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Items with the category:

Historical Fiction

Cover of The Guest Book
Fic­tion
The Guest Book
Sarah Blake
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Fic­tion
House on End­less Waters
Emuna Elon; Anthony Berris and Linda Yechiel, trans.
Cover of The First Mrs. Rothschild
Fic­tion
The First Mrs. Rothschild
Sara Aharoni, Yardenne Greenspan (trans.)
Cover of A Bend in the Stars: A Novel
Fic­tion
A Bend in the Stars: A Novel
Rachel Baren­baum
Interview

Claude and Mar­cel: A Con­ver­sa­tion with Rupert Thomson

Jamie Wendt
March 2, 2020
Cover of Costalegre
Fic­tion
Costale­gre
Court­ney Maum
Cover of Red Menace
Chil­dren’s
Red Men­ace
Lois Ruby
Cover of The Book of Lost Names
Fic­tion
The Book of Lost Names
Kristin Harmel
Cover of A Fist for Joe Louis and Me
Chil­dren’s
A Fist for Joe Louis and Me
Trinka Hikes Noble (auth.), Nicole Tadgell (illus.)  
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Fic­tion
Eli’s Promise
Ronald H. Balson
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Fic­tion
The World That We Knew: A Novel
Alice Hoff­man
Cover of Crushing the Red Flowers
Chil­dren’s
Crush­ing the Red Flowers
Jen­nifer Voigt Kaplan
Cover of Room for One More
Chil­dren’s
Room for One More
Monique Polak
Cover of Survivors of the Holocaust: True Stories of Six Extraordinary Children
Chil­dren’s
Sur­vivors of the Holo­caust: True Sto­ries of Six Extra­or­di­nary Children
Kath Shackleton (ed.), Zane Whittingham (illus.)
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Chil­dren’s
Union Made: Labor Leader Samuel Gom­pers and his Fight for Work­ers’ Rights
Nor­man H. Finkelstein
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Fic­tion
Klotsvog
Margarita Khemlin (auth.), Lisa Hayden (trans.), Lara Vapnyar (fwd.)
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