Historical fiction

  • In memoriam

    Creator

    Winn, Alice

    Abstract

    GMA Buzz Pick - International Best Seller and Award Winner - A haunting, virtuosic debut novel about two young men who fall in love during World War I - "Will live in your mind long after you've closed the final pages." - Maggie O'Farrell, best-selling author of Hamnet and The Marriage Portrait A Best Book of the Year: The New Yorker, The Washington Post, NPR "In Memoriam is the story of a great tragedy, but it is also a moving portrait of young love, and there is often a lightness to the book." - The New York Times It's 1914, and World War I is ceaselessl

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Books on Tape

    Not specified
  • The house on Biscayne Bay

    Creator

    Cleeton, Chanel

    Abstract

    Named an Anticipated Read of 2024 by Entertainment Weekly and a Best Historical Fiction novel of 2024 by BookBub. As death stalks a gothic mansion in Miami, the lives of two women intertwine as the past and present collide in New York Times bestselling author Chanel Cleeton's atmospheric new novel. With the Great War finally behind them, many Americans flock to South Florida with their sights set on making a fortune. When wealthy industrialist Robert Barnes and his wife, Anna, build Marbrisa, a glamorous estate on Biscayne Bay, they become the toast of the newly burgeoning society.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Books on Tape

    Not specified
  • The sweet blue distance

    Creator

    Donati, Sara

    Abstract

    A young midwife travels west to the New Mexico Territory to care for women in need and faces dangers more harrowing than the ones she's fleeing in this epic tale of survival, redemption, and love from Sara Donati, the international bestselling author of the Wilderness series. 1857. In a bid to outrun her past, Carrie Ballentyne accepts a nursing position with a doctor in the New Mexico Territory. She knows the journey from New York to Santa Fe will not be easy, but she relishes the adventure. However, nothing could have prepared her for the wilderness she encounters.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    Ashland

    Blackstone Publishing

    Not specified
  • The duchess

    Creator

    Jordan, Sophie

    Abstract

    The thrilling second book in New York Times bestselling author Sophie Jordan's amazing new high concept series, The Scandalous Ladies of London, which chronicles the lives of a group of affluent ladies reigning over glittering, Regency-era London, vying for position in the hierarchy of the ton. They are the young wives, widows, and daughters of London's wealthiest families. The drama is big, the money runs deep, and the shade is real. Life is different in the ton. "I liked my husband well enough ...

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    HarperAudio

    Not specified
  • Testimonies

    Creator

    O'Brian, Patrick

    Abstract

    Three Bear Witness. John Aubrey Pugh, an Oxford don who has given up his teaching post and come to live in a secluded Welsh valley, falls in love with Bronwen Vaughan, the wife of a young farmer who is his neighbour. She is estranged from her husband, an admirable man in many ways, but one who has compelled her to submit to some brutal sexual perversion.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    Glasgow

    HarperCollins

    Not specified
  • Daughters of fire

    Creator

    Erskine, Barbara

    Abstract

    The sweeping new novel from the bestselling author of Lady of Hay switches between Roman Britain and the present day where history dramatically impacts on the lives of three women. The Romans are landing in Britannia. Cartimandua, the young woman destined to rule the great Brigantes tribe, watches the invaders come ever closer. Her life has always been a maelstrom of love, conflict and revenge, but it only becomes more turbulent and complicated with power.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    Glasgow

    HarperCollins

    Not specified
  • Matadora

    Creator

    Ruth, Elizabeth

    Abstract

    Set in Spain and Mexico during the 1930s, Matadora tells the story of Luna Caballero Garcia, an impoverished and intrepid servant attempting to make her name in the bullring at a time when it was illegal for a girl to do so.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    [Place of publication not identified]

    Cormorant Books

    Not specified
  • Back to the garden

    Creator

    Wykes, Megan

    Abstract

    Set in Toronto in the blistering summer of 1971, Back to the Garden is about four strangers who take a chance on a new psychological treatment: group therapy. What seems, at first, like a good idea, quickly spirals out of control as the participants connect outside of the sessions in unforeseen and catastrophic ways, each character locked into an escalating crisis.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    [Place of publication not identified]

    At Bay Press

    Not specified
  • City Rising : From the Holy Mountain

    Creator

    Rotenberg, David

    Abstract

    On the Hua Shan (the Holy Mountain) 250 years before Christ, the most powerful man in the world, the First Emperor, bequeaths a talisman - a narwhal tusk with carvings depicting the growth of Shanghai for the next 2500 years - to his three trusted followers: the Bodyguard, his favourite Courtesan, and his Head Confucian. The warning from the First Emperor before he commits suicide is to watch for the White Ships on Water and so the progeny of the three who are entrusted with the Tusk do. Then, in 1841 they arrive - British Men of War ships. And opium.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    [Place of publication not identified]

    At Bay Press

    Not specified
  • All the light we cannot see

    Creator

    Doerr, Anthony

    Abstract

    *NOW A NETFLIX LIMITED SERIES-from producer and director Shawn Levy (Stranger Things) starring Mark Ruffalo, Hugh Laurie, and newcomer Aria Mia Loberti* Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, the beloved instant New York Times bestseller and New York Times Book Review Top 10 Book about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. Marie-Laure lives with her father in Paris near the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of its thousands of locks.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Scribner

    Not specified