662 Results in the "Historical Fiction" category


    • The Giver of Stars Cover
      by testsuphomeAdmin Set in the rugged moun­tains of ​1930s Ken­tucky, The Giv­er of Stars fol­lows ​Alice Wright, a spir­it­ed Eng­lish­woman who escapes her sti­fling mar­riage by join­ing the ​Pack­horse Library Project—a WPA ini­tia­tive that deliv­ers books to remote Appalachi­an com­mu­ni­ties. Along­side a group of extra­or­di­nary women, includ­ing the fear­less ​Margery O’Hare, Alice braves harsh ter­rain, soci­etal prej­u­dice, and per­son­al demons to bring lit­er­a­cy and hope to the iso­lat­ed…
    • The Storyteller Cover
      by testsuphomeAdmin In The Sto­ry­teller, Jodi Picoult weaves a haunt­ing mul­ti-gen­er­a­tional nar­ra­tive that con­fronts the lega­cy of the Holo­caust and the com­plex nature of for­give­ness. The sto­ry fol­lows Sage Singer, a reclu­sive bak­er grap­pling with grief, who befriends an elder­ly man named Josef Weber—a beloved small-town fig­ure and Holo­caust sur­vivor. When Josef reveals a shock­ing secret from his past and makes an unthink­able request, Sage is forced…
    • All the Light We Cannot See Cover
      by testsuphomeAdmin All the Light We Can­not See is a beau­ti­ful­ly writ­ten his­tor­i­cal nov­el that tells the par­al­lel sto­ries of Marie-Lau­re, a blind French girl, and Wern­er, a Ger­man orphan and gift­ed radio tech­ni­cian, whose paths con­verge dur­ing World War II in the occu­pied French town of Saint-Malo. Marie-Lau­re flees Paris with her father as the Nazis invade, car­ry­ing a mys­te­ri­ous and poten­tial­ly cursed dia­mond from…
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