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Now We Shall Be Entirely Free

Andrew Miller

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By the Costa Award-winning author of PURE, a stunning historical novel with the grip of a thriller,...

Literary Fiction Historical Fiction

Where the Gulls Fall Silent

Lelita Baldock

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A small fishing village, a shunned healer, her daughter, tradition, superstition and a world set to...

Trigger Warnings: Adult themes mentioned sexual assault Historical Fiction

Heather Cranmer (2721 KP) created a post

Dec 15, 2021

The special guest author today on my blog is Florence Byham Weinberg with a fascinating interview. Learn more about her historical fiction novel BEFORE THE ALAMO: A TEJANA'S STORY, and enter the giveaway to win signed copies of that book and her other historical fiction novel APACE LANCE, FRANCISCAN CROSS.

https://alltheupsandowns.blogspot.com/2021/12/book-blog-tour-and-giveaway-before.html

**BOOK SYNOPSIS FOR BEFORE THE ALAMO**
Emilia Altamirano, half Otomí Indian, half pure Spanish, is born in 1814, the year after the Battle of the Medina River, where her father fought as an officer in the Mexican Royalist Army. She grows up in Bexar de San Antonio unacknowledged by her father, raised by her Otomí Indian mother, and “adopted” as an unofficial ward by José Antonio Navarro, hero of the Texas fight for independence from Mexico. She learns to read, write, and acts as a page for the Ayuntamiento (City Council). She learns nursing during a cholera epidemic and later tends the wounded on both sides during and after the Battle of the Alamo. She survives, but as a Tejana, Spanish-speaking, and a loyal citizen of Mexico, she faces an uncertain future.

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Paris Adrift

E. J. Swift

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The Time Machine meets Midnight in Paris. Determined to escape her old life, misfit and student...

Science Fiction Fantasy Time Travel Fiction Historical Fiction Adult

The Promise

Damon Galgut

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The Promise charts the crash and burn of a white South African family, living on a farm outside...

Literary Fiction Historical Fiction South Africa Apartheid Family Race

Leaving Everything Most Loved (Maisie Dobbs #10)

Jacqueline Winspear

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The death of an Indian immigrant leads Maisie Dobbs into a dangerous yet fascinating world and takes...

Mystery Historical > Historical Fiction Fiction Historical Mystery > Historical Mystery

Sam (74 KP) rated A Tudor Turk in Books

Mar 27, 2019

I fell in love with Will and Awa throughout the book and really felt a bond with the characters. I found it fascinating to read about the different historical events and I really think this is an interesting way to spread knowledge of history! I’d rather learn about history when it is mixed in with fiction than sit down with a textbook!

The novel is constantly exciting, and it kept me gripped right up until the end.

I really can’t wait to see how the story progresses in the second book!

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Lindsay (1717 KP) rated Wait...Wait for the Thunder in Books

Feb 15, 2018

This book is about Friendship. You also learn about ranching in that time. It about Luke and Ray and North Flat Ranch. There some Historical in the book.

It based on a true story with some fiction in it. I completley story. You learn somewhat what to do when in a thunderstorm. Though most of this book is about cattles and the lives of Luke McKeever and Ray. I really enjoyed this book and I was really would recommend it if you you enjoy Cowboys or Ranching and a bit of History.