W. Peter Flaig Library

Historical Fiction

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Blood for Blood (Wolf By Wolf, #2)There would be blood. Blood for blood. Blood to pay. An entire world of it. For the resistance in the Third Reich, the war may be over, ...

Boxers (Boxers & Saints, #1)China, 1898. Bands of foreign missionaries and soldiers roam the countryside, bullying and robbing Chinese peasants. Little Bao has had ...

Brown Girl DreamingJacqueline Woodson, one of today's finest writers, tells the moving story of her childhood in mesmerizing verse. Raised in South Carolin...

Courting Mr. LincolnFrom the prizewinning author of Mr. Timothy and The Pale Blue Eye comes Courting Mr. Lincoln, the page-turning and surprising story of a ...

A Death-Struck YearA deadly pandemic, a budding romance, and the heartache of loss make for a stunning coming-of-age teen debut about the struggle to surviv...

Dreamland BurningSome bodies won’t stay buried. Some stories need to be told. When seventeen-year-old Rowan Chase finds a skeleton on her family’s proper...

Everything Else in the Universe In the midst of the Vietnam War, a young girl struggles to embrace change in this tender family story for fans of Cynthia Lord and Wen...

The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue (Montague Siblings, #1)Henry “Monty” Montague was born and bred to be a gentleman, but he was never one to be tamed. The finest boarding schools in England and ...

GrenadeA New York Times bestseller!It's 1945, and the world is in the grip of war.Hideki lives on the island of Okinawa, near Japan. When WWII c...

Kent StateAn exploration of one of the darkest moments in our history, when American troops killed four American students protesting the Vietnam Wa...

The Last Days of NightNew York, 1888. Gas lamps still flicker in the city streets, but the miracle of electric light is in its infancy. The person who controls...

The Librarian of AuschwitzBased on the experience of real-life Auschwitz prisoner Dita Kraus, this is the incredible story of a girl who risked her life to keep th...

Loving vs. VirginiaFrom acclaimed author Patricia Hruby Powell comes the story of a landmark civil rights case, told in spare and gorgeous verse. In 1955, i...

The Man in the High CastleIt's America in 1962. Slavery is legal once again. The few Jews who still survive hide under assumed names. In San Francisco, the I Ching...

Mapping the BonesThe year is 1942, and Chaim and Gittel, Polish twins, are forced from their beautiful home and made to live in the Lodz Ghetto. Their fam...

The Nickel BoysWinner of the 2020 Pulizer Prize for Fiction In this bravura follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning #1 New York...

The NightingaleIn love we find out who we want to be. In war we find out who we are. FRANCE, 1939 In the quiet village of Carriveau, Vianne Mauriac sa...

Night WitchesSixteen-year-old Valya knows what it feels like to fly. She’s a pilot who’s always felt more at home soaring through the sky than down on...

Orphan Monster Spy (Orphan Monster Spy, #1)A Jewish girl-turned-spy must infiltrate an elite Nazi boarding school in this highly commercial, relentlessly nail-biting World War II d...

Prisoner B-3087Survive. At any cost.10 concentration camps.10 different places where you are starved, tortured, and worked mercilessly.It's something no...

RefugeeThree different kids. One mission in common: ESCAPE. Josef is a Jewish boy in 1930s Nazi Germany. With the threat of concentration camp...

Saints (Boxers & Saints, #2)China, 1898. An unwanted and unwelcome fourth daughter, Four-Girl isn't even given a proper name by her family when she's born. She finds...

They Went LeftGermany, 1945. The soldiers who liberated the Gross-Rosen concentration camp said the war was over, but nothing feels over to eighteen-ye...

Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind Them AllThe unforgettable story of two young women—one living, one dead—dealing with loss, desire, and the fragility of the American dream during...

TrinityFrom the acclaimed author of Speak comes a kaleidoscopic novel about Robert Oppenheimer—father of the atomic bomb—as told by seven fictio...

The Underground RailroadCora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hell for all the slaves, but especially bad for Cora; an outcast even among he...

The Water DancerYoung Hiram Walker was born into bondage. When his mother was sold away, Hiram was robbed of all memory of her — but was gifted with a my...

What the Night SingsA teen Holocaust survivor, must come to terms with who she is and how to rebuild her life. After losing her family and everything she kn...

Wolf by Wolf (Wolf by Wolf, #1)Her story begins on a train. The year is 1956, and the Axis powers of the Third Reich and Imperial Japan rule. To commemorate their Grea...

Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1)England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the king dies without a male heir, the country could be destroyed by civil war. Hen...

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