Historical

Trying to ignore the stinging welts on his back, Ranofer goes about his dull work at the gold shop. Plagued by his older half-brother and guardian Gebu, Ranofer, a boy of 11, tries to make a living in the harsh city streets of Egypt. Seeking his life dream, to be the apprentice of the...
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       Elizabeth Holland is the “Golden Girl” of the elite Manhattan crew in 1899. To the public eye, she is perfect; the sun seems to shine from her very eyes. But if you look closer and dig deeper, not everything is as it seems.         Elizabeth’s family’s once endless fortune is withering away, her...
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A normal life suddenly turns to disaster as Hadassah’s world falls apart. Her father is murdered, her mother and younger sister starve to death and her brother is stabbed to death in front of her very eyes. Hadassah is taken from Jerusalem the only home she has ever known,  and sold in Rome to...
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“Now it’s my turn to watch over you,” young Michael Stolowitzky, aged beyond his years, vows to his adoptive mother, Gertruda Bablinska, the only family he has left. It is a time of desolation, desperation, and death in Europe, 1939. It is the beginning of World War II; it is the time of the...
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6,000 years in the past, tribal clans roam the forest, frozen plains, and isolated islands. Legends, rituals and customs change the course of their everyday lives; this is the world that Torak is born into. For nearly his whole life Torak was kept away from any civilization, learning tracking from his father. The only...
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Positioned in a place where the ambitious thrive, and the weak fail, Mary Boleyn is forced to live at court, where nothing is her choice and to disobey what she is told to do would be the end of her. Among these rivalries is her dear sister Anne, who although is and will always...
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When Cece’s father dies, she is left confused and hurt. Her father had always helped run away slaves, yet he was always mean to her, his own daughter. After his funeral, she is sent to live with her Uncle Alex and his wife. Her Uncle Alex is very kind to her and she is...
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In the story, Before we were Free, by Julia Alvarez, almost all of Anita’s relatives have emigrated to the United States, her family being the only ones left in the Dominican Republic. Her Uncle, Tio Toni has disappeared and nobody has heard from him in several months. After the last of her relatives have...
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In the Story, Behind Rebel Lines, by Seymour Reit, Emma Edmonds, a brave 21-year-old girl, enrolls in the army dressed as man, knowing her life may be at risk. For several weeks Emma cares for the sick and the wounded as a nurse in a tent hospital on the battlefield. When she hears about...
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Experience life during in 1861 in Richard Peck’s, The River Between Us, where a young boy discovers his father’s past, but then the book switches gears to tell the story he is hearing, as if it were happening right then. Tilly Pruitt and her family are in for an unpredictable and life-changing year, When...
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