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Category: Historical Fiction

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Lisa
Cilka's Journey The Tattooist of Auschwitz #2
Heather Morris
Cilka's journey illuminates the resilience of the human spirit -- and the will we have to survive.
- Lisa
Lisa
Three Sisters (third in the The Tattooist of Auschwitz trilogy)
Heather Morris
This true story will break your heart, but leave you amazed and uplifted by the courage and fierce love of three sisters, whose promise to each other kept them alive.
- Lisa
Alice
The Rose Code
Kate Quinn
As England prepares to fight the Nazis, three very different women answer the call to mysterious country estate Bletchley Park, where the best minds in Britain train to break German military codes.
- Alice
Dawn
The Last Green Valley
Mark T. Sullivan
A compelling and inspiring story of heroism and courage in the dark days at the end of World War II.
- Dawn
Jeanne
The Children's Book
A.S . Byatt
This is a story that spans the Victorian era through World War I about a children’s author and the passions, betrayals, and secrets that tear apart the lives of her family and loved ones.
- Jeanne
Alice
West with Giraffes
Lynda Rutledge
An emotional, rousing novel inspired by the incredible true story of two giraffes who made headlines and won the hearts of Depression-era America.
- Alice
Andy
Wolf Hall
Hilary Mantel
England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. This chronicles the life of Thomas Cromwell, and the narrative is focalised through him.
- Andy
Alice
Hamnet: A Novel of The Plague
Maggie O'Farrell
A luminous portrait of a marriage, a shattering evocation of a family ravaged by grief and loss, and a hypnotic recreation of the story that inspired one of the greatest masterpieces of all time.
- Alice
Sarah
The Secret Stealers
Jane Healy
A young widow and brilliant French teacher Anna Cavanaugh risks everything to help liberate France from the shadows of occupation and free herself from the shadows of her former life.
- Sarah
Alice
The Sweetness of Water: A Novel
Nathan Harris
The touching story of the unlikely bond between two freedmen who are brothers and the Georgia farmer whose alliance will alter their lives, and his, forever.
- Alice
Alice
The Last Green Valley
Mark Sullivan
This story is a brutal, complex, and ultimately triumphant tale that illuminates the extraordinary power of love, faith, and one family’s incredible will to survive a war to see their dreams realized.
- Alice
Laura
At The Edge of the Orchard
Tracy Chevalier
Chevalier tells a fierce, beautifully crafted story, her most graceful and richly imagined work yet. She describes the grandeur of the pristine Wild West and it's the everyday adventurers.
- Laura
Alison
American Dirt
Jeanine Cummins
This engaging book promotes empathy for migrants and was very controversial as it was written by a white American woman (who actually had a Puerto Rican mother who immigrated to the US.
- Alison
Gloria
All The Light We Cannot See
Anthony Doerr
A stunningly beautiful story about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II.
- Gloria
Alison
The Four Winds
Kristin Hannah
This is epic historical fiction, a harrowing, tough and painful read of one of American history's darkest period, the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl.
- Alison
Tiffany
The Four Winds
Kristin Hannah
An epic novel of love and heroism and hope, set against the backdrop of one of America’s most defining eras, the Great Depression.
- Tiffany
Jeanne
The Book of Longings
Sue Monk Kidd
While this novel contains the historical rather than theological Jesus as a character, it is really the story of his fictional wife, Ana.
- Jeanne
Alice
The Murmur of Bees
Sopfia Segovia
Set against the backdrop of the Mexican Revolution and the influenza of 1918, the fate of a country in flux and the destiny of one family that has put their love, faith, and future in the unbelievable
- Alice
Andy
We Germans: A Novel
Alexander Starritt
A thrilling story of adventure and a questing rumination on the moral ambiguity of war. An exploration of the moral contradictions inherent in saving one's own life at the cost of the lives of others
- Andy
Alice
Beneath a Scarlet Sky
Mark T Sullivan
Based on the true story of a forgotten hero, this is the triumphant, epic tale of one young man’s incredible courage and resilience during one of history’s darkest hours.
- Alice
Tiffany
The Lions of Fifth Avenue
Fiona Davis
A page-turner for booklovers everywhere! . . . A story of family ties, their lost dreams, and the redemption that comes from discovering truth."
- Tiffany
Laura
Gilead
Marilynne Robinson
This Pulizer Prize winner is an intimate tale of three generations, from the Civil War to the 20th century: a story about fathers and sons and the spiritual battles that still rage at America's heart.
- Laura
Andy
Delta Wedding
Eudora Welty
This is a vivid and charming portrait of Southern life set in 1923.
- Andy
Alice
A Long Petal of the Sea
Isabel Allende
In this work of historical fictions we have an”intimate look at the relationship between one man and one woman and an epic story of love, war, family, and the search for home, this gorgeous novel, lik
- Alice

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