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Elizabeth Lowell · 400 pages
Willow Moran must rely on gunfighter Caleb Black to lead her from her Civil War-ravaged home to her brother's refuge in the Colorado Rockies. In the course of their journey, this spirited Southern lady will become a fever in Caleb's blood -- and Willow must also acknowledge that this wild man is her destiny. Read all of Elizabeth Lowell's historical novels of the American West: Only His; Only Mine
To Kiss a Texan
Jodi Thomas · 320 pages
(The Second McLain Series Book.) Wes McLain returned home from the Civil War with little money - - and less hope. He had even given up on love. Until he saw her . . . Allie, the blue-eyed girl who had been called a savage, a wild soul - - and was a prisoner of what seemed to be a horrible fate. But when Wes looked into her eyes, he wanted only to free her, and to take her with him on a journey
Tatiana and Alexander
Paullina Simons · 672 pages
Come a Little Closer
Dorothy Garlock · 385 pages
It's 1946, after the end of WWII, and Christina Tucker decides to take a nursing job in the small town of Longstock, Wisconsin, working with Dr. Samuel Barlow. Dr. Barlow is well-regarded by the people of Longview, except for one man: Morris Doyle. Morris believes that his younger brother Jimmy died as a result of Barlow's shoddy care and he is determined to punish the doctor for what he's done --
A Beauty So Rare
Tamera Alexander · 480 pages
"Eleanor's practical plans for the new home for Civil War widows and orphans at Belmont Mansion, in Nashville, conflict with architect Marcus' artistic vision. Will they ever manage to find common ground?"--
Forsaken Dreams
MaryLu Tyndall · 313 pages
Eager to leave the South after seeing the devastation caused by the Civil War, Blake Wallace embarks on a journey to Brazil, while widow Eliza Crawford seeks passage on Wallace's ship while harboring a dirty secret.
A Most Inconvenient Marriage
Regina Jennings · 324 pages
"Having fled a difficult home life, Civil War nurse Abigail Stuart feels like her only friend in the world is sweet but gravely wounded patient Jeremiah Calhoun. Fearing he won't survive, the Confederate soldier's last wish is that Abigail look after his sickly sister at home. Marry him, return to his horse farm, and it'll be hers. Left with few choices, Abigail takes him up on his offer and moves
The Shadow of the Wind
Carlos Ruiz Zafon · 486 pages
Barcelona, 1945—just after the war, a great world city lies in shadow, nursing its wounds, and a boy named Daniel awakes on his eleventh birthday to find that he can no longer remember his mother’s face. To console his only child, Daniel’s widowed father, an antiquarian book dealer, initiates him into the secret of the Cemetery of Forgotten Books, a library tended by Barcelona’s guild of rare-book
The French Promise
Fiona McIntosh · 509 pages
The follow-up to 'The Lavender Keeper'. 1945. Luc and Lisette Ravens have somehow survived their time as a resistance fighter and a British spy. Haunted by the horrors they have seen, they set sail for Australia, hoping to rebuild their lives. But the past cannot be evaded so simply. When a Swiss student learns of a truth that connects his family with the Ravens, he finds himself holding the key t
The Girl You Left Behind
Jojo Moyes · 537 pages
In 1916, French artist Edouard Lefevre leaves his wife Sophie to fight at the Front. When her town falls into German hands, his portrait of Sophie stirs the heart of the local Kommandant and causes her to risk everything - her family, reputation and life - in the hope of seeing her true love one last time. Nearly a century later and Sophie's portrait is given to Liv by her young husband shortly
The Walnut Tree
Charles Todd · 260 pages
Haunted by the horrors she witnessed in France during the enemy invasion of 1914, Lady Elspeth Douglas, a titled young Englishwoman, is transformed by her experience and leaves her sheltered life behind to become a nurse and return to the battlefields of France to do her part.
From Dust and Ashes: A Story of Liberation
Tricia Goyer · 463 pages
Lady Chatterley's Lover
D.H. Lawrence · 322 pages
Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins, we start to build up new little habitats, to have new little hopes. It is rather hard work: there is now no smooth road into the future: but we go round, or scramble over the obstacles. We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.
Fall of Giants
Ken Follett · 892 pages
It is 1911. The Coronation Day of King George V. The Williams, a Welsh coal-mining family, is linked by romance and enmity to the Fitzherberts, aristocratic coal-mine owners. Lady Maud Fitzherbert falls in love with Walter von Ulrich, a spy at the German Embassy in London. Their destiny is entangled with that of an ambitious young aide to U.S. President Woodrow Wilson and to two orphaned Russian b
Conor's Way
Laura Lee Guhrke · 416 pages
Olivia Maitland needs a man. Determined to hang onto her family’s Louisiana farm no matter what, Olivia knows she needs a big, strong man to help her, a man who’s not afraid of hard work. But in the aftermath of the Civil War, men like that are hard to come by, and when she finds ex-boxer Conor Branigan lying unconscious in the road, Olivia takes him in, even though the hard, brawling Irishman isn
Songs of Love and War
Santa Montefiore · 464 pages
Their lives were mapped out ahead of them. But love and war will change everything ... West Cork, Ireland, 1900. The year marks the start of a new century, and the birth of three very different women: Kitty Deverill, the flame-haired Anglo-Irish daughter of the castle, Bridie Doyle, the daughter of the Irish cook and Celia Deverill, Kitty's flamboyant English cousin. Together they grow up in the d
Westward the Dream
Judith Pella, Tracie Peterson · 318 pages
Brenton and Jordana Baldwin make a trip across the continent to California, leaving a home ravaged by the Civil War. Planning to visit the gold fields and photograph the wilds of western America, the travelers become tied to the establishment of the Union Pacific Railroad. Romance blossoms along the way, but dangers threaten to turn the dream into a tragedy.
The English Patient
Michael Ondaatje · 307 pages
With ravishing beauty and unsettling intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an Italian villa at the end of World War II. Hana, the exhausted nurse; the maimed thief, Caravaggio; the wary sapper, Kip: each is haunted by the riddle of the English patient, the nameless, burned man who lies in an upstairs room and whose memories of
Fall of Poppies: Stories of Love and the Great War
Heather Webb, Hazel Gaynor, Beatriz Williams, Jennifer Robson, Jessica Brockmole, Kate Kerrigan, Evangeline Holland, Lauren Willig, Marci Jefferson · 357 pages
The top voices in historical fiction deliver an intensely moving collection of short stories about loss, longing, and hope in the aftermath of World War I.
Motherland
William Nicholson · 448 pages
"Summer, 1942. Kitty, an army driver stationed in Sussex, meets Ed, a Royal Marine commando, and Larry, a liaison officer with Combined Ops. She falls instantly in love with Ed, who falls in love with her. [This novel] follows Kitty, Ed, and Larry from wartime England and the brutally tragic Dieppe raid to Nazi-occupied France, India after the war, and Jamaica before independence.
A House Divided
Catherine Cookson · 366 pages
When Matthew Wallingham returns home after being blinded in the war, he tries to save the family farm, make peace with his resentful family, and find happiness with the woman he loves.