Historical Fiction

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“Stella is not a lengthy book and can be read in several hours. But it packs a punch way beyond its weight.

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As the world faces down a crisis of epic proportions—a pandemic not a mere epidemic—it is refreshing to lose oneself in the story of a 15-year-old girl, left largely to her own resources by her

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After love went wrong in his younger years, small-town sheriff Winston Browne has led a simple bachelor’s life taking care of the people in his quaint, Gulf Coast community of Moab, Florida.

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“Wedding Station is an ideal choice for both Downing fans and newcomers to his fast-paced and intense crime novels.”

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“Gaps of time notwithstanding, Charlier puts forth an interesting take on an historical event.”

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“grab a copy of this book and be transported back to the Roman Empire circa 55 CE . . .”

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“[a] thought-provoking quest to understand the meaning of evil, guilt, and survival.”

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“well plotted and richly populated” 

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A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes, though billed as a novel, is a collection of vignettes and interrelated stories concerning various goddesses, nymphs, and mortal women connected in some

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Surely there are World War II novels that aren’t depressing, but this isn’t one of them.

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"chilling depictions of prewar naivete, the slowly tightening noose in the ghetto, and a murderous eruption of anti-Semitism in Ukraine”

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recommended for readers who prize beautiful prose and story moments that linger.”

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“A sweeping panorama of events set in motion to re-establish power in the years after the death of Julius Caesar.”

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I’m Staying Here is a simple title surrounding a profoundly moving story about ordinary people trying to live their lives as farmers, as they have for centuries. It’s 1923.

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This book is perfect for readers who love details.

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The Children’s Train is a sympathetic, well-crafted novel filled with vacation-worthy sights and authentic experiences from an Italy that balances folk tradition with modernity.”

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“The world that Mytting brings the reader into is a lost world of simplicity and harshness and a stunning beauty where almost everything is within plain sight, and yet almost nothing can be

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Critics for years have argued about whether T. S. Eliot was a closeted homosexual.

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A Lady Compromised is a complex, enthralling mystery that rivals those of Anne Perry and Agatha Christie.”

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“A rare talent and an elusive one.”

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The Chanel Sisters is a well-researched historical fiction that depicts France’s Belle Epoch and post-war change.

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“A lovely, gorgeously set, romantic story sure to charm lovers of historical fiction with its joie de vivre and savoir faire.”

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“a love story, and also as a glimpse of a small Cornish town during a tumultuous time in history, when a dramatic turn of events can change an isolated teenager into a daring young woman.”

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It seems a shame when a story begins with the death of the protagonist, but it signals the book’s trajectory and creates a story that must be told, now, lest it be forgotten.

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“Macallister’s writing is powerful, and she concocts a gripping story with strong, very human characterizations . . .”

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