Historical Fiction

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"Author Susan Meissner is a veteran who knows how spin a story . . ."

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“Kelly’s skillfully delineated characters and expertly woven plot provide an engrossing story that lifts the spirits.”

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Readers of literary suspense will find the novel an excellent choice.”

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"Epstein has created a character much more memorable than Dickens' original."

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"an ingenious plot . . . a brilliant debut . . ."

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The Other March Sisters is a convincing and bold imagining of who the March sisters might have been.”

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The Undoing of Violet Claybourne is an expertly written, engaging narrative, a journey into that place and time in the 20th century and the psychology of social pressure that is w

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One Good Thing is a fast-paced, thrilling story of the survival of a Jewish woman and child on the run in Italy amidst the terror of the Nazi occupation.”

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"a reminder of the strength and importance of human connections."

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“a brilliant, gut-wrenching story of love and family in war-torn Poland. A good producer could make it into a riveting movie.”

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“one fascinating and gripping story. It is well worth the read!”

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“sharp writing keeps the reader eagerly turning pages. The characters are all nuanced and real, the situations they confront full of tension . . .”

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“Theresienstadt was a ghetto where prisoners provided slave labor for the German war effort. They survived on starvation rations and lived in squalor.

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"An important addition to Hurston's literary canon, showcasing her skills both as storyteller and historian. This is essential history and literature all in one."

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“Cold, hungry, sick with typhus, and limping from the dog bite on her leg, Czeslawa has forgotten most things. Only in her dreams does Czeslawa remember:

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“a drama that's part romance, part mystery, part crime caper. Each part is told with breathtaking pacing and rich descriptions.

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“a phenomenal book, the conclusion to a magnificent trilogy as well-written and psychologically powerful as the Regeneration Trilogy, which raised Barker’s stature more than three decades a

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“Throughout Boyd’s novel, characters present with one face but turn out to be concealing significant, even entire, aspects of themselves.”

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“Don’t let the subtitle of the series fool you into thinking this novel will lean into espionage. Georgie’s no spy.”

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Ostensibly set in the mid-19th century American West, In the Distance actually exists somewhere in the realm between the unlikely and the impossible.

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A distraught husband, Ronnie Armitrage, is found returning to his car in a field, saying his wife may have run toward the ocean after an argument and drowned.

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“Archer’s bold thriller structure bares all motives and manipulations, so there are few surprises and no secrets here, but the suspense of each interaction resembles the final rounds of a c

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“Though this is far from the modern crime fiction she’s known for, McDermid weaves Queen Macbeth from the same understanding of longings for safety, justice, and yes, love.”

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The Empusium reprises many aspects of Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain: a sanatorium (this one in Lower Silesia) for the treatment of tuberculosis; a time period set in 1

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