Historical fiction genre books (1709)
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Once Were Warriors by Alan Duff EN
Country: Oceania / 
New Zealand
New Zealand
Description:
Life as a Maori in present day New Zealand, chronicling their poverty, their alcoholism and their despair. The narrator is a Maori woman who has nothing but contempt for Maori men--warriors who degenerated into lazy bums.
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One Corpse Too Many by Ellis Peters EN
EnglandDescription:
An ingenious killer disposes of a strangled corpse on a battlefield. Brother Cadfael discovers the body, and must then piece together disparate clues--including a girl in boy's clothing, a missing treasure and a single flower--to expose a murderer's black heart.
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One Day Of Life by Manlio Argueta EN
Country: North America / 
El Salvador
El Salvador
Description:
Celebrated for the authenticity of its vernacular style and the incandescence of its lyricism, One Day of Life depicts a typical day in the life of a peasant family caught up in the terror and corruption of civil war in El Salvador. 5:30 A.M. in Chalate, a small rural town: Lupe, the grandmother of the Guardado family and the central figure of the novel, is up and about doing her chores. By 5:00 P.M. the plot of the novel has been resolved, with the Civil Guard's search for and interrogation of Lupe's young granddaughter, Adolfina. Told entirely from the perspective of the resilient women of t... continue
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Country: Asia / 
South Korea
South Korea
Description:
During the Pacific War, more than 200,000 Korean girls were forced into sexual servitude for Japanese soldiers. They lived in horrific conditions in “comfort stations” across Japanese-occupied territories. Barely 10 percent survived to return to Korea, where they lived as social outcasts. Since then, self-declared comfort women have come forward only to have their testimonies and calls for compensation largely denied by the Japanese government. Kim Soom tells the story of a woman who was kidnapped at the age of thirteen while gathering snails for her starving family. The horrors of her life as... continue
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Only the Stones Never Die by Padraig McLoughlin EN
IrelandDescription:
On the 14th June 1894, about 400 people, many of them teenagers, were about to set off for Scotland to work picking potatoes. An annual event, the young people would travel to the west of Scotland to stay and work for up to six months. That year, it is believed that a greater number of first-timers were travelling, due to a poor potato harvest at home the previous year, and the families desperately needed their income. As the large wooden-hulled sailing boat approached Westport Quay, its passengers caught their first sight of the large steamer, which would take them to Scotland. They rushed to... continue
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Only This Beautiful Moment by Abdi Nazemian EN
IranDescription:
2019. Moud is an out gay teen living in Los Angeles with his distant father, Saeed. When Moud gets the news that his grandfather in Iran is dying, he accompanies his dad to Tehran, where the revelation of family secrets will force Moud into a new understanding of his history, his culture, and himself. 1978. Saeed is an engineering student with a promising future ahead of him in Tehran. But when his parents discover his involvement in the country's burgeoning revolution, they send him to safety in America, a country Saeed despises. And even worse— he's forced to live with the American grandmoth... continue
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Only Time Will Tell by Jeffrey Archer EN
Description:
Ambitious and addictive, Only Time Will Tell is the first novel in Jeffrey Archer's The Clifton Chronicles, beginning the epic tale of Harry Clifton, a working-class boy from the docks of Bristol. It is 1920, and against the backdrop of a world ravaged by conflict, Harry's story begins with the words 'I was told that my father was killed in the war'. Harry's existence is defined by the death of his father and he seems destined to a life on the docks until a remarkable gift wins him a scholarship to an exclusive boys school and entry into a world he could never have envisaged. Over the course o... continue
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Oraşul cu fete sărace by Radu Tudoran RO
RomaniaDescription:
De la debutul său nuvelistic în 1938 (în revista Azi), confirmat în suita de proze basarabene "Oraşul cu fete sărace" (1940), această continuă alternanţă de violenţă, candoare, senzualitate exasperată şi dezarmare în faţa biologicului se traduce într-o paletă de culori crude, unde ironia şi disperarea se unesc în acelaşi strigăt. Rezultatul e o dureroasă afecţiune pentru eroii proprii, înlănţuiţi în tristeţea unei priviri care-i ştie cât sunt de singuri şi de lipsiţi de apărare într-o lume unde e prea puţin loc pentru bucuri... continue
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Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger EN
Country: North America / 
United States of America
United States of America
Description:
Includes an excerpt from William Kent Krueger's "This tender land."
870.
Orlando : A Biography by Virginia Woolf EN
Description:
Orlando doubles as first an Elizabethan nobleman and then as a Victorian heroine who undergoes all the transitions of history in this novel that examines sex roles and social mores.