historical fiction

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Wings of war

2014
Edward Simpson, having developed a love of flying while helping his uncle build airplanes, heads to England to join the Royal Flying Corps. While defending his country in France during the First World War, he finds his friendships and beliefs tested.

The light in the ruins

a novel
2013
In 1955, Florence Police Department investigator Serafina Bettini looks into the murders of the Rosatis, an Italian family of noble lineage that, in 1943, found their estate taken over by the Nazis and turned into their prison; and, as she gets deeper into the case, Serafina learns details about the pasts of the victims and her own tragic history.

Runaway

the story of a slave
2014
Tells the story of a runaway slave.

Over the top

the story of a soldier
2014
Tells the story of Jack, a World War I soldier from England.

Gaijin

American prisoner of war
2014
After the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, a thirteen-year-old California boy who is half Japanese is sent to an internment camp. Story based on the history of the author's great-aunt.

The Grand Tour, or, The purloined coronation regalia

2006
In 1817, two English cousins take a honeymoon "Grand Tour of the Continent" with their new husbands and become entangled in a mysterious plot to create a magical Emperor of Europe.

The corn raid

a story of the Jamestown Settlement
2004
Richard Ayre travels to America to become an indentured servant in the Jamestown Colony, where he befriends an Native American boy who teaches him an important lesson about friendship.

Across the wide and lonesome prairie

the Oregon Trail diary of Hattie Campbell
2009
In her diary, thirteen-year-old Hattie chronicles her family's arduous 1847 journey from Missouri to Oregon on the Oregon Trail.

A tale of two cities

2012
A graphic novel adaptation of the classic Dickens novel about the French Revolution and its effect upon the lives of several individuals, both French and English.

Better to wish

the first generation
2014
In 1930 Abby Nichols is an eight-year-old girl growing up in Maine, but as the Depression deepens, and her mother dies, the responsibility of taking care of her family falls to her, and she has to put her dreams of going to college and becoming a writer on hold.

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