Books

Historical Fiction


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Only the Beautiful

Only the Beautiful

New from Berkley...

A poignant story of two brave women impacted by the quest for genetic perfection…

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When We Had Wings

When We Had Wings

A collaborative novel...In this sweeping story based on the true experiences of nurses dubbed “the Angels of Bataan,” three women shift in and out of each other’s lives through the darkest days of the war, buoyed by their unwavering friendship and distant dreams of liberation

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The Nature of Fragile Things

The Nature of Fragile Things

A novel about the bonds of friendship and mother love, and the power of female solidarity, all set against the backdrop of the great 1906 San Francisco earthquake.

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The Last Year of the War

The Last Year of the War

An American girl’s life changes forever when her German immigrant parents are interned in a WW2 Texas internment camp.

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As Bright as Heaven
A Bridge Across the Ocean

A Bridge Across the Ocean

Wartime intrigue spans the lives of three women—past and present—in this story about war brides traveling to America in 1946 aboard the now famously haunted HMS Queen Mary.

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Stars over Sunset Boulevard

Stars over Sunset Boulevard

A story set in old Hollywood’s golden days of two studio secretaries whose lives and desires collide on the set of Gone With the Wind.

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Secrets of a Charmed Life

Secrets of a Charmed Life

A tale that journeys from the present day to World War II England as two sisters are separated by the chaos of wartime.

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A Fall of Marigolds

A Fall of Marigolds

A beautiful scarf connects two women touched by tragedy in this compelling tale set on historical Ellis Island at the height of the immigration wave and in post-911 Manhattan.

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The Girl In The Glass

The Girl In The Glass

An American woman whose life is in flux travels to Florence, Italy, for her job and meets someone who claims a long-ago Medici princess speaks to her from within the great masterpieces of the Italian Renaissance.

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A Sound Among the Trees

A Sound Among the Trees

When an Arizona woman marries a widowed Southern man living in the family’s stately antebellum house, it isn’t long before she begins to believe that the home brings misfortune to the women who live there.

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Lady in Waiting

Lady in Waiting

A story of two Janes—one, a modern-day woman left broken and numb when her husband moves out on her and the other, a teenaged girl from centuries ago, destined to be the nine-day Queen of England.

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White Picket Fences

White Picket Fences

When her black sheep brother disappears, a woman takes in her sixteen-year-old niece to give her a shot at a “normal” life, even as her own storybook life starts to crumble.

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The Shape of Mercy

The Shape of Mercy

A college student fed up with her privileged life defies the family’s expectations and takes a part-time job transcribing the crumbling diary of a young woman who witnessed the Salem Witch Trials.

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Why the Sky is Blue

Why the Sky is Blue

(Susan’s debut novel): A Minneapolis wife and mother wrestles with hard decisions when a brutal attack leaves her pregnant and years later wonders if she made a mistake.

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Blue Heart Blessed

Blue Heart Blessed

Left at the altar, a young woman opens a used wedding dress boutique to sell the one-of-a-kind dress she never actually wore and the dream of happily-ever-ever she can’t seem to let go of.

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