Book Genre: Historical Fiction

Set in the late 1800s, The Madman's Daughter stretches the realm of possibility in unusual and disturbing ways.  Part wrenching love-story, part creepy sci-fi, and part mystery, this novel is appealing in a number of ways, and certainly a page turner!  Sixteen year old...

Like all Ms. Frizzle stories, she and her students go on an amazing adventure--this time, to Imperial China!  They learn all about the customs there, the significance of certain events, colors, and objects, and the inventions that continue to influence us today.  The story is simple,...

The first Cayetano Brulé detective novel published in English, this is tremendous fun.  Set in the early 70s, you travel with Brulé through tumultuous times in Chile, Bolivia, Mexico, East Germany and Cuba on a mission to help the poet laureate, Pablo Neruda. 

This is the second installment in Deborah Harkness' Discovery of Witches series.  Some series books fall flat on the second, but I felt that her use of time travel in this book kept it interesting and fresh.

The story follows Matthew and Diana through time and space as they...

Seth Grahame-Smith, author of Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter and Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, tackles the nativity story in a far more thoughtful novel than fans of his earlier fiction might expect. Here, the three wise men are re-imagined as a band of dangerous criminals...

Wallace Stegner is known as one of the West's greatest writers. I had read his non-fiction, and thought I'd introduce myself to his fiction with this Pulitzer Prize winning novel. Confined to a wheelchair in a house built by his grandparents, Oliver and Susan Ward, historian Lyman Ward sorts...

In Peaceweaver Barnhouse develops the story of Hild, a minor character in the sixth-century epic poem Beowulf. Teenage Hild is the favored niece of the king. However her life changes rapidly and surprisingly after she saves her cousin, the prince, from an assassination attempt...

It is World War II and things are heartbreaking and confusing in Germany, and things only seem worse for Liesel Meminger when she is sent to live with a foster family. Throughout it all Liesel manages to find love with an accordion playing foster father, a boxing Jewish man, and most...

Maisie Dobbs is not your traditional mystery heroine. Taking place in the early 20th century when the British class system was turned on its ear by the wars Maisie begins her life as a greengrocers daughter and an upstairs maid  but by the end of the war she is an Oxford educated nurse and...

After her mother’s death, Ellie finds comfort in her predictable life in Nova Scotia. The house she shares with her father is right next door to her best friend’s house, their school, and Ellie’s mother’s grave. Ellie envisioned living in this house forever, so she is devastated when her father...

In this sequel to Al Capone Does My Shirts, Moose, Natalie, and all the Alcatraz kids are back, and this time, Al Capone wants a favor for getting Natalie into a private school. Can Moose do what Al wants without anyone else figuring it out? There could be trouble if he does, and bigger trouble...