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  • Ashes in the Snow by Ruta Sepetys

    Ashes in the Snow by Ruta Sepetys

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 72 ratings
    An international bestseller, a #1 New York Times bestseller, and now a major motion picture! Ruta Sepetys's Between Shades of Gray is now the film Ashes in the Snow!This special movie tie-in edition features 16 pages of color movie stills starring Bel Powley and Jonah Hauer-King in never-before-seen footage and a behind-the-scenes look at the making of the movie, plus a brand-new letter from the...
    Categorized as:
    war  young adult  historical  death  racism  length-medium
  • The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris

    The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 85 ratings
    A tale based on interviews that were conducted with Holocaust survivor and Auschwitz-Birkenau tattooist Ludwig (Lale) Sokolov.In April 1942, Lale Sokolov, a Slovakian Jew, is forcibly transported to the concentration camps at Auschwitz-Birkenau...
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  • Prague Counterpoint by Bodie Thoene

    Prague Counterpoint by Bodie Thoene

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    In Vienna Prelude, Elisa Lindheim risked her life helping others escape pre-World War II Austria. The climactic ending finds her safely in Czechoslovakia, but not for long. A million other lives are endangered, and she cannot still their silent cry for help...
  • The Complete Little Women: Little Women, Good Wives, Little Men, Jo's Boys by Louisa May Alcott

    The Complete Little Women: Little Women, Good Wives, Little Men, Jo's Boys by Louisa May Alcott

    Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Louisa May Alcott ended Little Women (1868) with the words “So the curtain falls upon Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy. Whether it ever rises again, depends upon the reception given the first act of the domestic drama called Little Women.” It was an immediate commercial and critical success, and readers demanded to know more about the characters...
  • Unashamed: Rahab by Francine Rivers

    Unashamed: Rahab by Francine Rivers

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 40 ratings
    2001 Christy Award winner! Book 2 in the Lineage of Grace series by best-selling author Francine Rivers. In her trademark style, Francine tells the compelling story of Rahab from the book of Joshua. Readers will gain a fresh understanding of God's work through the life of this unlikely woman in the lineage of Christ...
  • Unveiled: Tamar by Francine Rivers

    Unveiled: Tamar by Francine Rivers

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 43 ratings
    Book 1 in the 5-book biblical historical fiction series by the New York Times bestselling author of Redeeming Love and A Voice in the Wind.Betrayed by the men who controlled her future, she fought for her right to believe in a loving God.Meet Tamar, one of the five women in the lineage of Christ. She risked her life and her reputation to be the woman she was called to be...
  • Unshaken: Ruth by Francine Rivers

    Unshaken: Ruth by Francine Rivers

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    Book 3 in the 5-book biblical historical fiction series by the New York Times bestselling author of Redeeming Love and A Voice in the Wind.She gave up everything, expecting nothing, and God honored her.Meet Ruth , one of the five women in the lineage of Christ...
  • Waves of Mercy by Lynn Austin

    Waves of Mercy by Lynn Austin

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Austin Returns with a Multi-Generational Historical NovelGeesje de Jonge crossed the ocean at age seventeen with her parents and a small group of immigrants from the Netherlands to settle in the Michigan wilderness. Fifty years later, in 1897, she's asked to write a memoir of her early experiences as the town celebrates its anniversary...
  • Pillar of Light by Gerald N. Lund

    Pillar of Light by Gerald N. Lund

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    "You believe me, don't you, Nathan." It was not a question, but a statement, filled with wonder.It stunned Nathan."You believe it all. I can see it on your face."For a moment, time seemed suspended as Nathan probed the inward recesses of his soul. There was still the incredulousness, still the sense of hearing something that couldn't possibly be true. And yet he knew it was...
  • The Gates of Zion by Bodie Thoene, Brock Thoene

    The Gates of Zion by Bodie Thoene, Brock Thoene

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Ellie, a young American photojournalist, finds herself in the Jerusalem of 1947. She unwittingly becomes a pawn in a political chess game when she photographs some ancient scrolls discovered by Bedouins. David seems to love her dearly, but Moshe has a purpose and commitment in life that intrigues her more than she can say...
  • The Apostle's Sister by Angela Elwell Hunt

    The Apostle's Sister by Angela Elwell Hunt

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Aya, daughter of Zebulon of Tarsus, does not want a traditional life. Because she has always lived in the shadow of her brilliant brother, she wants to use her gifts and be something more than a wife and mother...
  • Daughter of Cana by Angela Elwell Hunt

    Daughter of Cana by Angela Elwell Hunt

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Thomas and Tasmin, twin siblings hired to oversee a wedding feast in Cana, worry when the host runs out of wine . . . until a guest tells Tasmin to have the servants fill the pitchers by the gate with water from the cistern. Reluctantly, she obeys and is amazed when rainwater turns into the finest wine ever tasted in Cana...
  • Under the Magnolias by T.I. Lowe

    Under the Magnolias by T.I. Lowe

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    This night not only marked the end to the drought, but also the end to the long-held secret we'd kept hidden under the magnolias. Magnolia, South Carolina, 1980Austin Foster is barely a teenager when her mama dies giving birth to twins, leaving her to pick up the pieces while holding her six siblings together and doing her best to stop her daddy from retreating into his personal darkness...
  • Vienna Prelude by Bodie Thoene

    Vienna Prelude by Bodie Thoene

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    Predating the events of The Zion Chronicles Series, Vienna Prelude opens in pre-World War II Austria. Elisa Lindheim, a violinist with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, is of Jewish heritage but has adopted an Aryan stage name. Thus she is able to travel and play in Germany even though a 1935 law forbade Jewish musicians to do so...
  • Angels of the Resistance by Noelle Salazar

    Angels of the Resistance by Noelle Salazar

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    From the bestselling author of The Flight Girls comes another World War II story inspired by true events, about courageous women who risked everything for country, for family, and for each other.Netherlands, 1940As bombs fall across Europe, fourteen-year-old Lien Vinke fears that the reality of war is inescapable...
  • The Lost Letter by Jillian Cantor

    The Lost Letter by Jillian Cantor

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    A heart-breaking, heart-warming historical novel of love and survival inspired by real resistance workers during World War II Austria, and the mysterious love letter that connects generations of Jewish families. For readers of The Nightingale, Lilac Girls, and Sarah's Key.Austria, 1938.Kristoff is a young apprentice to a master Jewish stamp engraver...
  • To Love a Sunburnt Country by Jackie French, Edwina Wren

    To Love a Sunburnt Country by Jackie French, Edwina Wren

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    The year is 1942 and the world is at war. Nancy Clancy is 16 and left school to spend a year droving, just like her grandfather Clancy of the Overflow was famed for. Now Nancy's family has sent her to Malaya to bring home her sister-in-law Moira and baby Gavin. Moira is British and married to Nancy's brother Ben, who is now a soldier...
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    war  young adult  historical  rape  racism  length-long
  • The Girl from Snowy River by Jackie French

    The Girl from Snowy River by Jackie French

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    The year is 1919. Thirty years have passed since the man from Snowy River made his famous ride. But World War I still casts its shadow across a valley in the heart of Australia, particularly for orphaned sixteen-year-old Flinty McAlpine, who lost a brother when the Snowy River men marched away to war...
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    war  young adult  historical  contemporary  racism
  • A Woman of Words by Angela Elwell Hunt

    A Woman of Words by Angela Elwell Hunt

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Disciple Matthew, a former tax collector, is invited to work with Peter, James, and John in Jerusalem. He dreams of preaching and performing miracles like his fellow apostles, but he finds his dreams postponed because of a request from Yeshua's mother. Well aware of the passing years, Mary asks Matthew to help her record the stories of Yeshua while the eyewitnesses are still alive...
  • This Quiet Sky by Joanne Bischof

    This Quiet Sky by Joanne Bischof

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    There is nothing extraordinary about Tucker O’Shay’s dreams. Go to college. Become president. Fall in love. And pretend like he has enough time to get it all done.Sixteen-year-old Sarah Miller doesn’t expect anything out of the ordinary when she begins her first day at the one-room-school house in her new hometown of Rocky Knob...
  • Under the Magnolias by T.I. Lowe, Susan Bennett

    Under the Magnolias by T.I. Lowe, Susan Bennett

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    Magnolia, South Carolina, 1980Austin Foster is barely a teenager when her mama dies giving birth to twins, leaving her to pick up the pieces while holding her six siblings together and doing her best to stop her daddy from retreating into his personal darkness.Scratching out a living on the family’s tobacco farm is as tough as it gets...
  • Unafraid: Mary by Francine Rivers

    Unafraid: Mary by Francine Rivers

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    Mary is one of the most revered women in history, but she was an ordinary woman striving to please God in the same way that women still do today. Readers are sure to gain a new appreciation of the familiar story through Francine's signature style. A study on the biblical text is included for personal or group study...
  • Unspoken: Bathsheba by Francine Rivers

    Unspoken: Bathsheba by Francine Rivers

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    BY Rivers, Francine ( Author ) [{ Bathsheba By Rivers, Francine ( Author ) Jun - 28- 2001 ( Hardcover ) }...
  • A Girl of the Limberlost by Gene Stratton-Porter

    A Girl of the Limberlost by Gene Stratton-Porter

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    "A Girl of the Limberlost" is a book written by Gene Stratton-Porter, an American author. The Limberlost Swamp, a real wetland area in Indiana, USA, serves as the setting for the book, which was first published in 1909. The following is a synopsis of the Comstock, a young child raised in near-poverty on the edge of the Limberlost Swamp, is the main character of the narrative...
  • A Loyal Heart by Jody Hedlund

    A Loyal Heart by Jody Hedlund

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    He’s taken her as his prisoner. But she’s holding his heart captive. In gaining their freedom, will they lose what matters most? When Lady Olivia’s castle is besieged, she and her sister are taken captive and held for ransom by her father’s enemy, Lord Pitt. Loyalty to family means everything to Olivia...
  • Daughters of Northern Shores by Joanne Bischof

    Daughters of Northern Shores by Joanne Bischof

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Aven Norgaard understands courage. Orphaned within an Irish workhouse, then widowed at just nineteen, she voyaged to America where she was wooed and wed by Thor Norgaard, a Deaf man in rural Appalachia. That the Lord saw her along the winding journey and that Aven now carries Thor’s child are blessings beyond measure...
  • The Eleventh Hour - The Secret Of The Rose by Michael R. Phillips

    The Eleventh Hour - The Secret Of The Rose by Michael R. Phillips

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Series premiere special price! The Prussian Baron von Dortmann and his daughter face the uncertainty of life just before WW II as their faith and relationships are tested...
    Categorized as:
    christian  historical  young adult
  • Baron of Blackwood by Tamara Leigh

    Baron of Blackwood by Tamara Leigh

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    THE FEUD England, 1308. Boursier, De Arell, Verdun—three noblemen who secretly gather to ally against their treacherous lord. Though each is elevated to a baron in his own right and given a portion of his lord’s lands, jealousy and reprisal lead to a twenty-five-year feud, pitting family against family, passing father to son. THE PRIZE England, 1333...
  • Dawn of the Arcana, Vol. 12 by Rei Tōma

    Dawn of the Arcana, Vol. 12 by Rei Tōma

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Princess Nakaba of Senan and Prince Caesar of Belquat only married each other for the sake of peace between their two warring countries, yet the two develop feelings for each other while political forces threaten to tear their world apart. With Caesar's departure to Belquat the couple separates...
  • Cottonwood Whispers by Jennifer Erin Valent

    Cottonwood Whispers by Jennifer Erin Valent

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    In this sequel to Jennifer’s award-winning debut novel Fireflies in December, Jessilyn Lassiter and her best friend Gemma Teague have survived prejudice and heartache in their lifelong friendship, but the summer of 1936 threatens to tear them apart yet again. Gemma’s job with the wealthy Hadley family leads to a crush on their youngest son...
  • The Indigo Heiress by Laura Frantz

    The Indigo Heiress by Laura Frantz

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    In 1774, Juliet Catesby lives with her father and sister at Royal Vale, the James River plantation founded by her Virginia family over a century before. Indigo cultivation is her foremost concern, though its export tethers her family to the powerful Buchanan clan of Glasgow, Scotland...
  • The FitzOsbornes at War by Michelle Cooper

    The FitzOsbornes at War by Michelle Cooper

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Michelle Cooper completes her heart-stealing epic drama of history and romance with The FitzOsbornes at War. Sophie FitzOsborne and the royal family of Montmaray escaped their remote island home when the Nazis attacked. But as war breaks out in England and around the world, nowhere is safe. Sophie fills her journal with tales of a life during wartime. Blackouts and the Blitz...
  • The Harvester by Gene Stratton-Porter

    The Harvester by Gene Stratton-Porter

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    David Langston is the harvester – a recluse, twenty-six year old man whose best friend is his dog. He lives alone in the Medicine Woods, where he cultivates and harvests plants, wild barks, roots, leaves, herbs, edible and medicinal fungi which are used for medicines. David's life changes when he meets a woman of his dreams...
  • Playing with Matches by Lee Strauss, Elle Strauss

    Playing with Matches by Lee Strauss, Elle Strauss

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Emil Radle is a dedicated member of Hitler Youth. He's loyal to the Fuehrer before family, a champion for the cause and a fan of the famous Luftwaffe. When his friends Moritz and Johann discover a shortwave radio, everything changes. Now they listen to BBC broadcasts of news reports that tell both sides. Now they know the truth...
  • Lions of the Desert by Linda Lee Chaikin

    Lions of the Desert by Linda Lee Chaikin

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Lions of the Desert opens up in 1915, over a year after the conclusion of Arabian Winds. Nurse Allison Wescott arrives in busy Cairo to serve the British military confronting Kaiser's Germany and their ally, Turkey. In Cairo, Allison meets Major Bret Holden again after his return from London, and their previous romantic but rocky relationship is resumed...
  • Valiant Hearts by Linda Lee Chaikin

    Valiant Hearts by Linda Lee Chaikin

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Valiant Hearts concludes the sweeping World War I saga begun in Arabian Winds and continued in Lions of the Desert...
  • Redeeming Grace: Ruth's Story by Jill Eileen Smith

    Redeeming Grace: Ruth's Story by Jill Eileen Smith

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When famine visits Bethlehem, Boaz holds out hope for rain while his relative Elimelech moves his wife Naomi and their sons to Moab. For a while, it appears the Lord is blessing Elimelech's family, and his sons marry two lovely Moabite women. But calamities strike, one after another, leaving Naomi alone in a foreign land with only her childless daughters-in-law for comfort...
  • Seasons of the Heart/Four Complete Novels in One Book by Janette Oke

    Seasons of the Heart/Four Complete Novels in One Book by Janette Oke

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Janette Oke, with over 11 million copies of her books in print, writes with a special feeling about her characters and their time. This heartwarming collection of four novels is a wonderful series of stories about an American family on the prairies of yesterday...
  • Freckles by Gene Stratton-Porter

    Freckles by Gene Stratton-Porter

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    In Freckles, a homeless waif finds his deliverance in the primeval Limberlost swamp. Maimed and abandoned as an infant, Freckles seeks a chance to prove his worth. He is given that opportunity as the guard of the precious timber of the Limberlost...
  • Her Unexpected Courtship by Megan Walker

    Her Unexpected Courtship by Megan Walker

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Isabel Reed has promised to marry for love. At present her heart belongs to the one companion she knows accepts all her eccentricities—her horse. So when her older brother threatens to trade the animal on a whim, Isabel must force aside her progressive beliefs and bargain to entertain her brother's flirtatious, albeit handsome, friend Lucas Ashcroft in exchange for keeping her horse...
  • Surprised by Love by Julie Lessman

    Surprised by Love by Julie Lessman

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Shy and unattractive as a child, Megan McClare has always been teased by her classmates. But when she returns home from her senior year in Paris, the wallflower has suddenly blossomed into a beauty...
  • As Time Goes By by Melody Carlson

    As Time Goes By by Melody Carlson

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    In 1942 San Francisco, war has touched every part of the Mulligans’ lives. With their brother killed at Pearl Harbor, their father recovering from tuberculosis, and their eldest sister a nurse in the Army, those at home are left to keep on, wondering if it’s possible to thrive…or only to survive...
  • The Centurion's Wife by Janette Oke, Davis T. Bunn

    The Centurion's Wife by Janette Oke, Davis T. Bunn

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 38 ratings
    Janette Oke has dreamed for years of retelling a story in a biblical time frame from a female protagonist's perspective, and Davis Bunn is elated to be working with her again on this sweeping saga of the dramatic events surrounding the birth of Christianity...and the very personal story of Leah, a young Jewess of mixed heritage trapped in a vortex of competing political agendas and private trauma...
  • The Reliance by M.L. Tyndall

    The Reliance by M.L. Tyndall

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Tormented by his wife's apparent demise, Edmund Merrick sails away to drown his sorrows--only to find himself trapped in the dark world of a demented Frenchman. When his mind clears from its rum-induced haze, will Edmund find the will to escape? Seemingly abandoned by her husband, Charlisse is thrown into the clutches of the vengeful pirate Kent...
  • The Love That I Have by James Moloney

    The Love That I Have by James Moloney

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    For fans of The Book Thief, a powerful and heartbreaking story set during WW2 that stays with you long after the final page is read.Margot Baumann has left school to take up her sister's job in the mailroom of a large prison. But this is Germany in 1944, and the prison is Sachsenhausen concentration camp near Berlin.Margot is shielded from the camp's brutality as she has no contact with prisoners...
    Categorized as:
    war  historical  young adult  death
  • An Officer, Not a Gentleman by Elizabeth Johns

    An Officer, Not a Gentleman by Elizabeth Johns

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Despite Tobin O'Neill's humble origins, he finds himself a lieutenant in His Majesty's army, serving on Wellington's staff. When the roguish Irishman strikes up an unlikely friendship with a General's daughter, they somehow become enmeshed in navigating the perils of the greatest battle of their age.Bridget Murphy had grown up following the drum...
  • Darcy in Distress: A Pride and Prejudice Variation by Laraba Kendig

    Darcy in Distress: A Pride and Prejudice Variation by Laraba Kendig

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Mr. Darcy is rich, well-connected and handsome, but he is also exhausted, broken-hearted and afraid. Can Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet find happiness together?Fitzwilliam Darcy’s father was an unreliable rake who brought their family much trouble before his death. Darcy’s fears are potent, but his resolve to care for his sister and mother is strong...
  • Words Composed of Sea and Sky by Erica George

    Words Composed of Sea and Sky by Erica George

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Michaela Dunn dreams of getting into an art school, but when her stepfather refuses to fund a trip there for a poetry workshop, Michaela enters a local contest searching for a poet to write the dedication plaque for a statue honoring Captain Benjamin Churchill, a whaler who died at sea over one hundred years ago...
  • Always by Jody Hedlund

    Always by Jody Hedlund

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A fierce elite guard. A loyal lady in waiting. They must work together to save three princesses from certain death. On the verge of dying after giving birth to twins, the queen of Mercia pleads with Lady Felicia to save her infant daughters...
    Categorized as:
    christian  young adult  medieval  historical
  • Where Dandelions Bloom by Tara Johnson

    Where Dandelions Bloom by Tara Johnson

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Cassie Kendrick is on the run. Her abusive father arranged her marriage to a despicable man, but she’s discovered an escape. Disguised as a man, Cassie enlists in the Union army, taking the name Thomas Turner. On the battlefields of the Civil War, keeping her identity a secret is only the beginning of her problems, especially after she meets Gabriel Avery, a handsome young photographer...
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