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A #1 bestseller, When The East Wind Blows follows Elisabeth and her four children during the final six months of World War II as they flee the advancing…
When The East Wind Blows
Historical Fiction · War Fiction · World War 2
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A #1 bestseller, When The East Wind Blows follows Elisabeth and her four children during the final six months of World War II as they flee the advancing Russian front in Nazi Germany and face bombing in the West. Based on a true story, it has a 4.2-star rating from more than 600 Amazon reviewers. A good pick for historical fiction readers interested in civilian survival, family, and the final months of World War II.
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A fast-paced World War II historical novel based on the true story of holocaust survivors
This historical novel, based on a true story, brings World War Two to a new level of reality and a descriptive intensity that will leave the reader spellbound.
It brings to life the dramatic experiences of a woman caught between a ruthless government and the will to survive with her children during the last six months of World War 2 in Nazi Germany as she flees the incoming Russian front in the East and right into the carpet bombing in the West.
This book brings this war down to a human level in a way that will leave the reader with a stunning new perspective never told in America and represents the missing link in the historical annals of this time.
A sequel called WEST WIND is being written at this time and deals with the chaotic aftermath of the collapse of the Third Reich and the survival of Elisabeth, her four children and Helga, the maid. It also describes her husband's experiences in an American prison camp in the south of France.
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Based on the heroic true stories of librarians who fought back, this historical novel follows Helene Nathan as she risks her safety to protect banned books from the…
Library of Forbidden Books
Historical Fiction · World War 2
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Based on the heroic true stories of librarians who fought back, this historical novel follows Helene Nathan as she risks her safety to protect banned books from the Nazis in 1933 Berlin, with a 3.5-star average from 39 Goodreads ratings. A good pick for historical fiction readers interested in librarians, censorship, and literature as resistance.
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In a world of burning books, one woman will risk everything to keep stories alive.
Berlin, 1933. The vibrant cultural heart of Germany is darkening under the shadow of the Nazi regime. For Helene Nathan, one of the first female librarians at a prestigious German library, the books she cherishes are no longer just sources of knowledge--they are targets. As the government begins its systematic purge of literature, compiling lists of "forbidden" works and orchestrating public book burnings, Helene realizes she cannot stand by as her world turns to ash.
Determined to resist the encroaching tyranny, Helene and her colleagues embark on a perilous mission of secretly collecting and hiding the very books slated for destruction. It's a dangerous act of defiance in a city where every neighbor could be an informant and the Gestapo are a constant, looming threat. Her quiet rebellion is especially complicated by the fact that Helene is half-Jewish, and Rudolf Kummer, a ruthless Nazi official, seemingly has a personal vendetta against her.
As the stakes escalate and friends and neighbors begin to disappear, Helene must decide how much she is willing to sacrifice. Her fight is not just for the pages she saves, but for the very soul of her country and the freedom to think.
Based on the heroic true stories of librarians who fought back, Library of Forbidden Books is a gripping tale of courage, the profound power of literature as resistance, and one woman's struggle to preserve humanity in the face of absolute evil.
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A good pick for readers of historical fiction about resistance, faith, courage, and escape from Nazi persecution.
The Auschwitz Escape
Historical Fiction · World War 2
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A Goodreads Choice Award nominee, this WWII historical novel follows French pastor Luc and Jewish prisoner Jacob as they form an unlikely alliance to escape Auschwitz and warn the Allies, with a 4.7-star rating from more than 5,300 Amazon reviewers. A good pick for readers of historical fiction about resistance, faith, courage, and escape from Nazi persecution.
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Another NYT Bestseller!
Finalist for the 2014 Goodreads Choice Awards.
A WWII historical novel inspired by true events.
Evil, unchecked, is the prelude to genocide.
As the Nazi war machine rolls across Europe, young Jacob Weisz is forced to flee his beloved Germany and join an underground resistance group in Belgium. But when a rescue operation goes horribly wrong, Jacob finds himself trapped in a crowded cattle car headed to southern Poland.
Sentenced to hard labor in the Auschwitz labor camp, Jacob forms an unlikely alliance with Jean-Luc Leclerc, a former assistant pastor who was imprisoned for helping Jews. They’ve been chosen for one of the most daring and dangerous feats imaginable—escape from Auschwitz. With no regard for their own safety, they must make it to the West and alert the Allies to the awful truth of what is happening in Poland before Fascism overtakes all of Europe. The fate of millions hangs in the balance.
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Ideal for readers looking for historical fiction about wartime China, civilian resistance, family survival, and the costs of occupation.
Dragon Seed
Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction · Asian Fiction
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From Nobel laureate Pearl S. Buck, Dragon Seed follows farmer Ling Tan and his family as the Japanese invasion of China destroys their rural life and drives them into resistance, with a 4.1-star average from more than 3,700 Goodreads ratings. Ideal for readers looking for historical fiction about wartime China, civilian resistance, family survival, and the costs of occupation.
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A New York Times–bestselling historical novel about the Japanese invasion of Nanking from the author of The Good Earth.
Farmer Liang Tan knows only a quiet, traditional life in his remote Chinese farming community. When news filters in that Japanese forces are invading the country, he and his fellow villagers believe that if they behave decently to the Japanese soldiers, the civilians might remain undisturbed. They're in for a shock, as the attackers lay waste to the country and install a puppet government designed to systematically carry out Japanese interests. In response, the Chinese farmers and their families form a resistance—which not only carries grave risk, but also breaks their vow of nonviolence, leading them to wonder if they're any different than their enemy.
Later adapted into a film featuring Katharine Hepburn, Dragon Seed is a brilliant and unflinching look at the horrors of war.
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A good pick for readers who like historical spy thrillers built around wartime intelligence, pursuit, and undercover intrigue.
Prince of Spies
Historical Fiction · Thriller · Historical Thriller · Political Thriller · War Fiction · World War 2
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Young detective Richard Prince hunts a German spy who comes ashore on a Lincolnshire beach in 1942, pulling him into a WWII espionage case, with a 4.4-star rating from more than 4,000 Amazon reviewers. A good pick for readers who like historical spy thrillers built around wartime intelligence, pursuit, and undercover intrigue.
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Find the truth; risk everything. A gripping WWII spy novel full of intrigue and peril from a modern master.
1942: A German spy comes ashore on a desolate stretch of Lincolnshire beach. But he is hunted down by a young detective, Richard Prince. The secret services have need of a man like him...
In occupied Europe, Denmark is a hotbed of problems for British intelligence. Rumours of a war-ending weapon being developed by the Germans are rife.
Sent to Copenhagen, Prince is soon caught in a deadly game of cat and mouse. Dodging Gestapo agents, SS muscle and the danger of betrayal, his survival and the war effort hangs in the balance.
Gripping and intense, Prince of Spies is the first in a new espionage series that will delight fans of Alan Furst, Philip Kerr and John le Carr.
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A strong match for readers drawn to Southern coming-of-age fiction, family dysfunction, caregiving, and long-buried family secrets.
The Myth of Perpetual Summer
Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction · Coming of Age
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In 1960s Mississippi, Tallulah James grows up managing the fallout from her parents' volatile behavior while helping raise her younger siblings and protect the family's reputation. After building a life in California, she is drawn back home, where she uncovers the secrets and lies behind her family's collapse, with a 4.3-star rating from more than 500 Amazon reviewers. A strong match for readers drawn to Southern coming-of-age fiction, family dysfunction, caregiving, and long-buried family secrets.
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From the national bestselling author of Whistling Past the Graveyard comes a moving Southern coming-of-age novel set in 1960s Mississippi that harkens to both Ordinary Grace and The Secret Life of Bees.
Tallulah James’s parents’ volatile relationship, erratic behavior, and hands-off approach to child rearing set tongues to wagging in their staid Mississippi town, complicating her already uncertain life. She takes the responsibility of shielding her family’s reputation and raising her younger twin siblings onto her youthful shoulders.
If not for the emotional constants of her older brother, Griff, and her old guard Southern grandmother, she would be lost. When betrayal and death arrive hand in hand, she takes to the road, headed to what turns out to be the not-so-promised land of Southern California. But the dysfunction and childhood trauma she left behind continue to echo through her scattered family, sending her brother on a disastrous path and drawing her home again. There she uncovers the long-buried secrets and lies that set her family on the road to destruction.
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This will appeal to readers who want historical horror built around institutional cruelty, female friendship, folk magic, and hard-won resistance.
Witchcraft for Wayward Girls
Historical Fiction · Horror · Literary Fiction · Occult Horror · Suspense
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In 1970, four pregnant teenagers confined at a Florida maternity home discover witchcraft and use their new power to resist the adults controlling their bodies and futures, with a 3.9-star average from more than 144,000 Goodreads ratings. This will appeal to readers who want historical horror built around institutional cruelty, female friendship, folk magic, and hard-won resistance.
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"Superb ... a perfect horror for our imperfect age.” – The New York Times
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER
They were never girls, they were witches . . . .
They call them wayward girls. Loose girls. Girls who grew up too fast. And they’re sent to the Wellwood House in St. Augustine, Florida, where unwed mothers are hidden by their families to have their babies in secret, to give them up for adoption, and most important of all, to forget any of it ever happened.
Fifteen-year-old Fern arrives at the home in the sweltering summer of 1970, pregnant, frightened, and alone. Under the watchful eye of the stern Miss Wellwood, she meets a dozen other girls in the same predicament. There’s Rose, a hippie who insists she’s going to find a way to keep her baby and escape to a commune. And Zinnia, a budding musician who plans to marry her baby’s father. And Holly, a wisp of a girl, barely fourteen, mute and pregnant by no-one-knows-who.
Everything the girls eat, every moment of their waking day, and everything they’re allowed to talk about is strictly controlled by the adults who claim they know what’s best for them. Then Fern meets a librarian who gives her an occult book about witchcraft, and power is in the hands of the girls for the first time in their lives. But power can destroy as easily as it creates, and it’s never given freely. There’s always a price to be paid . . . and it’s usually paid in blood.
In Witchcraft for Wayward Girls, the author of How to Sell a Haunted House and The Final Girl Support Group delivers another searing, completely original novel and further cements his status as a “horror master” (NPR).
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A good pick for fans of wallflower friendships, enemies-to-lovers tension, protective heroines, and rakish Regency heroes.
The Earl Not Taken
Historical Fiction · Romance · Historical Romance · Regency Romance
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Penelope “Poppy” Arrington asks longtime adversary Rhys Draper, Earl of Marsden, to help investigate the stranger her friend is expected to marry. Their uneasy alliance revives an old rivalry and sparks attraction, with a 4.0-star rating from more than 600 Amazon reviewers. A good pick for fans of wallflower friendships, enemies-to-lovers tension, protective heroines, and rakish Regency heroes.
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Left standing on the side while their contemporaries marry into society, four young ladies forge a bond to guard each other from a similar fate . . .
Finishing school failed to make a proper lady of Penelope Arrington. But as a Wallflower of West Lane, Poppy has a far more vital role—she and her three best friends have made a pact to protect each other from the clutches of dangerous, disreputable men. So when one of them is about to be married off to a duke sight unseen, Poppy makes it her mission to divine the prospective husband’s true character. If only she didn’t require the aid of London’s most unsuitable rake.
Rhys Draper, Earl of Marsden, has known the headstrong Poppy since she was a young girl naïve to the ways of men. To her eternal chagrin—and to his vague amusement—they have been at odds over the memory of embarrassing first encounter all these years. Now, with his services in need, Rhys sees a chance to finally clear the air between them. Instead, he is surprised by the heat of their feelings. If the two do not tread carefully, they may end up in a most agreeably compromising position . . .
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A strong match for readers who like medieval mysteries, undercover investigations, historical detail, and romance complicated by suspicion.
The Apothecary Rose
Historical Fiction · Mystery · Historical Mystery
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Called “Authentic characters, and a credible plot...Essential for historical fans” by Library Journal, this medieval mystery follows Owen Archer to York in 1363, where he poses as an apothecary’s apprentice after two knights die from a suspicious healing potion. His investigation draws him toward Lucie, the apothecary’s wife, even as evidence suggests she may be connected to the deaths, with a 4.3-star rating from more than 2,200 Amazon reviewers. A strong match for readers who like medieval mysteries, undercover investigations, historical detail, and romance complicated by suspicion.
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A healing remedy or a deadly poison? Owen Archer confronts a lethal mix of dangerous attraction and troubling secrets when two knights die unexpectedly.
York, 1363. Master apothecary Nicholas Wilton provides a healing potion for a wounded soldier at St. Mary’s Abbey.
A KILLER CURE?
When Brother Wulfstan administers the special physick to the pilgrim and a fellow knight, tragedy strikes. Is the poisonous potion an accident, or a deliberate act of murder? Owen is sent to investigate by the Archbishop of York, disguised as an apothecary apprentice assisting Wilton’s wife, Lucie.
THE SINS OF A KNIGHT
He soon learns that the first victim, Sir Geoffrey Montaigne, travelled to York to atone a past sin, and had crossed paths with Nicholas before. What was the knight’s past misdeed, and what is his connection to the apothecary?
IS FORBIDDEN LOVE A DEADLY DRUG?
Owen uncovers troubling links between the knight and others close to Nicholas – including Lucie, who has captured his heart. But is he falling in love with a killer?
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A strong match for readers drawn to military historical fiction, ancient-world politics, naval combat, and loyalty tested under pressure.
The Mercenary of Rome Trilogy
Historical Fiction · Pre-History | Ancient History · War Fiction
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Called “Strong characters, excellent action” by Conn Iggulden, The Mercenary of Rome Trilogy collects three historical novels following Roman sailor Atticus Perennis through naval warfare, piracy, mercenary uprisings, prejudice, and political betrayal during Rome’s conflict with Carthage. A strong match for readers drawn to military historical fiction, ancient-world politics, naval combat, and loyalty tested under pressure.
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Experience the glory and gore of the ancient world with all three of John Stack’s astonishingly vivid Mercenary of Rome novels—now in one volume!
From Sunday Times bestselling author John Stack comes a sweeping trilogy of blood, betrayal, and brotherhood at the heart of the Roman navy.
PRAISE FOR JOHN STACK:
‘Strong characters, excellent action.’ — Conn Iggulden
‘Peopled with characters both fictional and historical, this debut novel gives a fascinating and evocative insight into the high politics and military life of the times.’ — Daily Mail
Sicily, 241 BC. Carthage has been battered by years of war—but Rome’s ambition is only just beginning.
Veteran Roman sailor and outsider Atticus Perennis commands the Orcus, a powerful quinquereme warship. Fighting pirates, mercenaries, and Rome’s own deadly politics, Atticus must prove his loyalty again and again—while surviving treachery on all fronts.
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Ideal for readers drawn to literary historical fiction about guilt, war, love, and lasting consequences.
Atonement
Historical Fiction
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Called “a work of astonishing depth and humanity” by The Economist, Atonement begins in 1935, when thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis misreads a moment between her sister Cecilia and Robbie Turner and brings about a crime that changes their lives. The consequences unfold through World War II and beyond, with a 4.3-star rating from more than 10,900 Amazon reviewers. Ideal for readers drawn to literary historical fiction about guilt, war, love, and lasting consequences.
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A symphonic novel of love and war, childhood and class, guilt and forgiveness that provides all the satisfaction of a brilliant narrative and the provocation we have come to expect from the acclaimed Booker Prize–winning, internationally bestselling author.
One of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century • A Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Book of the Century
“A beautiful and majestic fictional panorama.” —John Updike, The New Yorker
On a hot summer day in 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis witnesses a moment’s flirtation between her older sister, Cecilia, and Robbie Turner, the son of a servant and Cecilia’s childhood friend. But Briony’s incomplete grasp of adult motives—together with her precocious literary gifts—brings about a crime that will change all their lives.
As it follows that crime’s repercussions through the chaos and carnage of World War II and into the close of the twentieth century, Atonement engages the reader on every conceivable level, with an ease and authority that mark it as a genuine masterpiece.
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Best for readers who like Western historical romance with marriage of convenience, found family, slow burn, grief healing, and a guaranteed happily ever after.
A Montana Marriage of Necessity
Historical Fiction · Historical Romance
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A Montana Marriage of Necessity follows Adelaide Whitford, a high-society woman fleeing her dangerous fiancé, as she becomes a mail-order bride in Montana Territory and enters a practical marriage with Rhett Callahan, a lumberjack raising two grieving children. Best for readers who like Western historical romance with marriage of convenience, found family, slow burn, grief healing, and a guaranteed happily ever after.
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"Why do you push me away every time I get close?"
"Because the closer you get, the more I realize I’d burn this whole mountain down just to keep you in it."
Adelaide Whitford is a woman of high society fleeing a nightmare. After her obsessive, dangerous fiancé threatens her safety, she escapes St. Louis to become a mail-order bride in the rugged Montana Territory. She seeks anonymity and freedom, yet when she steps into her new home, she is met with the chaos of two grieving children and a lumberjack who is far too handsome for a man as cold as he is.
Rhett Callahan doesn’t believe in love, only responsibility. After his brother’s death, he’s left with two grieving children and a life built on sacrifice. A practical marriage seems like the only answer. But as Adelaide begins to heal his family, he faces a terrifying question: is he brave enough to risk his heart on a woman who might be snatched away?
A Montana Marriage of Necessity is a stand-alone Western Historical Romance book with no cheating, no cliffhangers, and a guaranteed happily ever after.
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