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A good pick for readers who enjoy World War II historical fiction about family, resistance, romance, espionage, and life under fascism.
An Italian Affair
Historical Fiction · Historical Romance · World War 2
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An Italian Affair follows widowed Alessandra Durante, who moves with her daughter Diana to an inherited family estate in Tuscany in 1937 as fascism and war threaten the country. While Diana becomes attached to Davide, a young man hiding his identity, Alessandra’s son Robert joins the war effort and is eventually sent undercover into Italy, with a 4.4-star average from more than 1,000 Goodreads ratings. A good pick for readers who enjoy World War II historical fiction about family, resistance, romance, espionage, and life under fascism.
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Love. War. Family. Betrayal.
Italy, 1937. Alessandra Durante is grieving the loss of her husband when she discovers she has inherited her ancestral family seat, Villa Durante, deep in the Tuscan Hills. Longing for a new start, she moves from her home in London to Italy with her daughter Diana and sets about rebuilding her life.
Under the threat of war, Alessandra's house becomes first a home and then a shelter to all those who need it. Then Davide, a young man who is hiding the truth about who he is, arrives, and Diana starts to find her heart going where her head knows it must not.
Back home in Britain as war breaks out, Alessandra's son Robert, signs up to be a pilot, determined to play his part in freeing Italy from the grip of Fascism. His bravery marks him out as an asset to the Allies, and soon he is being sent deep undercover and further into danger than ever before.
As war rages, the Durante family will love and lose, but will they survive the war...?
'Thoroughly engrossing' - Julian Fellowes, creator of Downton Abbey
'Enthralling...An Italian Affair snares us in an ever-tightening circle of love and despair, secrets and forgiveness' - Joanna Lumley
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A sharp fit for readers drawn to political thrillers that combine newsroom drama, racial history, and election-night suspense.
Grant Park
Literary Fiction · Historical Fiction · People of Color
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Called “A novel as significant as it is engrossing” by Booklist, Grant Park moves between 1968 and the eve of the 2008 election as two Chicago newspapermen are drawn into a white supremacist plot and forced to confront choices made during the civil rights era, with a 4.6-star rating from more than 300 Amazon reviewers. A sharp fit for readers drawn to political thrillers that combine newsroom drama, racial history, and election-night suspense.
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Two Chicago newspapermen grapple with race and the past in this contemporary terrorist thriller by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Freeman.
Disillusioned Chicago columnist Malcolm Toussaint, fueled by yet another report of unarmed Black men killed by police, hacks into his newspaper's server to post an incendiary column that had been rejected by his editors. Toussaint then disappears, and his longtime editor, Bob
Carson, is summarily fired within hours of the column's publication.
While a furious Carson tries to find Toussaint—while dealing with the reappearance of a lost love from his days as a '60s activist—Toussaint is abducted by two white supremacists plotting to bomb Barack Obama's planned rally in Grant Park. Toussaint and Carson are forced to reckon with the choices they made as young men, when both their lives were changed profoundly by their work in the civil rights movement . . .
Grant Park is a page-turning and provocative look at black and white relations in contemporary America, blending the absurd and the poignant in a powerfully well-crafted narrative that showcases Pitts's gift for telling emotionally wrenching stories.
Praise for Grant Park
"A taut thriller that weaves together a stark look at America's tortured racial past with a fast-paced tale of terrorist conspiracy and love rekindled." —Neil Steinberg, Chicago Sun Times
"A page-turner, but also one that commands deep reflection on history, racism, and personal choices." —Blanca Torres, The Seattle Times
"Layered, insightful, and passionate. Pitts's subtly explosive language grips readers with the delicate subject matter and earnestly implores them to understand that "[race] has always meant something and it always will." The scars will remain, but stunningly powerful examinations like Grant Park can be the salve that helps heal open wounds." —Shelf-Awareness, starred review
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A parolee looking for a second chance finds a small town ready to turn one bad night into a life sentence.
One Good Deed
Historical Fiction · Thriller · Historical Thriller
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A parolee looking for a second chance finds a small town ready to turn one bad night into a life sentence. In One Good Deed, WWII veteran Aloysius Archer takes a debt-collection job in 1949 Poca City, only to become tangled in grudges, desire, suspicion, and murder. This historical thriller blends noir atmosphere with an ex-con’s fight to stay free by finding the real killer.
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In this fast-paced historical thriller, a #1 New York Times bestselling author introduces Archer, a WWII veteran forced to investigate a small-town murder—or risk returning to prison.
It's 1949. When war veteran Aloysius Archer is released from Carderock Prison, he is sent to Poca City on parole with a short list of do's and a much longer list of don'ts: do report regularly to his parole officer, don't go to bars, certainly don't drink alcohol, do get a job—and don't ever associate with loose women.
The small town quickly proves more complicated and dangerous than Archer's years serving in the war or his time in jail. Within a single night, his search for gainful employment—and a stiff drink—leads him to a local bar, where he is hired for what seems like a simple job: to collect a debt owed to a powerful local businessman, Hank Pittleman.
Soon Archer discovers that recovering the debt won't be so easy. The indebted man has a furious grudge against Hank and refuses to pay; Hank's clever mistress has her own designs on Archer; and both Hank and Archer's stern parole officer, Miss Crabtree, are keeping a sharp eye on him.
When a murder takes place right under Archer's nose, police suspicions rise against the ex-convict, and Archer realizes that the crime could send him right back to prison ... if he doesn't use every skill in his arsenal to track down the real killer.
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War tests one family across battlefields, homes, and the long silence of waiting.
The War Torn Series: Volume One
Historical Fiction · War Fiction · World War 2
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War tests one family across battlefields, homes, and the long silence of waiting. In The War Torn Series: Volume One, Robert Vaughan follows the Holts, an Illinois family pulled into World War II through sons who serve as soldiers and a daughter married to one. This historical war fiction series centers the cost of duty at every distance, from the front lines to the homes where loved ones endure uncertainty, fear, and sacrifice.
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The epic struggle of the century—World War II.
It's America, and her allies are at war against tyrants who seek to subjugate everyone—and every American must risk it all to help themselves, their family, and their country to survive.
The Holts, an Illinois family, are caught up in the trials of World War II, their sons as soldiers and their daughter as the wife of a soldier. As each experiences the ebb of war—where people are struggling for their very existence—they come to realize that wartime looks different for everyone involved. Because not all conflicts are being fought by those in the air. They’re also being fought by those at home…waiting on loved ones to return.
Some will live, some will not, but all will serve.
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Betrayal turns a young survivor into a weapon when a king’s violence destroys everything he was meant to inherit.
God of Vengeance
Historical Fiction · Pre-History | Ancient History · War Fiction
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Betrayal turns a young survivor into a weapon when a king’s violence destroys everything he was meant to inherit. In God of Vengeance, Sigurd escapes slaughter and gathers a hard-edged band of warriors to hunt the ruler who murdered his family. Brutal, fast-moving, and steeped in Viking blood feud, this historical saga centers revenge, loyalty, and war-forged identity.
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A glorious, bloody, perfect Viking saga of honour, courage, blood feud and revenge from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Lancelot, Giles Kristian. Perfect for fans of Bernard Cornwell and Games of Thrones.
"Unrelenting pace, brilliant action and characters. A masterwork." - CONN IGGULDEN
"Action-packed storytelling which stirs the blood and thrills the soul" - WILBUR SMITH
"Easily one of the best books I've had the pleasure to read" - ***** Reader review.
IT BEGAN WITH THE BETRAYAL OF A LORD BY A KING...
Norway 785 AD. When King Gorm puts Jarl Harald's family to the sword, he makes one fatal mistake - he fails to kill Harald's youngest son, Sigurd.
His kin slain, his village seized, his taken as slaves, Sigurd wonders if the gods have forsaken him. Hunted by powerful men, he is unsure who to trust and yet he has a small band of loyal followers at his side. With them - and with the help of the All-Father, Odin - he determines to make a king pay for his treachery.
Using cunning and war-craft, Sigurd gathers together a fellowship of warriors - including his father's right-hand man Olaf, Bram (who men call Bear), Black Floki who wields death with a blade, and the shield maiden Valgerd, who fears no man - and convinces them to follow him.
For, whether Ódin is with him or not, Sigurd WILL have vengeance. And neither men nor gods had best stand in his way . . .
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A family’s search for love and belonging unfolds against a country breaking under war, occupation, and political upheaval.
Miss Burma
Literary Fiction · Historical Fiction
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A family’s search for love and belonging unfolds against a country breaking under war, occupation, and political upheaval. In Miss Burma, Benny and Khin build a life shaped by exile and resistance, while their daughter Louisa rises to national fame as Burma edges toward dictatorship. Expansive and intimate, this historical novel traces identity, loyalty, and the personal cost of a nation’s fight for self-determination.
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"Craig wields powerful and vivid prose to illuminate a country and a family trapped not only by war and revolution, but also by desire and loss." —Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize–winning author
Miss Burma tells the story of modern-day Burma through the eyes of Benny and Khin, husband and wife, and their daughter Louisa. After attending school in Calcutta, Benny settles in Rangoon, then part of the British Empire, and falls in love with Khin, a woman who is part of a long-persecuted ethnic minority group, the Karen. World War II comes to Southeast Asia, and Benny and Khin must go into hiding in the eastern part of the country during the Japanese occupation, beginning a journey that will lead them to change the country's history.
Years later, Benny and Khin's eldest child, Louisa, has a danger-filled, tempestuous childhood and reaches prominence as Burma's first beauty queen soon before the country falls to dictatorship. As Louisa navigates her newfound fame, she is forced to reckon with her family's past, the West's ongoing covert dealings in her country, and her own loyalty to the cause of the Karen people.
Based on the story of the author's mother and grandparents, Miss Burma is a captivating portrait of how modern Burma came to be and of the ordinary people swept up in the struggle for self-determination and freedom.
"At once beautiful and heartbreaking . . . An incredible family saga." —Refinery29
"Miss Burma charts both a political history and a deeply personal one—and of those incendiary moments when private and public motivations overlap." —Los Angeles Times
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As Europe collapses under Nazi power, one man is pulled into a mission where loyalty and deception become impossible to separate.
The Tristan Betrayal
Historical Fiction · Thriller · Historical Thriller · Military Thriller · Political Thriller · World War 2
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As Europe collapses under Nazi power, one man is pulled into a mission where loyalty and deception become impossible to separate. Stephen Metcalfe travels from occupied Paris to wartime Moscow, where espionage, political danger, and a former love with uncertain allegiances threaten to undo him. This historical thriller builds its tension through shifting loyalties, wartime intrigue, and the personal cost of betrayal.
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A Nazi assassin haunts Russia in this World War II–era thriller from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of The Bourne Identity.
In the fall of 1940, the Nazis are at the height of their power—France is occupied, Britain is enduring the Blitz and is under the threat of invasion, America is neutral, and Russia is in an uneasy alliance with Germany. Stephen Metcalfe, the younger son of a prominent American family, is a well-known man about town in occupied Paris. He's also a minor asset in the U.S.'s secret intelligence forces in Europe. Through a wild twist of fate, it falls to Metcalfe to instigate a bold plan that may be the only hope for what remains of the free world. Now he must travel to wartime Moscow to find, and possibly betray, a former love—a fiery ballerina whose own loyalties are in question—in a delicate dance that could destroy all he loves and honors.
"The fast-paced plot reflects Ludlum's genuine knack for constructing good stories . . . this is one of the better novels published under the Ludlum name." —Booklist
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At the height of the Mongol Empire, conquest feels almost inevitable, but power brings its own brutal costs.
Until the Sun Falls
Historical Fiction · Pre-History | Ancient History
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At the height of the Mongol Empire, conquest feels almost inevitable, but power brings its own brutal costs. In Until the Sun Falls, Mongol general Psin wages war across Russia and eastern Europe while facing conflict within his own family. This is a sweeping historical novel rooted in battlefield strategy, cultural immersion, and the personal strain of living inside an empire built on conquest.
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A novel set during the reign of Genghis Khan and his Mongol Empire from the acclaimed author of Ghost on the Steppe, "a master storyteller" (Houston Chronicle).
Cecelia Holland's historical fiction is well known for its immersion in exotic cultures, and Until the Sun Falls, one of her most successful books, takes the reader into the heart of the Mongol horde during the conquest of Russia and eastern Europe in the thirteenth century.
Genghis Khan had told his people they were destined to rule the world, and by his death they had made an impressive start. His four sons followed him to the leadership of the enormous new empire and continued the expansion. His eldest son, Batu, launched the conquest of the West—Russia and Europe. In a few years of devastating warfare, the Mongols reached as far as Vienna, mowing down every army that dared face them, like an irresistible force of nature.
Until the Sun Falls stars a Mongol general, Psin, whose battles against the enemies of the Kha Khan sometimes seem easier than his struggles with his wives and his son. Wise, brave, and bloody-minded, Psin embodies the passions and dreams of the greatest conquerors the world has ever seen, at the height of their power.
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War offers one man the promise of moral purpose, then strips that certainty away piece by piece.
Sword of Honor
Historical Fiction · War Fiction · World War 2
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War offers one man the promise of moral purpose, then strips that certainty away piece by piece. In Sword of Honor, Guy Crouchback enters World War II hoping to defend faith and civilization, only to confront the absurdity, cruelty, and disillusionment of military life. It fits readers looking for literary war fiction that balances satire, spiritual conflict, and a deeply human portrait of ideals under pressure.
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Evelyn Waugh's satiric World War II trilogy comprises the acclaimed novels Men at Arms, Officers and Gentlemen, and Unconditional Surrender.
This narrative spanning the war, based in part on Evelyn Waugh's own experiences as an army officer, is the author's surpassing achievement as a novelist. Its central character is Guy Crouchback, head of an ancient but decayed Catholic family, who at first discovers new purpose in the challenge to defend Christian values against Nazi barbarism, but then gradually finds the complexities and cruelties of war overwhelming. Though often somber, Sword of Honor is also a brilliant comedy, peopled by the fantastic figures so familiar from Waugh's early satires. The deepest pleasures these novels afford come from observing a great satirist employ his gifts with extraordinary subtlety, delicacy, and human feeling, for purposes that are ultimately anything but humorous.
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Inside the Warsaw Ghetto, preserving the truth becomes its own act of resistance as one man records the lives unfolding around him under impossible conditions.
We Must Not Think of Ourselves
Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction · War Fiction · World War 2
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Inside the Warsaw Ghetto, preserving the truth becomes its own act of resistance as one man records the lives unfolding around him under impossible conditions. In We Must Not Think of Ourselves, Adam Paskow joins a secret archive and finds himself pulled toward love, duty, and an unbearable moral choice. This historical novel is marked by intimate witness, quiet courage, and the human cost of survival under Nazi occupation.
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From a New York Times bestselling author Lauren Grodstein, a story inspired by a little-known piece of history in the lives of Jewish occupants of the Warsaw Ghetto in World War II. Called a "masterpiece", and as seen on The Today Show with Jenna pick (Madeline Miller).
On a November day in 1940, Adam Paskow becomes a prisoner in the Warsaw Ghetto, where the Jews of the city are cut off from their former lives and held captive by Nazi guards to await an uncertain fate. Weeks later, he is approached by a mysterious figure with a surprising request: Would he join a secret group of archivists working to preserve the truth of what is happening inside these walls?
Adam agrees and begins taking testimonies from his students, friends, and neighbors. One of the people Adam interviews is his flatmate Sala Wiskoff, who is stoic, determined, and funny—and married with two children. Over the months of their confinement, in the presence of her family, they fall in love. But when Adam discovers a possible escape from the Ghetto, he is faced with an unbearable choice: whom can he save, and at what cost ?
Inspired by the testimony-gathering project with the code name Oneg Shabbat, and told with immediacy and heart, We Must Not Think of Ourselves is a piercing story of love, determination, and sacrifice.
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Moral clarity comes at a brutal cost when one man sees the danger long before others are ready to believe it.
The Keeper of the Glass House
Historical Fiction · War Fiction · World War 2
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Moral clarity comes at a brutal cost when one man sees the danger long before others are ready to believe it. In The Keeper of the Glass House, Miklós Kraus fights to save Hungarian Jews after the Nazi invasion of Budapest, building a fragile refuge as persecution closes in from every side. Based on a true story, this WWII novel draws its power from courage under pressure, impossible choices, and the human will to protect others against overwhelming evil.
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How can one man save the lives of thousands from total destruction?
Budapest, 1944. When the Nazis invade Hungary, the leaders of the local Jewish community trust that the Hungarian government will protect them from deportation. But Miklós Kraus, a young Jewish activist living in Budapest, isn’t convinced. After reading a shocking report exposing the atrocities taking place at the Auschwitz concentration camp, Kraus is determined to do everything he can to save as many Jews as possible from certain death.
Using his cunning and connections with the Swiss consulate, Kraus concocts a plan that could save thousands of Jewish families. After the Nazis invade his homeland, he secures an old glass factory, dubbed “the Glass House,” which becomes a safe haven from the violence raging on the streets of Budapest.
As the Nazis become increasingly desperate to expedite their plans and the threat of mass annihilation looms over his daring operation, Kraus will have to risk more than he ever imagined to save his people.
The Keeper of the Glass House is the moving and captivating story of how one man saved the lives of many, based on the inspiring untold true story of Miklós (Moshe) Krausz.
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Greatness takes shape long before conquest, in the private loyalties and brutal lessons that teach a boy what power can do.
Fire from Heaven
Historical Fiction · Biographical Fiction · Pre-History | Ancient History
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Greatness takes shape long before conquest, in the private loyalties and brutal lessons that teach a boy what power can do. As Alexander grows between a violent father, a consuming mother, and the demands of a kingdom at war, he becomes both more magnetic and more dangerous. Fire from Heaven fits a historical fiction list with its intimate portrait of ambition, emotional complexity, and the making of a legend before the world knows his name.
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New York Times Bestseller and Man Booker Prize Finalist: A novel of ancient Greece by the author Hilary Mantel calls "a shining light."
Alexander the Great stands alone as a leader and strategist, and Fire from Heaven is Mary Renault's unsurpassed dramatization of the formative years of his life. His parents fight for their precocious son's love: On one side, his volatile father, Philip, and on the other, his overbearing mother, Olympias. The story tells of the conqueror's two great bonds—to his horse, Oxhead, and to his dearest friend and eventual lover, Hephaistion—and of the army he commands when he is barely an adult.
Coming of age during the battles for southern Greece, Alexander the Great appears in all of his colors—as the man who first takes someone's life at age twelve and who swiftly eliminates his rivals as soon as he comes to power—and emerges as a captivating, complex, larger-than-life figure.
Fire from Heaven is the first volume of the Novels of Alexander the Great trilogy, which continues with The Persian Boy and Funeral Games.
This ebook features an illustrated biography of Mary Renault including rare images of the author.
"Mary Renault is a shining light to both historical novelists and their readers. She does not pretend the past is like the present, or that the people of ancient Greece were just like us. She shows us their strangeness; discerning, sure-footed, challenging our values, piquing our curiosity, she leads us through an alien landscape that moves and delights us." —Hilary Mantel
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