The House Of Eve Sadeqa Johnson Historical Fiction 1950s Philadelphia: fifteen-year-old Ruby Pearsall is on track to becoming the first in her family to attend college. But a taboo love affair threatens to pull her back down into the poverty…
Horse Geraldine Brooks Historical Fiction Kentucky, 1850. An enslaved groom named Jarret and a bay foal forge a bond of understanding that will carry the horse to record-setting victories across the South. When the nation erupts in civil war, an…
The Women Kristin Hannah Historical Fiction Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath hears these words, it is a revelation. Raised in the sun-drenched, idyllic world of Southern California and sheltered by her conservative parents, she…
Anita De Monte Laughs Last Xochitl Gonzalez Historical Fiction 1985. Anita de Monte, a rising star in the art world, is found dead in New York City; her tragic death is the talk of the town. Until it isn’t. By…
We Were The Lucky Ones Georgia Hunter Historical Fiction It is the spring of 1939 and three generations of the Kurc family are doing their best to live normal lives, even as the shadow of war grows closer. The talk…
A House Without Windows Nadia Hashimi Historical Fiction A vivid, unforgettable story of an unlikely sisterhood – an emotionally powerful and haunting tale of friendship that illuminates the plight of women in a traditional culture from the author of the…
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store James McBride Historical Fiction In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new development, the last thing they expected to find was a skeleton at the bottom of a…
The Keeper Of Happy Endings Barbara Davis Historical Fiction Soline Roussel is well schooled in the business of happy endings. For generations her family has kept an exclusive bridal salon in Paris, where magic is worked with needle and thread.…
Black Cake Charmaine Wilkerson Historical Fiction We can’t choose what we inherit. But can we choose who we become? In present-day California, Eleanor Bennett’s death leaves behind a puzzling inheritance for her two children, Byron and Benny: a black cake, made…