11 best-selling historical books like A Soldier's Secret: The Incredible True Story of Sarah Edmonds, Civil War Hero by Marissa Moss

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A Soldier's Secret: The Incredible True Story of Sarah Edmonds, Civil War Hero

By: Marissa Moss

3.94

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The story of Sarah Emma Edmonds, who masqueraded as a man named Frank Thompson during the Civil War…

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1. Standing in the Light: The Captive Diary of Catharine Carey Logan, Delaware Valley, Pennsylvania, 1763 (Dear America)

By: Mary Pope Osborne

4.01

Format: 184 pages, Hardcover

Catharine Carey Logan and her family have enjoyed a peaceful and prosperous life as the Quakers and… read more

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  • historical
  • young adult
  • historical fiction
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2. The Lady of the Rivers (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #1)

By: Philippa Gregory

4.05

Format: 502 pages, Hardcover

Jacquetta, daughter of the Count of Luxembourg and kinswoman to half the royalty of Europe, was mar… read more

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  • historical
  • historical fiction
"A wise woman curses very sparingly."

-Philippa Gregory, The Lady of the Rivers (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #1)

"He is fragile, like a prince of ice, of glass."

-Philippa Gregory, The Lady of the Rivers (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #1)

"All that that I learn just teaches me that I know nothing."

-Philippa Gregory, The Lady of the Rivers (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #1)

"Every woman is a mad ugly bad old witch somewhere in her heart."

-Philippa Gregory, The Lady of the Rivers (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #1)

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3. A Lantern in Her Hand

By: Bess Streeter Aldrich

4.18

Format: 251 pages, Paperback

🎧Listening Length = 10 hours and 45 minutes Part of: Bison Book (4 titles) Perfect for fans of … read more

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  • historical
  • young adult
  • historical fiction
"You have to dream things out. It keeps a kind of an ideal before you. You see it first in your mind and then you set about to try to make it like the ideal. If you want a garden,-why, I guess you've …"

-Bess Streeter Aldrich, A Lantern in Her Hand

"What makes it smell so sweet?" they wanted to know. "Because everything,--every little wild plum-blossom, every little tiny crocus and anemone and violet and every tree-bud and grass-blade is working…"

-Bess Streeter Aldrich, A Lantern in Her Hand

"Abbie would stop in her work and utter a prayer for him,—and, sent as it were from the bow of a mother's watchful care, bound by the cord of a mother's love, the little winged arrow on its flight mus…"

-Bess Streeter Aldrich, A Lantern in Her Hand

"Far into the evening they sat around the old coal burner talking and laughing, with tears not far behind the laughter - the state legislator and the banker, the artist, the singer, and the college te…"

-Bess Streeter Aldrich, A Lantern in Her Hand

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4. A Soldier's Secret: The Incredible True Story of Sarah Edmonds, Civil War Hero

By: Marissa Moss

3.94

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The story of Sarah Emma Edmonds, who masqueraded as a man named Frank Thompson during the Civil War… read more

Similar categories in Marissa Moss's A Soldier's Secret: The Incredible True Story of Sarah Edmonds, Civil War Hero book and Marissa Moss's A Soldier's Secret: The Incredible True Story of Sarah Edmonds, Civil War Hero

  • adventure
  • historical
  • civil war
  • american civil war
  • war
  • young adult
  • historical fiction

5. The Winter People

By: Jennifer McMahon

3.73

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

The New York Timesbestselling author of Promise Not to Tellreturns with a simmering literary thrill… read more

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6. The Lost Gate (Mither Mages, #1)

By: Orson Scott Card

5.00

Format: 64 pages,

Danny North knew from early childhood that his family was different, and that he was different from… read more

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7. Silver Bay

By: Jojo Moyes

3.79

Format: 338 pages, Paperback

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Giver of Stars, in an earlier work available in t… read more

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"We had not mentioned love, but my every nerve ending throbbed with it, and I carried it in a cloud around me, like sea mist."

-Jojo Moyes, Silver Bay

"Hannah ran past, beaming. I remember that feeling--when you're a kid and it's your birthday and for one day everyone makes you feel like the most special person in the world."

-Jojo Moyes, Silver Bay

"...all I felt when I saw Vanessa was this weird sensation I used to get when I was a kid, like when you're at a friend's house and your mum comes to get you before you're ready."

-Jojo Moyes, Silver Bay

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8. Monster

By: Walter Dean Myers

3.73

Format: 281 pages, Paperback

Sometimes I feel like I have walked into the middle of a movie. Maybe I can make my own movie. The … read more

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  • young adult

9. Wild Bird

By: Wendelin Van Draanen

3.71

Format: 436 pages,

3:47 a.m. That's when they come for Wren Clemens. She's hustled out of her house and into a waiting… read more

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10. Meet Kirsten: An American Girl (American Girls: Kirsten, #1)

By: Janet Beeler Shaw

4.17

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

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11. The Vanderbeekers Ever After (The Vanderbeekers, #7)

By: Karina Yan Glaser

4.58

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

The bestselling Vanderbeeker family finds love and hope in hard times as they face the challenge of… read more

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12. The Warrior Maiden (Hagenheim, #9)

By: Melanie Dickerson

3.98

Format: 314 pages, Hardcover

She knows women are expected to marry, cook, and have children, not go to war. Can she manage to st… read more

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  • historical
  • young adult
  • historical fiction
"We were only children, Steffan. God forgives us for being careless and not knowing what to do. We'll never be able to be good enough to make up for what happened. I guess we have to accept that God's…"

-Melanie Dickerson, The Warrior Maiden (Hagenheim, #9)

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13. The Lost Library

By: Rebecca Stead

4.14

Format: 215 pages, Hardcover

A little free library guarded by a cat and a boy who takes on the mystery it keeps. When a myst… read more

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"But aren’t “parents"

-Rebecca Stead, The Lost Library

"That delicious book smell, his heart said."

-Rebecca Stead, The Lost Library

"Being a Great Reader means feeling something about books."

-Rebecca Stead, The Lost Library

"Head high, my dear! Eyes up! Take your place in the world!"

-Rebecca Stead, The Lost Library

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14. Under the Tulip Tree

By: Michelle Shocklee

4.33

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Sixteen-year-old Lorena Leland’s dreams of a rich and fulfilling life as a writer are dashed when t… read more

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  • historical
  • civil war
  • historical fiction
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15. A Brilliant Night of Stars and Ice

By: Rebecca Connolly

4.08

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Based on the remarkable true story of the Carpathia—the one ship and her legendary captain who answ… read more

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  • historical
  • historical fiction
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16. The Whispering Dead (Gravekeeper, #1)

By: Darcy Coates

4.02

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Homeless, hunted, and desperate to escape a bitter storm, Keira takes refuge in an abandoned ground… read more

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17. Bluebird

By: Sharon Cameron

4.34

Format: 438 pages, Hardcover

A historical novel, set in postwar New York City. In 1946, Eva leaves behind the rubble of Berli… read more

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  • historical
  • war
  • young adult
  • historical fiction
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18. Rebel Spy

By: Veronica Rossi

4.02

Format: 356 pages, Hardcover

Rebellious Frannie Tasker knows little about the war between England and its thirteen colonies in 1… read more

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  • historical
  • historical fiction
  • young adult
  • adventure
"quick as a sneeze"

-Veronica Rossi, Rebel Spy

"Women were held to modesty as men were held to honor."

-Veronica Rossi, Rebel Spy

"Emmeline Coates was more given to hoping than dreaming"

-Veronica Rossi, Rebel Spy

"War is hypocrisy. We are fighting to restore peace, after all."

-Veronica Rossi, Rebel Spy

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19. A Twisted Love Story

By: Samantha Downing

3.21

Format: 390 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of My Lovely Wife comes a reckless, delicious thriller about a young co… read more

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20. Love Unseen

By: Rachel Kelley Stones

4.27

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

Hannah Hadley is a permanent fixture in London Society and well on her way to becoming a spinster. … read more

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  • historical
  • historical fiction
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21. Courage, My Love

By: Kristin Beck

4.24

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

When the Nazi occupation of Rome begins, two courageous young women are plunged deep into the Itali… read more

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  • historical
  • war
  • historical fiction

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