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Browse historical fiction novels available at MPHPL
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Hope on the Plains
by Linda Byler
Hannah, a feisty young Amish woman, lives on her family's farm in North Dakota. After moving halfway across the country and struggling to land on their feet, Hannah's family is finally feeling settled. Jerry Riehl, intrigued by her intelligence and strong will, will try anything to earn Hannah's respect. Just as the local Amish community begins to thrive, a terrible drought befalls the plains. Hannah's family tries to remain hopeful, but the continuing drought and a windmill fire devastate their business and the community. Running out of options, the Amish families decide to move back to Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Hannah is faced with difficult decisions: Should she stay in North Dakota or follow the others to Lancaster? Does Jerry deserve her trust?
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Past Perfect
by Danielle Steel
An abrupt job relocation that takes them from their well-ordered Manhattan life to San Francisco triggers a collision between the past and present for a successful married couple who during a small earthquake experience visions of their new home's original inhabitants from a century earlier. By the best-selling author of Blue. (romance). Simultaneous.
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The it girls : a novel
by Karen Harper
Promoting themselves from genteel poverty to fame, two beautiful sisters, one a daring fashion designer and the other a writer of scandalous novels, become each other's most staunch supporter and harshest critic in the face of misunderstandings and confidences. By the award-winning author of Dark Angel. 25,000 first printing.
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The ballad of Black Bart
by Loren D Estleman
The four-time Shamus Award-winning author of Cape Hell depicts the suspenseful Old West rivalry between a legendary Wells Fargo chief of detectives and a notorious stagecoach robber who between heists poses as an upper-class San Francisco gentleman.
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The ninth hour
by Alice McDermott
A portrait of the Irish-American experience is presented through the story of an Irish immigrant's suicide and how it reverberates through innumerable lives in early 20th-century Catholic Brooklyn. By the National Book Award-winning author of Charming Billy.
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City of lies
by Victoria Thompson
Using her guile to relieve so-called respectable men of their ill-gotten gains, a woman on the run hides among a group of privileged women and bonds with an honest man while outmaneuvering a nemesis who blames her for his losses, in a debut entry of a new series by the best-selling author of the Gaslight Mysteries.
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Moon hunt
by W. Michael Gear
Journeying to Cahokia to become the sacrificial promised bride of the Morning Star, Whispering Dawn, a woman carrying dark secrets and powers, is carried away to the Underworld, where she must rescue captured souls at the side of an embittered Fire Cat.
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Secrets of Cavendon
by Barbara Taylor Bradford
A latest entry in the Cavendon Hall saga is set in the summer of 1949, when a new generation of the estate is torn by scandal, intrigue and romantic betrayals that force the Inghams and Swanns to protect each other from unimaginable threats. By the best-selling author of Secrets from the Past.
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The shadow district : a thriller
by Arnaldur Indriðason
Investigating the murder of a 90-year-old man, a retired detective discovers unsettling links between the victim, the World War II case of a strangled woman and a pair of attacks that suggest the wrong man may have been arrested decades earlier. By the award-winning author of Silence of the Grave.
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The other Einstein : a novel
by Marie Benedict
A tale inspired by the first wife of Albert Einstein follows the experiences of Mitza Mari, a female physics student at an elite late-nineteenth-century school in Zurich, where she falls in love with a charismatic fellow student who eclipses her contributions to his theory of relativity
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