Read Review
What If?: The World’s Foremost Military Historians Imagine What Might Have Been (What If Essays)
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Arguing the “what ifs” of history is one of our more enjoyable past-times and certainly contributes to the enduring hold the study of ...Read Review
Fire Bringer
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Richard Adams did animal fantasy so well that there has yet to be anything written to match it (Redwall aside), so it was ...Read Review
The Language of Threads
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This novel is a sequel to Women of the Silk and has the same protagonist, Pei. In 1938, Pei leaves China for Hong Kong, ...Read Review
Dead Above Ground
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Late 1940s New Orleans is the most prominent feature of Dead Above Ground. Author Jervey Tervalon fills his novel with New Orleans’ mystery, ...Read Review
These Granite Islands
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It’s 1999 and Isobel Howard is 99 years old. She knows she is dying, and she is taking one last look back at the ...Read Review
