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Historical Fiction Series Including the Napoleonic Booklists Can Be Found Online At: Wars Rifleman Richard Sharpe Orringer, Julia The Flight Portfolio The true story of Varian Fry’s extraordinary attempt Historical to save the work and lives of Jewish artists in occupied Europe in 1940. Fiction Reddi, Rishi Passage West A sweeping, vibrant first novel following a family Allende, Isabel of Indian sharecroppers at the onset of World War I, A Long Petal of the Sea revealing a little-known part of California history. Allende’s historical novels never disappoint! Her Robson, Jennifer latest follows the story of Roser, a refugee fleeing The Gown: A Novel of the Royal Wedding Spain during the 1930’s Spanish Civil War. London, 1947 Ann Hughes and Miriam Dassin, Barron, Stephanie embroiderers at the famed Mayfair fashion house That Churchill Woman are chosen for a once-in-a-lifetime honor: taking This is the enthralling story of Jennie Jerome, the part in the creation of Princess Elizabeth’s wedding wealthy, privileged and fiercely independed New gown. Yorker who took Victorian England by storm and Rose, M.J. became the mother of Winston Churchill. Cartier’s Hope Boyd, Natasha Determined to make her mark in Gilded Age New The Indigo Girl York, a woman journalist investigates rumors and The amazing true story of Eliza Pickney who ran curses swirling around Pierre Cartier's recently her father’s plantation outside Charleston, SC in acquired Hope Diamond. the 1700s. She made a bargain with the plantation Sepetys, Ruta slaves that if they taught her how to make indigo, The Fountains of Silence she would teach them to read. Also At the Castellana Hilton in 1957 Madrid, Daniel Recommended: Washington Black by Esi Edugyan Matheson connects with Ana Moreno through Brennert, Alan photography and fate as Daniel discovers the Molokai & the recent sequel, Daughter of Molokai incredibly dark side of the city under Generalissimo Seven year old Rachel Kalama is sent to the Franco's rule. isolated leper colony on the Hawaiian island of Whitehead, Colson Molokai. In the sequel, Rachel’s daughter Ruth is The Nickel Boys raised by adoptive Japanese parents in California Whitehead brilliantly dramatizes the story of two before her unjust internment during World War II. boys sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim Brooks, Geraldine Crow-era Florida in the early 1960’s. Whitehead is People of the Book the author of The Underground Railroad and winner This is the amazing fictionalized account of the of the 2017 Pultizer for Fiction. history of the Jewish Haggadah in Sarajevo. It is Williams, Beatriz the tale of all the people who risked their lives to All the Ways We Said Goodbye save the book. All books by Geraldine Brooks are An heiress, a Resistance fighter and a widow find recommended! their lives intertwined by their wartime experiences Cornwell, Bernard and the turbulent 1960s when they seek refuge at Sword of Kings Paris’ legendary Ritz hotel. Sword of Kings is the twelfth historical novel in The Saxon Stories. It is set in 10th-century England and continues to follow the fortunes of the fictional Eldredge Public Library 564 Main Street Uhtred of Bebbanburg, King Alfred and the Chatham, MA 02633 making of England . Cornwell has several 508-945-5170 historical fiction series including the Napoleonic Booklists can be found online at: Wars rifleman Richard Sharpe. http://www.eldredgelibrary.org Updated 2020 Chiaverini, Jennifer Kidd, Sue Monk Resistance Women The Invention of Wings Based on a true story of a group of women in On Sarah Grimke's eleventh birthday, she is given Germany who risked their lives to fight the Nazi ownership of ten year old Handful, a Charleston regime. Also recommended: The Lost Girls of slave, who is to be her handmaid. Follow their Paris, by Pam Jenoff journey over the next thirty-five years as both strive for a life of their own and form a complex Donati, Sara relationship. Also try Kidd’s latest book of The Gilded Hour & Where the Light Enters nontraditional historical fiction The Book of A two part saga about two trailblazing doctors in Longings. A what-if story where Kidd imagines 19th century New York City. Dr. Sophie Savard Jesus Christ’s missing years and speculates that he and her cousin Dr. Anna Savard help the was married to a rebellious and ambitious wife, disadvantaged women in a society that would with a brilliant mind and a daring spirit. rather forget them. Lawhon, Ariel Erdrich, Louise Code Name Helene The Night Watchman A novel based on the real-life story of socialite-spy Based on the extraordinary life of Erdrich's Nancy Wake features the astonishing woman who grandfather who worked as a night watchman and killed a Nazi with her bare hands and went on to carried the fight against Native dispossession from become one of the most decorated women in rural North Dakota all the way to Washington, D.C. WWII. in the 1950’s. Moyes, JoJo Estes, Kelli The Giver of Stars Today We Go Home Set in depression-era America, a story of five Military veteran Larkin Bennett discovers a diary extraordinary women and their remarkable journey of Emily Wilson, a young woman who disguised through the mountains of Kentucky and beyond herself as a man to fight for the Union in the Civil when they answer the call to deliver books as War. Also recommended: Estes’ The Girl Who part of Eleanor Roosevelt's new traveling library. Wrote in Silk They become known as the Horseback Librarians of Kentucky. Also recommended: The Faye, Lyndsay The Paragon Hotel Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Rich- From this historical novel superstar comes a story ardson. set in 1921 Oregon. Alice James finds sanctuary in McCoy, Sarah the only all black hotel just as the KKK descends Marilla of Green Gables upon Portland. McCoy reimagines the young life of spinster Gregory, Philippa Marilla Cuthbert and the choices she makes on the Tidelands island of Avonlea in 19th century Nova Scotia. Gregory strays away from the Royals to tell a story Also recommended: McCoy’s The Mapmaker’s set in 17th century England during the Civil War. Children. Alinor is an ordinary woman caught up in a web of McLain, Paula extraordinary circumstances in a time when its Love and Ruin dangerous for a woman to be different. This is the In 1937 Madrid, war correspondent Martha Gellorn first book in a new series. falls in love with Ernest Hemingway. Also Kent, William recommended: McLain’s Circling the Sun. This Tender Land O’Nan, Stewart Minnesota, 1932. Hundreds of Native American City of Secrets children are forcibly separated from their parents Set in 1945, the story follows one Jewish holocaust and sent to be educated at the Lincoln School. survivor as he is relocated to Jerusalem, acclimates Odie & his brother Albert flee with two friends and to his new life and new identity, and his take a canoe down the mighty Mississippi. involvement with the resistance. .
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