Fiction, Historical
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A Tale of Thorns and Honey
by Kate O'Donnell
A Welsh Chieftain’s Daughter, An English Warlord, And A Love That Defies Their World › › › It is the year 1277, and the fiercely brave Enith ab Owen must leave Wales and all she loves to go to King Edward of England as guarantee to the peace of...
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The Gratitude of Wasps
by CM Klyne
Following the violence and death on Bloody Saturday, June 21, 1919 that crushed the Winnipeg General Strike, corrupt sedition trials imprisoned strike leaders. So-called aliens were deported as the iron-fist of an unforgiving establishment sought...
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Most Beloved Enemy
by Margaret Worth
When Ada Baldwin watches her mother die giving birth to yet another baby girl, she is changed forever by the experience. It is 1884 and Ada and her 3 younger sisters must now learn to live without their beloved mama in their midst. The younger...
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Or So It Seemed
by Moira Leigh MacLeod
It’s 1946 and Mabel has never been happier. She’s a wife, a new mother, and the owner of the town’s most popular bakery. The black clouds that had followed her in the past have parted and her future has never looked brighter. Or so it seemed. A...
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Once in a New Moon
(Centrewood Cycle, v. 1): NO 1. 1957 by Nancy Warren
In this story, two significant events in Canadian history intersect: the Rollout of the Avro Arrow on October 4, 1957, and the ongoing land claims of the First Nations Mississauga. Lois Michelsen is almost fourteen when she is uprooted from her...
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Enigma In Whitechapel
by Stephen A. Pease
Henry Bruce is a good man, a loving husband, and a doting father—but his one flaw puts himself and his family in grave danger. The year is 1888, and Henry lives a modest life with his wife and children in the notorious Tower Hamlets borough of...
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The Watch
by Neil D. Martin
Pyotr Yuzwenko is a man haunted by his past. Driven from his home by political unrest in Ukraine, orphaned at sea and sold into indentured labor in the Ottawa Valley, Pyotr becomes a man in the woods of northern Ontario. He finds love and family...
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The Fenian Season
A Canadian Historical Thriller by Jaroslav (Jerry) Petryshyn
This fast paced historical thriller takes place against the background of a rising Fenian movement in the United States and the overt hostility of Washington toward the ‘Canadas’ immediately after the American Civil War. The Fenian Brotherhood...
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Secrets of a Soldier
by Murray Dopking
Secrets of a Soldier explores the wartime history of one remarkable family through the dramatic story of Paul Bonenfant, a soldier in the Canadian Expeditionary Forces during World War One. Paul bravely serves in many brutal battles, including...
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And Ordered Their Estate
A Fictional Account of the Tolpuddle Martyrs by Sheelagh Green
Their wages had been reduced again! Struggling to keep their families on the meager wages paid to agricultural labourers in England in 1833, George Loveless, his brother James, brother-inlaw Thomas Stanfield, and friends founded a legal union,...
