historical fiction

In the aftermath of World War I, two orphaned friends set off in a narrowboat from England as each hopes to find a missing part of themselves in France.

"In July 1944, as the Red Army drives the Nazis out of Poland, sixteen-year-old Maria Kami?ska must work with a captured Ukrainian nationalist to find her brother, who is a special operations agent and leader of a Polish Resistance squad, when he disappears while on a mission"--OCLC.

When Lucas's parents tell him he needs to quit football because it is too dangerous, he skips school to go and talk to his football hero and uncle, Benny. That day was September 11, 2001, and Lucas is trapped in the city when the planes hit the towers.

Presents a novel that is based on a true story that confronts America's history of racism. In 1850 Kentucky, enslaved groom Jarret cares for and trains a horse, Lexington, that becomes a champion. A painting of Jarret and the horse is done but it's lost in the Civil War. Then in 1954 New York City, gallery owner Martha Jackson becomes obsessed with a nineteenth-century equestrian oil painting. Finally, in 2019 Washington, DC, Jess, a Smithsonian scientist from Australia, and Theo, a Black graduate student at Georgetown, find the painting and set out to learn the story of the Black horsemen and restore the painting.

A graphic novel adaptation of William Shakespeare's "Macbeth," in which a nobleman and his lady plot to assassinate the King of Scotland.

In 1956 Budapest, eighteen-year-old Jewish orphan Csilla keeps her head down and quietly plots her escape from the communist-controlled country, even as the government publicly exonerates her parents whom they murdered some years earlier for crimes against the state. When she meets Tam?s, whose boyfriend was also murdered, they decide to join a growing band of resistance fighters in the city. Watching over the events is the angel of death, Azriel.

The daughter of an English country knight keeps a journal in which she records the events of her life, particularly her longing for adventures beyond the usual role of women and her efforts to avoid being married off.

When Louisa asks her principal to start a girls basketball team, she's soon viciously targeted by male coaches at her school, lied to by the school board, and dismissed as "out of line" as she fights for a fair chance to be an athlete.

In 1661 France, seventeen-year-old Henriette of England must navigate her arranged marriage to Louis XIV's brother while keeping her magical abilities a careful secret from all at the Sun King's court.

After an earthquake hits the Burin Peninsula in Newfoundland, thirteen-year-old Celia Matthews sneaks out of the house to look for her dog, gets caught up in a rush of water heading to shore, and must fight for her and her dog's survival.