historical fiction

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historical fiction

The secret of the howling cave

1990
When Hildy, a poor girl living in a small California town during the Depression, finds a stolen watch concealing a crude, hand-drawn map, she is accused of theft and must try to clear her name.

After Rome

a novel of Celtic Britain
2013
After the Roman Empire abandons Viroconium in Great Britain, Dinas seeks to become king by gathering support, while his cousin Cadogan is reluctantly appointed the leader of a society in the wilderness.

No less than victory

a novel of World War II
2011
A fictionalized account of the final months of World War II that recounts the experiences of the Allied soldiers and military leaders who faced the German army and the atrocities they left in their wake.

The Katyn Order

a novel
2011
Adam Nowak, an American, is dropped into occupied Poland by British Intelligence to work as an assassin and resistance fighter against the Nazis, but during the Warsaw uprising Adam encounters Natalia, a covert operative, and together the pair begins their hunt for the Katyn Order, which authorized the slaughter of twenty-thousand Polish Army officers and civilians.

Ghosts in the gallery

2006
Eleven-year-old Jenny endures a difficult fate when she arrives at her grandfather's house but is not recognized as one of the family because of a servant's intrigue.

The first circle

1997
Gleb Nerzhin, a brilliant mathematician, lives out his life in post-war Russia in a series of prisons and labor camps where he and his fellow inmates work to meet the demands of Stalin.

Shadow in the north

2008
In 1878 in London, Sally and her companions Frederick and Jim try to solve the mystery surrounding the unexpected collapse of a shipping firm and its ties to a sinister corporation called North Star.

The red scarf

2008
Sofia escapes from a Siberian labor camp in 1933 and sets out to honor a promise to find her friend Anna's lover Vasily, a passionate revolutionary, and after being nursed back to health by kind Gypsies, Sofia meets Mikhail Pashin, a man she could easily fall in love with if only she were sure he was not Vasily in disguise.

Passing by Samaria

2000
Eighteen-year-old African-American Alena's sheltered life on her parent's Mississippi farm has not prepared her for the truth about racism, but a shocking discovery leads her to leave her home in 1919 and travel to Chicago in search of answers and justice.

Shen and the Treasure Fleet

2007
Teenager Shen and his younger sister, Chang, seek refuge with a troupe of traveling acrobats after they are separated from their parents, and eventually join the Treasure Fleet of the new Emperor in hopes that it would keep them out of harm's way.

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