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Chris Womersley · 235 pages
The year is 1919 and the Great War has ended. Sergeant Quinn Walker, damaged body and soul by his experiences in the killing fields of France, decides to return home to the small and desolate town of Flint, Australia, to set right the past.
An Unmarked Grave
Charles Todd · 262 pages
While contending with wounded soldiers and influenza patients, battlefield nurse Bess Crawford stumbles upon the body of an officer and family friend who has been murdered, and uses her father's connections in the military to search for an elusive killer.
A Time for Angels
Karen Hesse · 250 pages
Sick with influenza during the 1918 epidemic and separated from her two sisters, a young Jewish girl living in Boston relies on the help of an old German man, and her visions of angels, to get better and to reunite herself with her family. As World War I rages in Europe, an influenza epidemic devastates Boston, forcing fourteen-year-old Hannah to leave home. Dangerously ill, she finds herself in V
At the Sign of the Sugared Plum
Mary Hooper · 169 pages
In June 1665, excited at the prospect of coming to London to work at her sister Sarah's candy shop, teenaged Hannah is unconcerned about rumors of Plague until, as the hot summer advances and increasing numbers of people succumb to the disease, she and Sarah find themselves trapped in the city with no means of escape.
The House of Dead Maids
Clare B. Dunkle · 176 pages
Eleven-year-old Tabby Aykroyd, who would later serve as housekeeper for thirty years to the Brönte sisters, is taken from an orphanage to a ghost-filled house, where she and a wild young boy are needed for a pagan ritual.
The Diviners
Libba Bray · 608 pages
Do you believe there are ghosts and demons and Diviners among us? Evie O'Neill has been exiled from her boring old hometown and shipped off to the bustling streets of New York City--and she is pos-i-tute-ly ecstatic. It's 1926, and New York is filled with speakeasies, Ziegfeld girls, and rakish pickpockets. The only catch is that she has to live with her uncle Will and his unhealthy obsession w
The Foreshadowing
Marcus Sedgwick · 304 pages
Having always been able to know when someone is going to die, Alexandra poses as a nurse to go to France during World War I to locate her brother and to try to save him from the fate she has foreseen for him.
The Dark Between
Sonia Gensler · 348 pages
Three teenagers in Victorian era Cambridge spend the summer at a local college and soon discover that their hosts, the Metaphysical Society, may be conducting sinister experiments in an attempt to communicate with the dead.
The Secret Language of Stones
M.J. Rose · 320 pages
Lost Among the Living
Simone St. James · 430 pages
"England, 1921. Three years after her husband, Alex, disappeared, shot down over Germany, Jo Manders still mourns his loss. Working as a paid companion to Alex's wealthy, condescending aunt, Dottie Forsyth, Jo travels to the family's estate in the Sussex countryside. But there is much she never knew about her husband's origins...and the revelation of a mysterious death in the Forsyths' past is jus
The Winter Ghosts
Kate Mosse · 258 pages
Corre el año 1928. Freddie Watson todavía lamenta la pérdida de su hermano, el cual falleció en la Gran Guerra. Mientras Freddie se adentra con su coche entre las montañas de los Pirineos franceses, sufre un accidente provocado por una fuerte tormenta de nieve. Freddie se refugia en un cercano pueblo abandonado, donde se encuentra con una hermosa y cautivadora mujer. Se pasan toda la noche charlan
Year of Wonders
Geraldine Brooks · 310 pages
This is the story of a young woman's struggle to save her family and her soul during the year of 1666, when plague suddenly visits her small Derbyshire village and the villagers, inspired by a charismatic preacher, elect to quarantine themselves.
The Poisoned House
Michael Ford
Abigail is a maidservant in Greave Hall, an elegant London household governed by the tyrannical housekeeper, Mrs Cotton. Whilst the widowed master slips slowly into madness, Mrs Cotton gradually usurps the position of gentlewoman of the house. She wears his dead wife's jewellery and clothes, entertains guests as though the house is her own and reserves her most despotic treatment for Abi. In the d
The Birth of Venus
Sarah Dunant · 430 pages
Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind Them All
Laura Ruby · 384 pages
A Spell of Winter
Helen Dunmore · 313 pages
Catherine and her brother, Rob, don't know why they have been abandoned by their parents. Incarcerated in the enormous country house of their grandfather – 'the man from nowhere' – they create a refuge against their family's dark secrets – and the outside world as it moves towards the First World War. As time passes their sibling love deepens and crosses into forbidden territory – but they are not
Like the Willow Tree: The Diary of Lydia Amelia Pierce, Portland, Maine, 1918
Lois Lowry · 224 pages
After being orphaned during the influenza epidemic of 1918, eleven-year-old Lydia Pierce and her fourteen-year-old brother are taken by their grieving uncle to be raised in the Shaker community at Sabbathday Lake. Includes author's note about the Shakers.
The Grownup
Gillian Flynn · 71 pages
A canny young woman is struggling to survive by perpetrating various levels of mostly harmless fraud. On a rainy April morning, she is reading auras at Spiritual Palms when Susan Burke walks in. A keen observer of human behavior, our unnamed narrator immediately diagnoses beautiful, rich Susan as an unhappy woman eager to give her lovely life a drama injection. However, when the "psychic" visits t
A Skinful of Shadows
Frances Hardinge · 415 pages
**THIS IS THE STORY OF A BEAR-HEARTED GIRL...** Sometimes, when a person dies, their spirit goes looking for somewhere to hide. Some people have space within them, perfect for hiding. Young Makepeace has learned to defend herself from the ghosts that try to possess her in the night, desperate for refuge, but one day a dreadful event causes her to drop her guard. And now there's a spirit i
The Dark Vault (The Archived, #1-2.5)
Victoria Schwab · 696 pages
Hunting Prince Dracula
Kerri Maniscalco · 434 pages
In this hotly anticipated sequel to the haunting #1 bestseller Stalking Jack the Ripper,bizarre murders are discovered in the castle of Prince Vlad the Impaler, otherwise known as Dracula. Could it be a copycat killer ... or has the depraved prince been brought back to life? Following the grief and horror of her discovery of Jack the Ripper's true identity, Audrey Rose Wadsworth has no choice but
The Meaning of Names
Karen Gettert Shoemaker · 219 pages
"Set in 1918 in the farm country at the heart of America, The Meaning of Names is the story of an ordinary woman trying to raise a family during extraordinary times. Estranged from her parents because she married against their will, confronted with violence and prejudice against her people, and caught up in the midst of the worst plague the world has ever seen, Gerda Vogel, an American of German d