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Adult Fiction - Historical Fiction
Updated April 14, 2023
Milwaukee County Federated Library System
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All the light we cannot see : a novel
Doerr, Anthony
Paper Book
An Instant New York Times BestsellerA Pulitzer Prize WinnerA blind child, 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. When the Nazis occupy Paris and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint...
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Fall of giants
Follett, Ken.
Paper Book
Ken Follett's magnificent historical epic begins as five interrelated families move through the momentous dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women's suffrage. A thirteen-year-old Welsh boy enters a man's world in the mining pits. . ....
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The siege winter
Franklin, Ariana
Paper Book
A powerful historical novel by the late Ariana Franklin and her daughter Samantha Norman, The Siege Winter is a tour de force mystery and murder, adventure and intrigue, a battle for a crown, told by two courageous young women whose fates are intertwined in twelfth century England's devastating...
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The last Tudor
Gregory, Philippa
Paper Book
New York Times Bestseller The latest novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Philippa Gregory features one of the most famous girls in history, Lady Jane Grey, and her two sisters, each of whom dared to defy her queen. Jane Grey was queen of England...
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Feast of sorrow : a novel of Ancient Rome
King, Crystal
Paper Book
Set amongst the scandal, wealth, and upstairs-downstairs politics of a Roman family, Crystal King's seminal debut features the man who inspired the world's oldest cookbook and the ambition that led to his destruction. On a blistering day in the twenty-sixth year of Augustus Caesar's...
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Under a dark summer sky
Lafaye, Vanessa
Paper Book
Under a Dark Summer Sky is a stunning debut novel, at once a love story set in a time of great turmoil and a vivid depiction a vicious hurricane. Florida, 1935. In Heron Key, relationships are as tangled as the swamp's mangrove roots. It's been eighteen long years since Henry went away to...
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The prophets of Eternal Fjord
Leine, Kim
Ebook
Winner of the Danish Golden Lauren Award Winner of the Nordic Council Literature Prize Shortlisted for the International DUBLIN Literary Award An ALA RUSA Notable Book (Fiction) The award-winning, internationally best-selling saga of a Greenlandic...
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The golden age
London, Joan
Ebook
A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year: During WWII, a Jewish boy copes with a new homeland, a polio diagnosis--and falling in love for the first time.Frank Gold's family, Hungarian Jews, have fled the perils of World War II for the safety of Australia, but not long after their...
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Fall on your knees : a novel
MacDonald, Ann-Marie
Audiobook
The Piper family is steeped in secrets, lies, and unspoken truths. At the eye of the storm is one secret that threatens to shake their lives-even destroy them. Set on stormy Cape Breton Island off Nova Scotia, Fall on Your Knees is an internationally acclaimed multigenerational saga that chronicles...
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The last empress
Min, Anchee
Ebook
"Admirers of Empress Orchid will be interested in this sequel. Others may find the introduction to relatively modern Chinese history a revelation" (Rocky Mountain News). During the tumultuous end of the nineteenth century in China, the only constant was...
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The midnight cool : a novel
Peelle, Lydia
Paper Book
The Whiting Award--winning author of the story collection Reasons for and Advantages of Breathing delivers her enchanting debut novel, set in 1916 Tennessee: a rich and rewarding tale of two flawed yet endearing grifters who pursue women, wealth, and a surprisingly valuable commodity for the...
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The fall of the Templars
Young, Robyn
Paper Book
The internationally bestselling author of Brethren and Crusade tells the cataclysmic story of the last days of the Knights Templar. Robyn Young?s historical fiction has topped international bestseller lists and won praise from the likes of Raymond Khoury, Steve Berry, and...
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