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Historical fiction

The Lady and the Unicorn

Tracy Chevalier

Fictional account of the lives the people from 15th-century France and Belgium who each played roles in the making of a famous tapestry.

Birds of a Feather

Jacqueline Winspear

Maisie Dobbs takes on a case to find a runaway heiress, but discovers complications leading back to the Great War when she realizes three of the heiress' friends have been murdered.

Sharpe's Prey : Richard Sharpe and the Expedition to Copenhagen, 1807

Bernard Cornwell

The Moor

Laurie R. King

When Sherlock Holmes is summoned to solve an eerie murder at Baskerville Hall, the research skills of his independent young wife enhance his already superior powers.

The Game

Laurie R. King

Mary Russell and her husband, Sherlock Holmes, travel to India to find Kim, the hero of Rudyard Kipling's novel.

Locked Rooms

Laurie R. King

While visiting San Francisco with her husband Sherlock Holmes, Mary Russell stumbles across a clue to a locked-room mystery.

The Book Thief

Markus Zusak

Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man the

Escape From Warsaw

Ian Serraillier

During 1942 in Warsaw, Edek shoots a Nazi Storm Trooper. Edek and his two sisters must escape from the secret police.

A Mind with Wings

Gerald Hausman

A fictional account of the life of the nineteenth-century philosopher and nature writer, Henry David Thoreau.

Copper Sun

Sharon M. Draper

Two fifteen-year-old girls--one a slave and the other an indentured servant--escape their Carolina plantation and try to make their way to Fort Moses, Florida, a Spanish colony that gives sanctuary to

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