Category When You Prefer Your History Mixed With A Little Fiction

Diary of a Dead Man on Leave David Downing World War II  In April 1938, a man calling himself Josef Hofmann arrives at a boarding house in Hamm, Germany, and lets a room from the widow who owns it. Fifty…

A Raisin in the Sun Lorraine Hansberry Historical Fiction Lorraine Hansberry’s award-winning drama about the hopes and aspirations of a struggling, working-class family living on the South Side of Chicago connected profoundly with the psyche of Black America—and changed American…

All The Light We Cannot See Anthony Doerr World War II Marie-Laure lives with her father in Paris near the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of its thousands of locks. When she is six, Marie-Laure…

Life Is So Good George Dawson & Richard Glaubman  Memoir In this remarkable book, George Dawson, a slave’s grandson who learned to read at age 98 and lived to the age of 103, reflects on his life and shares valuable…

Far From The Madding Crow Thomas Hardy Historical Fiction In Thomas Hardy’s first major literary success, independent and spirited Bathsheba Everdene has come to Weatherbury to take up her position as a farmer on the largest estate in the area.…

The Moonflower Vine Jetta Carleton Historical Fiction On a farm in western Missouri during the first half of the twentieth century, Matthew and Callie Soames create a life for themselves and raise four headstrong daughters. Jessica will break their hearts.…

The Silver Star Jeannette Walls Historical Fiction It is 1970 in a small town in California. “Bean” Holladay is twelve and her sister, Liz, is fifteen when their artistic mother, Charlotte, takes off to find herself, leaving her girls enough…

Snow Falling On Cedars David Guterson Historical Fiction San Piedro Island, north of Puget Sound, is a place so isolated that no one who lives there can afford to make enemies.  But in 1954 a local fisherman is found suspiciously drowned,…

The Light Between Oceans M.L. Stedman  Historical Fiction After four harrowing years on the Western Front, Tom Sherbourne returns to Australia and takes a job as the lighthouse keeper on Janus Rock, nearly half a day’s journey from the coast.…

Moloka’i Alan Brennert  Historical Fiction Rachel Kalama, a spirited seven-year-old Hawaiian girl, dreams of visiting far-off lands like her father, a merchant seaman. Then one day a rose-colored mark appears on her skin, and those dreams are stolen from her.…