Category Archives: Historical Fiction

The Alice Network

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Kate Quinn         Pages: 503        Published: 2017

The book: London 1915, Eve Gardner is recruited as a spy and sent into occupied France.
1947, Charlie St. Claire and her mother have just arrived in Britain en route to a clinic in Switzerland to take care of a “little problem.”  However, Charlie, desperate to find her cousin Rose who disappeared in Nazi-occupied France during the war, abandons her mother and heads for London to find someone who might help her locate her cousin.
She finds Eve, now a drunken recluse tortured by the past.  Read more

Circling The Sun

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Circling The Sun   Paula McLain    Pages: 355   Published: 2015

The book: In 1936, Beryl Markham became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic from east to west. She was not only an aviation pioneer, but also a successful horse trainer, one of the first bush pilots, and an author. Born in England, she grew up in Kenya and led a non-conformist life that was often plagued by scandal. This is a fictionalized account of her life.  Read more

Master and Commander

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Master & Commander  by Patrick O’Brien    Pages: 459   First published: 1970

The book: This is the first novel in a fictional series about Captain Jack Aubrey of the British Royal Navy. Set during the Napoleonic Wars, this is the story of Aubrey’s first command as Captain and the adventures and battles that ensue.

You might like it because: It’s a marvelous tale of life in Nelson’s navy, with all it’s political intrigue, sailing adventures, and dangerous naval battles. O’Brien does a wonderful job of bringing the time period to life and immersing the reader in navy life. Read more

All The Light We Cannot See

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All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Pages: 530     Published: 2014

The book: A blind twelve-year-old, Marie-Laure LeBlanc, and her father flee Paris, which is under German occupation. They seek refuge with her great uncle in Saint-Malo, an ancient walled French town by the ocean.
In a mining town in Germany, an orphan boy, Werner Pfennig, becomes obsessed with radios and learns how to make and repair them. His radio skills take him first to a Nazi youth camp and from there into the German army, where he tracks resistance radio operators.
This novel is the story of Marie-Laure and Werner’s lives as their paths intersect during the war. Read more

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