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Pawn in Frankincense by Dorothy Dunnett
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsPawn in Frankincense is the fourth in the legendary Lymond Chronicles. Somewhere within the bejeweled labyrinth of the Ottoman empire, a child is hidden. Now his father, Francis Crawford of Lymond, soldier of fortune and the exiled heir of Scottish nobility, is searching for him while ostensibly engaged on a mission to the Turkish Sultan... -
![A Maiden's Voyage by Rosie Goodwin]()
A Maiden's Voyage by Rosie Goodwin
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThursday's child has far to go . . . 1912, London.Eighteen-year-old Flora Butler is going up in the world. She has the prized position of lady's maid to young Constance Ogilvie, and is able to provide for her beloved parents and four younger siblings. She has even fallen in love, and though she does not feel quite ready to marry the charming Jamie Branning, her future seems clear...Categorized as:
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![Pocketful of Dreams: A Heart-Warming East End Saga by Jean Fullerton]()
Pocketful of Dreams: A Heart-Warming East End Saga by Jean Fullerton
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsJean Fullerton, queen of the saga, returns with a charming new war-time series. It's 1939, and the Brogan family of London's East End are ready to show Hitler what-for. But things don't seem so rosy when rationing, evacuation, and air-raids start to put this larger-than-life family to the test...Categorized as:
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![The Girl from Venice by Siobhan Daiko]()
The Girl from Venice by Siobhan Daiko
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsLidia De Angelis has kept a low profile since Mussolini's racial laws wrenched her from her childhood sweetheart. But when the Germans occupy Venice in 1943, she must flee the city to save her life. Lidia joins the partisans in the Venetian mountains, where she meets David, an English soldier fighting for the same cause...Categorized as:
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![The Promise by Michelle Vernal]()
The Promise by Michelle Vernal
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA wonderfully heartwarming, touching and romantic story - Tammy Robinson Author of Differently Normal Two women from different generations brought together by another’s wrongdoing. When British backpacker, Isabel Stark happens across a car accident on a lonely stretch of road in the South Island of New Zealand her life changes forever... -
![The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris]()
The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThis edition is edited and updated for younger readers (12 and older), and also contains extra materials, including classroom discussion points, additional photos, maps and documents and other educational resources. I tattooed a number on her arm. She tattooed her name on my heart. In 1942, Lale Sokolov arrived in Auschwitz-Birkenau...Categorized as:
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![London Refrain by Bodie Thoene, Brock Thoene]()
London Refrain by Bodie Thoene, Brock Thoene
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsEngland teeters on the brink of war. It’s no longer a question of if. It’s a matter of when. In the dark fall of 1939, the hopes of the Polish people fade as Nazi bombers strafe the beloved city of Warsaw. Politicians debate while hundreds stand in lines at the British Embassy, desperate to flee the country before Hitler’s ground forces arrive...Categorized as:
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![The Crystal Butterfly by Hannah Byron]()
The Crystal Butterfly by Hannah Byron
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsJoin us as we dive deep into the heart of the Dutch Resistance during World War II in the sixth installment of ‘The Resistance Girl Series’, 'The Crystal Butterfly.'Amsterdam, 1939In a world on the brink of war, Edda Van der Valk, a talented prima ballerina, seeks refuge from a ruthless Russian rival at a Swiss finishing school... -
![The Longest Echo by Eoin Dempsey]()
The Longest Echo by Eoin Dempsey
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAgainst the backdrop of WWII-ravaged Italy comes a powerful and emotional novel of love, survival, justice, and second chances by the bestselling author of White Rose, Black Forest.Occupied Italy, 1944. In the mountain regions south of Bologna, Liliana Nicoletti’s family finds escaped POW James Foley behind German lines...Categorized as:
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![Peter Cabot Gets Lost by Cat Sebastian]()
Peter Cabot Gets Lost by Cat Sebastian
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSummer 1960:After years of scraping by, Caleb Murphy has graduated from college and is finally getting to start a new life. Except he suddenly has no way to get from Boston to Los Angeles. Then, to add to his misery, there's perfect, privileged Peter Cabot offering to drive him...Categorized as:
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![Under the Midnight Sun by Tracie Peterson, Kimberley Woodhouse]()
Under the Midnight Sun by Tracie Peterson, Kimberley Woodhouse
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsTayler Hale is ahead of her time as one of the first women naturalists. She has always loved adventure and the great outdoors, and her remote job location also helps keep her away from the clutches of the man to whom she once made a foolish promise. It seems she must keep running, however, and in secret, her boss from Yellowstone arranges for a new job . . . in Alaska...Categorized as:
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Silver Wings by H.P. Munro
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWINNER - 2014 Golden Crown Literary Society - Historical FictionWhen in 1943, twenty-five-year-old Lily Rivera is widowed, she finally feels able to step out of the shadows of an unhappy marriage. Her love of flying leads her to join the Womens Airforce Service Pilots, determined to regain her passion and spread her wings, not suspecting that she would experience more than just flying... -
![The Rebel by Tess Thompson]()
The Rebel by Tess Thompson
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsShe watches helplessly as the man she loves leaves to fight with the Allies overseas. He promises her he will return to her alive and well. Will he be able to keep his promise, or will he be yet another lost soldier in a war against tyranny?After four years at a university, Delphia Barnes returns home to Emerson Pass as America prepares to join the war...Categorized as:
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![Shaken to the Core by Jae]()
Shaken to the Core by Jae
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsKate Winthrop, the only child of a wealthy shipping magnate, has the course of her life charted for her by her parents. She’s expected to marry well and produce a successor to the Winthrop empire. But Kate has a very different path in mind. Her true passion lies with photography—and with women... -
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![These Healing Hills by Ann H. Gabhart]()
These Healing Hills by Ann H. Gabhart
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFrancine Howard has her life all mapped out until the soldier she planned to marry at WWII's end writes to tell her he's in love with a woman in England. Devastated, Francine seeks a fresh start in the Appalachian Mountains, training to be a nurse midwife for the Frontier Nursing Service...Categorized as:
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![Into Deep Waters by Kaje Harper]()
Into Deep Waters by Kaje Harper
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFor Jacob and Daniel, two young gay men aboard a Navy ship in WWII, the risks were high. Not just the risks of injury and death from Japanese planes and submarines, but the risk of discovery, of discharge, imprisonment or worse. Only a special kind of love was worth taking that chance. But from the moment Daniel met Jacob's eyes across a battle-scarred deck, he knew he had to try... -
![A Trail of Fire by Diana Gabaldon]()
A Trail of Fire by Diana Gabaldon
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsFour extraordinary stories featuring characters from the bestselling OUTLANDER series. In Lord John and the Plague of Zombies Lord John Grey is posted to Jamaica to assist the Governor as he faces a most unusual kind of uprising among the colony's slave population...Categorized as:
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![The Planter's Bride by Janet MacLeod Trotter]()
The Planter's Bride by Janet MacLeod Trotter
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratings1922: cousins and best friends, Sophie and Tilly, are looking for love and adventure. Sophie, orphaned at six, when her tea planter parents died suddenly of fever in India, has been brought up by a radical aunt in Edinburgh. Tilly meanwhile has lived a sheltered life in Newcastle... -
![Yesterday's Tomorrow by Catherine West]()
Yesterday's Tomorrow by Catherine West
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWINNER 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...Categorized as:
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![Bitter Tears by Marion Kummerow]()
Bitter Tears by Marion Kummerow
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsRichard Klausen is a fugitive. A Wehrmacht deserter, hiding out on a farm in Poland. He thought once the war was over, he’d be safe. Wrong. Things only get worse and staying in Poland threatens his very life. Katrina Zdanek longs for peace. But when it’s finally there, she soon finds out that loving the wrong man still is a crime. She’s Polish. He’s German. Antagonists even after the war... -
![The Girl From the Workhouse: A heart-breaking, emotional family saga by Lynn Johnson]()
The Girl From the Workhouse: A heart-breaking, emotional family saga by Lynn Johnson
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsEven in the darkest of times, she never gave up hope Staffordshire, 1911. Ginnie Jones’s childhood is spent in the shadow of the famous Potteries, living with her mother, father and older sister Mabel. But with Father’s eyesight failing, money is in short supply, and too often the family find their bellies aching with hunger. With no hope in sight, Ginnie is sent to Haddon Workhouse... -
![Once a Rogue by Allie Therin]()
Once a Rogue by Allie Therin
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsOnce a Rogue by Allie Therin will be available Aug 2023 from Carina... -
![Calder Grit by Janet Dailey, Graham Winton]()
Calder Grit by Janet Dailey, Graham Winton
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsListening Length 8 hours and 50 minutesWith all the intense drama, historical detail and grand sweep of her original New York Times best-selling Calder series, Dailey returns to 1909 Montana, as tensions mount between immigrant homesteaders and cattlemen determined to keep the range free...Categorized as:
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![The Last Hours in Paris by Ruth Druart]()
The Last Hours in Paris by Ruth Druart
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA powerful portrait of war and retribution. A beautiful story of love and forgiveness."Words are power. They can bring you down, lift you up, make your heart soar, make you fall in love. Or make you hate."Paris 1944. Elise Chevalier knows what it is to love . . . and to hate. Her fiancé, a young French soldier, was killed by the German army at the Maginot Line...Categorized as:
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![The Persian Boy by Mary Renault]()
The Persian Boy by Mary Renault
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 20 ratings“It takes skill to depict, as Miss Renault has done, this half-man, half Courtesan who is so deeply in love with the warrior.”–The Atlantic MonthlyThe Persian Boy traces the last years of Alexander’s life through the eyes of his lover, Bagoas...Categorized as:
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![Spring Snow by Yukio Mishima, Michael Gallagher]()
Spring Snow by Yukio Mishima, Michael Gallagher
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsTokyo, 1912. The closed world of the ancient aristocracy is being breached for the first time by outsiders - rich provincial families, a new and powerful political and social elite.Kiyoaki has been raised among the elegant Ayakura family - members of the waning aristocracy - but he is not one of them...Categorized as:
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![Wingmen by Ensan Case]()
Wingmen by Ensan Case
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsJack Hardigan's Hellcat fighter squadron blew the Japanese Zekes out of the blazing Pacific skies. But a more subtle kind of hell was brewing in his feelings for rookie pilot Fred Trusteau... -
![Bird's Eye View by Elinor Florence]()
Bird's Eye View by Elinor Florence
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsRose Jolliffe, an idealistic young Canadian in the British air force in World War II, joins an RAF intelligence unit to study aerial photographs of the war. But uncertainty over her commanding officer's growing attention, and her own disillusionment with war, make her yearn for the country and life she left behind...Categorized as:
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![The Dancing Years by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles]()
The Dancing Years by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratings1919. As the euphoria of the Armistice fades, the nation counts the cost: millions dead or disabled, unemployment, strikes and shortages. As prices and taxes rise, it becomes harder to remember what the war was for... -
![The G.I. Bride (Memory Lane) by Eileen Ramsay]()
The G.I. Bride (Memory Lane) by Eileen Ramsay
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTruro, Cornwall, 1941After the Blitz took her parents, April decided to leave London for Cornwall. Training as a nurse, she finds hope in the new friends she makes and the American G.I.s that arrive. But when a bomb lands close to home she'll need courage she never knew she had...Categorized as:
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![The Fallen Kings by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles]()
The Fallen Kings by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratings1918: German troops flood back from the Eastern Front for an all-out assault in France, before the Americans can join the war. The under-strength British retreat, and for the first time the real possibility of defeat comes home to a shocked nation... -
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Hidden Away by J.W. Kilhey
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFranklin D. Roosevelt said, “No man and no force can abolish memory.” John Oakes and Kurt Fournier are living proof of the truth behind those words. Since the horrors of the Second World War, John and Kurt have been trudging through existence, bleeding from wounds that have never healed... -
![The Desert Nurse: A grand love story set in a far-flung theatre of war by Pamela Hart]()
The Desert Nurse: A grand love story set in a far-flung theatre of war by Pamela Hart
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAmid the Australian Army hospitals of World War I Egypt, two deeply determined individuals find the resilience of their love tested to its limits It's 1911, and 21-year-old Evelyn Northey desperately wants to become a doctor. Her father forbids it, withholding the inheritance that would allow her to attend university...Categorized as:
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Juliana by Vanda
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratings“An Absolutely Beautiful and Moving Novel!”--Philip Crawford, author of Mafia and the GaysReaders say, “I can’t wait for the next book in the series."She went looking for fame, and found her true self, instead.New York City, 1941. Alice “Al” Huffman and her childhood friends are fresh off the potato farms of Long Island and bound for Broadway... -
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![Her Forgotten Promise by Corin Burnside]()
Her Forgotten Promise by Corin Burnside
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA wartime secret. A journey to uncover the truth.Claire has always had a special bond with her aunt Margaret, but she’s astonished when Margaret suddenly begins talking about a friend called Agnes, who Margaret met working as a WAAF in World War 2 – a past Claire had no idea about. Margaret and Agnes were best friends until Agnes started acting strangely, becoming secretive and distant... -
![Romance D’A Pedra do Reino e O Príncipe do Sangue do Vai-e-Volta by Ariano Suassuna]()
Romance D’A Pedra do Reino e O Príncipe do Sangue do Vai-e-Volta by Ariano Suassuna
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratings'A pedra do reino' é apresentado como um romance autobiográfico narrado por Dom Pedro Dinis Ferreira-Quaderna, o auto-proclamado 'Rei do Quinto Império e do Quinto Naipe, Profeta da Igreja Católico-Serteneja e pretendente ao trono do Império do Brasil'... -
![The Bells of Times Square by Amy Lane]()
The Bells of Times Square by Amy Lane
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsEvery New Year’s Eve since 1946, Nate Meyer has ventured alone to Times Square to listen for the ghostly church bells he and his long-lost wartime lover vowed to hear together. This year, however, his grandson Blaine is pushing Nate through the Manhattan streets, revealing his secrets to his silent, stroke-stricken grandfather... -
![Cross My Heart: And Hope to Live by Carmen Reid]()
Cross My Heart: And Hope to Live by Carmen Reid
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA gripping story of espionage and war-time resistance from bestselling author, Carmen Reid.Brussels, 1940. Fifteen-year-old Nicole watches as the Nazis invade Belgium. Determined not to stand by as her country is brought to its knees, Nicole vows to fight back and joins the Belgian Resistance... -
![Honeytrap by Aster Glenn Gray]()
Honeytrap by Aster Glenn Gray
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAt the height of the Cold War, a Soviet and an American agent fall in love.Soviet agent Gennady Matskevich is thrilled when he's assigned to work with American FBI agent Daniel Hawthorne. There’s just one catch: Gennady’s abusive boss wants him to honeytrap his American partner... -
![Unhinge the Universe by Aleksandr Voinov, L.A. Witt]()
Unhinge the Universe by Aleksandr Voinov, L.A. Witt
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsGive me one fixed point and a long enough lever, and I'll unhinge the universe. — ArchimedesDecember 1944 – The Battle of the BulgeSS Lieutenant Hagen Friedrichs is the sole survivor of a party sent to retrieve his brother—and the highly sensitive information he’s carrying—from behind enemy lines. But his daring rescue attempt fails, and Hagen becomes the prisoner... -
![City of Schemes by Victoria Thompson]()
City of Schemes by Victoria Thompson
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsElizabeth Miles is preparing for her wedding to Gideon Bates, when a menacing shadow from her past threatens to destroy the life she has built for herself in this all-new Counterfeit Lady Novel from USA Today bestselling author Victoria Thompson.The Great War is over, and Elizabeth and Gideon are busily planning their wedding and welcoming home old friends now discharged from the army... -
![Deep Harbor by Lisa Tawn Bergren]()
Deep Harbor by Lisa Tawn Bergren
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFrom the richly forested banks of the Washington Territory; to the burgeoning city of San Francisco; and across the turbulent, danger-filled waves of the open sea–you will experience an epic saga of perseverance and pain, faith and calling in Deep Harbor...Categorized as:
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![Cinders to Satin by Fern Michaels]()
Cinders to Satin by Fern Michaels
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFrom the bestselling historical romance writer Fern Michaels, author of TEXAS RICH and TEXAS HEAT, comes this exciting saga of Callie James, a brave immigrant girl from squalid Dublin, who battles her way through the hard world of late nineteenth century New York on a passion-filled, bittersweet journey to make her dreams of passion and success come true...Categorized as:
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![Baby, It's Cold Outside (When I Fall in Love) by Susan May Warren]()
Baby, It's Cold Outside (When I Fall in Love) by Susan May Warren
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFive strangers with broken hearts. One raging blizzard. Brrr, baby, it’s cold outside! But a warm fire and a string of Christmas lights just might provide the perfect remedy. It's been years since Edith Miller hosted the annual Snowflake, MN, Christmas Extravaganza. After her son was killed in the war, some five years ago, her Christmas spirit died along with him...Categorized as:
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![The Secret Vow by Natalie Meg Evans]()
The Secret Vow by Natalie Meg Evans
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsKatya – young, beautiful and impoverished – arrives in Paris, hoping to begin a new life. She leaves behind a terrible secret, and her survival in this strange and beautiful new city depends on nobody ever discovering who – and what – she is...Categorized as:
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![Beneath a Blazing Sky by Amanda Hughes]()
Beneath a Blazing Sky by Amanda Hughes
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe dawning of the Twentieth Century and it is a world in chaos. Raised on Coney Island among scoundrels, cheats, and dreamers, Piper Albrecht is apprenticed to violence at an early age. Not until she is rescued by her aunt and moves to the elegant Upper East Side of Manhattan does she experience a different life, the life of a well-educated, forward-thinking young woman...Categorized as:
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![The Moonlit Cage by Linda Holeman]()
The Moonlit Cage by Linda Holeman
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsDary�'s simple life in mid-nineteenth-century Afghanistan is torn apart when a hateful curse by a jealous tribeswoman leaves her an outcast in her small Muslim village...Categorized as:
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![Sentimental Journey by Jill Barnett]()
Sentimental Journey by Jill Barnett
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsU.S. Army officer J.R. Cassidy is man known for his stealth, until he finds himself on the run in the deserts of North Africa with Kitty Kincaid, the daughter of a U.S. scientist he has vowed to protect, but who is destined to be used by anyone who wants to control her father...Categorized as:
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![Skybound by Aleksandr Voinov]()
Skybound by Aleksandr Voinov
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsGermany, 1945. The Third Reich is on its knees as Allied forces bomb Berlin to break the last resistance. Yet on an airfield near Berlin, the battle is far from over for a young mechanic, Felix, who’s attached to a squadron of fighter pilots. He’s especially attached to fighter ace Baldur Vogt, a man he admires and secretly loves... -
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The Guardian of Secrets by Jana Petken
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThis is a must-read for historical fiction fans ________________________________________________________________ A historical family saga spanning four generations, from 1912, Kent, England, to Spain and its 1936–39 civil war...
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