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Historical Fiction
Since 1959: An Eight Year-old’s Initiation into the World of Cleveland Indians Baseball and Life in the Fifties
Book Reviews, Fiction, General Fiction, Historical Fiction, Young Adult •
IR Staff •
Apr 11, 2012
The book follows the fortunes of the Cleveland Indians baseball team in their 1959 pennant race. It opens with eight-year old Andy rising at 5:30AM to retrieve the newspaper (and milk delivered to the door step) and read the “Cleveland Indians starting line up for the 1959 baseball season opener.” Read On
Rosedale in Love
Book Reviews, Books, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Reviews, Romance, eBooks •
IR Staff •
Mar 21, 2012
Part love story, part lush description of New York social history, Rosedale in Love is a multi-layered look of New York society at the turn of the century from the point-of-view of Jewish characters who are outside of the social strata while completely remaking that world as they enter it. Read On
The Wedding Gift
Fiction, Historical Fiction, Top 10, eBooks •
IR Staff •
Dec 19, 2011
This historical novel, based upon a court case in nineteenth-century Alabama, invites readers inside the plantation, the wealth, the family, the relationships. Two women, a house slave named Sarah Campbell and her mistress Theodora, both of the Allen plantation, narrate. Read On
Ambersley (Lords of London)
Book Reviews, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Top 10, eBooks •
IR Staff •
Nov 01, 2011
Traumatized by a blaze that killed her parents, young Johanna remembers nothing of her privileged past and remains ignorant of the dangers that surround her. Read On
An Inconvenient Marriage
Book Reviews, Fiction, Historical Fiction, eBooks •
IR Staff •
Apr 12, 2011
It’s the late 1800s in Virginia, and Sue Lewis, a “spinster” in her early thirties, is hell bent on saving her family’s farm. Read On
The Hangman’s Daughter
Book Reviews, Fiction, Historical Fiction, eBooks •
IR Staff •
Mar 08, 2011
This absorbing and, at times, gruesomely descriptive story, takes place in a village in Bavaria in 1659, and within a few pages, the reader is transported to the era of witches, hangmen, doctors using herbs for curing fevers and a population of lepers. Read On
Worlds Apart
Book Reviews, Historical Fiction •
IR Staff •
Feb 22, 2011
Worlds Apart, by Miriam Sobel, is an engrossing tale of an extended Jewish family, with two brothers in New York City and their sister, brother-in-law, and mother living in Poland. Read On
Maids of Misfortune: A Victorian San Francisco Mystery
Book Reviews, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Mystery, eBooks •
IR Staff •
The year is 1898, the place, San Francisco, and Annie Fuller, a young widow whose husband killed himself after losing the couple’s fortune in the stock market, is trying to make a go of it by operating a boarding house she’s inherited from an elderly aunt. Read On
The Broken Past: A James Buckner Mystery
Book Reviews, Fiction, Historical Fiction •
IR Staff •
Feb 21, 2011
Set in Prohibition-challenged 1923, Corinth, MO is turned upside down when two murders are discovered the same day. Read On
More Letters From Pemberley 1814-1819
Book Reviews, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Romance, eBooks •
IR Staff •
Feb 11, 2011
More Letters From Pemberley is a continuation of Jane Dawkin’s first Letters novel. We again find Elizabeth Darcy, at her writing desk. Extending from 1814 to 1819, Elizabeth’s letters are no longer that of a homesick young woman finding solace with her younger sister. Read On
