Historical Fiction for Adults, Young and New Adults
(ALL = ages 12 and up)
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Yankee Tigress 1: Attorney-At-Law: In 1862, Samantha Lee apprentices to take the Maryland Bar exam to be the first female lawyer in the country. A staunch abolitionist from a plantation-owning family, her ambitions in jurisprudence are interrupted by the Civil War. She is torn between the decision to practice law and one of a more violent nature. This first novel in a series about women treading in areas of a society where men dared them to walk, is Roots meets To Kill a Mockingbird and “Me Too” meets “Black Lives Matter.” Adult = 18 and up.
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Yankee Tigress 2: Tiger Burning Bright: Samantha Lee trains for and goes to war as Union Captain Samuel Lee, a company commander in the Old-Line Regiment. Also an attorney, she is assigned a military case concerning a transgendered man caught impersonating a soldier on three occasions. The army wants to prosecute the imposter to the fullest extent of the law in a civilian court to discourage other “women” from doing the same. Explosions dominate in the courtroom as well as on the battlefield. Adult = 18 and up.
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Victorian Newspaper Princess 1: Irish Potato Famine: Victorian Newspaper Princess is “The Unsinkable Molly Brown” meets “The Grapes of Wrath” when self-emboldened American journalist Annie Adams butts heads with the Irish bureaucracy in 1846 while separating the political blight from the potato blight during the Irish Potato Famine. Suspicious that there is fraud afoot at the highest levels of the Irish government, she sets out on a journey from Dublin to Cork to witness the devastation and runs straight into love during a cholera epidemic. Adult = 18 and up.
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Newspaper Princess 2: Roaming Through the Grass: It’s 1854 and Newspaper Princess, Annie Adams, is assigned to be the second correspondent ever to report a war from the front lines (in Crimea). Her brother, Brent, is assigned to fight with the 13th Hussars with whom she manages to bivouac. She’s unaware the unit will be involved in the famous “Charge of the Light Brigade.” After meeting and aiding Nurse Florence Nightingale, she is captured and must live among the Russians in Sevastopol … a city soon to be under a year-long bombardment. Adult = 18 and up.
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In 1963, 16-year-old geek queen, Katina, seriously lacks self-esteem. A British foreign exchange student enters brightening her life. Her best friend, a fellow geek of many secrets in her Jewish background, shows her how red panties can make her feel feminine and powerful. Bathing in John Kennedy’s “Camelot” mystique, Katina is jolted from her infatuation by a resentful father, a bad day in Dallas, and the rumblings of an intensifying civil rights movement that bursts more than a few bubbles. New Adult Ages = 16 and up.
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Left With Her Memory: A sisterly bond is broken by the death of a mother and a new life with an unfamiliar stepfather. Two once-close teenage sisters attempt to adjust to their mother’s death five months after she remarries. One sister plows ahead determined to get along without her mother, while the other drowns in self-pity and crumbles over the dramatic changes in her life. Can they ever restore their sisterly bond, or are things changed forever? And what of the stepfather? Young Adult 12 and up. Some bad language.
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Jet: The Fly-Away Girl: Opal, a young black girl who prefers to be called Jet, has lost all stability after her father kills her mother and threatens Opal into silence. After her father leaves for a time, she becomes destitute. Desperate for a friendly human face, she quits school and takes to the streets. She happens upon children’s author Mr. Matheson, a sixtyish, white widower, who she attempts to befriend. (This novel is still in progress.) New adult = 16 and up.
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A Spitfire Girl in Queen Victoria’s Court “It will be very dull when I shall live only in trying to do, and to be, as other people like.” So says Molly Gibson in Elizabeth Gaskell’s 1865 novel “Wives and Daughters.” According to sixteen-year-old Charlotte, living in 1843 London: “I am my brothers’ big brother, Father’s candidate for a suitor, Albert Wedgeworth’s sensual play toy, Chandra Lancaster’s butt of all jokes, and Sheridan Breedlove’s object of control. I am always something for someone else and never anything for me!”
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