Celestial Persuasion by Mirta Ines Trupp (41 Reviews)    Price verified 38 minutes ago

Abigail Isaacs fears ever again falling under the power of love and dedicates her life to studying the heavens. However, upon her father's demise she finds herself in reduced circumstances and must write to her brother, who has long been away at sea. When instead Captain Wentworth of the HMS Laconia sends a tragic reply, Abigail is asked to set aside her own ambitions and fulfill her brother's dreams in the Viceroyalty of Río de la Plata. In his relentless pursuit for justice, Lieutenant Raphael Gabay lends his sword to the Spanish American cause. But as he prepares to set sail with the others, he is entrusted with the care of a young woman. She is quite unlike anyone he has ever known, and Raphael begins to wonder whether the brilliant astronomer will see beyond his frivolous façade and recognize his true nature. Their destinies have been plotted beyond the celestial veil; their charts foretell of adventure. Can these two troubled souls be persuaded to heed the stars and ...

Genre: Historical Fiction

The Bicycle Teacher by Campbell Jefferys (Rippple Books) (180 Reviews)    Price verified 2 hours ago

In the summer of 1981, Michael from Perth meets Kathrin from Berlin. It's love. It's East meets West, and East wins.

Genre: Historical Fiction

Climbing Irish by James F Walsh Price verified 4 hours ago

Can Northern Ireland Catholics, demeaned as Papists, climb out of England's Plantation's religious bigotry and ethnic intolerance? In 1922, when England broke Ireland apart, Papists Michael and Bridget Connolly undergo a Plantation Minister's sniper fire. They escape to Free Ireland and are demeaned as 'Orangemen'. In 1925 Immigration is to Chicago a City riven with Prohibition's organized crime gangs. Michael, a master carpenter, is not free from criminal Labor Organizers, and Bridget demeaned as 'Irish Immigrant Trash.' The Great Depression does not reduce Michael or Bridget to residue resulting from England's Planation during America's pre-revolutionary days. In 1938, the opportunity to operate his own business organization lures Michael, Bridget, and their four Chicago born children to Oklahoma City during the height of the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl, during the plight of the 'Okies,' folks too troubled to be intolerant. In 1939, a move to Dallas finds the ...

Genre: Historical Fiction

Roman Mask (The Cassius Chronicles Book 1) by Thomas M D Brooke (2,116 Reviews)    Price verified 5 minutes ago

Rome AD 9 Augustus Caesar rules Imperial Rome at the height of its power, as the Roman Empire stretches across the known world. Cassius, son of one of her most powerful families, is the personification of Rome's imperial strength: wealthy, popular, a war hero with a decorated military career - none of Rome's fashionable parties are complete without him - except, he hides a secret. After his nerve is broken in Germany, the thought of genuine armed combat is enough to send him into a cold sweat of fear and shame. But this doesn't dissuade him from living off a false reputation so he can continue a life of casual affairs, wine, and parties, as he is seduced by the many vices of Rome. However his scandalous life is soon upset by a summons from the Emperor's wife. It ends his happy decadent life and returns him to Germany to assist the Roman legions in their greatest ever trial, and the events that will resound down in history, in the dark forests of the Teutoburg... "The classical ...

Genre: Historical Fiction

When War Came to Laundry Cottage: Sometimes the enemy is closer than you think. by Sarah Colliver (22 Reviews)    Price verified 2 hours ago

When Sybil Cooper is sent to the countryside to escape the increasing bombing raids, she expects to be bored and lonely. Living with her aged Aunty Violet, at Laundry Cottage, she soon adapts to a simpler existence, despite feeling as though she has travelled back in time. But life in Dewton proves to be anything but calm and easy. In this coming-of-age story, Sybil meets a colourful array of people, who will impact her life and set her on a path of love, suspicion and grief. This is a tale of love, injustice, and destiny.

Genre: Historical Fiction

The Time Merchant by Alice Creswell (5 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

Kronos, The Time Merchant, has a difficult mission: he must find people who need more time and sell it to them. The price? Whatever they deem fit. It can be something precious they own dearly or a song, The amount the time he can offer in exchange? Exactly how much it's worth. What would you be willing to give to get more time in return? Would you give a crumb of happiness? Or maybe just a tad of your attention to a stranger? Join Kronos, The Time Merchant, to get another perspective on spending time. The Time Merchant is a fantasy short story about the importance of spending time wisely. GET YOUR COPY TODAY!

Genre: Historical Fiction

When Will Papa Get Home?: A Story of Hope In the Midst of Prejudice (Southwest History & Country Living) by Larada Horner-Miller (14 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

An Mexican immigrant family's life changed in one day! AWARDS • 2016 New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards "Finalist" - Historical Fiction Category • 2017 New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards "Finalist" - Historical Fiction Category This poignant historical novel takes you to the high plains of southeastern Colorado, where a Mexican-American girl grows up knowing that her father has been imprisoned for ten years for something he didn't do. Maria is taken back to her childhood home when she comes across a blue marble in her jewelry box. She remembers herself as an eight-year-old girl playing with the marble while waiting for her father to return to the rock-and-adobe homestead house her family had built with their own hands. Based on the tale of "the Philly Place" that author Larada Horner-Miller has heard her whole life, this novel imagines the life of the person who might have left that very same blue marble behind, to be discovered by Horner-Miller while exploring her family ranch many ...

Genre: Historical Fiction

SPLITBACK: An Accidental Drive into the Past by Jonathan Sherr (Bookmarketeers.com) (30 Reviews)    Price verified 2 hours ago

In 2022, Andrew Foster is a long-tenured News Director for a local television station. After an exhaustive search, Andrew purchased his lifelong dream car. The car is a 1963 Corvette C2 Coupe with a highly desired split-back rear window. Unknown to Andrew and the rest of the world, this car had future technology installed on it from the 23rd century. The device that was placed on the car in late 1963 was rendered inoperable by its makers and, over the course of time, was forgotten about. While on his very first drive with his new classic Corvette, the still-installed future device again became operable due to a highly unusual energy burst from the far reaches of the galaxy. Andrew and the car were unknowingly sent back in time to 1963. Andrew awoke, not being able to see. He was injured as the car crashed hard into some trees. He had no idea that the hospital now treating him was from 59 years in his past. After a few days, Andrew's sight was now slowly coming back; he soon began to ...

Genre: Historical Fiction

Arthur: War's End (Forgotten Emperor Series Book 6) by Paul Bannister (Lume Books) (140 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

Arthur, Emperor of Britain, knows he is nearing the end of his life. But before he dies, he is determined to see his nation united and at peace. Despite finally making peace with Rome, there are still many threats to Arthur's kingdom. The Saxons of the east, the Picts in the north and the Celts in the west are frequent raiders and plunderers of the shoreline, and the Franks and Jutes, Suehans, Angles and Huns who are over-running Gaul, are preparing to cross the Narrow Sea with their fire and blades. After the outbreak of a great pestilence, many Britons have died, and the crops are in ruins. So Arthur is forced to quickly build up a new army of soldiers. He must once more unite the sparring clans if he has any hope of fortifying Britain against the outside threats. But that is easier said than done. With the ruling thegns reluctant to bow down to him, and declare peace with their neighbours, Arthur has his work cut out trying to rally them to his cause. Can he save his empire from ...

Genre: Historical Fiction

The Lion's Den: A Family Drama in Hitler's Berlin in the 1930s (The Lion's Den Series Book 1) by Eoin Dempsey (2,416 Reviews)    Price verified 6 minutes ago

A broken family. A new opportunity in a country on the precipice of unspeakable evil. November 1932. Seamus Ritter, a widower with four children, returns from riding the rails in an America crippled by the great depression. Realizing that his homecoming will not be how he envisioned it, and in a desperate attempt to make amends with his 16-year-old daughter, Maureen, Seamus accepts an invitation to come and work for his long-lost uncle in Berlin. With little other choice, Seamus takes the ship to Germany with his family. Maureen leaves everything to go with her father she no longer trusts, dedicated to taking care of her younger siblings. The Germany the Ritter family encounters is vastly different than the one Seamus spent time living in as a child. An upstart politician called Adolf Hitler has come to the fore, but surely it's only a matter of time before the right-thinking members of society banish him to the fringes of the political landscape he emerged from. As the Ritter ...

Genre: Historical Fiction

UNICORN an evocative and charming historical literary fiction novel by Marguerite Steen (Lume Books Historical Literary Fiction Sagas) Price verified 7 hours ago

In the years following World War One, Europe remains in turmoil... As if the war to end all wars was not enough, now revolution is bringing an end to the remnants of the old ways. Monarchs, princes and grand dukes all tumble. Only Rheingoldstein, a duchy so small as to be forgotten, remains untouched. Even when the Grand Duke foresees the inevitable, and removes himself from the situation, his steely widow presses on regardless. In her eyes, their daughter Margarethe must carry on the ducal tradition. But the choice is not hers to make. In the years that follow, Margarethe and her mother forge a new type of existence, a peripatetic, hand-to-mouth lifestyle that horrifies the mother but affords her daughter a degree of freedom. Margarethe, who lacks subtlety and elegance but has an abundance of courage and initiative, decides to make the most of that freedom. Her subsequent adventures take her across Europe, into the company of struggling artists and dubious companions. Then, ...

Genre: Historical Fiction

The King's Feast: Mary Queen of Scots by William Bramlett (2 Reviews)    Price verified 2 hours ago

Once each year ancient Kings, Queens, and Nobles come from their graves for the King's Feast on the dais of Westminster Abbey in London, England. Only those unfortunate to remain trapped between Life and Eternity participate. They require Resolution before they can move beyond to Heaven or Hell. Mary Queen of Scots calls Francis Ramsay from 1840 back 250 .years to her aid. She must reconcile losing her monarchy and beheading by Queen Elizabeth I. Francis steps into the 16th-century encountering spirits, witches, fairies and seekers who have no eyes. But Queen Elizabeth I does not sit idle. The events of history will not change unless Francis is successful.

Genre: Historical Fiction

The Ruin by John Sawney (Fireship Press) (10 Reviews)    Price verified one hour ago

In the former Roman colony of Britannia, civilisation has all but disappeared. Eldol, a nobleman from the town of Glevum, saves the dictator Vortigern from an assassination attempt. The two go on the run into the barbarous west, where they are forced to look for shelter in a country that is falling apart around them.

Genre: Historical Fiction

The Hour of Fatality (Jane Rochester Mysteries Book 1) by LeAnne McKinley (44 Reviews)    Price verified 6 minutes ago

What if Jane Eyre had to solve a mystery? Charlotte Brontë's literary heroine is finally married to Mr. Rochester. But their wedded bliss is not as peaceful as they anticipated. Strange lights are seen among the ruins of Thornfield Hall, and their land agent has departed without notice. Matters are complicated when they realize that a hidden menace is lurking in their new home. Mr. Rochester resolves to whisk Jane away to the nearest refuge: Ingram Park, mansion of the haughty Blanche. But that noble household is hiding secrets of its own. Lord Ingram is strangely distracted and his sister Blanche is behaving with unexpected courtesy. Is this the same careless, supercilious family she remembers? Before long, Jane makes a startling and ominous discovery that forces her to question everything she knows about Ingram Park. The first in the Jane Rochester Mystery series, this novel features Charlotte Brontë's favorite literary couple in a new tale of suspense and romance.

Genre: Historical Fiction

Crossing Day by William A. Glass (1 Review)    Price verified 11 minutes ago

It's been one hundred and sixty years since the Confederacy won its independence at the Battle of Altamaha Crossing. Slaves of African descent still perform most of the work in the South. This seems normal to Ryan Walters and his friends who attend high school in Huntsville, Alabama. Like teens everywhere, they enjoy sharing videos, playing sports, and hanging out with friends. Jaybird's Drive-In is a favorite gathering place for the teenagers. There, they befriend Mish, a slave girl who works as a server. When the drive-in's owner sells Mish to a dirty old man, Ryan and his friends awaken to the injustice around them. Despite the danger, they decide to help Mish escape. Will they succeed? An early reader said Crossing Day "is like a combination of Huckleberry Finn, Moby Dick, and The Hunger Games." Another reader called it, "an action-packed thriller."

Genre: Historical Fiction