Recently Published Historical Fiction

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The Help
By Kathryn Stockett
F Stockett
Limited and persecuted by racial divides in 1962 Jackson, Mississippi, three women, including an African-American maid, her sassy and chronically unemployed friend, and a recently graduated white woman, team up for a clandestine project.

Sarah’s Key
By Tatiana de Rosnay
F Rosnay
On the sixtieth anniversary of the 1942 roundup of Jews by the French police in the Vel d'Hiv section of Paris, American journalist Julia Jarmond is asked to write an article on this dark episode during World War II and embarks on investigation that leads her to long-hidden family secrets and to the ordeal of Sarah, a young girl caught up in the raid.

Apothecary’s Daughter
By Julie Klassen
F Klassen
Yearning for more adventure in her life and longing to know the truth behind her mother's disappearance, Lillian Haswell, the daughter of the local apothecary, seizes the opportunity when a distant aunt offers to educate her as a lady in London.

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
By Mary Ann Shaffer
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.

The Whiskey Rebels
By David Liss
F Liss
Hired by his onetime fiancee to find her missing husband, Ethan Saunders, a former spy for Washington during the Revolution, follows a trail that leads him to Alexander Hamilton and to rebellious whiskey-makers fiercely opposed to a tax on their products.