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Author
Publisher
Writer's Digest Books
Pub. Date
©1997
Physical Desc
209 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A guide to writing and selling historical fiction, discussing a variety of topics including the different types of historicals, research, plot and character development, the integration of fictional people into historical settings, editing, and finding an agent.
Author
Publisher
A & C Black
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
xvi, 176 pages ; 15 cm.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Historical fiction is a hugely popular genre of fiction providing fictional accounts or dramatizations of historical figures or events. This guide depicts 100 of the finest novels published in this sector with a further 500 recommendations.
Author
Publisher
Redhook
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
437 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Louisa Morgan, author of A Secret History of Witches, returns with another riveting tale of family, witchcraft, and love that spans generations, set in Gilded Age New York and London. Harriet Bishop, descended from a long line of witches, uses magic to help women in need -- not only ordinary women, but also those with powers of their own. She must intervene when a distant cousin wields dangerous magic to change the lives of two unsuspecting young...
Author
Publisher
Blue River Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Second edition.
Physical Desc
249 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Historical fiction writers and historians are not the same. While a historian stands firmly planted in the present and looks back into the past, a historical novelist sets readers directly in the past and shows them forward. The job of a historical fiction writer is to make readers feel the victories and defeats, joys and pains, as if they were there. James Alexander Thom guides aspiring writers through the creation of historical fiction. He includes...
Author
Series
Publisher
Libraries Unlimited
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
xii, 152 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Hundreds of popular historical fiction titles are described and categorized according to their underlying features and under topics not found in the library catalog, such as women with true grit, greatest war stories, royalty rules, and quick reads.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The tumultuous twentieth century, told through the life of a single extraordinary woman
Rejected by a series of publishers, abandoned in a chest for twenty years, Goliarda Sapienza's masterpiece, The Art of Joy, survived a turbulent path to publication. It wasn't until 2005, when it was released in France, that this novel received the recognition it deserves. At last, Sapienza's remarkable book is available in English, in a brilliant translation...
Author
Publisher
Oryx Press
Pub. Date
1999
Physical Desc
xiv, 719 pages ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"Based on World historical guide by Daniel D. McGarry and Sarah Harriman White published 1973 by Scarecrow Press. This title annotates 'more than 6000 works ... Primary arrangement is by areas of the world, and then by time periods within each area.'" Booklist.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Heart of the Wilderness, young Kendra Marty goes to live with her grandfather after her parents die in a river accident. But what can a trapper living in the backwoods offer a small child? Will Kendra ever be ready to face the scary and confusing world far from the wilderness she loves?
Author
Publisher
Other Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From the award-winning author of The Order of the Day, a powerful account of the German Peasants' War (1524-25) that shows striking parallels to class conflicts of our time. In the sixteenth century, the Protestant Reformation launched an attack on privilege and the Catholic Church, but it rapidly became an established, bourgeois authority itself. Rural laborers and the urban poor, who were still being promised equality in heaven, began to question...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
From "a great and true voice of our time" (Washington Post Book World), comes this story of Proffy, a twelve-year-old living in Palestine in 1947. When Proffy befriends a member of the occupying British forces who shares his love of language and the Bible, he is accused of treason by his friends and learns the true nature of loyalty and betrayal. Translated by Nicholas de Lange.
Author
Series
Reckless brides novel volume 5
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
St. Martin's Paperbacks edition.
Physical Desc
375 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
The rules of courtship are swept out to sea when a shipwreck offers a Reckless Bride a true taste of paradise.
Author
Publisher
Other Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
132 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"February 20, 1933: on an unremarkable day during a harsh Berlin winter, a meeting of twenty-four German captains of industry and senior Nazi dignitaries is being held in secret in the plush lounges of the Reichstag. They are there to "stump up" funding for the accession to power of the National Socialist Party and its fearsome Chancellor. This inaugural scene sets the tone of consent which will lead to the worst possible repercussions. March 12,...
Author
Publisher
Stone Cabin Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
302 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In the fall of 1918 infantry sniper Joshua Hunter saves an ambushed patrol in the Bois le Pretre forest of Lorraine . . . and then vanishes. Pulled from the rubble of an enemy bunker days later, he receives an award for valor and passage home to Hadley, a remote hamlet in Virginia's western highlands. Reeling from war and influenza, Hadley could surely use a hero. Family and friends embrace him; an engagement is announced; a job is offered. Yet all...
Author
Publisher
Libraries Unlimited
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
xi, 410 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The pleasures of mystery novels and historical fiction double when the two genres meet in a single book. This detailed guide is the first to document and describe the diverse writings in the growing body of historical mystery literature. Its focus is on the best, most representative, and most current publications, with an emphasis on series novels. Most have been released in the past decade, with select classic historical mysteries also cited. Organized...
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