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The Forrests

The Forrests
  • Author(s): Emily Perkins
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), Auckland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th century

Dorothy Forrest is immersed in the sensory world around her; she lives in the flickering moment. From the age of seven, when her odd, disenfranchised family moves from New York City to the wide skies of Auckland, to the...

The Fortunate Pilgrim

The Fortunate Pilgrim
  • Author(s): Mario Puzo
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

Before The Godfather and The Last Don, there was Puzo’s classic story about the loves, crimes and struggles confronted by one family of New York City immigrants living in Hell’s Kitchen. Fresh from the farms in Italy, Lucia Santa...

The Forty Rules of Love

The Forty Rules of Love
  • Author(s): Elif Shafak
  • Location(s): Türkiye (Turkey), Iraq, Massachusetts
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

“Every true love and friendship is a story of unexpected transformation. If we are the same person before and after we loved, that means we haven’t loved enough…” Ella Rubinstein has a husband, three teenage children, and a pleasant...

The Four Corners of the Sky

The Four Corners of the Sky
  • Author(s): Michael Malone
  • Location(s): North Carolina
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): late 20th century

In small towns between the North Carolina Piedmont and the coast the best scenery is often in the sky. On flat sweeps of red clay and scrub pine the days move monotonously, safely, but above, in the blink of...

The Four Winds

The Four Winds
  • Author(s): Kristin Hannah
  • Location(s): Texas, California
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1930s

She will discover the best of herself in the worst of times . . . Texas, 1934. Elsa Martinelli had finally found the life she’d yearned for. A family, a home and a livelihood on a farm on the...

The Fragments

The Fragments
  • Author(s): Toni Jordan
  • Location(s): Brisbane, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1980s, 1930s

Inga Karlson died in a fire in New York in the 1930s, leaving behind three things: a phenomenally successful first novel, the scorched fragments of a second book — and a mystery that has captivated generations of readers. Nearly...

The Free State of Jones

The Free State of Jones
  • Author(s): Victoria E Bynum
  • Location(s): Mississippi
  • Genre(s): Historical, Nonfiction
  • Era(s): 1863/1864 onwards

Between late 1863 and mid-1864, an armed band of Confederate deserters battled Confederate cavalry in the Piney Woods region of Jones County, Mississippi. Calling themselves the Knight Company after their captain, Newton Knight, they set up headquarters in the...

The Freedman

The Freedman
  • Author(s): Lars D H Hedbor
  • Location(s): North Carolina
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Revolutionary

Why fight to free a country that would never free him? Calabar was brought from Africa to North-Carolina as a boy and sold on the docks as chattel property to a plantation owner. On the plantation, he learned the...

The Friendly Persuasion

The Friendly Persuasion
  • Author(s): Jessamyn West
  • Location(s): Indiana
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1940

A quintessential American heroine, Eliza Birdwell is a wonderful blend of would-be austerity, practicality, and gentle humor when it comes to keeping her faith and caring for her family and community. Her husband, Jess, shares Eliza’s love of people...

The Frontiersman’s Daughter

The Frontiersman’s Daughter
  • Author(s): Laura Frantz
  • Location(s): Kentucky
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 18th century

Lovely but tough as nails, Lael Click is the daughter of a celebrated frontiersman. Haunted by her father’s former captivity with the Shawnee Indians, as well as the secret sins of her family’s past, Lael comes of age in...

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