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Gone with the Wind Volume 2 by Margaret Mitchell
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsGone with the Wind is a novel by American writer Margaret Mitchell, first published in 1936. The story is set in Clayton County and Atlanta, both in Georgia, during the American Civil War and Reconstruction Era... -
![The Last Long Night by Ginny Dye]()
The Last Long Night by Ginny Dye
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsCan they survive the Last, Long Night of the Civil War?The power of the Union army brings the South to its knees in surrender, but not until a year of intense pain and violence creates a chasm that may be impossible for the country to bridge. Carrie struggles to hold on to hope as the world caves in around her, hanging on to the promise she’s been given... -
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Shifted By The Winds by Ginny Dye
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsShifted By The Winds is the eighth book in the Bregdan Chronicles historical fiction series. As of today, there are 10 books in the series. Make sure you start reading with # 1 – Storm Clouds Rolling In. It's readers like you who have turned the series into a world-wide best-seller...Categorized as:
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![A Ration Book Wedding by Jean Fullerton]()
A Ration Book Wedding by Jean Fullerton
Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIt's February 1942 and the American's have finally joined Britain and its allies. Meanwhile, twenty-three-year-old Francesca Fabrino, like thousands of other women, is doing her bit for the war effort in a factory in East London...Categorized as:
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![Dark Chaos by Virginia Gaffney, Ginny Dye]()
Dark Chaos by Virginia Gaffney, Ginny Dye
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsDark Chaos is the 4th book in the Bregden Chronicles - the sweeping historical saga of America, beginning in 1860. As the 3rd year of the American Civil War begins, Carrie Cromwell, her heart filled with joy, marries the man of her dreams, the handsome Lieutenant Robert Borden. But a cloud threatens to wipe out the bride's new happiness... -
![The Star and the Shamrock by Jean Grainger]()
The Star and the Shamrock by Jean Grainger
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsAriella Bannon has no choice: she must put her precious children, Liesl and Erich, on that train or allow them to become prey for the Nazis. Berlin 1939... -
![Glimmers of Change by Ginny Dye]()
Glimmers of Change by Ginny Dye
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe Civil War has ended, but the struggle to rebuild America is just beginning.Carrie and Janie are living their dream in Philadelphia, but what price will they pay when cholera sweeps through America once again? Robert searches for peace on the plantation, but forces are in place that are determined to deny it... -
![The Edelweiss Sisters by Kate Hewitt]()
The Edelweiss Sisters by Kate Hewitt
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratings1938, Salzburg. A powerful story of hope, forbidden love, and incredible courage, about three sisters who will risk everything—even their own lives—as part of the resistance movement in Nazi-occupied Austria.Johanna, Birgit and Lotte Eder have always lived quiet lives, working in their father’s clockmaking shop and helping their mother in the house... -
![The Gracelin O'Malley Trilogy: Gracelin O'Malley, Leaving Ireland, and 'Til Morning Light by Ann Moore]()
The Gracelin O'Malley Trilogy: Gracelin O'Malley, Leaving Ireland, and 'Til Morning Light by Ann Moore
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThis “elegantly written” trilogy follows an unforgettable Irish heroine from the potato famine through immigrating to America (Eileen Goudge)... -
![Spring Will Come by Virginia Gaffney, Ginny Dye]()
Spring Will Come by Virginia Gaffney, Ginny Dye
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsSpring Will Come is the third book in the Bregdan Chronicles historical fiction series. As of today, there are 10 books in the series. Make sure you start reading with # 1 – Storm Clouds Rolling In. It's readers like you who have turned the series into a world-wide best-seller... -
![Return to the Island by Kate Hewitt]()
Return to the Island by Kate Hewitt
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWhat would her life look like without her beloved island in it? Where would she go? Ellen had come back here—to the place she felt she belonged—thinking she would stay here. But was it home… or just a place to hide?1918, Canada: The First World War is over and those who have been fighting in Europe are heading for home, forever changed... -
![Promises by Carolyn Brown]()
Promises by Carolyn Brown
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIndigo Hamilton was a lovely bride and the day was perfect as she walked down the aisle toward her smiling groom, Thomas Brewster. She was the absolute center of attention and loved being there - until the priest asked if anyone had any objections to the marriage. Then the doors of the church swung open and Indigo's world fell apart. Flannon Sullivan chose to sit at the back of the church... -
![The Girls in Blue by Fenella J. Miller]()
The Girls in Blue by Fenella J. Miller
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsJane Hadley has nothing to lose when she runs away to join the Women's Auxiliary Air Force. Whatever faces her in war-torn London can't be any worse than staying at home with her abusive father...The city is nothing like she could have imagined, but she's soon on the move, travelling from base to base for her top-secret training...Categorized as:
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![A Girl Called Samson by Amy Harmon]()
A Girl Called Samson by Amy Harmon
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsFrom New York Times bestselling author Amy Harmon comes the saga of a young woman who dares to chart her own destiny in life and love during the American Revolutionary War.In 1760, Deborah Samson is born to Puritan parents in Plympton, Massachusetts. When her father abandons the family and her mother is unable to support them, Deborah is bound out as an indentured servant...Categorized as:
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![Mermaid in a Bowl of Tears by Cindy Brandner]()
Mermaid in a Bowl of Tears by Cindy Brandner
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe long awaited sequel to 'Exit Unicorns' opens in the autumn of 1969. Casey and Pamela Riordan have fled the erupting violence of Belfast, Northern Ireland, only to find themselves tangled in the web of political corruption that permeates South Boston. Here, a man's life can hang upon the whim of another, and neighborhood politics and organized crime are one and the same... -
![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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![BLACK by Joan Vassar]()
BLACK by Joan Vassar
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn August 1831, Nat Turner leads a group of escaped slaves in a rebellion that rocks the South. The revolt comes to a quick and violent end. In November, Nat is publicly hanged, and as his body swings, a false sense of peace washes over Jerusalem, Virginia. Unbeknownst to the world, on the day Nat Turner dies, his son, Nat Hope Turner, is born... -
![The Lost Valley by Jennifer Scoullar]()
The Lost Valley by Jennifer Scoullar
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsTasmania, 1929: Ten-year-old-twins, Tom and Harry Abbott, are orphaned by a tragedy that shocks Hobart society... -
![The Shipyard Girls by Nancy Revell]()
The Shipyard Girls by Nancy Revell
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratings' A real insight into how it was for these women in a Sunderland major ship building yard ... The foundation book of a series. Which I shall be reading as each one is written. Loved it. ' - 5 star real reader review Sunderland, 1940, and the women go to the shipyards to do their bit for the war effort...Categorized as:
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![The Dollmaker's Daughters by Dilly Court]()
The Dollmaker's Daughters by Dilly Court
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsTwo sisters, tragically divided by love, jealousy and ambition ... For Ruby and Rosetta Capretti life in the slums of the East End holds little promise. Although very similar in looks they dream of very different futures... -
![Millions of Pebbles by Roberta Kagan]()
Millions of Pebbles by Roberta Kagan
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIt is the darkest time in the history of mankind, and fate is playing a twisted game.Benjamin Rabinowitz’s world is crashing down on him, a painful reality following the invasion of Poland. He is loath to let his wife and sickly son go but escaping the horrors of the Lodz ghetto seems to be their best chance at survival, albeit slim... -
![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 Woodcutter's Wife by David Johnson]()
The Woodcutter's Wife by David Johnson
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsSet against the backdrop of the Civil War comes a tale of love lost and found. Mary Thomson is no ordinary woman. She works alongside her husband William cutting firewood to sell in the city, earning the nickname “The Woodcutter’s Wife.” She kills a bear with her bare hands. And she prefers plowing a field to cooking a meal... -
![Tales of Passion, Tales of Woe by Sandra Gulland]()
Tales of Passion, Tales of Woe by Sandra Gulland
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIn the second novel in the acclaimed Josephine B. Trilogy, Sandra Gulland offers a sweeping yet intimate portrayal of the political and personal struggles of the wife of the most powerful man in the world.Tales of Passion, Tales of Woe is the much-awaited sequel to Sandra Gulland's highly acclaimed first novel, The Many Lives & Secret Sorrows of Josephine B... -
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![The Appomattox Saga Collection 1 by Gilbert Morris]()
The Appomattox Saga Collection 1 by Gilbert Morris
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsEnjoy the first three novels from the acclaimed Appomattox Saga by bestselling author Gilbert Morris in a collector's hardbound anthology. On a prosperous Virginia plantation, the Rocklin family tries to live as they traditionally have, enjoying the pleasures of wealth and status... -
![Whispers From Yesterday by Robin Lee Hatcher]()
Whispers From Yesterday by Robin Lee Hatcher
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFollowing her father's death and her own attempted suicide, pampered socialite Karen Butler reluctantly seeks refuge at the home of Sophia Taylor, the grandmother she has never known. Determined to escape Sophia's broken-down ranch as soon as she can, Karen resists connecting with its inhabitants - especially Dusty Stoddard, the driven director of the Golden T's summer camp for at-risk youth...Categorized as:
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![From Dust and Ashes: A Story of Liberation by Tricia Goyer]()
From Dust and Ashes: A Story of Liberation by Tricia Goyer
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIt is 1945, and a group of American soldiers liberate a Nazi concentration camp. Helene is the abandoned wife of an SS guard who has fled to avoid arrest. Overcome by guilt, she begins to help meet the needs of survivors. Throughout the process, she finds her own liberation--from spiritual bondage, sin, and guilt...Categorized as:
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![The German Officer's Girl by Jina Bacarr]()
The German Officer's Girl by Jina Bacarr
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThis was a version of The Resistance Girl offered to reviewers until changes were made (before publication) to prevent confusion. Two women. One heartbreaking secret.Paris, 1943.Sylvie Martone is the star of French cinema, adored by fans and on the good side of the Nazi officers who swarm the streets of Paris... -
![Tangled Vines by Kay Bratt]()
Tangled Vines by Kay Bratt
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsWith the bad memories of the Cultural Revolution and a life of hard work behind them, Benfu and his treasured Calla Lily are content watching their daughters blossom—six young women who they adopted as their own... -
![Margaret's Story by Eugenia Price]()
Margaret's Story by Eugenia Price
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFrom the Seminole uprisings to the Civil War, they fought for their beloved plantation, their family, and their faith. . . Margaret Seton had loved the handsome young widower long before she become Lewis Fleming's bride. Together they would rebuild Hibernia on the St. Johns River in northern Florida, and fill it to overflowing with laughter and tears of their large, close-knit family... -
![Never Too Late by Michael R. Phillips]()
Never Too Late by Michael R. Phillips
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA tender romance is developing between Henry and Josepha, but when he learns that she hides a startling secret, will it tear them... -
![We'll Meet Again by Lily Baxter]()
We'll Meet Again by Lily Baxter
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIt is April 1939 and unaware that the German war machine is advancing towards the Channel Islands, seventeen-year-old Meg Colivet and her sister are enjoying a holiday in Oxford with their aunt. Here Meg meets charismatic German undergraduate Rayner Weiss and the couple fall passionately in love... -
![Barbara's War - The Middle Years by Fenella J. Miller]()
Barbara's War - The Middle Years by Fenella J. Miller
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBarbara's War - The Middle Years - is the second book in a three book series. The third and final book in this series will be released in September 2014. The phony war is over and Hitler is beginning his rampage through Europe. Barbara Sinclair is determined to 'do her bit' for the war effort but circumstances send her down another, unexpected path...Categorized as:
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![Berlin Butterfly: Ensnare by Leah Moyes]()
Berlin Butterfly: Ensnare by Leah Moyes
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDeath or Freedom? Hardly a choice. Aug 12, 1961, Berlin Germany. Nationale Volksarmee soldiers roll barbed wire across the war-torn city to create the first Berlin Wall. Families are separated, livelihoods destroyed, death comes easily as crippling fear paralyzes the occupants on both sides of the wall...Categorized as:
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![Through the Storm by Maureen Lee]()
Through the Storm by Maureen Lee
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe third novel in bestseller Maureen Lee's outstanding Liverpool sequence about family life during World War IITwo years of war have taken a terrible toll on Pearl Street, Liverpool. German bombs have reduced some houses to rubble and most of the inhabitants have lost friends and family...Categorized as:
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![Stranger in Savannah by Eugenia Price]()
Stranger in Savannah by Eugenia Price
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSavannah, 1854. Throughout the city's elegant streets, stirrings of the Civil War are taking hold. For three families, the war has already begun within their hearts, drawing battle lines where once there was love... The Brownings: Mark Browning's unwavering faith in the Union sparks a battle of conscience that threatens all that he holds dear..Categorized as:
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![The Runaway by Melanie Dobson]()
The Runaway by Melanie Dobson
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsMelanie Dobson's bestselling novel--In a divided town during a dangerous era, who can be trusted? Liberty, Indiana, is home to a stop on the Underground Railroad operated by Anna Brent and her father, covert abolitionists who harbor runaway slaves traveling toward freedom... -
![Across the Mersey by Annie Groves]()
Across the Mersey by Annie Groves
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFrom the author of 'The Grafton Girls' comes the story of one Liverpool family preparing for the onslaught of World War Two, while trying not to fight among themselves. Jean and Vi are twins but couldn't be more different. Jean's proud of her honest, hardworking husband and their children, but there's never a penny to spare... -
![Dawn's Early Light by Elswyth Thane]()
Dawn's Early Light by Elswyth Thane
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsColonial Williamsburg lives again in this rich story which is Elswyth Thane's first novel of American history in her bestselling series... -
![The Irish Princess by Elizabeth Chadwick]()
The Irish Princess by Elizabeth Chadwick
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIreland, 1160Aoife MacMurchada is just 14 years old when her father Diarmit, King of Leinster, is brutally deposed, and her family is forced to flee Southern Ireland into English exile. Diarmit seeks help from King Henry II, an alliance that leads him to the charismatic Richard de Clare, lord of Striguil, a man dissatisfied with his lot and open to new horizons...Categorized as:
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![The Assyrian by Nicholas Guild]()
The Assyrian by Nicholas Guild
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn ancient Assyria, Tiglath Ashur and Esarhaddon, half-brothers, best friends, and rivals for the throne, share their women, secrets, and dreams as together they seek a destiny that will change the course of the empire...Categorized as:
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![A Light in the Window by Marion Kummerow]()
A Light in the Window by Marion Kummerow
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsBerlin, 1941: Margarete Rosenbaum is working as a housemaid for a senior Nazi officer when his house is bombed, leaving her the only survivor. But when she’s mistaken for his daughter in the aftermath of the blast, Margarete knows she can make a bid for freedom…Issued with temporary papers—and with the freedom of not being seen as Jewish—a few hours are all she needs to escape to relative safety... -
![Victor's Blessing by Barbara Sontheimer]()
Victor's Blessing by Barbara Sontheimer
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAmerican Legacy Book Awards - Finalist Romance General For fans of Kristen Hannah, Jodi Picoult and Shana Abe, Victor's Blessing offers an interwoven love triangle of passion, torment, betrayal and the most challenging of all human emotions, forgiveness.Victor Gant 6'5",the son of an Osage slave, is an unexpected hero for a Civil War tale. A self-made man he prospers In Ste. Genevieve Missouri... -
![The Bride Found by Tracey Jane Jackson, Piper Davenport]()
The Bride Found by Tracey Jane Jackson, Piper Davenport
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratings18+ for language and sexual situations… Is love timeless? Does only one true love exist for each person? Can the course of history be changed in order to save a future generation? Emma Wellington is dealing with the strange disappearance of her sister and brother-in-law, and no one is certain they’re even still alive... -
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![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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![One Wore Blue, And One Wore Gray, And One Road West by Heather Graham]()
One Wore Blue, And One Wore Gray, And One Road West by Heather Graham
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFrom inside front flap: Here in this exclusive Rhapsody edition, are the three stirring novels of Heather Graham's Civil War Series. One Wore Blue: Kiernan Miller & Jesser Cameron. And One Wore Gray: Jesse's brother, Daniel Cameron & and the romance with Callie Michaelson. And One Road West introduces Christa, sister to Jessse and Daniel and her romance with Colonel Jeremy McCauley... -
![The White Road by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles]()
The White Road by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAugust 1914 The whole country is thrilled by the declaration of war. The British Expeditionary Force goes off to France to defend gallant little Belgium, and thousands more young men rush to volunteer, hoping to see action before the war ends at Christmas. At home everyone competes to be doing the most for the war effort... -
![The Imposter: A Legacy of Love Novel by Melanie Dobson]()
The Imposter: A Legacy of Love Novel by Melanie Dobson
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAs the British and Continental armies wage war in 1781, another conflict wars in the heart of Lydia Caswell, a wealthy plantation owner's daughter. One snowy night Lydia Caswell discovers a wounded man on the riverbank near Caswell Hall, and her decision to save him changes her life... -
![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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![Todos os Sonhos do Mundo by Theresa Révay]()
Todos os Sonhos do Mundo by Theresa Révay
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsVoltar ao grande romance. Viver, página a página, a intensidade de uma história de amor, perda, força e coragem. Xénia escapou à Revolução Russa e à guerra, mas o seu coração está ainda por sarar. Derrubado o governo nazi, regressa a Berlim em busca do Max, o único homem que amou. Reencontra-o marcado pela guerra, atormentado...Categorized as:
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