Historical Fiction with a Hint of Mystery

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• Historical Fiction
• Clean reads

Hattie Big Sky
By Kirby Larson
YA F LARSON
After inheriting her uncle's homesteading claim in Montana, sixteen-year-old orphan Hattie Brooks travels from Iowa in 1917 to make a home for herself and encounters some unexpected problems related to the war being fought in Europe.

The Diary of Mattie Spenser
By Sandra Dallas
F DALLAS
Unexpectedly married to the man considered the catch of her hometown, a young woman finds herself traveling via covered wagon to Colorado in search of a new start, with only her reticent husband and her personal journal to keep her company.

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
By Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows
F SHAFFER
In 1946, writer Juliet Ashton finds inspiration for her next book in her correspondence with a native of Guernsey, who tells her about the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, a book club born as an alibi during German occupation.

Anahita’s Woven Riddle
By Meghan Nuttall Sayres
YA F SAYRES
In Iran, more than 100 years ago, a young girl with three suitors gets permission from her father and a holy man to weave into her wedding rug a riddle to be solved by her future husband, which will ensure that he has wit to match hers.

Cold Sassy Tree
By Olive Ann Burns
F BURNS
Modern times come to a conservative Southern town in 1906 when the proprietor of the general store, E. Rucker Blakeslee, elopes with a woman half his age, and worse yet, a Yankee, Miss Love Simpson, after only three weeks of being a widower. On that day, fourteen-year-old Will Tweedy's adventures began and an unimpeachably pious, deliciously irreverent town came to life.