Category When You Prefer Your History Mixed With A Little Fiction

The House Of Eve

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…

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Horse

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…

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The Women

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…

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We Were The Lucky Ones

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…

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A House Without Windows

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…

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Black Cake 

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…

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