Category When You Prefer Your History Mixed With A Little Fiction

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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The Night in Lisbon

The Night in Lisbon Erich Maria Remarque World War II  With the world slowly sliding into war, it is crucial that enemies of the Reich flee Europe at once. But so many routes are closed, and so much money is…

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Gutenberg’s Apprentice

Gutenberg’s Apprentice Alix Christie Historical Fiction An enthralling literary novel that evokes one of the most momentous events in history, the birth of printing in medieval Germany—a story of invention, intrigue, and betrayal, rich in atmosphere and historical detail, told…

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House of Broken Angels

House of Broken Angels Luis Alberto Urrea Historical Fiction “All we do, mija, is love. Love is the answer. Nothing stops it. Not borders. Not death.”  In his final days, beloved and ailing patriarch Miguel Angel de La Cruz, affectionately…

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The Diamond Eye

The Diamond Eye Kate Quinn World War II In 1937 in the snowbound city of Kyiv, wry and bookish history student Mila Pavlichenko organizes her life around her library job and her young son—but Hitler’s invasion of Ukraine and Russia…

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