Category When You Prefer Your History Mixed With A Little Fiction

Haven Cross

Haven Cross Julie Daines Historical Fiction When a shocking scandal involving her father spreads through London society, Elaine Cardinham and her parents are forced to retreat to their country home in Cornwall for refuge. But Havencross is no sanctuary for…

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The House at Riverton

The House at Riverton Kate Morton Historical Fiction Grace Bradley went to work at Riverton House as a servant when she was just a girl, before the First World War. For years her life was inextricably tied up with the…

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The King’s Daughter 

The King’s Daughter Sandra Worth Historical Fiction Seventeen-year-old Elizabeth of York trusts that her beloved father’s dying wish has left England in the hands of a just and deserving ruler. But upon the rise of Richard of Gloucester, Elizabeth’s family…

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No Names to be Given

No Names to be Given Julia Brewer Daily  Historical Fiction 1965. Sandy runs away from home to escape her mother’s abusive boyfriend. Becca falls in love with the wrong man. And Faith suffers a devastating attack. With no support and…

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Two Old Women

Two Old Women Velma Willis Folklore Based on an Athabascan Indian legend passed along for many generations from mothers to daughters of the upper Yukon River Valley in Alaska, this is the suspenseful, shocking, ultimately inspirational tale of two old…

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The Opera Sisters

The Opera Sisters Marianne Monson World War II British sisters Ida and Louise Cook enjoy their quiet, unassuming lives in south London. Ida writes romance novels, and Louise works as a secretary. In the evenings, the sisters indulge in their…

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The Four Winds

The Four Winds Kristin Hannah Historical Fiction a powerful American epic about love and heroism and hope, set during the Great Depression, a time when the country was in crisis and at war with itself, when millions were out of…

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The Sun Also Rises

The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway  Classics Ernest Hemingway, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954, exerted a lasting influence on fiction in English through his economical prose style that conceals more than it reveals. His first novel,…

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The Spy Mistress

The Spy Mistress Jennifer Chiaverini American Civil War Born to slave-holding aristocracy in Richmond, Virginia, and educated by Northern Quakers, Elizabeth Van Lew was a paradox of her time. When her native state seceded in April 1861, Van Lew’s convictions…

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