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Historical Fiction June 2025 |
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George A. Newman’s novel about antebellum life in the Shenandoah Valley, composed in the mid-1870s and now in print for the first time nearly 150 years after its composition, with additional writing by Newman, along with several critical and contextual essays by Virginia-based scholars. |
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| My Name Is Emilia del Valle by Isabel AllendeRaised by her Irish former nun mother and a loving stepdad in San Francisco, Emilia del Valle never knows her Chilean aristocrat father. As a young journalist covering the Chilean Civil War of 1891, she begins a romance and also meets the father who abandoned her. Isabel Allende fans will relish reading about the del Valles, whose various members often appear in her work. |
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The Best We Could Hope for by Nicola KrausFrom a #1 New York Times bestselling author comes a novel about family, the weight of secrets, the choices we make and the repercussions of the decisions made for us.
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The boxcar librarian : a novel by Brianna LabuskesDuring the Great Depression, Works Progress Administration editor Millie Lang is sent to Montana to investigate sabotage at her project and uncovers a mystery surrounding Alice Monroe, her Boxcar Library, and the disappearance of librarian Colette Durand years earlier.
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| Austen at Sea by Natalie JennerSisters Henrietta and Charlotte, who adore Jane Austen's books, sail to England in 1865 to visit Jane's last surviving sibling, Frank. On board are two brothers who deal in rare books (also going to see Frank) and Henrietta's secret beau. Dramatic events on ship and in England see all their lives transformed in this evocative tale. |
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The sound of light : a novel by Sarah SundinIn WWII Denmark, when the Nazi Occupation cracks down on the Danes, American physicist Dr. Else Jensen and Baron Henrik Ahlefeldt, who has assumed a new identity to secretly ferry messages for the Danish Resistance to Sweden, must discover if there is more power in speech...or in silence.
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A mind of her own : a novel by Danielle SteelBorn in 1900s Paris, Alexandra's life is shattered by World War I and the Spanish Flu, leading her to a journalism career where she meets a fellow reporter battling his own losses, sparking a cautious yet powerful connection.
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The silver bone : a novel by Andreæi KurkovA perplexing mystery introduces rookie detective Samson Kolechko in Kyiv as he is tackling his first case, set against real life details of the tumultuous early 20th century.
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The buffalo hunter hunter
by Stephen Graham Jones
"A chilling historical horror novel set in the American west in 1912 following a Lutheran priest who transcribes the life of a vampire who haunts the fields of the Blackfeet reservation looking for justice. A diary, written in 1912 by a Lutheran pastor is discovered within a wall. What it unveils is a slow massacre, a chain of events that go back to 217 Blackfeet dead in the snow. Told in transcribed interviews by a Blackfeet named Good Stab, who shares the narrative of his peculiar life over a series ofconfessional visits. This is an American Indian revenge story written by one of the new masters of horror, Stephen Graham Jones"
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| Six Days in Bombay by Alka JoshiWhispers of independence swirl in 1930s Bombay, India, as young Anglo-Indian nurse Sona bonds with her latest charge, famous painter Mira Novak, who's also mixed race. After Mira dies, Sona is determined to honor her new friend's request: hand-delivering paintings to people in Prague, Florence, and Paris. |
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The echoes by Evie WyldAfter dying, Max becomes a reluctant ghost, observing his grieving girlfriend, Hannah, as she navigates her past and the secrets she fled from in Australia, revealing untold stories of love, grief, and the echoes of past events that shape their lives.
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Speak to me of home : a novel by Jeanine Cummins On her wedding day in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in 1968, Rafaela Acuäna y Daubâon has mild misgivings, but she marries Peter Brennan Jr. anyway in a blaze of romantic optimism. She has no way of knowing how dramatically her life will change when she uproots her young family to start over in the American Midwest, unleashing a fleet of disappointments. A striking, resonant examination of marriage, family, and identity, Speak to Me of Home is ultimately a story of mothers and daughters that asks: How can three women who share geography and genetics have such wildly different ideas of where they come from? And, more importantly, can they discover a common language to find their way back home?"
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