Historical Fiction Books
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Maid to Match (Thorndike Press Large Print Historical Fiction) Sale Price: $13.49  |
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From the day she arrives at the Biltmore, Tillie Reese is dazzled--by the riches of the Vanderbilts and by Mack Danvers, a mountain man turned footman. When Tillie is enlisted to help tame Mack's rugged behavior by tutoring him in the ways of refined society, the resulting sparks threaten Tillie's efforts to be chosen as Edith Vanderbilt's lady's maid... |
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Homespun Bride (The McKaslin Clan: Historical Series, Book 1) (Steeple Hill Love Inspired Historical #2) Sale Price: $29.95 |
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Montana Territory in 1883 was a dangerous place--especially for a blind woman struggling to make her way through an early winter snowstorm. Undaunted, Noelle Kramer fought to remain independent. But then a runaway horse nearly plunged her into a rushing, ice-choked river, before a stranger's strong, sure hand saved her from certain death... |
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Secret of the Sands, 2009 ReadersFavorite.com 'Fiction-Mystery' Silver Medalist, SECOND EDITION |
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For 12,000 years a dark and deadly secret has been hidden deep below the Great Sphinx of Giza. In present day Egypt, a frightening, yet awe-inspiring story unravels as archaeologists race against time to decipher an ancient truth... |
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Fortunes of War (The Sentinels Series Book One) (Sentinels (Greenleaf)) Sale Price: $4.45 |
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In this riveting amalgam of political intrigue, poignant romance, and bare-knuckled action, six friends risk everything to thwart an international Nazi conspiracy. In the financial devastation of the 1930s, a greedy, power-hungry group of German industrialists plot to usher in the National Socialist Party in order to rearm Germany and reap the financial rewards... |
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A Scandalous Past (Scandalous Series, BOOK 4) |
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A Regency Historical Novel - Book Four of the Scandalous Series... After years of abuse at the hands of her mother, Cordelia Avery knows the only way out is marriage to the perfect man. A man who will allow her all the freedom she has ever craved... |
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Twice a Rake (Lord Rotheby's Influence, Book 1) |
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Some scandals are meant to be . . .When Aurora Hyatt loses her journal in Hyde Park, her ruin is a foregone conclusion. After all, if anyone discovers her writings, they'll find scandalous fantasies involving the newest rake in Town alongside entirely-too-candid thoughts about her typical dreary suitors... |
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Embers of Love (Striking a Match, Book 1) Sale Price: $1.99 |
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The logging industry in eastern Texas is booming, and Deborah Vandermark plans to assist her family's business now that she's completed college. Unexpectedly, her best friend, Lizzie Decker, accompanies her back home--fleeing a wedding and groom she has no interest in... |
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Texas Hold Him (Leisure Historical Romance) Sale Price: $21.81 |
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To save her family from ruin, a Southern belle appeals to a high-stakes gambler to teach her poker, but he’s more interested in giving her lessons in love. |
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Drowning Ruth: A Novel (Oprah's Book Club) Sale Price: $4.32 |
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Oprah Book Club® Selection, September 2000: For 19th-century novelists--from Jane Austen to George Eliot, Flaubert to Henry James--social constraint gave a delicious tension to their plots. Yet now our relaxed morals and social mobility have rendered many of the classics untenable... |
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In the Garden of Temptation (The Garden Series Book 1) |
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Special LOW PRICE for a LIMITED TIME! Lose yourself IN THE GARDEN OF TEMPTATION.HONOR – Adam Stanford, Earl of Ashworth, has always done the right thing.DESIRE – Lady Catherine Bourgeault, lonely and rejected, longs to experience passion, to love just once in her life... |
There are two very different schools of thought about historical fiction. One school rationalizes that it is easy to write a genre, the plot already exists, everything you have to do is put it in their own words. The second school says that this genre is very difficult to work, much of the story line is fixed, the author needs to weave his characters into the fabric of history facts.
I am a member of the latter group, I think a good historical fiction is very difficult writing. John H. Manhold has done a magnificent job with El Tigre, combining speed action in a very well researched and historically accurate canvas.
El Tigre is in the early and mid 1800s and chronicles the life of Johann Heinrich von Manfred, born of Prussian aristocracy to the age of 16 are without friends, family, or a country following an unfortunate incident at the prestigious military academy he attended.
We Johann on his odyssey of discovery. It takes very little time before young Johann has his first adventure, assisting a group of gypsies who are being blackmailed by an unscrupulous mayor. So it's to Spain where he joined in support of Don Carlos, the real pretender to the throne. He may be young, but has a natural instinct for the art of war, and quickly proves its value. Woe to the cause becomes a default, your employer is killed, and it seems that Don Carlos had a hand in it. Once again he returns to his search of nomads.
Europe appears to offer little in the way Johann Shrine chooses the potential wealth of the New World.
From Florida and Georgia, Johann first becomes a jailer Indians, and soon learns the harsh reality of the culture clash between settlers and indigenous groups. Unhappy to be part of this lack of humanity that moves along with Texas, and once again becomes involved in a dispute, this time with the creation of the Republic of Texas. Problems with the Indians, problems with Mexico, the problems with Spain, and even the problems with the United States, leading to frustration and bloodshed. Johan however has by now become a veteran of conflicts, and quickly made a name for itself not only for their fighting ability but also his selflessness, en route to winning the respect of everyone, and the nickname El Tigre (The Panther). No is long before the tales of El Tigre spread throughout the country.
His latest trip is to California, where he discovers ranching, romance and gold. Has found finally found his Shangri-La?
While I am not a big fan of the books about the Wild West, Manhold has written a fascinating novel, and that will keep glued to the pages. What I admire is his attention to historical detail. This book has clearly been a very good and widely researched. That combined with a history moving at break neck pace this book should appeal to a broad audience.
Grab you a copy of The Tiger from Amazon or from the website of John Manhold, you not be disappointed.
(Originally published at Blogger News Network and reprinted with permission of the author, Simon Barrett).
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What are some good historical fiction?
Hi guys! I am in need of a good book and historical fiction preference. I like books about Holacaust and the Salem witch trials. so please on behalf of some of those issues! and if you will, a summary would be nice! thanks!
A break with Charity Ann Rinaldi is a good book about the Salem witch trials. Witch Child by Celia Rees is also quite good.
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