Fiction, Historical
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The Tree
by Paul Gregory
Borneo, 1943: The Japanese occupation has ravaged the island and its indigenous tribes. When an Australian bombing mission goes disastrously wrong, plane tactician John and his fellow soldiers crash deep in the jungle – straight into the...
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Two Nights in Berlin
by Patricia McDermott
“She always felt her mother was in some ways ‘borrowed’ from another country and culture, that she had an early life she never shared with her family.” When Anna travels to Berlin to scatter her mother’s ashes on the grave of her Jewish fiancé...
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A Time to Live
by Mary Burton Horne
Except for the baby stirring in her belly, Beth had never felt so utterly alone. Unmarried, pregnant by her fiancé—a World War II soldier who was killed in action before he ever learned he would be a father, and disowned by her parents, her...
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No Duppy in Our House
by Judy Fairbanks
In 1895, in the Dry Harbour Mountains of Jamaica, Emma Whorms lives a comfortable life with her carpenter husband and two young sons. Quite unconventional for her time, she is a contented mother and wife who serves her family and the Catholic...
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Pharaoh Hatshepsut
Moses' Other Mother by Jack A Taylor
Pharaoh Hatshepsut is the story of a young Egyptian princess who found a Hebrew baby in a basket on the Nile. She claims Moses as her own and hides him in the palace harem. Only her maids and her faithful architect Senenmut know of their true...
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The Implausible Journey of Fanny Wheeler
by Patricia Ann McKnight
A Woman’s Quest to Become a Doctor in the 1890s Seventeen-year-old Fanny Wheeler—a bright, small-town girl from Kansas—cannot fathom a life of cooking, cleaning, washing, and sewing. She needs more. She dreams of curing illness and preventing...
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His Majesty's Sailor and the Girl in the Blue Coat
by Michael D Gilston
It’s the fall of 1942, and the Second World War rages on. The skies above Britain and the oceans around her are a battleground: German bombers target cities like Liverpool and Crewe, while U-Boats and warships prowl the waters between England and...
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Quetzalcoatl
The Feathered Serpent by Sheonaid Kuchera
QUETZALCOATL: The Feathered Serpent is the origin myth of Mexico. In this story, Quetzalcoatl is driven out of Egypt by the deadly rage of his ambitious brother. He sails to the Yucatan and restarts life in a world recovering from a global...
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Collected Short Stories
2nd Edition by Sinai C. Hamada
No doubt the verdant mountain ranges, the mist and the cold are majestic backdrop providing much of the mystic for Hamada’s Collected Short Stories. But it is the hardy women and men, their refusal to be mere victims of nature or supposed...
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Leah
by Donald Granatstein
What happens when a family’s secret reveals a broader story of Jewish survival and loss? In Leah, a forgotten chapter of Toronto’s Jewish immigrant history comes to life. Nineteen-year-old Leah Granatstein arrived in Canada from Poland in the...
