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Historical
Book reviews of historical novels that include fictional accounts, historical figures or events. Writing captures the spirit and social time of the era.
Author
Tyler R. Tichelaar
Publisher
Marquette Fiction
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The Only Thing That Lasts
The Only Thing That Lasts is written as the autobiography of Robert ONeill, the famous novelist first introduced in The Marquette Trilogy. As a young boy during World War I, Robert is forced to leave his South Carolina home to live in Marquette with his grandmother and aunt.......
Author
Tyler R Tichelaar
Publisher
Marquette Fiction
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Iron Pioneers: The Marquette Trilogy: Book One
Back in Boston, the thought of settling in a new land had seemed a romantic adventure to share with her new husband. Now, despite the lush green trees, and the sandy golden beaches, she began to fear what wild animals or unfriendly Indians might lurk in those woods, and she sensed the loneliness to come of being so far from her family.......
Author
Tyler R Tichelaar
Publisher
Marquette Fiction
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The Queen City: The Marquette Trilogy: Book Two
In small towns, people depend on each other. In Upper Michigan, through long, harsh winters and economic woes, people form bonds even without blood ties. On this day of civic pride, an entire city became one family, a city filled with people descended from a handful of brave pioneers who came to Iron Bay a century before to build a community which still prospered.......
Author
Tyler R. Tichelaar
Publisher
Marquette Fiction
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Superior Heritage (Marquette Trilogy, Book 3)
The Marquette Trilogy comes to a satisfying conclusion by bringing together characters and plots from the earlier novels and culminating with Marquettes 1999 sesquicentennial celebration. Madeleine Hennings story is finally revealed as secrets from the past shed light upon the present.......
Author
Thomas Thorpe
Publisher
Black Rose Writing
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Without Redemption
In the spring of 1846, William and Elizabeth Darmon receive a mysterious letter from a soldier dying on a Punjab battlefield. Soon after, a Sikh refugee arrives at London dock pursued by a Russian agent who kills the warrior and kidnaps Elizabeth. William trails them to India and confronts the predator high on Rakaposhi Mountain.......
Author
Donald Bodey
Publisher
Modern History Press
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F.N.G., Revised Edition
Everyone is gunning for the New Guy
Gabriel Sauers of Two Squad is a soldier, newly arrived in Vietnam--a country too beautiful to invite so savagely unreal a war. But Gabriel won't be a New Guy for long. He'll go through incoming mortars, he'll see the enemy alive.......
Author
Jean Sheldon
Publisher
Wellworth Publishing/Bast Press
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The Woman in the Wing
In July of 1944, a member of the Women Airforce Service Pilots struggles to land an A-24 dive bomber whose engine suddenly burst into flames. A week later, another WASP finds her life threatened when the rudder cables of a BT-13 training plane snap mid flight. The plane goes into a deadly spin and she prepares to jump, only to find her canopy jammed.......
Author
Andrew Feder
Publisher
AuthorHouse
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The Heretic
A Historical Fiction Novel Introduces a Hero - Warrior, Teacher, Lover - from Ancient Greece.
When a man begins experiencing bizarre dreams, a visit to a psychic transports him to the time of Alexander the Great, and he discovers the amazing truth about his past in Andrew Feder's new historical fiction novel, The Heretic, the sequel to When The Angels Have Risen.......
Author
Sylvia Smoller
Publisher
iUniverse, Inc.
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Rachel and Aleks: A Historical Novel of Life, Love, and WWII
Rachel and Aleks, by Sylvia Smoller, is a sweeping, well-researched and historically-accurate novel that tells the story of a couple caught in the momentous upheavals of World War II, their destinies driven by the force of their characters and the courage of a Japanese diplomat.......
Author
Tyler R. Tichelaar
Publisher
Marquette Fiction
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Narrow Lives
Narrow Lives is the story of those whose lives were affected by Lysander Blackmore, the sinister banker first introduced to readers in The Queen City. It is a novel that stands alone, yet readers of The Marquette Trilogy will be reacquainted with several familiar characters.......
Author
John Allen Royce
Publisher
Micron Press
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Eclipsed by Shadow (The Legend of the Great Horse - Book I of III)
Eclipsed by Shadow takes readers on a startling journey through the ages when horses were everyday companions in work, war, sport and spectacle. The story is told through the eyes of a young woman, a horse-crazy teenager traveling through time with a knowledge of 21st Century horsemanship as her only defense......
Author
Bo Macreery
Publisher
Outskirts Press
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Why We Don't Kill Spiders: A Tale of Bannockburn
Two countrymen separated by hundreds of years.
One a medieval king, stripped of everything.
One a hobbled knight, armed only with a pen.
Each destined to save his nation's heritage from oblivion.
Driven by a promise to a grandfather.
Bound by the single, silky webbing strand of a wee spider.......
Author
Mara Feeney
Publisher
Gaby Press
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Rankin Inlet: A Novel
"This is a novel about culture shock, love, loss, identify, belonging, the Inuit people, and the birth of the Nunavut Territory in Arctic Canada.".....
Author
William P. Robertson & David Rimer
Publisher
Infinity Publishing
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Ambush in the Alleghenies
Set against the backdrop of the French and Indian War, Ambush in the Alleghenies pits a resourceful frontier lad against the vicious Ottawa chief who murdered his father......
Author
Joe G. Bax
Publisher
Emerald Book Company
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The General and Monaville, Texas
While the strife of the Civil War is over, the conflict in Monaville, Texas, is just beginning--and John Ross Wilhite seems to be in the middle of it all. For John Ross, the world is a confusing place. The slaves have been freed, but only some of the occupants of Monaville seem to accept that fact.......
Author
C.E. Edmonson
Publisher
Aventine Press
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Prodigal Of The Pecos
Clint Cooper returns home after many years to find the land of his birth embroiled in a bitter and deadly land war. An Eastern powerbroker, bent on fencing off the West Texas range for his own profit, hires gunslingers to bully the local ranchers and farmers into submission.......
Author
William P. Robertson
Publisher
Infinity Publishing
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The Bucktails' Last Call
Bucky Culp thrashed in his bunk beset by hideous, staring faces with stringy hair, tree bark skin, and deadly dangling tongues. Baying frightfully, these Falsefaces darted back and forth at a dizzying pace. The more they howled, the higher Bucky's temperature soared.......
Author
Alberto Rios Arias
Publisher
Freedom Rivers Books
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A Death For Beauty
A troubled young woman struggles with her conscience after a death-wish aimed at her abusive husband comes to pass.
When Virginia Mae Mercy secretly wishes for her husband's death, she never thought of herself as an accomplice. But when he is mysteriously murdered, she begins to question her involvement in the grisly crime.......
Author
Travis Scott Bowman - descendant of PF
Publisher
Bowman Consulting
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Hercules of the Revolution: a novel based on the life of Peter Francisco
Born into a wealthy family in the Azores Islands in 1760, Peter Francisco would one day change the course of history for the United States of America and the World. This true story will have you hanging on the edge of your seat as Peter is kidnapped by pirates at the age of five and raised as a slave on a plantation in Virginia.......
Author
Pamela S. K. Glasner
Publisher
Emerald Book Company
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Finding Emmaus: The Lodestarre (Series)
In this unsettling new fantasy novel, the psychiatric community has confused Empathic personality traits with mental illness with tragic results, leading two Empaths--Francis Nettleton and Katherine Spencer--who live three hundred years apart, on personal journeys to learn the true nature of Empathy.......
Author
Larry Ketchersid
Publisher
JoSara MeDia
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Software by the Kilo
Jason and Kenny needed investors for their startup company but when Italian drug smuggler Roberto Campioni makes them an offer they can't refuse, they get more help than they bargain for: the Feds and Interpol are watching, the smuggler's cartel created in violence during World War II is crumbling, and Roberto's henchmen, even with their love of Clint Eastwood movies, aren.......
Author
Kirsten Jacobson Stasney
Publisher
Kirk House Publishers
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Thy Father's Will
A historical novel based on the true story of a family forever altered by the damaging consequences of decisions made for all the right reasons.
Stoic and commanding, Joseph Marvick is a wealthy businessman and respected leader in the Norwegian immigrant community of Story City, Iowa.......
Author
Maxine Thompson
Publisher
Urban Soul
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Hostage of Lies (Urban Soul Presents)
Hostage Of Lies
Nefertiti “Titi” Godbolt’s been a captive of her family’s secrets her whole life. Now, as she returns home after seven years, she’s ready to confront her family and finally get some answers.......
Author
Mary Calhoun Brown
Publisher
Lucky Press, LLC
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There Are No Words
There Are No Words is the story of twelve-year-old Jaxon MacKenzie, who is autistic and as a result, non-verbal. One night Jaxon falls into an old oil painting in the parlor of her grandparents' home and finds herself in 1918 where she is able to speak for the first time.......
Author
Raymond Scott Edge
Publisher
ReDoubt Books
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Witches of Cahokia
Witches of Cahokia
Something's turned up at a road construction site near Alton, Illinois. A pair of skeletal remains is causing a sensation in the local papers, and it falls on archaeologists Daniel and Lauren French to determine whether the project can go forward.......
Author
Susan Hollingworth
Publisher
CreateSpace
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A Life Fractured
Based on a true life story, this novel traces the downward spiral of an upper middle class British woman, set against the background of the decline of the British Empire after the Great War. Eleanor Gregory was born a privileged child of the Raj in British India, but these golden years were not to last.......
Author
Michael T. Darkow
Publisher
Synergy Books
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Our Promised Land
In the bitter conflict over the Holy Land, two generations of families-one Israeli and one Palestinian-fight for their survival and their own piece of the Promised Land. Hardened by life in a Nazi concentration camp, cynical Ellie finds himself in a battle on behalf of the Jewish people, vowing to ensure their suffering will not be in vain.......
Author
William P. Robertson & David Rimer
Publisher
Infinity Publishing
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Attack in the Alleghenies
Attack in the Alleghenies gives chilling accounts of the mayhem spread by the Delaware warriors of Kittanning, Pennsylvania, and of Colonel John Armstrongs 1756 raid to destroy this terrorist base......
Author
Holly Weiss
Publisher
Star Publish
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Crestmont
"A dream, after all, needn't be fueled by particulars, only by desire." So notes main character, Gracie Antes, in CRESTMONT, a historical fiction gem set in the 1920s. Determined to take control of her life, sheltered Gracie Antes leaves her unhappy home in 1925 to pursue her dream of a singing career.......
Author
Waheed Rabbani
Publisher
YouWriteOn
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Doctor Margaret's Sea Chest
Doctor Margaret’s Sea Chest, is Book I of a trilogy of historical fiction set during India’s struggle for freedom—Azadi—from the British Raj.......
Author
Katelyn Bohl; Eric Wilder
Publisher
Gondwana Press
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Lost on Route 66 - Tales from the Mother Road
Lost on Route 66 is a compilation of short stories, poetry and essays about The Mother Road, Route 66. Stories of the Mother Road guaranteed to bring a smile or two, and maybe even a few tears......
Author
Walt Shiel
Publisher
Slipdown Mountain Publications LLC
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Once a Knight: A Novel of Aerial Combat & Romance in World War I
World War I: Air combat is invented in the skies above the battlefield.
May 1917: America is gearing up to enter the brutal conflict, and the Sopwith Camel is entering combat service. Many individual Americans, however, have long since signed on to fight the war.......
Author
Dimitrije Medenica
Publisher
CreateSpace
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The Good Healer: The Six-Fingered Healer Who Was No Devil ...
Through villages and towns, dense Alpine forests, and perilous mountain passes, Jean Duchesne flees for his life. A pariah from birth, Jean's sixth finger and skill for healing using unusual remedies have labeled him the 'devil's child' in early fifteenth-century Switzerland, where accusations of witchcraft send countless innocents to the stake.......
Author
Krysia Jopek
Publisher
Aquila Polonica
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Maps and Shadows: A Novel
Maps and Shadows is a literary novel based on the author's family's experiences at the start of WWII in eastern Poland through the mid-1950s.
The story is told from the point of view of four characters: Henryk, the 12-year-old son (author's father); Helcia, his 15-year-old sister (author's aunt); Andrzej, the father (author's grandfather); and Zofia, the mother (.......
Author
T. William Phillips
Publisher
iUniverse
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Restless Heart
HIS RESTLESS HEART BEAT TO A RHYTHM OF ITS OWN- a rhythm that had once been so prevalent in the core of his soul, but had long been lost under the thick layers of routine, expectation, and responsibility created by a quiet, civilized life.......
Author
Dianne Greenlay
Publisher
iUniverse
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Quintspinner: A Pirate's Quest
As the daughter of a London physician in 1717, sixteen-year-old Tess Willoughby has seen her share of horrors and been to some of the city's shadiest quarters. But a simple trip through the chaos of a London marketplace takes a bizarre twist. Tess witnesses the murder of a renowned elderly seer and unwittingly becomes the mistress of the woman's prophetic spinner ring.......
