Historical Fiction
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Guy Vanderhaeghe is a Canadian historical fiction novelist and short story writer.
historical fiction
noun
Historical fiction is defined as movies and novels in which a story is made up but is set in the past and sometimes borrows true characteristics of the time period in which it is set.
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The following print fiction books can be found in the library online catalog by searching by title or searching the keywords such as African American Experience, slavery, civil rights movement racial profiling, and other keywords listed under the Keyword Development Page of this pathfinder.
A Mercy
In the 1680s the slave trade in the Americas is still in its infancy. Jacob Vaark is an Anglo-Dutch trader and adventurer, with a small holding in the harsh North. Despite his distaste for dealing in “flesh,” he takes a small slave girl in part payment for a bad debt from a plantation owner in Catholic Maryland. This is Florens, who can read and write and might be useful on his farm. Rejected by her mother, Florens looks for love, first from Lina, an older servant woman at her new master's house, and later from the handsome blacksmith, an African, never enslaved, who comes riding into their lives.
Classic
Fiction MOR
Beloved
Inspired by a true-life incident, this novel is set after the American Civil War and tells the story of a family of former slaves whose Cincinnati home is haunted by a malevolent spirit. Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She has too many memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. Years later, her new home is haunted by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved.
Fiction MOR
Sis Goose is a beloved member of Luli's family, despite the fact that she was born a slave. But the family is harboring a terrible secret. And when Union soldiers arrive on their Texas plantation to announce that slaves have been declared free for nearly two years, Sis Goose is horrified to learn that the people she called family have lied to her for so long. She runs away--but her newly found freedom has tragic consequences.
Fiction RIN
Amari's life was perfect until her village was invaded by slave traders, her family was brutally murderedas, and she was dragged away to a slave ship and sent to be sold in the Carolinas. There she was bought by a plantation owner and given to his son as a "birthday present". Now, survival is all Amari can dream about.
Fiction DRA
When Mariah and her young brother Zeke are suddenly freed from slavery, they join Sherman's march through Georgia. Mariah wants to believe that the brutalities of slavery are behind them, but there are many hardships yet to come. When she meets a free black named Caleb, Mariah dreams of a future worth living and the possibility of true love, but Mariah's dreams are threatened as the difficult march continues toward the churning waters of Ebenezer Creek.
Fiction BOL
In 1957, fifteen-year-old Dove, the daughter of a prosperous orange grower in Benevolence, Florida, feels increasingly uneasy after learning of acts of racism against the African American orange pickers by those close to her.
Fiction MCD
In 1920s Harlem, sixteen-year-old saxophonist Mark Purvis struggles to advance his jazz career while working as a gopher for the new African-American magazine, "The Crisis," and becoming involved with mobster Dutch Schultz.
Fiction MYE
In 1945, thirteen-year-old Levi is sent to find the father he has not seen in three years, going from Chicago, to segregated North Carolina, and finally to Pendleton, Oregon,where he learns that his father's unit, the all-Black 555th paratrooper battalion, will never see combat but finally has a mission.
Fiction PEA
Bobby and his family are visiting Civil War battlefields when an accident cuts their trip short. They return home on a bus and witness an incident that threatens to deny a black family seats. This book explores Jim Crow, racism, and segregation from multiple perspectives.
Fiction ABB
This book depicts the lives of African American women in early twentieth-century rural Georgia and broke the silence around domestic and sexual abuse, pain and struggle, companionship and growth, resilience and bravery. The story centers around Celie, a poor black woman whose letters tell the story of 20 years of her life, beginning at age 14 when she is being abused and raped by her father, was separted from her sister, continues over the course of her marriage to "Mister," a brutal man who terrorizes her.
Classic
Fiction WAL
Limited and persecuted by racial divides in 1962 Jackson, Mississippi, three women, including an African-American maid, her sassy and chronically unemployed friend, and a recently graduated white woman, team up to write a tell-all book about work as a black maid in the South that could forever alter their destinies and life in a small town.
Fiction STO
Seeds of AMerica Series
As the Revolutionary War begins, thirteen-year-old Isabel wages her own fight...for freedom. Promised freedom upon the death of their owner, she and her sister, Ruth, in a cruel twist of fate become the property of a malicious New York City couple, the Locktons, who have no sympathy for the American Revolution and even less for Ruth and Isabel. When Isabel meets Curzon, a slave with ties to the Patriots, he encourages her to spy on her owners, who know details of British plans for invasion. She is reluctant at first, but when the unthinkable happens to Ruth, Isabel realizes her loyalty is available to the bidder who can provide her with freedom.
Fiction AND
