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When war reaches a missionary school in northern China, teachers and children must find courage where safety once stood.
When We Were Young & Brave
Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction · War Fiction · Women's Fiction · World War 2
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When war reaches a missionary school in northern China, teachers and children must find courage where safety once stood. In When We Were Young & Brave, Elspeth Kent and ten-year-old Nancy Plummer endure occupation and internment as Japanese forces seize control, testing faith and loyalty at every turn. This World War II historical novel traces resilience, sacrifice, and the fragile bonds that sustain hope.
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"Gaynor's story of courage and strength will make you believe in the heroic spirit in each of us." —Lisa Wingate, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Before We Were Yours
The New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Who Came Home sets her unforgettable new novel in China during WWII, inspired by true events surrounding the Japanese Army’s internment of teachers and children from a British-run missionary school.
Their motto was to be prepared, but nothing could prepare them for war.
China, December 1941. Having left an unhappy life in England for a teaching post at a missionary school in northern China, Elspeth Kent is now anxious to return home to help the war effort. But as she prepares to leave China, a terrible twist of fate determines a different path for Elspeth,and those in her charge.
Ten-year-old Nancy Plummer has always felt safe at Chefoo School, protected by her British status. But when Japan declares war on Britain and America, Japanese forces take control of the school and the security and comforts Nancy and her friends are used to are replaced by privation, uncertainty and fear. Now the enemy, and separated from their parents, the children look to their teachers – to Miss Kent and her new Girl Guide patrol especially – to provide a sense of unity and safety.
Faced with the relentless challenges of oppression, the school community must rely on their courage, faith and friendships as they pray for liberation – but worse is to come when they are sent to a distant internment camp where even greater uncertainty and danger await . . .
Inspired by true events, When We Were Young and Brave is an unforgettable novel about impossible choices and unimaginable hardship, and the life-changing bonds formed between a young girl and her teacher in a remote corner of a terrible war.
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In Nazi-occupied Italy, the fate of stolen masterpieces rests in the hands of two women pulled into a dangerous race against time.
The Last Masterpiece
Historical Fiction · War Fiction · Women's Fiction · World War 2
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In Nazi-occupied Italy, the fate of stolen masterpieces rests in the hands of two women pulled into a dangerous race against time. In The Last Masterpiece, a German photographer and an American stenographer navigate shifting alliances and mounting destruction as Hitler’s plans threaten Florence’s artistic legacy. This World War II historical novel explores loyalty, conscience, and the cost of preserving beauty amid war.
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In a race across Nazi-occupied Italy, two women—a German photographer and an American stenographer—hunt for priceless masterpieces looted from the Florentine art collections.
In the summer of 1943, Eva Brunner is taking photographs of Nazi-looted art hidden in the salt mines of the Austrian hinterland. Across the ocean in Connecticut, Josephine Evans is working as a humble typist at the Yale Art Gallery.
When both women are called to Italy to contribute to the war effort, neither imagines she will hold the fate of some of the world’s greatest masterpieces torn from the Uffizi Galleries and other Florentine art collections in her hands.
But as Italy turns from ally to enemy and Hitler’s plan to destroy irreplaceable monuments and works of art becomes frighteningly clear, each woman’s race against the clock—and against one another—might demand more than they were prepared to give.
The Last Masterpiece takes readers on a heart-pumping adventure up the Italian peninsula, where nothing is as it seems and some of the greatest works of art and human achievement are at stake. Who might steal and who might save a work of art—and at what cost?
Inspired by the incredible true story of the Monuments Women, the Fifth Army WACs, and the looted Florentine art collections during World War II, the latest historical novel by USA Today bestselling author and art historian Laura Morelli plunges readers into the heart of war-torn Italy.
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Four women arrive at a desert fortress carrying grief, secrets, and lives shaped by violence long before the siege begins.
The Dovekeepers
Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction · Psychological Fiction · Women's Fiction
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Four women arrive at a desert fortress carrying grief, secrets, and lives shaped by violence long before the siege begins. As Roman forces close in on Masada, Yael, Revka, Aziza, and Shirah find their fates intertwined through survival, love, and loss. The Dovekeepers is a historical novel rooted in legend, centered on women whose inner lives endure even as history narrows around them.
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An ambitious and mesmerizing historical novel from the bestselling author of Rules of Magic. The Dovekeepers is “striking….Hoffman grounds her expansive, intricately woven, and deepest new novel in biblical history, with a devotion and seriousness of purpose” (Entertainment Weekly).
Nearly two thousand years ago, nine hundred Jews held out for months against armies of Romans on Masada, a mountain fortress in the Judean desert. According to the ancient historian Josephus, two women and five children survived. Based on this tragic and iconic event, Hoffman’s novel is a spellbinding tale of four extraordinarily bold, resourceful, and sensuous women, each of whom has come to Masada by a different path. Yael’s mother died in childbirth, and her father, an expert assassin, never forgave her for that death. Revka, a village baker’s wife, watched the murder of her daughter by Roman soldiers; she brings to Masada her young grandsons, rendered mute by what they have witnessed. Aziza is a warrior’s daughter, raised as a boy, a fearless rider and expert marksman who finds passion with a fellow soldier. Shirah, born in Alexandria, is wise in the ways of ancient magic and medicine, a woman with uncanny insight and power.
The lives of these four complex and fiercely independent women intersect in the desperate days of the Roman siege of Masada. All are dovekeepers, and all are also keeping secrets—about who they are, where they come from, who fathered them, and whom they love.
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War shatters safety and forces impossible choices when survival becomes an act of defiance.
Enemy Women
Historical Fiction · Historical Romance · Women's Fiction
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War shatters safety and forces impossible choices when survival becomes an act of defiance. During the American Civil War, young Adair Colley endures imprisonment, loss, and betrayal before escaping into a hostile countryside marked by violence and suspicion. As she travels south on faith and memory, Enemy Women blends historical fiction with romance, tracing resilience, moral courage, and the fragile hope of rebuilding a life after ruin.
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For the Colleys of southeastern Missouri, the War between the States is a plague that threatens devastation, despite the family’s avowed neutrality. For eighteen-year-old Adair Colley, it is a nightmare that tears apart her family and forces her and her sisters to flee. The treachery of a fellow traveler, however, brings about her arrest, and she is caged with the criminal and deranged in a filthy women’s prison.
But young Adair finds that love can live even in a place of horror and despair. Her interrogator, a Union major, falls in love with her and vows to return for her when the fighting is over. Before he leaves for battle, he bestows upon her a precious gift: freedom.
Now an escaped "enemy woman," Adair must make her harrowing way south buoyed by a promise . . . seeking a home and a family that may be nothing more than a memory.
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A forgotten wartime letter draws a heartbroken researcher from an English country house to the streets of Florence, uncovering a lost love and a devastating family secret.
The Florence Letter
Historical Fiction · Women's Fiction · World War 2
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A forgotten wartime letter draws a heartbroken researcher from an English country house to the streets of Florence, uncovering a lost love and a devastating family secret. As past and present collide, forgiveness and belonging are put to the test. Readers rate this emotional dual narrative 4.3 stars on Amazon and 4.2 on Goodreads.
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Looking out over the twinkling city lights of Florence, Claire thinks of the letter that has brought her here. Written by a woman who escaped the Blitz, it holds a secret kept for a lifetime… but can Claire make the woman’s dying wish come true?
Claire arrives at her new job as researcher at a grand English country house, nursing a broken heart. But tucked into the back of a long-forgotten drawer she finds a letter written in an elegant hand. It tells of a wartime secret about the beautiful Lady Violet – whose passionate affair with an Italian prisoner of war scandalised the village and ended in tragedy.
Captivated, Claire promises to find Violet’s daughter, Tabitha, and reunite her with a priceless piece of her mother’s jewellery. With only the name of an Italian bakery, Pasticceria Mancini, to guide her, and the help of her handsome neighbour Jim, Claire travels to Tabitha’s last known location – Florence.
Winding through the colourful streets, the sun warm on her bare shoulders, a tantalising scent of freshly baked bread floats on the air and Claire’s heart leaps at the sight of an ageing bakery sign: Mancini. Although she learns that Tabitha hasn’t been there for many years, Claire refuses to give up. And as she and Jim talk late into the night over glasses of local chianti, Claire looks into his piercing blue eyes and finds herself growing closer to him…
But when they finally track Tabitha down, it isn’t the happy reunion she expected and Claire is left reeling in the wake of discovering a devastating family secret.
Violet’s story has an ending – but will the truth lead to forgiveness, or will it only bring more pain? And will Claire be forced to walk away from a chance of happiness with Jim at last?
Escape to Italy in this gorgeous story of past and present colliding. Readers of Lucinda Riley and Fiona Valpy will be utterly enchanted by this sweeping, romantic page-turner.
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Separated as children, a struggling single mother and a successful barrister live vastly different lives shaped by the same loss.
Half a World Away
Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · Women's Fiction
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Separated as children, a struggling single mother and a successful barrister live vastly different lives shaped by the same loss. When they reconnect years later, buried truths about family, class, and identity come to the surface. This Richard and Judy Book Club selection holds a 4.2-star average on Amazon with over 25,000 Goodreads ratings.
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Strangers living worlds apart.
Strangers with nothing in common.
But it wasn't always that way...
Kerry Hayes is single mum, living on a tough south London estate. She provides for her son by cleaning houses she could never afford. Taken into care as a child, Kerry cannot forget her past.
Noah Martineau is a successful barrister with a beautiful wife, daughter and home in fashionable Primrose Hill. Adopted as a young child, Noah never looks back.
When Kerry contacts Noah, the sibling she lost on the day they were torn apart as children, she sets in motion a chain of events that will change both of their lives forever.
By turns funny and moving, Half a World Away is a story that will stay with you long after you read its final page.
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After devastating personal loss, Libby McKenzie takes a photography job at a historic estate where new connections and an overgrown greenhouse pull her toward long-avoided truths.
Honeysuckle Season
Historical Fiction · Historical Romance · Women's Fiction
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After devastating personal loss, Libby McKenzie takes a photography job at a historic estate where new connections and an overgrown greenhouse pull her toward long-avoided truths. A discovery in her late father’s office reveals secrets that reshape her past and future. This reflective women’s fiction explores grief, healing, and inheritance, with 4.4 stars on Amazon and over 34,000 Goodreads ratings.
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An Amazon Charts bestseller.
From bestselling author Mary Ellen Taylor comes a story about profound loss, hard truths, and an overgrown greenhouse full of old secrets.
Adrift in the wake of her father’s death, a failed marriage, and multiple miscarriages, Libby McKenzie feels truly alone. Though her new life as a wedding photographer provides a semblance of purpose, it’s also a distraction from her profound pain.
When asked to photograph a wedding at the historic Woodmont estate, Libby meets the owner, Elaine Grant. Hoping to open Woodmont to the public, Elaine has employed young widower Colton Reese to help restore the grounds and asks Libby to photograph the process. Libby is immediately drawn to the old greenhouse shrouded in honeysuckle vines.
As Libby forms relationships and explores the overgrown—yet hauntingly beautiful—Woodmont estate, she finds the emotional courage to sort through her father’s office. There she discovers a letter that changes everything she knows about her parents, herself, and the estate. Beneath the vines of the old greenhouse lie generations of secrets, and it’s up to Libby to tend to the fruits born of long-buried seeds.
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In Ellerie County, casseroles are how people grieve and heal.
The Funeral Ladies of Ellerie County
Literary Fiction · Women's Fiction
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In Ellerie County, casseroles are how people grieve and heal. When longtime funeral cook Esther Larson faces losing her home, her granddaughter Iris and a grieving newcomer find unexpected connection through food, family, and community. The Funeral Ladies of Ellerie County is a warm, hopeful novel about belonging, forgiveness, and staying when others leave. Rated 4.2 stars on Amazon.
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Armed with a Crock-Pot and a pile of recipes, a grandmother, her granddaughter, and a mysterious young man work to bring a community together in this uplifting novel for readers of The Chicken Sisters.
Esther Larson has been cooking for funerals in the Northwoods of Wisconsin for seventy years. Known locally as the “funeral ladies,” she and her cohort have worked hard to keep the mourners of Ellerie County fed—it is her firm belief that there is very little a warm casserole and a piece of cherry pie can’t fix. But, after falling for an internet scam that puts her home at risk, the proud Larson family matriarch is the one in need of help these days.
Iris, Esther’s whip-smart Gen Z granddaughter, would do anything for her family and her community. As she watches her friends and family move out of their lakeside town onto bigger and better things, Iris wonders why she feels so left behind in the place she is desperate to make her home. But when Cooper Welsh shows up, she finally starts to feel like she’s found the missing piece of her puzzle.
Cooper is dealing with becoming a legal guardian to his younger half-sister after his beloved stepmother dies. While their celebrity-chef father is focused on his booming career and top-ranked television show, Cooper is still hurting from a public tragedy he witnessed last year as a paramedic and finding it hard to cope. With Iris in the gorgeous Ellerie County, though, he hopes he might finally find the home he’s been looking for.
It doesn’t seem like a community cookbook could possibly solve their problems, especially one where casseroles have their own section and cream of chicken soup mix is the most frequently used ingredient. But when you mix the can-do spirit of Midwestern grandmothers with the stubborn hope of a boy raised by food plus a dash of long-awaited forgiveness—things might just turn out okay.
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In 1991 Georgia, Dina’s life is shattered by bride kidnapping as the Soviet Union collapses.
The Valley Between Us
Literary Fiction · Historical Fiction · Women's Fiction
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In 1991 Georgia, Dina’s life is shattered by bride kidnapping as the Soviet Union collapses. In 2018, Callie escapes heartbreak and rigid routines for a mountain internship that exposes painful family truths. Their intertwined journeys explore trauma, resilience, faith, and healing across generations. This moving novel has earned 4.5 stars on Amazon and strong reader acclaim.
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"I read 26+ books a year and this is the best book I have read in several years. Yes, it's THAT GOOD!"-- Glenn, Goodreads review
This gripping novel follows two women— a young Soviet college student whose life is upended by the ancient practice of bride kidnapping, and a millennial American bound by her crippling sensory processing issues— and weaves their stories together in a riveting tale of love and resilience.
1991: The Soviet Union is on the verge of collapse when 20 year-old Dina comes face-to-face with the ancient Caucasus tradition of bride kidnapping. The life she had planned is torn out from under her feet and she is forced to dig deep inside to find the strength to survive her new harsh reality.
2018: Callie keeps her life as predictable and organized as possible— Dr. Paekl says that's the best way to keep a handle on her sensory processing issues. And Callie always listens to Dr. Paekl. So, no surprises— daily run in Golden Gate Park at 6:20 am, oatmeal and a banana for breakfast, the thermostat always set at exactly 68 degrees. But a break-up with her long-time boyfriend and frustration in her high-stress job pushes her to do something uncharacteristically risky—take a leave of absence from work and travel to Georgia for a three-month internship at a mountain guesthouse. What she thinks will be merely a summer adventure ends up completely shifting her world, making her reexamine who she is, what she believes, and who she loves. While at the guesthouse, Callie uncovers a shocking family secret that could bring everything crumbling down around her.
The Valley Between Us is a heart-wrenching tale of deep friendships, faith, first loves, trauma, and, ultimately, healing.
Fans of The Nightingale or All the Light We Cannot See will be captivated by this powerful story.
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Good for readers who want emotional women’s fiction with family secrets, second chances, and a scenic lakeside setting.
The Choice I Made
Literary Fiction · Women's Fiction
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Called “Phenomenal!” by a Goodreads reviewer, The Choice I Made follows Julie as she returns to her family’s Wisconsin resort, where a runaway teen and hidden letters threaten to expose a secret that could damage her family, with a 4.4-star rating from more than 1,300 Amazon reviewers. Good for readers who want emotional women’s fiction with family secrets, second chances, and a scenic lakeside setting.
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I don’t know what I’d expected to find. Pictures of her mother, maybe, or a locket. Instead, there was a letter. My breath came fast as I read the first few sentences…
When Julie’s mother falls ill, she has no choice but to return to her parents’ Wisconsin resort, Wood Violet, for the summer. Away from the pressures of city life, Julie also hopes the trip will give her and husband Tristan the chance to heal after the heartbreak of another miscarriage.
Back home, surrounded by nature and old friends, Julie starts to feel a sense of calm she’d thought she’d lost forever. But her fragile peace is shattered when she stumbles upon an eighteen-year-old girl hiding out in an abandoned cabin.
The girl, Margaret, seems lost in the world and Julie wants to help her. But when she finds the letters in her backpack, Julie realizes she isn’t telling the whole truth about why she’s here. And if Margaret finds what she’s looking for, it could expose a long-buried secret that could destroy Julie’s family’s reputation and tear all their lives apart…
A beautiful and emotional story about love, betrayal and finding your true home, from the bestselling author of The Lighthouse Keeper. Fans of Mary Ellen Taylor, Barbara O’Neal and This is Not How it Ends will adore Cynthia Ellingsen’s captivating novel.
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After losing her husband, a woman receives an unexpected gift: twelve books and twelve letters to guide her through a year of grief.
This Book Made Me Think of You
Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · Women's Fiction
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After losing her husband, a woman receives an unexpected gift: twelve books and twelve letters to guide her through a year of grief. As reading reconnects her to the world and to herself, new friendships and possibilities emerge. From bestselling author Libby Page, this heartfelt novel celebrates love, loss, and the quiet magic of books.
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A woman receives an unexpected gift from the man she loved and lost—a year of books, one for every month—launching a reading-inspired journey to live, dream, and love again in this glimmering and heart-stopping novel.
Twelve books. Twelve months. One chance to heal her heart…
When Tilly Nightingale receives a call telling her there’s a birthday gift from her husband waiting for her at her local bookshop, it couldn’t come as more of a shock. Partly because she can’t remember the last time she read a book for pleasure. But mainly because Joe died five months ago....
When she goes to pick up the present, Alfie, the bookshop owner with kind eyes, explains the gift—twelve carefully chosen books with handwritten letters from Joe, one for each month, to help her turn the page on her first year without him.
At first Tilly can’t imagine sinking into a fictional world, but Joe’s tender words convince her to try, and something remarkable happens—Tilly becomes immersed in the pages, and a new chapter begins to unfold in her own life. Monthly trips to the bookstore—and heartfelt conversations with Alfie—give Tilly the comfort she craves and the courage to set out on a series of reading-inspired adventures that take her around the world. But as she begins to share her journey with others, her story—like a book—becomes more than her own.
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This will appeal to readers who like emotional contemporary fiction about grief, second chances, and the lives we might have lived.
The Life Intended
Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · Women's Fiction
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More than a decade after her husband Patrick's death, Kate is engaged again when vivid dreams of Patrick make her question whether she's ready to move on. Her search for meaning leads her into a sign language class and the New York City foster system, with a 4.2-star average from more than 16,700 Goodreads ratings. This will appeal to readers who like emotional contemporary fiction about grief, second chances, and the lives we might have lived.
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Sliding Doors meets P.S. I Love You in this richly told novel from the author of The Sweetness of Forgetting about the struggle to overcome the past.
After her husband’s sudden death over ten years ago, Kate Waithman never expected to be lucky enough to find another love of her life. But now she’s planning her second walk down the aisle to a perfectly nice man. So why isn’t she more excited?
At first, Kate blames her lack of sleep on stress. But when she starts seeing Patrick, her late husband, in her dreams, she begins to wonder if she’s really ready to move on. Is Patrick trying to tell her something? Attempting to navigate between dreams and reality, Kate must uncover her husband’s hidden message. Her quest leads her to a sign language class and into the New York City foster system, where she finds rewards greater than she could have imagined.
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