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With this Pledge by Tamera Alexander
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
· 16 ratings
History takes on vivid life in the stunning first full-length installment of Tamera Alexander's new series, The Carnton Novels. On the night of November 30, 1864, a brutal battle in Franklin, Tennessee, all but decimates the Confederacy and nearly kills Captain Roland Ward Jones...

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Danzig Passage by Bodie Thoene, Brock Thoene
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
· 18 ratings
The net of Hitler's Third Reich begins to close around the Jews in prewar Europe, and millions are trapped in his sinister web. Kristal Nacht, the Night of Broken Glass, shatters the last illusions for thousands who hoped to escape the Nazi terror.As the synagogues of Berlin burn and Jewish homes are plundered, two families face the grim reality of life in New Germany...

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Colors of Truth (Carnton) by Tamera Alexander
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
· 12 ratings
Based on the real history of Carnton, an antebellum home that served as a Confederate hospital, Colors of Truth follows the journey of an Irish immigrant arriving in a country where her kind isn't wanted, and of a former Federal soldier returning to the scene of a battle that almost destroyed him...

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The Sky Above Us by Sarah Sundin
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
· 12 ratings
Numbed by grief and harboring shameful secrets, Lt. Adler Paxton ships to England with the US 357th Fighter Group in 1943. Determined to become an ace pilot, Adler battles the German Luftwaffe in treacherous dogfights in the skies over France as the Allies struggle for control of the air before the D-day invasion...

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Blue Skies Tomorrow by Sarah Sundin
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
· 14 ratings
In a time of peril, can they find the courage to confront their fears and embrace a love that lasts? When her husband becomes a casualty of the war in the Pacific, Helen Carlisle throws herself into volunteering for the war effort to conceal her feelings. But keeping up appearances as the grieving widow of a hometown hero is taking its toll. Soon something is going to give. Lt...

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The Sea Before Us by Sarah Sundin
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
· 14 ratings
In 1944, American naval officer Lt. Wyatt Paxton arrives in London to prepare for the Allied invasion of France. He works closely with Dorothy Fairfax, a "Wren" in the Women's Royal Naval Service. Dorothy pieces together reconnaissance photographs with thousands of holiday snapshots of France--including those of her own family's summer home--in order to create accurate maps of Normandy...

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A River Between Us by Jocelyn Green
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
· 10 ratings
Cora Mae Stewart’s world collapses when Sherman destroys the Georgia cotton mill where she works and has her arrested for treason and sent North. Faced with impossible choices, she does what she must to keep a little girl safe in an inhospitable land.Convinced he won’t survive the war, Union Sergeant Ethan Howard determines to make his death count for something...

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Miss Delectable by Grace Burrowes
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
· 12 ratings
Miss Ann Pearson has spent years learning the difficult art of the professional cook, and jealously guarding her position in the kitchen of the fancy Coventry Club. When Colonel Sir Orion Goddard asks her to take on a young apprentice, Ann would rather refuse...

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In Perfect Time by Sarah Sundin
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
· 14 ratings
Bold, sophisticated, and coy, flight nurse Lt. Kay Jobson collects hearts wherever she flies. So how can handsome C-47 pilot Lt. Roger Cooper be immune to her charms? In fact, he seems to do everything he can to avoid her. Still, as they cross the skies between Italy and southern France, evacuating the wounded and delivering paratroopers and supplies, every beat of their hearts draws them closer...

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On Distant Shores by Sarah Sundin
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
· 14 ratings
Lt. Georgiana Taylor has everything she could want. A comfortable boyfriend back home, a loving family, and a challenging job as a flight nurse. But in July 1943, Georgie’s cozy life gets decidedly more complicated when she meets pharmacist Sgt. John Hutchinson. Hutch resents the lack of respect he gets as a noncommissioned serviceman and hates how the war keeps him from his fiancée...

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To Wager Her Heart by Tamera Alexander
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
· 14 ratings
With fates bound by a shared tragedy, a reformed gambler from the Colorado Territory and a Southern Belle bent on breaking free from society's expectations must work together to achieve their dreams—provided that the truth doesn't tear them apart first...

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North and South by John Jakes
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
· 34 ratings
Part history, part novel, this book chronicles two great American dynasties over three generations. Though brought together in a friendship that neither jealousy nor violence could shatter, the Hazards and the Mains are torn apart by the storm of events that has divided the nation...

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Heaven Has No Favorites by Erich Maria Remarque
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
· 24 ratings
From one of the twentieth century’s master novelists, the author of the classic All Quiet on the Western Front, comes Heaven Has No Favorites, a bittersweet story of unconventional love that sweeps across Europe. Lillian is charming, beautiful . . . and slowly dying of consumption. But she doesn’t wish to end her days in a hospital in the Alps...

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Catching the Wind by Melanie Dobson
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
· 16 ratings
What happened to Brigitte Berthold? That question has haunted Daniel Knight since he was thirteen, when he and eleven-year-old Brigitte escaped the Gestapo agents who arrested both their parents. They survived a harrowing journey from Germany to England, only to be separated upon their arrival...

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Christmas at Carnton by Tamera Alexander
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
· 16 ratings
A Christmas novella to launch a brand new three-book series . . . The Carnton Novels Amid war and the fading dream of the Confederacy, a wounded soldier and a destitute widow discover the true meaning of Christmas - and of sacrificial love. Recently widowed, Aletta Prescott struggles to hold life together for herself and her six-year old son...

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Fire Along the Sky by Sara Donati
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
· 35 ratings
With epic sweep and breathtaking adventure, Sara Donati’s bestselling saga of an Early American family’s struggle for survival in the Northeast wilderness continues with the story of an indomitable woman and an unforgettable journey of redemption across a young nation threatened by the flames of war.The year is 1812 and Hannah Bonner has returned to her family’s mountain cabin in Paradise...

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Sister of Mine by Sabra Waldfogel
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
· 18 ratings
When two Union soldiers stumble onto a plantation in northern Georgia on a warm May day in 1864, the last thing they expect is to see the Union flag flying high—or to be greeted by a group of freed slaves and their Jewish mistress. Little do they know that this place has an unusual history...

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Yankee Stranger by Elswyth Thane
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
· 10 ratings
On the eve of the Civil War, Eden Day encounters Cabot Murray on Duke of Gloucester Street in Williamsburg. As they shelter together from a passing thunderstorm, they fall in love. The obstacles to their future are instantly obvious. Hers is a prominent Virginia family, and he is a Yankee newspaperman. Their country is about to split apart, and they will be on opposite sides...

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Miss Delightful by Grace Burrowes
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
· 10 ratings
Miss Dorcas Delancey, vicar’s daughter and advocate for the less fortunate, has been guarding her heart from fortune hunters and fashionable fribbles for years. She’s completely unprepared for Alasdhair MacKay, former officer and all around grouch, to steal that heart...

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Anchor in the Storm by Sarah Sundin
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
· 12 ratings
One Plucky Female Pharmacist + One High-Society Naval Officer = Romance--and Danger For plucky Lillian Avery, America's entry into World War II means a chance to prove herself as a pharmacist in Boston. The challenges of her new job energize her. But society boy Ensign Archer Vandenberg's attentions only annoy--even if he "is" her brother's best friend...

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Bourne & Tributary by Lisa Tawn Bergren
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
· 14 ratings
If you like romance, adventure and a dose of medieval Italian culture, you'll love WATERFALL (book 1), CASCADE (book 2), TORRENT (book 3), as well as the follow-up novellas, BOURNE (book 3.1) and TRIBUTARY (book 3.2). In this volume, both novellas are included.BOURNE, a novella, picks up right where TORRENT left off..

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Burning Sky: A Novel of the American Frontier by Lori Benton
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
· 14 ratings
“I remember the borders of our land, though I have been gone from them nearly half the moons of my life. But who there will remember me? What I have seen, what I have done, it has changed me.I am the place where two rivers meet, silted with upheaval and loss.Yet memory of our land is a clear stream. I shall know it as a mother knows the faces of her children. It may be I will find me there...

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When We Had Wings by Ariel Lawhon, Kristina McMorris
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
· 16 ratings
From three bestselling authors comes an interwoven tale about a trio of World War II nurses stationed in the South Pacific who wage their own battle for freedom and survival.The Philippines, 1941. When U.S. Navy nurse Eleanor Lindstrom, U.S...

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A Distant Melody by Sarah Sundin
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
· 18 ratings
Will a chance meeting in a time of war change her life forever?Never pretty enough to please her gorgeous mother, Allie will do anything to gain her approval - even marry a man she doesn't love. While Allie has nearly resigned herself to that fate, Lt. Walter Novak - fearless in the cockpit but hopeless with women - takes his last furlough at home in California before being shipped overseas...

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To Whisper Her Name by Tamera Alexander
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
· 18 ratings
Set at Nashville's historic Belle Meade Plantation, the most influential thoroughbred stud farm in America's history, To Whisper Her Name weaves the struggles of real people of the post-war South with the journeys of a man and a woman scarred by betrayal...

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Noel Street by Richard Paul Evans
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
· 18 ratings
In this new offering from “the king of Christmas fiction” (The New York Times), number one best-selling author Richard Paul Evans shares a story of heart, loyalty, and hope as he explores the deeper meaning of the holiday season and asks what it truly means to love and forgive.The year is 1975...

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Lacewood by Jessica James
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
· 6 ratings
A love story that spans centuries… Two people trying to escape their pasts find a connection through an old house—and fulfill a destiny through the secrets it shares. Part love story, part ghost story, Lacewood is a timeless novel about love and loss, roots and belonging, and spirits of the past that refuse to be quieted.

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The Last Chance Cowboy by Jody Hedlund
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
· 6 ratings
As a midwife, Catherine Remington is successful in bringing new life into the world, but she's failed one too many times in finding true love. When she's accused of a murder she didn't commit, she's forced to flee and decides to run away to Colorado to honor a patient's dying wish to deliver a newborn infant to his father.The repentant prodigal Dylan McQuaid is finally back in Fairplay...

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A Very Lusty Christmas by Cara Covington
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
· 6 ratings
[Siren Ménage Everlasting: Erotic Western Ménage a Trois Romance, M/F/M, HEA] Lieutenant Kate Wesley couldn’t believe the audacity of the two pursuit pilots! Bad enough Gerald Benedict grabbed her into a steamy, delicious kiss, but his brother Patrick did the same thing! They let her go, promising to see her soon. Kate knows that will never happen...

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A Wing and a Prayer by Julie Lessman
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
· 6 ratings
She’s dead-set on giving everything to the war overseas…Even if it means losing everything in a war of the heart.A street orphan abused and abandoned by an alcoholic father at age five, Gabriella (Gabe) O’Connor has never let a man stand in her way yet...

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Yesterday's Tomorrow by Catherine West
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
· 6 ratings
WINNER of the 2011 INSPY AWARDS in the Romance Category SILVER Medalist in The Reader's Favorite 2012 Awards (Christian Historical) FINALIST in the 2011 GRACE AWARDS (Christian Historical) She's after the story that might get her the Pulitzer. He's determined to keep his secrets to himself. Vietnam, 1967...

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Soar Like Eagles by Terri Wangard
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
· 6 ratings
Carol becomes a Red Cross doughnut girl, serving GIs and boosting their morale. Convinced wartime romances are doomed to disappointment, she attempts to avoid entanglements. She didn’t plan on Chet, the navigator who tempts her to throw caution to the wind. Chet’s father and brothers always belittled him. As a squadron lead navigator, he longs to prove them wrong...

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The Rebel Bride by Shannon McNear
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
· 6 ratings
Can Love Form Amidst Tensions of War? During the clash between Union and Confederacy, quiet Tennessean Pearl MacFarlane is compelled to nurse both Rebel and Yankee wounded who seek refuge at her family’s farm. She is determined to remain unmoved by the Yankee cause—until she faces the silent struggle of Union soldier Joshua Wheeler, a recent amputee...

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Dusk's Darkest Shores (Regency Wallflowers) by Carolyn Miller
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
· 6 ratings
How can a meek wallflower help a returning war hero whose dreams are plunged into darkness?Mary Bloomfield has no illusions. Her chances for matrimony have long since passed her by. Still, her circumstances are pleasant enough, especially now that she has found purpose in assisting her father with his medical practice in England's beautiful Lake District. Even without love, it's a peaceful life...

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A Time for Everything by Mysti Parker
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
· 6 ratings
After losing her husband and only child to the ravages of the Civil War, twenty-five-year-old Portia McAllister is drowning in grief. When she sees an ad for a live-in tutor in another town, she leaves everything behind in hopes of making a fresh start. But as a Confederate widow in a Union household, she is met with resentment from her new charge and her employer, war veteran Beau Stanford...

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A Perfect Weakness by Jennifer A. Davids
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
· 6 ratings
The Civil War left its mark on Dr. John Turner. He turns his back on medicine and sees his unexpected inheritance in England as an opportunity to start over. But he never imagines how God intends to use his new role as lord of Ashford Hall or the beautiful woman he finds there to ease his troubled soul...

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Eternity Between Us by Stephenia H. McGee
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
· 6 ratings
An unnatural thunder rumbled through the air, carrying withit not thoughts of rain but of smoke and trepidation... After being forced to use a pistol against invaders, Evelyn Mapleton is no longer the timid girl her extended family expects...

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The Valentine's Curse by Jodi Thomas
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
· 6 ratings
New York Times bestselling author Jodi Thomas takes you back to the Old West, where two strangers find love in the least likely place, with the least likely person, just in the nick of time . .

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Yankee in Atlanta by Jocelyn Green
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
· 8 ratings
When soldier Caitlin McKae woke up in Atlanta after being wounded in battle, the Georgian doctor who treated her believed Caitlin's only secret was that she had been fighting for the Confederacy disguised as a man. In order to avoid arrest or worse, Caitlin hides her true identity and makes a new life for herself in Atlanta...

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With Love, Wherever You Are by Dandi Daley Mackall
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
· 8 ratings
Everyone knows that war romances never last. . . . Helen Eberhart always had to fight for what she wanted. Survival in a family of thirteen gave her the grit to push through nurse’s training and support herself. But after the attack on Pearl Harbor, she can’t stand catering to the pampered patients on Chicago’s North Shore...

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Where Treasure Hides by Johnnie Alexander
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
· 8 ratings
Artist Alison Schuyler spends her time working in her family’s renowned art gallery, determined to avoid the curse that has followed the Schuyler clan from the Netherlands to America and back again. She’s certain that true love will only lead to tragedy—that is, until a chance meeting at Waterloo station brings Ian Devlin into her life...

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Storm Clouds Rolling In by Virginia Gaffney, Ginny Dye
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
· 24 ratings
Carrie Cromwell comes of age as the dark clouds of the Civil War swallow the country. Born with a fiery spirit and a strong mind, she finds herself struggling between the common wisdom of the South and the truth she has discovered. The activities of the Underground Railroad and her close friendships with the Cromwell Plantation slaves create difficult choices...

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Among the Poppies by J'nell Ciesielski
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
· 10 ratings
The ideal lady wears lace, speaks quietly, and never under any circumstances fixes her own automobiles. But Gwyn Ruthers has never cared two snaps for the ideal lady. With the war to end all wars exploding across the Channel, she leaves behind her restrictive life as a chauffer’s daughter to serve in an all-female ambulance unit in France...

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Miss Dauntless by Grace Burrowes
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
· 10 ratings
Matilda Merridew, former hoyden of the first water, finds herself widowed, weary, and in want of coin. Along comes Marcus, Lord Tremont, with an interesting–and decent–proposition. Tremont will provide Matilda a handsome salary and keep a commodious roof over her head if she will relieve him of the burden of managing a houseful of unruly former soldiers...

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In His Eyes by Stephenia H. McGee
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
· 10 ratings
Her heart sought shelter. Her soul found home. Ella Whitaker rescues a newborn from the dying arms of a woman of ill repute and at long last she has someone to love. In need of a wet nurse, she arrives at Belmont Plantation just as Federal soldiers demand to speak to the owner...

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A Rebel Heart by Beth White
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
· 10 ratings
Five years after the final shot was fired in the War Between the States, Selah Daughtry can barely manage to keep herself, her two younger sisters, and their spinster cousin fed and clothed. With their family's Mississippi plantation swamped by debt and the Big House falling down around them, the only option seems to be giving up their ancestral land...

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Where Dandelions Bloom by Tara Johnson
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
· 10 ratings
Cassie Kendrick is on the run. Her abusive father arranged her marriage to a despicable man, but she’s discovered an escape. Disguised as a man, Cassie enlists in the Union army, taking the name Thomas Turner. On the battlefields of the Civil War, keeping her identity a secret is only the beginning of her problems, especially after she meets Gabriel Avery, a handsome young photographer...

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All Through the Night by Tara Johnson
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
· 10 ratings
With her stammering tongue and quiet ways, Cadence Piper has always struggled to be accepted. After the death of her mother, Cadence sets her heart on becoming a nurse, both to erase the stain her brother has left on the family's honor and to find long-sought approval in the eyes of her father...

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The Fragile Hour by Rosalind Laker
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
· 10 ratings
After successfully bridging 40, Anna is shattered by a paragraph in a newspaper. Leaving for Bergen, she spectates at the raising of a wartime aircraft from a lake - the pilot of which had subsequently effected her life with passion and destruction - and faces what happened when she was a spy...

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Stuck Together by Mary Connealy
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
· 12 ratings
Tina Cahill, newly arrived from the East, is determined to get the saloon in Broken Wheel, Texas, closed for good. To that end, she pickets outside the place every afternoon. Unfortunately, so far no one has paid any attention. Vince Yates earned the nickname "Invincible Vince" because of his reputation for letting absolutely nothing stop him. Not his tyrant of a father...

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