Goodreads Release date: July 22, 2025 Publisher: Gallery Genre: Historical Fiction Synopsis: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo meets The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel in this enchanting novel about estranged lovers reconnecting over mysterious tapes found in an attic and the old Hollywood secret hidden within them. After her grandmother’s death, thirty-something Margot DuBois prepares to sell the house … Continue reading The One and Only Vivian Stone by Melissa O’Connor
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Broken Country by Clare Leslie Hall
Goodreads Release date: March 4, 2025 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Genre: Mystery, Historical Synopsis: “The farmer is dead. He is dead and all anyone wants to know is who killed him.” When her brother-in-law shoots a dog going after their sheep, Beth doesn’t realize that the gunshot will alter the course of their lives. For … Continue reading Broken Country by Clare Leslie Hall
Polite Calamities by Jennifer Gold
Goodreads Release date: July 23, 2024 Publisher: Lake Union Genre: Historical Fiction Synopsis: In a hazy 1960s Rhode Island summer, three disparate lives converge and combust in this riveting story of the empowerment women find in friendship, solidarity, and rage, from the author of Halfway to You. Winifred is blunt, opinionated, and outrageously colorful. In a … Continue reading Polite Calamities by Jennifer Gold
Truths I Never Told You by Kelly Rimmer
Goodreads|Amazon Release date: April 14, 2020 Publisher: Graydon House Genre: Historical Fiction Blurb: With her father recently moved to a care facility for his worsening dementia, Beth Walsh volunteers to clear out the family home and is surprised to discover the door to her childhood playroom padlocked. She’s even more shocked at what’s behind it—a … Continue reading Truths I Never Told You by Kelly Rimmer
Big Lies in a Small Town by Diane Chamberlain
Goodreads|Amazon Release date: January 14, 2020 Publisher: St. Martin's Genre: Historical Fiction Blurb: North Carolina, 2018: Morgan Christopher's life has been derailed. Taking the fall for a crime she did not commit, she finds herself serving a three-year stint in the North Carolina Women's Correctional Center. Her dream of a career in art is put … Continue reading Big Lies in a Small Town by Diane Chamberlain
Rouge by Richard Kirshenbaum
Goodreads|Amazon Release date: June 25, 2019 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Genre: Historical Fiction Blurb: Rouge is a sexy, glamorous journey into the rivalry of the pioneers of powder, mascara and rouge. This fast-paced novel examines the lives, loves, and sacrifices of the visionaries who invented the modern cosmetics industry: Josiah Herzenstein, born in a Polish Jewish … Continue reading Rouge by Richard Kirshenbaum
Summer of 69 by Elin Hilderbrand
Goodreads|Amazon Release date: June 18, 2019 Publisher: Little Brown Genre: Fiction, Historical Fiction Blurb: Welcome to the most tumultuous summer of the twentieth century! It's 1969, and for the Levin family, the times they are a-changing. Every year the children have looked forward to spending the summer at their grandmother's historic home in downtown Nantucket: … Continue reading Summer of 69 by Elin Hilderbrand
Park Avenue Summer by Renee Rosen
Goodreads Release date: April 30, 2019 Publisher: Berkley Genre: Historical Fiction Blurb: Mad Men meets The Devil Wears Prada as Renée Rosen draws readers into the glamour of 1965 New York City and Cosmopolitan Magazine, where a brazen new Editor-in-Chief--Helen Gurley Brown--shocks America by daring to talk to women about all things off limits... New … Continue reading Park Avenue Summer by Renee Rosen
The Things We Cannot Say by Kelly Rimmer
Goodreads|Amazon Release date: March 19, 2019 Publisher: Graydon House Genre: Historical Fiction Blurb: In 1942, Europe remains in the relentless grip of war. Just beyond the tents of the Russian refugee camp she calls home, a young woman speaks her wedding vows. It’s a decision that will alter her destiny…and it’s a lie that will … Continue reading The Things We Cannot Say by Kelly Rimmer
The Last Year of the War by Susan Meissner
Goodreads|Amazon Release date: March 19, 2019 Publisher: Berkley Genre: Historical Fiction Blurb: Elise Sontag is a typical Iowa fourteen-year-old in 1943--aware of the war but distanced from its reach. Then her father, a legal U.S. resident for nearly two decades, is suddenly arrested on suspicion of being a Nazi sympathizer. The family is sent to … Continue reading The Last Year of the War by Susan Meissner
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