Historical Fiction

The Swans of Fifth Avenue Melanie Benjamin

THE SWANS OF FIFTH AVENUE is a spectacular look at our state's bad boy of literature, Truman Capote. No library should be without this delicious novel that exposes the gossip and scandal Capote created with his betrayal of Manhattan's finest.

 

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Mistress of the Ritz Melanie Benjamin

MISTRESS OF THE RITZ is a fascinating and thrilling take on the true story of the husband and wife...

Nancy Swimmer: A Story of the Cherokee Nation Clyde Bolton

NANCY SWIMMER: A STORY OF THE CHEROKEE NATION is an historically accurate fictive account of the personal atrocities endured when the Cherokees were removed from their land during the Trail of Tears. We published this classic as Highland Press, and traveled with the author during some of his research visiting important...

Horse Geraldine Brooks

HORSE is a powerful story based on the historical facts surrounding one of the most remarkable thoroughbreds ever to run a race. This page-turner narrates its tale from before the Civil War up to the present. The reader is treated to glimpses of slavery, horse-trading, art, and moden day science. The odds are heavy...

Becoming Mrs. Lewis Patti Callahan

BECOMING MRS. LEWIS won the Christy Award for 2019 Book of the Year. This honor is given to the novel considered by the...

Surviving Savannah Patti Callahan

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Switchboard Soldiers Jennifer Chiaverini

SWITCHBOARD SOLDIERS is the untold story of America's young women who went to the battlefields of Europe in World War One to set up communication lines between General Pershing, his officers and the men in the trenches. Considering the restrictions on the lives of these gals at this time, their essential role in the...

The Postmistress of Paris Meg Waite Clayton

THE POSTMISTRESS OF PARIS is the haunting book that has captivated the nation. Based of the true life story of an American heiress who risked her life to smuggle artists and intellectuals out of occupied France, this page-turner follows the dangerous adventures that take place under the Nazi's noses. It is one of the...

Varina Charles Frazier

VARINA brings Charles Frazier's readers back to the devastation of Cold Mountain, but with a meticulously researched and beautifully written inside look at the wife of Jefferson Davis, and how she was forced to cope with a life she never imaged after meeting the wealthy planter as a teenager.

 

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Wherever There Is Light Peter Golden

WHEREVER THERE IS LIGHT is based on the true story of traditionally African-American colleges in the 1930s rescuing Jewish-German professors and bringing them to the United States to teach. One such fictionalized case is presented with the faculty member's son falling in love with the university president's daughter....