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Title: The Ruins in Which We BleedAuthor: Steve N. LeeGenre: Historical Fiction, Young AdultBook Length: NovelFormat Read: ePubYear Published: June 12, 2025 Date Started: May 31, 2025Date finished: June 5, 2025 This story follows a sixteen-year-old girl named Helena as she and her family fight to survive in war-torn Poland. Helena is an intelligent and... Continue Reading →
Title: YankeelandAuthor: Lacy FewerGenre: Historical FictionBook Length: 303 PagesFormat Read: PaperbackYear Published: March 25, 2025 Date Started: March 2, 2025Date finished: April 3, 2025 Life was hard in Ireland, with no jobs and no hope for success, so Brigid and her husband, Ben, decided to make a new life in America. Leaving their extended family... Continue Reading →
Title: The Sunflower HouseAuthor: Adriana AllegriGenre: Historical Fiction, WW2, HolocaustBook Length: NovelFormat Read: eBook (ARC)Year Published: November 12, 2024 Date Started: August 29, 2024Date finished: September 6, 2024 This story takes place in Germany, where a woman named Allina is taken to work as an aide at a reproductive facility. There, she learns that the... Continue Reading →
Title: HollidayAuthor: Matthew Di PaoliGenre: Historical Fiction; WesternBook Length: 283 Pages (print)Book Version Read: PaperbackYear Published: July 5, 2023 Date Started: May 12, 2024Date finished: May 17, 2024 This is a western story centered around the historical figure, Doc Holliday. Born John Henry Holliday, he was a dentist, a gambler, and gunslinger. He was a... Continue Reading →
Title: A Song of SilenceAuthor: Steve N LeeGenre: Historical Fiction; WarBook Length: 308 Pages (print)Book Version Read: ePubYear Published: May 14, 2024 Date Started: May 10, 2024Date finished: May 13, 2024 This story follows a Polish man running an orphanage during WWII, caught in the middle of the Nazi occupation. He’s stuck between keeping the... Continue Reading →
Title: The Porcelain MakerAuthor: Sarah FreethyGenre: Historical FictionYear Published: November 7, 2023 Date Started: October 27, 2023Date finished: October 30, 2023 This story about a daughter looking for the story behind the porcelain maker was beautifully written. While the daughter investigates the history of the porcelain artist, we are taken into the back story of... Continue Reading →
Title: The Time Patriot: Episode One – Hail Mary PassAuthor: Kim MegaheeGenre: Alternate Historical Fiction, Sci-fiYear Published: October 11, 2022 Date Started: September 27, 2023Date finished: October 7, 2023 The story takes place in 2037 where corruption has ruined the United States. A man named Marc McKnight was tasked with traveling through time to bring... Continue Reading →
Title: Thomas Jefferson SurvivesAuthor: C.J. HayekGenre: Alternate Historical FictionYear Published: March 4, 2020 Date Started: June 30, 2022Date finished: July 2, 2022 This is a story about an alternate history where Thomas Jefferson, through a special type of mushroom, slumbers waking up two centuries later to a world very different from what he is familiar... Continue Reading →
Title: Savage WoundsAuthor: Sam KnuppGenre: Historical fiction; alternate historyYear Published: August 29, 2022 Date Started: September 19, 2022Date finished: September 21, 2022 This story takes place during the American Civil War in an alternate history. The war and characters are the same but there are new characters with new names. The story follows a colonel... Continue Reading →
Title: To Dream of ShadowsAuthor: Steve N. LeeGenre: Historical Fiction; War Story; RomanceYear Published: April 16, 2023 Date Started: April 10, 2023Date finished: April 14, 2023 This is a story about bravery, compassion, and love. Two people, an SS soldier and a Jewish woman transferred to his camp, are put in a tough place and... Continue Reading →
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