Author: Taylor M. Polites
Genre: Historical, Literary Fiction, American Civil War, PoC
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Publication date: February 7 2012
Hardcover: 304 pages
Brimming with atmosphere and edgy suspense, The Rebel Wife presents a young widow trying to survive in the violent world of [...]
Author: Rebecca Barnhouse
Genre: Historical Fantasy, Young Adult
Publisher: Random House
Publication date: March 27 2012
Hardcover: 336 pages
This is historical fantasy at its best. Sixteen-year-old Hild has always been a favorite of her uncle, king of the Shylfings. So when she protects her cousin the [...]
Author: Jessica Spotswood
Genre: Dystopia, Historical Fantasy (Alternate History), Young Adult
Publisher: Putnam Juvenile
Publication Date: February 2012
Hardcover: 330 Pages
Everybody knows Cate Cahill and her sisters are eccentric. Too pretty, too reclusive, and far too educated for their own good. But the truth is [...]
Title: The Haunting of Maddy Clare
Author: Simone St James
Genre: Historical, Romance, Ghost story
Publisher: NAL Trade
Publication date: March 6 2012
Paperback: 318 pages
Sarah Piper’s lonely, threadbare existence changes when her temporary agency sends her to assist a ghost hunter. Alistair Gellis – rich, [...]
Title: The Pillars of Hercules
Author: David Constantine
Genre: Historical, Steampunk
Publisher: Night Shade Books
Publication date: March 20 2012
Paperback: 320 pages
Alexander, Prince of Macedon, is the terror of the world. Persia, Egypt, Athens . . . one after another, mighty nations are falling before the fearsome [...]
Author: Elizabeth Wein
Genre: Fantasy, Historical, PoC, Young Adult
Publisher: Firebird
Publication date: April 12th 2004
Paperback: 184 pages
Telemakos is the grandson of two noble men: Kidane, member of the parliament in the African kingdom of Aksum, and Artos, the fallen High King [...]
Title: The Traitor in the Tunnel
Author: Y.S. Lee
Genre: Historical Fiction, Mystery, Young Adult
Publisher: Candlewick Press (US) / Walker (UK)
Publication Date: February 2012 (US) / August 2011 (UK)
Hardcover: 373 pages
Get steeped in suspense, romance, and high [...]
Author: Delia Sherman
Genre: Historical, SF, Young Adult, PoC
Publisher: Small Beer Press
Publication date: November 22nd 2011
Hardcover: 258 pages
Set against the burgeoning Civil Rights movement of the 1960s, and then just before the outbreak of the Civil War, The Freedom Maze explores [...]
Title: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Author: Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
Genre: Literary Fiction, Historical, Second World War
Publisher: Dial Press / Bloomsbury
Publication Date: First published in 2008
Hardcover/Paperback: 274 pages
January 1946: London [...]
Title: The Dead of Winter
Author: Chris Priestley
Genre: Gothic, Horror, Historical, Young Adult
Publisher: Bloomsbury (US & UK)
Publication Date: January 2012
Hardcover: 218 pages
An orphaned boy, a desolate house, and a poltergeist with a terrible itch for revenge…
[...]
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