historical fiction

"Sixteen-year-old Noa, forced to give up her baby fathered by a Nazi soldier, snatches a child from a boxcar containing Jewish infants bound for a concentration camp and takes refuge with a traveling circus, where Astrid, a Jewish aerialist, becomes her mentor"--OCLC.

Fiona and her family moved from Ireland to Chicago to begin a new life and when the family is struck with misfortune, Fiona's lace must help save them.

Eleven-year-old Jessie and her best friends, Eddie and Sam, are in a forest near Mount St. Helens when the months of wondering if the volcano will erupt are finally answered.

In August 1939 Genevieve makes an impulsive decision not to get on a train to take her to a boat back to New York and must spend the duration of World War II with her grandmother in a small village in Alsace, France, where she becomes involved with the French resistance.

Two adolescent brothers are exposed to the brutal realities of life and the seductive cruelty of power after a tragedy shatters their family in this riveting debut novel---a story of savagery and race, injustice and honor set in the untamed frontier of 1880s Australia.

"Six teenagers' lives intertwine during a summer of romantic misunderstandings and dangerous deals in this retelling of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, set in the era of Prohibition in the 1920s"--.

Young lawyer Paul Cravath agrees to defend George Westinghouse as he's sued by Thomas Edison over rights to invention of the light bulb. Launched into the two men's world of high society, Paul's obsessive pursuit of victory will lead him to Nikola Tesla, the brilliant inventor who may hold the key to defeating Edison. Based on true events.

Katy, the precocious ten-year-old daughter of the town doctor, befriends a boy who doesn't talk and is regarded as "touched in the head.".

In New York City in 1896, reporter John Moore, psychologist Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, and police secretary Susan Howard join forces to catch a serial murderer.