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  • Kvinnene by Kristin Hannah

    Kvinnene by Kristin Hannah

    Rated: 4.59 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 87 ratings
    From the celebrated author of The Nightingale and The Four Winds comes Kristin Hannah's The Women—at once an intimate portrait of coming of age in a dangerous time and an epic tale of a nation divided. Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath hears these words, it is a revelation...
  • The Hathaways Complete Series by Lisa Kleypas

    The Hathaways Complete Series by Lisa Kleypas

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 41 ratings
    Here together for the first time in a convenient ebook bundle, the five books from The Hathaways series by New York Times bestselling author Lisa Kleypas: Mine Til Midnight , Seduce Me at Sunrise , Tempt Me at Twilight , Married by Morning , and Love in the Afternoon .
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  • The Dark of the Moon by Fiona Valpy

    The Dark of the Moon by Fiona Valpy

    Rated: 4.65 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    From the bestselling author of The Dressmaker’s Gift. She’s spent a lifetime searching for him. Is this her last chance to find the truth? Philly Delaney risked everything during the war...
  • The Storyteller's Secret by Sejal Badani

    The Storyteller's Secret by Sejal Badani

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 70 ratings
    From the bestselling author of Trail of Broken Wings comes an epic story of the unrelenting force of love, the power of healing, and the invincible desire to dream. Nothing prepares Jaya, a New York journalist, for the heartbreak of her third miscarriage and the slow unraveling of her marriage in its wake...
  • The Secret Midwife by Soraya M. Lane

    The Secret Midwife by Soraya M. Lane

    Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    London, 1995: When on the fiftieth anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz a news broadcast runs an appeal for information on the identity of a midwife who saved hundreds of lives, Emilia knows it is time to finally tell her story...
  • Falls the Shadow by Sharon Kay Penman

    Falls the Shadow by Sharon Kay Penman

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 38 ratings
    Simon de Montfort was a man ahead of his time in the thirteenth century, a disinherited Frenchman who talked his way into an English earldom and marriage with a sister of the English king, Henry III. A charismatic, obstinate leader, Simon soon lost patience with the king's incompetence and inability to keep his word, and found himself the champion of the common people...
  • Fire by Night by Lynn Austin

    Fire by Night by Lynn Austin

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    Two young women in a land shattered by war test the limits of their strength. Lovely Julia Hoffman has always enjoyed the carefree life of her well-to-do Philadelphia family. But when she fails to attract the attention of Nathaniel Greene, a fierce abolitionist, she shocks her family by becoming a Union nurse...
  • Our Dear Daisy (Flower Girls) by Rosie Goodwin

    Our Dear Daisy (Flower Girls) by Rosie Goodwin

    Rated: 4.68 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Nuneaton, 1880. Twenty year old Daisy Armstrong lives a happy life with her loving father, Jed. They have a special bond, particularly after losing her beloved Irish mother and younger brother. But when Jed falls in love with a local widow, everything is set to change for them both...
    Categorized as:
    victorian  historical  length-long  audiobook
  • The Paris Network by Siobhan Curham

    The Paris Network by Siobhan Curham

    Rated: 4.59 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Paris, 1940: He pressed the tattered book into her hands. ‘You must go to the café and ask at the counter for Pierre Duras. Tell him that I sent you. Tell him you’re there to save the people of France. ’...
  • The Violinist of Auschwitz by Ellie Midwood

    The Violinist of Auschwitz by Ellie Midwood

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Based on the unforgettable true story of Alma Rosé, this novel brings to life one of history’s most fearless, inspiring, and courageous heroines. In Auschwitz, every day is a fight for survival.  Alma is inmate 50381, the number tattooed on her skin in pale blue ink. She is cooped up with thousands of others, torn from loved ones, trapped in a maze of barbed wire...
  • A View Across the Rooftops by Suzanne Kelman

    A View Across the Rooftops by Suzanne Kelman

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    An unforgettable story of love, hope and betrayal, and a testament to the courage of humanity in history’s darkest days. As Nazis occupy his beloved city, Professor Josef Held feels helpless. So when he discovers his former pupil Michael Blum is trying to escape the Gestapo, he offers Michael a place to hide in his attic...
  • Tell Me Who I Am by Julia Navarro

    Tell Me Who I Am by Julia Navarro

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 41 ratings
    The memoir of an entire century, this novel adds a new, original chapter to Julia Navarro's best-selling career. Tell Me Who I Am surprises and enchants with a captivating and heartrending story...
    Categorized as:
    war  historical  length-epic  audiobook
  • The Occupation by Deborah Swift

    The Occupation by Deborah Swift

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    A page-turning historical saga that will pull at your heartstrings! For fans of Freda Lightfoot, Pam Jenoff, Sebastian Faulks and Kate Atkinson. One woman’s secret war against the Nazis. One man’s war against himself…. 1940, Jersey. When Nazi forces occupy Jersey in the English Channel Islands, Céline Huber, who is married to a German, must decide where her loyalty lies...
    Categorized as:
    war  historical  military  length-medium  audiobook
  • A Crying Shame by Rosie Goodwin

    A Crying Shame by Rosie Goodwin

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Claire Nightingale is haunted by the memory of childhood abuse and the painful choices she was forced to make. Longing to find peace, she knows she must first confront her demons. Moving to Solihull with her adopted daughter Nikki, she tries to make amends with the family she left behind...
  • A Murder in Trinity Lane: A Victorian Historical Mystery by Magda Alexander

    A Murder in Trinity Lane: A Victorian Historical Mystery by Magda Alexander

    Rated: 0.00 of 5 stars
    · 0 ratings
    A forbidden passion. A dangerous secret. A truth some would kill for to keep buried. London, 1889. Hoping society has moved on from the scandal that once shadowed her, Lady Rosalynd turns her attention to one of her most cherished causes—the Home for Unwed Mothers, a discreet refuge where poor, unmarried women can give birth in safety and dignity...
  • A Murder in Trinity Lane by Magda Alexander

    A Murder in Trinity Lane by Magda Alexander

    Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 11 ratings
    A forbidden passion. A dangerous secret. A truth some would kill for to keep buried. London, 1889. Hoping society has moved on from the scandal that once shadowed her, Lady Rosalynd turns her attention to one of her most cherished causes—the Home for Unwed Mothers, a discreet refuge where poor, unmarried women can give birth in safety and dignity...
  • Word of the Wicked by Mary Lancaster

    Word of the Wicked by Mary Lancaster

    Rated: 0.00 of 5 stars
    · 0 ratings
    Too many mysteries – and no time for love…. Silver and Grey’s inquiry service is proving so popular that Constance and Solomon have been working apart on separate cases and missing each other. So, they jump at the opportunity to investigate together in the village of Sutton May, where a spate of anonymous letters is causing problems...
  • Two Scandals and a Scot: The Duchess Society Book 5 by Tracy Sumner

    Two Scandals and a Scot: The Duchess Society Book 5 by Tracy Sumner

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    In this sizzling Regency romance by USA TODAY bestselling author Tracy Sumner, a runaway bride and a notorious Scot risk friendship, reputation, and their carefully guarded hearts. Tropes you’ll Marriage of Convenience, Friends to Lovers, Runaway Bride, Former Tutor / Student (Adults), Scottish Rogue, Gambler Hero, Forbidden Desire, Slow-Burn Heat. Scandal Number A runaway bride...
    Categorized as:
    victorian  historical  length-medium
  • The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays by Oscar Wilde

    The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays by Oscar Wilde

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 80 ratings
    Lady Windermere's Fan/Salomé/A Woman of No Importance/An Ideal Husband/A Florentine Tragedy/The Importance of Being Earnest. 'To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness'. The Importance of Being Earnest is a glorious comedy of mistaken identity, which ridicules codes of propriety and etiquette...
  • Method of Revenge by Cara Devlin

    Method of Revenge by Cara Devlin

    Rated: 5.00 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 3 ratings
    Murder never shocks Leonora Spencer. Violence is a fact of life in Victorian London, and most of the corpses Leo attends to inside her uncle’s city morgue are its victims...
  • The Parisians by Marius Gabriel

    The Parisians by Marius Gabriel

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Paris, 1940. The Nazis have occupied the city—and the Ritz. The opulent old hotel, so loved by Parisians, is now full of swaggering officers, their minions and their mistresses. For American Olivia Olsen, working as a chambermaid at the hotel means denying her nationality and living a lie, every day bringing the danger of discovery closer...
  • The Little Angel by Rosie Goodwin

    The Little Angel by Rosie Goodwin

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    From Sunday Times bestselling author of Mothering Sunday, Rosie Goodwin, comes the next in this heartwarming and heartbreaking Christmas treat. 1896, Nuneaton. Left on the doorstep of Treetops Children's Home, young Kitty captures the heart of her guardian, Sunday Branning, who has never been blessed with a child of her own...
  • Starlight and the Duke by Meara Platt

    Starlight and the Duke by Meara Platt

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    All he ever wanted was to love her. Robert Durham, the Duke of Durham, has loved Lady Fiona Shoreham ever since he was a little boy. But he is six years her junior and had to watch helplessly as eighteen-year-old Fiona married the Earl of Shoreham. She is a widow now and lovelier than ever...
  • The German Midwife by Mandy Robotham

    The German Midwife by Mandy Robotham

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    For readers of The Tattooist of Auschwitz and Kate Furnivall comes a gritty tale of courage, betrayal and love in the most unlikely of places. Germany, 1944. Taken from the camps to serve the Fuhrer himself, Anke Hoff has been assigned as midwife to one of Hitler’s inner circle. If she refuses, her family will die...
  • Every Man Dies Alone by Hans Fallada, Michael Hofmann

    Every Man Dies Alone by Hans Fallada, Michael Hofmann

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 44 ratings
    Inspired by a true story, Hans Fallada's Alone in Berlin is the gripping tale of an ordinary man's determination to defy the tyranny of Nazi rule. This Penguin Classics edition contains an afterword by Geoff Wilkes, as well as facsimiles of the original Gestapo file which inspired the novel. Berlin, 1940, and the city is filled with fear...
  • The Book of Fate by Parinoush Saniee

    The Book of Fate by Parinoush Saniee

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    A bestselling novel in Iran, despite being banned twice by the government, The Book of Fate follows a teenage girl in pre-revolutionary Iran through five turbulent decades, from before the 1979 revolution, through the Islamic Republic, and up to the present in this powerful story of friendship, passion, and hope...
  • When the World Goes Quiet by Gian Sardar

    When the World Goes Quiet by Gian Sardar

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    In the final days of World War I, an aspiring artist’s courageous journey is just beginning in a powerful novel about love, danger, and survival by the author of Take What You Can Carry. It’s 1918 in German-occupied Bruges, Belgium. With luck, Evelien will make it to the end of the war and be given what she was a prized painting in exchange for safeguarding her employer’s possessions...
  • The Wicked Wallflower: The Duchess Society Book 3 by Tracy Sumner

    The Wicked Wallflower: The Duchess Society Book 3 by Tracy Sumner

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    In this sizzling Regency romance by USA TODAY bestselling and award-winning author Tracy Sumner, an unconventional duke’s sister and a dangerous rookery scoundrel risk everything for the one thing neither expected to claim. Each other...
  • Fire and Fury for the Tobacco Girls by Lizzie Lane

    Fire and Fury for the Tobacco Girls by Lizzie Lane

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    As war rages, everyone has to do their bit. .. Bristol 1941. As the clouds of war grow bleaker both at home and abroad, the Tobacco Girls are determined to do their bit for King and Country. To that end Maisie Miles and Bridget Milligan become voluntary ambulance drivers...
  • A Girl of the Limberlost: A Paula's Classics story about a tender coming of age, romance and resiliance by Gene Stratton-Porter

    A Girl of the Limberlost: A Paula's Classics story about a tender coming of age, romance and resiliance by Gene Stratton-Porter

    Rated: 5.00 of 5 stars
    · 2 ratings
    Elnora Comstock has grown up on the edge of the Limberlost Swamp, longing for music, books, and affection in a house ruled by her mother’s grief. The night Elnora was born, her father died in the swamp, and her mother has never forgiven the child who survived...
  • Duke of Wickedness: A Steamy Historical Regency Romance Novel by Scarlett Osborne

    Duke of Wickedness: A Steamy Historical Regency Romance Novel by Scarlett Osborne

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    “My, my, little bird. .. I’ve barely begun, and you’re already coming undone. ”. Lady Ariadne is perfect. And it is suffocating her. Still, following the Duke of Wilds to his den of debauchery is a mistake. Getting caught there… is a disaster. Duke David lives for pleasure. Hosting the most hedonistic parties of the ton is a point of pride for him, until she dares to take a peek...
    Categorized as:
    victorian  historical  regency  length-long
  • The Widow's Absolutely Wild Captain by Eva Devon

    The Widow's Absolutely Wild Captain by Eva Devon

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Captain Calchas Briarwood has come home from years of war at sea. He’s ready for a wild Briarwood life, brimming with good family, good fun, and good friends. When Hester Floyd asks for his help, he’s ready to oblige but he’s shocked to find that the widow awakens a protective streak in him so intense that it steals his breath and his senses. But he soon finds a landlocked life is no easy thing...
    Categorized as:
    victorian  regency  historical
  • Death on the Doorstep: Victorian Historical Romance Mystery by Mary Lancaster

    Death on the Doorstep: Victorian Historical Romance Mystery by Mary Lancaster

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The gentleman and the vagrant – both dead on her doorstep. Constance and Solomon return to London from their honeymoon – and straight into a very personal mystery. Not one but two bodies are discovered on the doorstep of her “establishment”...
    Categorized as:
    victorian  historical  mystery  length-medium
  • The Orphans of Berlin: The BRAND NEW heartbreaking World War 2 historical novel by Jina Bacarr for 2022 by Jina Bacarr

    The Orphans of Berlin: The BRAND NEW heartbreaking World War 2 historical novel by Jina Bacarr for 2022 by Jina Bacarr

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    'A moving novel of strength and resistance in the face of evil but also an inspiring journey of resilience after loss. ' Erin Litteken, bestselling author of The Memory Keeper of Kyiv. A heartbreaking World War 2 novel that tells the story of two women’s fight for love, family and hope, as the world crumbles around them...
  • Wedding Bells at Goodwill House by Fenella J Miller

    Wedding Bells at Goodwill House by Fenella J Miller

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    January 1941. As the residents of Goodwill House feel the hard bite of winter, land girl Charlie Somiton is still glad of the warm friendships she has made there. Not just her fellow land girls, Daphne and Sal, but also dashing local G. P. Dr James Willoughby who looked after Charlie when she was injured at work...
    Categorized as:
    war  historical  military  length-medium  audiobook
  • Return to the Island by Kate Hewitt

    Return to the Island by Kate Hewitt

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    What would her life look like without her beloved island in it? Where would she go? Ellen had come back here—to the place she felt she belonged—thinking she would stay here. But was it home… or just a place to hide? 1918, Canada: The First World War is over and those who have been fighting in Europe are heading for home, forever changed...
    Categorized as:
    war  historical  length-medium  audiobook
  • The River Girl by Tania Crosse

    The River Girl by Tania Crosse

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Dartmoor, 1858. Elizabeth Thornton has every reason to want to escape from home — a ramshackle farm in the middle of nowhere on the wilds of Dartmoor. Since her father’s death, she’s been trapped here, in the clutches of her lascivious uncle. When a position opens up at Rosebank Hall, she jumps at the chance. She will be a domestic drudge at the beck and call of the house’s cantankerous master...
  • The Duke's Absolutely Grumpy Christmas by Eva Devon

    The Duke's Absolutely Grumpy Christmas by Eva Devon

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    The Duke of Crestfield lost a wager to Laertes Briarwood and now he’s stuck. He must attend a Briarwood family Christmas and act like he loves it. There’s just one significant issue. The duke thinks Christmas is for fools! But when he meets Lady Phoebe, all his skepticism is put to the test...
    Categorized as:
    victorian  regency  historical
  • All My Tomorrows by Ellie Dean

    All My Tomorrows by Ellie Dean

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The compelling new Second World War novel from the author of Always in My Heart. In defending herself against her brutal husband, eighteen-year-old Ruby Clark is forced to flee London. She has no idea where Cliffehaven is, or what she will find there, but she knows that she will never be able to return home again. At first it seems she's fallen on her feet...
  • Three Sins and a Scoundrel: The Duchess Society Series Book 6 by Tracy Sumner

    Three Sins and a Scoundrel: The Duchess Society Series Book 6 by Tracy Sumner

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    In this sizzling Regency romance by USA TODAY bestselling author Tracy Sumner, a feared London spymaster and the woman who once broke his heart are forced to confront the past—and the love neither ever escaped. Tropes you’ll Second-Chance Romance, Secret Identity, Rookery Rogue, Widowed Countess, Angst-Heavy Reunion, Unforgiven Love, Found Family, Scorching Chemistry...
    Categorized as:
    victorian  historical  length-medium
  • The Duke's Absolutely Audacious Debutante by Eva Devon

    The Duke's Absolutely Audacious Debutante by Eva Devon

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Beloved child of Lady Juliet Briarwood and American printer Tobias Miller, Portia cannot wait for her first London Season! When one is part of the Briarwood family there is always fun to be had. When a duke who seems her opposite in every way begins to pursue her, she’s captivated by his quiet ways...
    Categorized as:
    victorian  regency  historical
  • Greed: The Savage by Christi Caldwell

    Greed: The Savage by Christi Caldwell

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    From USA Today bestselling author Christi Caldwell comes a lush, sin-laced Regency romance set deep in London’s criminal underworld—where desire is a weapon, and falling in love might be the most reckless act of all. Seven Deadly Greed. She was never meant to tempt him. He was never meant to love her. .
    Categorized as:
    victorian  regency  historical
  • Vengeance in Venice by Mary Lancaster

    Vengeance in Venice by Mary Lancaster

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Even on their rapturous honeymoon, mystery intrudes…. Constance and Solomon are enchanted by Venice and each other when a street fight forces Solomon to intervene, and Constance is abducted by strangers. Somehow, they have stumbled into a vicious feud and are forced to confront the seething aftermath of recent revolution, war and siege in the most serene city...
  • A Kiss for Hope: A Regency Holiday Novella by Grace Burrowes

    A Kiss for Hope: A Regency Holiday Novella by Grace Burrowes

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    No room at the inn. .. Joshua Penrose has come home from years abroad a sadder, wiser man. He doggedly makes his way to his former abode through a roaring Yuletide snowstorm only to find the house occupied by a lady who claims she owns the place. Joshua is nearly certain she doesn’t, and he’s equally convinced that he cannot spend one more minute battling the elements...
  • Tears of Amber by Sofía Segovia, Simon Bruni

    Tears of Amber by Sofía Segovia, Simon Bruni

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    From the bestselling author of The Murmur of Bees comes a transportive novel of two families uprooted by war and united by the bonds of love and courage. With war looming dangerously close, Ilse’s school days soon turn to lessons of survival. In the harshness of winter, her family must join the largest exodus in human history to survive...
  • Victor's Blessing by Barbara Sontheimer

    Victor's Blessing by Barbara Sontheimer

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    American Legacy Book Awards - Finalist Romance General. For fans of Kristen Hannah, Jodi Picoult and Shana Abe, Victor's Blessing offers an interwoven love triangle of passion, torment, betrayal and the most challenging of all human emotions, forgiveness. Victor Gant 6'5",the son of an Osage slave, is an unexpected hero for a Civil War tale.  A self-made man he prospers In Ste. Genevieve Missouri...
  • The Forgotten Home Child by Genevieve Graham

    The Forgotten Home Child by Genevieve Graham

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    The Home for Unwanted Girls meets Orphan Train in this unforgettable novel about a young girl caught in a scheme to rid England’s streets of destitute children, and the lengths she will go to find her way home—based on the true story of the British Home Children. 2018...
  • The Autumn Throne by Elizabeth Chadwick

    The Autumn Throne by Elizabeth Chadwick

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    The Son She Loved. The Betrayal She Faced. The Legend She Became. The stunning conclusion to the Eleanor of Aquitaine trilogy. Imprisoned by her husband. Separated from her children. If King Henry II thought these things would push his queen into submission, he was wrong. Eleanor of Aquitaine refused to give into his tyranny. Freed by his death, she became dowager Queen of England...
  • The Water Women by Bonnie Blaylock

    The Water Women by Bonnie Blaylock

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    A powerful, emotional, and redemptive novel about the interwoven lives of mothers and daughters and the bonds of an ancient craft that link them through two world wars and beyond. In 1930s Sardinia, Allegra and her daughters maintain the tradition of the water women...
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