Fiction, Historical
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Paper Bird
An English Childhood of the Great Depression by Jan Truss
Paper Bird is a collection of childhood memories from award-winning author Jan Truss. Born in 1925 in Stoke-on-Trent, England, by the time Jan was six years old the Great Depression had arrived, forever altering her life. These stories are a...
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Dutch Fred
Immigrant by Carolyn Rohrbaugh
Frederick Wilhelm Feldman was born in the town of Bunde, Prussia (modern eastern Germany) in 1827. His desire for freedom and land to own in America tortured him long before he married Wilhelmine and their daughter, Marie Sophie, was born....
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A Man in the Mask
by Charles Young
In 1876 Heinrich Schliemann stunned the world with his announcement that he had discovered the tomb of Agamemnon in Mycenae, Greece. My grandfather, a refugee from Cyprus worked for Schliemann. Among the dignitaries from all countries that...
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The Bearer's Burden
by Diana Elizabeth Jones
It’s 1915. WW1 has been raging for six months. Twenty-three year old miner Joe Mathieson lives in a small community on the east coast of Fife, Scotland. His life is joyless, his future bleak. Unlike his older brother, Fred, who enlisted in the...
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From This Valley
by Murray Harvey
The year is 1876, and Trooper Ryan Price Meade is a deserter from the US Army 7th Cavalry Regiment who strikes north, fleeing the Montana Territory just as Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer closes in on Little Bighorn. A deeply troubled young man,...
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Amanda's Choice
by Rose Flowers
Amanda seems to have it all, beauty, brains, confidence and high goals. When a handsome rich Senator's son sweeps her off her feet and asks her to marry him she is at first reluctant but his charm and love for her wins her over. Their lives are...
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Amanda's Choice
by Rose Flowers
Amanda seems to have it all, beauty, brains, confidence and high goals. When a handsome rich Senator's son sweeps her off her feet and asks her to marry him she is at first reluctant but his charm and love for her wins her over. Their lives are...
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Prairie Grass and Other Leaves
Short Stories from the Midwest Plains by Laurel Means
Midwest prairie grass has many leaves and many moods, and each of the sixteen short stories of this collection graphically conveys the challenge, pathos, and beauty evoked by that dramatic setting. “Prairie Voices” speaks through the voices of...
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Toronto's Last Rainbow
by Margaret Blair
Toronto’s Last Rainbow paints a nostalgic portrait of Toronto in a bygone era from the point of view of one central neighbourhood. It catches the spirit of the times just ahead of the feminist era. With poignancy and humour it follows an amazing...
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The Perfect Rose
by Ann Renee
This book is a historical romance between two strangers, a young woman and a young man meet in the City of Paris, just starting life’s journey. The struggles, life’s experiences and long separations from each other take them different directions....
