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Reviews of some 20,000+ historical fiction books
The Unwilling
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After three Vietnam tours and two years in a jail for serious offenders, burned-out Jason French comes home to Charlotte, North Carolina. Jason’...Read Review
Olive Bright, Pigeoneer
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1941, Hertfordshire: Olive Bright, home from veterinary college due to the war, helps her father with his veterinary practice and their stable of racing ...Read Review
To Dwell among Cedars (The Covenant House)
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Arisa and Lukio are fleeing from Ashdod and an uncle about to sell Arisa to the temple. Through the sacrifice of a Hebrew ...Read Review
The Ravens of Blackwater (Domesday)
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Marston is a prolific author, and confident in his art. Here’s a brisk murder-mystery set in the aftermath of the Conquest, following ...Read Review
Zora and Me: The Summoner
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Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult
The possibility of a zombie rising from the grave drives the action in the finale to the Zora & Me trilogy, a fictionalized ...Read Review
Red Wing
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This is the story of two families, the Frost family in Dania, Florida, and the Harris family of Sandersville, Georgia. Between 1910 and 1921, they ...Read Review
The Talking Drum
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The deleterious effects of the gentrification of a Black neighborhood in the early 1970s are explored with insight in The Talking Drum. Three ...Read Review
Poppy Redfern and the Fatal Flyers (A Woman of WWII Mystery)
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Poppy Redfern and the Fatal Flyers is the second book in the A Woman of World War II mystery series by Tessa Arlen. ...Read Review
Conquest: The Anarchy (The Conquest)
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As the priest pronounces Nest married to a man she doesn’t want, her dead lover appears. But this is the 12th century, ...Read Review
The North Wind Descends (The Lord Hani Mysteries)
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1340 BCE. Tensions are high in Kemet under the sun king, Akhenaten, who has just named his brother Smenkhkare as co-regent. During a commission ...Read Review
