Adult Historical Fiction

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Master and Commander
By Patrick O’Brian
F O’BRIAN
Master and Commander starts this series with strong, complex characterization of a friendship that weathers 20 books and provides readers with a sense of Napoleonic-era life and seamanship by immersion.

Book Thief
By Markus Zusak
F ZUSAK
Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young German girl who’s book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors.

Byzantium
By Stephen Lawhead
F LAWHEAD
Irish monks of Kells prepare an illuminated manuscript to give to the Holy Roman Emperor at Byzantium and send Aidan on the trip where he has a variety of adventures.

In My Father’s House
By Bodie Thoene
F THOENE
An unforgettable story that moves from beautiful green mountains in the mid-America Valley of Shiloh to a neighborhood in an industrial town. A land of promise seems more like a land of hopelessness and tragedy, but the characters learn that God's eye always remains upon the sparrow.