Historical fiction ‘F’ Authors

1. Little Sam Mountain - Charles C Fletcher

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There were many boys like John Dowdy who lived in the mountains and hollows of Western North Carolina. Little Sam Mountain was one of those hollows. This is the story of John Dowdy and his experiences during the Great Depression and World War II.

2. Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet - Jamie Ford

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Set in the ethnic neighborhoods of Seattle during World War II and Japanese American internment camps of the era, the times and places are brought [stirringly] to life (Jim Tomlinson, author of "Things Kept, Things Left Behind").

3. Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet A Novel (Large Print 16pt) - Jamie Ford

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1986, The Panama Hotel The old Seattle landmark has been boarded up for decades, but now the new owner has made a startling discovery in the basement: personal belongings stored away by Japanese families sent to interment camps during the Second World War. Among the fascinated crowd gathering outside the hotel, stands Henry Lee, and, as the owner unfurls a distinctive parasol, he is flooded by memories of his childhood. He wonders if by some miracle, in amongst the boxes of dusty treasures, lies a link to the Okabe family, and the girl he lost his young heart to, so many years ago. WITH OVER A MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE, THIS CAPTIVATING DEBUT IS A STORY OF THE SACRIFICES ONE BOY MAKES FOR LOVE AND FOR HIS COUNTRY.

4. Foxes Book of Martyrs (Large Print 16pt) - John Foxe

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For nearly two - thousand years courageous men and women have been tortured and killed because of their confessions of Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior.
This updated edition of Foxes Book of Martyrs contains stories of persecution up to 2001. Stories o

5. Wild Is the Wind - Adventures of Jean Paul DeBrosse - Richard Louis Federer

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6. The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion - Fannie Flagg

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Spanning decades, generations, and America in the 1940s and today, this book is a mystery about an Alabama woman today, and five women who worked in a Phillips 66 gas station during the World War II years.

7. The Kid on Slapton Beach - Felicity Fair Thompson

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War is hard enough when your dad is missing in action, and even harder when you have to leave everything you know and love. Twelve-year-old Harry is one of three thousand people leaving the coast in Devon during the Second World War as US troops move into the area, planning secret D-Day rehearsals on the beach there in April 1944. But what if your most treasured possession is left behind?