22 Best fiction books like It Happened in Silence by Karla M. Jay

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It Happened in Silence

By: Karla M. Jay

4.52

Format: 340 pages, Kindle Edition

Honorable Mention in the 2022 Eric Hoffer Book Award Historical Fiction Category 2021 Benjamin Fra…

"The sharpest image I hold from that day are the shiny nailheads in the wood, where someone overdone the hammering to shut the wood-slat crate they sent my brother home in. A note came attached, stiff with condolences from Mr. Mercer, the Estelle Mining owner. Other scrawled words said the company believed they’d recovered most of my brother from the explosion but warned us not to open the lid and check."

-Karla M. Jay, It Happened in Silence

"The sharpest image I hold from that day are the shiny nailheads in the wood, where someone overdone the hammering to shut the wood-slat crate they sent my brother home in. A note came attached, stiff with condolences from Mr. Mercer, the Estelle Mining owner. Other scrawled words said the company believed they’d recovered most of my brother from the explosion but warned us not to open the lid and check."

-Karla M. Jay, It Happened in Silence

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1. The Seventh Moon

By: Marius Gabriel

4.36

Format: 321 pages, Kindle Edition

From the international bestselling author of THE MASK OF TIME and THE ORIGINAL SIN. As World War II… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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2. The Somme Legacy (Jayne Sinclair Genealogical Mystery, #2)

By: M.J. Lee

3.83

Format: 28 pages,

BY THE BEST-SELLING AUTHOR OF THE IRISH INHERITANCE When a young teacher asks genealogical investig… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

3. The Original Sin

By: Marius Gabriel

3.91

Format: 528 pages,

From the international bestselling author of THE MASK OF TIME and THE SEVENTH MOON. It all begins w… read more

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4. The Mask of Time

By: Marius Gabriel

4.41

Format: 333 pages,

From the international bestselling author of THE ORIGINAL SIN and THE SEVENTH MOON. A wartime sin r… read more

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5. The Only Way Home

By: Jeanette Minniti

4.21

Format: 243 pages, Kindle Edition

Winner of the 2022 Colorado Authors League 1st Place Award in Historical Fiction! Desperate times.… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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6. October in the Earth

By: Olivia Hawker

4.21

Format: 310 pages, Kindle Edition

In Depression-era Kentucky, a defiant wife embarks on an impulsive and liberating journey in a powe… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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7. The Price of Bread and Shoes: A Novel

By: Lonormi Manuel

4.47

Format: 354 pages, Kindle Edition

When nineteen-year-old Alafair Sizemore Slone journeys to Chemame Creek, West Virginia to join her … read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"It's a hard life for a woman, married to a man who's married to the bottle."

-Lonormi Manuel, The Price of Bread and Shoes: A Novel

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8. Whispering Winds of Appalachia

By: John Ellington

4.46

Format: 216 pages, Kindle Edition

Life-long friendships, class differences, terrible mistakes, and the beauty of unspoiled nature ar… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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9. The Last Orphan (The Last Orphan Books Book 1)

By: Jeffrey Lowder

4.26

Format: 330 pages, Kindle Edition

2020 Winner New York City Big Book award 2020 Distinguished Favorite-Western Fiction by Independent… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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10. The Paris Orphans

By: Suzanne Kelman

3.91

Format: 88 pages, Kindle Edition

Clutching her suitcase tightly to hide her trembling hands, Charlotte takes a steadying breath. Thi… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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11. Out of the Dust

By: Joyce E. Patterson

4.24

Format: 397 pages, Kindle Edition

Two of America’s worst economic disasters occurred during the same period. One was the crash of the… read more

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  • historical fiction
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12. The Playgroup

By: Leah Mercer

3.89

Format: 258 pages, Kindle Edition

Breath catches in my throat and terror grips me as my daughter’s favourite jumper slides into focus… read more

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  • fiction
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13. Tobacco Rose

By: Florence Love Karsner

4.33

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

South Georgia 1955. Racial tensions lead to riots in the South. An old black woman named Rosie and … read more

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  • historical fiction
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14. The Family

By: S.E. Green

4.14

Format: 148 pages, Kindle Edition

Nothing’s more important than family... Leah When Leah’s daughter, Nyla, unexpectedly appears at … read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
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15. A Heart Like Home

By: Christine Nolfi

4.46

Format: 319 pages, Paperback

Finding family is a journey of love, risk, secrets, and healing in a powerful novel by the bestsell… read more

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  • fiction
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16. The Glovemaker's Daughter

By: Shari J. Ryan

4.42

Format: 338 pages, Kindle Edition

Paris, 1943. German soldiers drag me out onto the cobbled street and push me towards the waiting tr… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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17. Welcome to the Madhouse (Maids of Maddington #1)

By: Valerie Anne Hudson

4.39

Format: 203 pages, Kindle Edition

- Literary Titan’s Book Award - 2022 Speak Up Talk Radio Firebird Book Award - 2022 Bookfest Awar… read more

Similar categories in Valerie Anne Hudson's Welcome to the Madhouse (Maids of Maddington #1) book and Karla M. Jay's It Happened in Silence

  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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18. House on Fire

By: D. Liebhart

4.17

Format: 282 pages, Paperback

HOW FAR WOULD YOU GO TO KEEP A PROMISE? Bernadette Rogers swore she’d never put her father in a … read more

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  • fiction
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19. A Good Enough Mother

By: Sheila Norton

4.11

Format: 276 pages, Kindle Edition

Mia is telling me a story. It’s about a princess, who lives in a castle, on a street that bears a r… read more

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20. The Last Day in Paris: A totally heartbreaking WW2 historical novel (The Paris Sisters Book 1)

By: Suzanne Kelman

4.39

Format: 362 pages, Kindle Edition

“No, Mama, please don’t make me leave!” Sophie cries, clutching her teddy bear as her blue eyes fil… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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21. The Siskiyou Son

By: G.M. Davis

4.47

Format: 282 pages, Kindle Edition

A young David Covington, imprisoned for murder, is forced to visit a prison psychologist. It is dur… read more

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22. The Man from Section Five: A Brinley Knight Spy Thriller (The Man from MI5 Book 1)

By: Jana Petken

4.34

Format: 569 pages, Kindle Edition

Book two coming November 2022Petken delivers a compelling story. As the outbreak of war approaches,… read more

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23. Little Lost Girl (Old Balmain House #1)

By: Graham Wilson

3.98

Format: 220 pages, Paperback

A little girl vanished 100 years ago. Her name was Sophie. Where did she go? An old house in Balmai… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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24. It Happened in Silence

By: Karla M. Jay

4.52

Format: 340 pages, Kindle Edition

Honorable Mention in the 2022 Eric Hoffer Book Award Historical Fiction Category 2021 Benjamin Fra… read more

Similar categories in Karla M. Jay's It Happened in Silence book and Karla M. Jay's It Happened in Silence

  • mystery thriller
  • historical
  • amazon
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"The sharpest image I hold from that day are the shiny nailheads in the wood, where someone overdone the hammering to shut the wood-slat crate they sent my brother home in. A note came attached, stiff…"

-Karla M. Jay, It Happened in Silence

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25. Between the Cracks

By: Carmela Cattuti

3.85

Format: 261 pages, Kindle Edition

Join Angela Lanza as she experiences the tumultuous world of early 20th century Sicily and New York… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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26. More Than Grit

By: Gretchen A. Carlson

4.57

Format: 237 pages, Paperback

When do secrets become lies? When is grit not enough? A story of broken lives and deep friendships,… read more

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27. A Cat at Dachau

By: Elyse Hoffman

4.23

Format: 44 pages, Kindle Edition

SS Private Max Schrader is a brutal Nazi guard at Dachau concentration camp. While he is ruthless t… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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28. A House of Many Rooms

By: Marius Gabriel

4.23

Format: 278 pages, Kindle Edition

Giving up her newborn daughter wasn't easy. Nor was seeing her in the headlines, fifteen years late… read more

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  • fiction
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29. Forever Across the Marsh

By: Jeff Pearson

3.83

Format: 291 pages, Kindle Edition

Moms love it, but Dads love it more. Featured by Savannah Morning News, Live 5 WCSC Charleston, and… read more

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  • fiction
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30. The Daughters of Marburg

By: Terrance D. Williamson

4.46

Format: 383 pages, Kindle Edition

The Daughters of Marburg follows the story of two young women and their father who, shortly after t… read more

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  • fiction
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31. The Children’s Nurse: A WWII Historical Survival Novel Based on a True Story

By: Ehud Regev

3.94

Format: 263 pages, Kindle Edition

Warsaw, 1939. Merie watches as the flames of war engulf the place she and her husband once called h… read more

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  • historical fiction

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M.J. Lee

3.83

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4.21

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Olivia Hawker

4.21

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4.47

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4.24

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