Mexican Gothic
In 1950 Mexico, glamorous Noemi Taboada leaves Mexico City for High Place after a desperate letter, to rescue cousin Catalina from the chilling Doyles and…
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Tag: historical fiction
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Island of the Blue Dolphins
Left alone on San Nicolas Island for eighteen years, Karana builds shelter, faces wild dogs, and finds company with Rontu.
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Homegoing
Half sisters Effia and Esi lines span Ghana to America across centuries.
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Fall of Giants
Five families from Wales to Russia live through World War I, the Russian Revolution, and the fight for women's votes.
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Dragonfly in Amber
Claire 1968 recalls Jacobite Paris with Jamie to stop Culloden.
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Beneath a Scarlet Sky
Pino Lella guides Jews over Alps then drives for Nazis in Milan.
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A Farewell to Arms
Frederic loves Catherine in Italy until desertion leads to Switzerland and stillbirth.
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The Lost Apothecary
A hidden 1791 apothecary poisons cruel men, and two centuries later an historian uncovers her trail.
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The Underground Railroad
Cora escapes Georgia on a literal railroad through states of terror and hope.
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The Other Boleyn Girl
Mary Boleyn tells how she and sister Anne loved Henry VIII and paid for ambition at the Tudor court.
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The Light Between Oceans
Lighthouse keeper Tom Sherbourne and Isabel raise a boat baby on Janus Rock and face her true mother on shore.
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The Giver of Stars
Alice Wright joins Kentucky packhorse librarians with Margery and faces marriage strain and a murder trial.
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Sarah's Key
In 1942 Paris Sarah locks her brother to save him, then vanishes. Sixty years later journalist Julia traces her, exposing family guilt and silence.
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Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
Born with a perfect nose in 1738 Paris, Grenouille masters perfume craft then murders young women in Grasse to bottle the ultimate scent.
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Orphan Train
Foster teen Molly helps 91-year-old Vivian clear her attic and uncovers a hidden orphan-train childhood.
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Beloved
Sethe lives with the memory of killing her child to save her from slavery until a young woman named Beloved arrives.
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All Quiet on the Western Front
Paul Bäumer enlists at nineteen and faces the trenches of World War I in Remarque's 1929 classic, told from the German side of the wire.
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The Alice Network
Two women, two wars: Eve spied for the Alice Network in 1915 France, Charlie searches for her cousin in 1947, and their road trip pulls both stories together.
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Pachinko
Four generations of a Korean family in Japan, from Sunja's fall and brave marriage to pachinko parlors, discrimination, and sons who choose different ways to…
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Number the Stars
Ten year old Annemarie helps her Jewish best friend escape occupied Copenhagen.
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Carrie Soto Is Back
Champion Carrie Soto returns at thirty seven with father Javier to reclaim twenty Slams.
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A Gentleman in Moscow
Count Rostov lives under house arrest in the Metropol and builds family from staff.
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11/22/63
A Maine teacher steps through a diner portal to 1958 to stop the Kennedy assassination, and learns the past resists change while a new life pulls him in.
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The Shadow of the Wind
In postwar Barcelona, Daniel finds a cursed novel and hunts its vanished author while a burned man watches.
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