historical fiction

Twenty-year-old Marlene spends the summer of 1944 visiting her cousin, Eva Braun, at Adolf Hitler's mountain retreat, where she enjoys luxury and prestige, learns her first lessons about sex, and finally comes face-to-face with the evils this sheltered world represents. Based on actual events.

Presents annotated listings of over six thousand historical fiction books in a variety of genres, set in locales outside the United States.

Presents an annotated listing of over three thousand historical fiction books in a variety of genres, set within the United States; organized by time periods, from prehistory through the twentieth century.

Dr. Gustav Uyterhoeven leaves Dayton, Ohio, in the late nineteenth-century to serve as a physician in the Boer War, and sends home twelve letters to his wife which chronicle his spiritual conversion, disguised as tales of his explorations of the imaginary island of Antipodes.

An abridged version of the childhood adventures in the Scottish countryside of six-year-old Martha Morse, who would grow up to become the great-grandmother of author Laura Ingalls Wilder.

Over a year after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and the arrest of Tomi's father and grandfather, Tomi and his friends, battling anti-Japanese-American sentiment in Hawaii, try to find a way to salvage his father's sunken fishing boat.

Young Cleopatra, not believing herself to be as beautiful as her sisters, decides to concentrate on her studies instead--a decision that proves valuable when her ability to understand the Egyptian language allows her to uncover a plot against her father, the king.

Twelve-year-old Adeline struggles to fit in and worries that she must give up her dream of being an opera singer when her family moves from her grandmother's comfortable cottage in Germany to a humble sod house by a railway in Saskatchewan.

Elizabeth Mayfield and her granddaughter Eudora leave struggle to make their way in Charleston, where they witness the events and tragedies that shape America in the years between the Reconstruction and the first world war.

A fictionalized tale of the life of Alexander the Great that focuses on his love affair with Alestria, who kidnaps Alexander and makes him her slave, leading to a battle of wills that is fueled by passion and arrogance and will influence the course of history.