Above the Salt
By: Katherine Vaz
3.72
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
An irresistible and sweeping love story that follows two Portuguese refugees who flee religious vio…
Want to Read $ 14.99"John thought that the greatest thing about America was its generosity, with spirit and hope and faith, but also with land and objects and inventions, a culture of magnanimity he would mourn if it were lost."-Katherine Vaz, Above the Salt
"John thought that the greatest thing about America was its generosity, with spirit and hope and faith, but also with land and objects and inventions, a culture of magnanimity he would mourn if it were lost."-Katherine Vaz, Above the Salt
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1. Let Us Descend
By: Jesmyn Ward
3.70
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From Jesmyn Ward—the two-time National Book Award winner, youngest winner of the Library of Congres… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
"You must leap. You must do as your people did. You must sink in order to rise."-Jesmyn Ward, Let Us Descend
2. A Grandmother Begins the Story
By: Michelle Porter
3.84
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning author Michelle Porter makes her fiction debut with an enchanting and original story … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
"Different ways to tell a story. Some tellers make a noise to announce the coming of the story for get someone else to call everyone's attention. Some wait for people to gather around, for the quiet t…"-Michelle Porter, A Grandmother Begins the Story
"People get themselves ready to die. They start going through their memories and bringing out their stories one by one as if there was a photo album in their head and they've got to get through it bef…"-Michelle Porter, A Grandmother Begins the Story
3. Chenneville
By: Paulette Jiles
4.13
Format: 307 pages, Hardcover
Consumed with grief, driven by vengeance, a man undertakes an unrelenting odyssey across the lawles… read more
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- historical
- civil war
- war
- fiction
- historical fiction
- audiobook
4. Absolution
By: Alice McDermott
3.81
Format: 324 pages, Hardcover
A riveting account of women’s lives on the margins of the Vietnam War. In Saigon in 1963, two yo… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- war
- fiction
- historical fiction
- audiobook
5. The Great Divide
By: Cristina Henríquez
3.70
Format: 321 pages, Hardcover
An epic novel of the construction of the Panama Canal, casting light on the unsung people who lived… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
"Ada had always believed that her mother, in rebuilding the house only three miles from where it had once been, had kept her world piteously small, but maybe what mattered, Ada thought as she gazed at…"-Cristina Henríquez, The Great Divide
6. The Liberators
By: E.J. Koh
3.46
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
At the height of the military dictatorship in South Korea, Insuk and Sungho are arranged to be marr… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
7. The General and Julia
By: Jon Clinch
3.82
Format: 269 pages, Hardcover
Ulysses S. Grant reflects on the crucial moments of his life as a husband, a father, a general, and… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- civil war
- war
- fiction
- historical fiction
- audiobook
8. Hard by a Great Forest
By: Leo Vardiashvili
3.90
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Amid rubble and rebuilding in a former Soviet land, one family must rescue one another and put the … read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
9. The Medicine Woman of Galveston
By: Amanda Skenandore
3.88
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Caught in the great Galveston Hurricane of 1900, a female doctor who’s joined a traveling medicine … read more
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- travel
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
10. The Storm We Made
By: Vanessa Chan
3.87
Format: 339 pages, Hardcover
Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9781668015148. A novel about a Malayan mother who becomes an unl… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- war
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
11. The Madstone
By: Elizabeth Crook
4.13
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
With echoes of Lonesome Dove and News of the World, the riveting story of a pregnant young mother, … read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- civil war
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
"Your mother leaned her head on my shoulder. I hardly breathed for having it there. I had certainly never felt so alive and cozy whilst nearly frozen to death."-Elizabeth Crook, The Madstone
"Despite I was tired, it was a comfort to stare at the red and brown stripes of the blanket in the lantern light and move my fingers along them. It was a steady, dependable task, as opposed to every o…"-Elizabeth Crook, The Madstone
"We had one horse, one mule, and a wagon. We had Horhay with his limp arm and his long past, and Dickie with his hopes for the necklace now dashed and turned to dread of its curse, and me with my ache…"-Elizabeth Crook, The Madstone
"Had we been in town amongst people, then we might have been merely interested at the news of having a cursed item in our possession. But out in the midst of no place, shielded by only a scanty wall o…"-Elizabeth Crook, The Madstone
12. We Must Not Think of Ourselves
By: Lauren Grodstein
4.08
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A heart-wrenching story of love and defiance set in the Warsaw Ghetto, based on the actual archives… read more
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- historical
- war
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
"We had never practiced Judaism before, and I thought myself too old to try believing something new, or to take advantage of an accident of birth to claim some brown patch of desert as my home."-Lauren Grodstein, We Must Not Think of Ourselves
"Our task is to pay attention... To listen to the stories. We want all political backgrounds, all religious attitudes. The illiterate and the elite. Every ideology. Interview everyone. Learn about the…"-Lauren Grodstein, We Must Not Think of Ourselves
"There should be another word for this feeling - a sort of sorrowful happiness, or a happiness that only deepens someone's sorrow. The closest I can come to it is the Portuguese word saudade, which ne…"-Lauren Grodstein, We Must Not Think of Ourselves
13. The Queen of Sugar Hill: A Novel of Hattie McDaniel
By: ReShonda Tate
3.94
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
Bestselling author ReShonda Tate presents a fascinating fictional portrait of Hattie McDaniel, one … read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
14. Rednecks
By: Taylor Brown
3.89
Format: 310 pages, Hardcover
A historical drama based on the Battle of Blair Mountain, pitting a multi-ethnic army of 10,000 co… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
15. The Wildest Sun
By: Asha Lemmie
3.79
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Following her New York Times bestselling debut Fifty Words for Rain , Asha Lemmie's next sweeping a… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
16. A Sign of Her Own
By: Sarah Marsh
3.37
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A mesmerizing tale of historical fiction that explores the legacy of the telephone centered on a yo… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
17. Holiday Country
By: İnci Atrek
3.25
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A seductive and lyrical debut following a young woman’s dangerous summer romance during an idyllic … read more
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- romance
- literary fiction
- fiction
- adult
- audiobook
18. Pelican Girls
By: Julia Malye
3.27
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping epic in the vein of Philipp Meyer’s The Son and Min Jin Lee’s Pachinko and inspired by a… read more
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- romance
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
19. The American Daughters
By: Maurice Carlos Ruffin
3.61
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A gripping historical novel about a spirited young girl who joins a sisterhood of Black women worki… read more
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- historical
- civil war
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
20. City of Betrayal (Counterfeit Lady #7)
By: Victoria Thompson
3.45
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A year has passed since Elizabeth Bates ran her last con. Life has been simpler, although not nearl… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
21. Above the Salt
By: Katherine Vaz
3.72
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
An irresistible and sweeping love story that follows two Portuguese refugees who flee religious vio… read more
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- romance
- literary fiction
- travel
- historical
- civil war
- war
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
"John thought that the greatest thing about America was its generosity, with spirit and hope and faith, but also with land and objects and inventions, a culture of magnanimity he would mourn if it wer…"-Katherine Vaz, Above the Salt
