Books like The arm and the darkness by Taylor Caldwell

In a futuristic society, a twelve‑year‑old boy named Jonas is chosen to receive the memories of a secret reservoir held by The Giver, a mentor in a seemingly utopian world.

Charles Dickens’ landmark historical novel, set in London and Paris during the French Revolution, follows Doctor Manette’s 18‑year imprisonment, his release, and his reunion with daughter Lucie amid looming terror.

During World War II, a foster girl in Nazi Germany steals books to share with neighbors and a hidden Jewish man, proving literature’s power to nourish the soul amid darkness.

John Steinbeck's sweeping family saga set in California's Salinas Valley, spanning generations of the Trask and Hamilton families as they confront the struggle between good and evil, with biblical echoes of Cain and Abel.

A 1930s wartime tale of a blind French girl and a German boy whose lives intersect in occupied France, weaving themes of survival, friendship, and the moral choices people make amid World War II.

Victor Hugo’s historical epic follows peasant Jean Valjean, unjustly imprisoned and pursued by the relentless inspector Javert, exploring themes of justice, redemption, and the social conditions of 19th-century France.

Sisters Vianne and Isabelle are pulled into the turmoil of World War II, each forging a path of courage and resistance against the Nazi occupation of France.

Hidden Figures tells the true story of four African‑American mathematicians—Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, and Christine Darden—who broke barriers at NASA’s Langley Research Center, proving that talent, not race or gender, powers scientific progress.

A small‑town pastor and a skeptical reporter uncover a New Age conspiracy that threatens humanity, forcing them into the battle between unseen spiritual forces as described in Ephesians 6:12.

A Catholic priest, scarred by his past, navigates early 1930s Mexico while the church faces persecution, providing aid to impoverished peasants under the threat of ruthless police and betrayal.

At a London boarding school for young ladies, Sophronia learns that proper etiquette masks a curriculum of espionage, intrigue, and mechanical tinkering.

A sweeping alternate history epic of the Second Civil War, featuring characters like Abraham Lincoln and Stonewall Jackson, and a thrilling clash of ideas and ideals across the United States' frontier wilderness.

In 1946 Clanton, a respected war hero and farmer, Pete Banning commits the shocking murder of Reverend Dexter Bell—and says nothing. The case becomes the county’s most baffling crime.

A time-travel adventure in the Infinity Ring series for young readers, as best friends fix a mutiny on the Santa María ship in 1520 AD.

A 17-year-old time traveler from the present finds herself sent to 1945, where her grandfather's stories of the Montauk Project are real and she needs a time traveler to return to her own time.

When her husband is presumed lost at sea, Lara Hawksworth’s cold marriage is shattered—and replaced by a tender, dangerous lover who claims to be her missing husband.

Thirteen‑year‑old Jonah and eleven‑year‑old Katherine are whisked back in time to 1918 Russia, arriving as the Romanov family faces their fated execution.

Jake is a journalist in a post-World War II Berlin trying to solve the mystery of a murder and the disappearance of a scientist.

A mysterious disappearance in Victorian London leads to a race against time to uncover a terrible conspiracy that could topple the British Empire.

The Paradox Men, a speculative science‑fiction work by Charles L. Harness, blends time travel, history, and philosophical questions surrounding humanity’s future and its mythic and scientific impulses.

The surprising and controversial thesis of Feminist Fabulation is unflinching: the postmodern canon has systematically excluded a wide range of important women's writing by dismissing it as genre fiction. Marleen Barr issues an urgent call for a corrective, for the recognition of a new meta- or supergenre of contemporary writing - feminist fabulation - which includes both acclaimed mainstream works and works which today's critics consistently denigrate or ignore. In its investigation of the relationship between women writers and postmodern fiction in terms of outer space and canonical space, Feminist Fabulation is a pioneer vehicle built to explore postmodernism in terms of female literary spaces which have something to do with real-world women. Branding the postmodern canon as a masculinist utopia and a nowhere for feminists, Barr offers the stunning argument that feminist science fiction is not science fiction at all but is really metafiction about patriarchal fiction. Barr's concern is directed every bit as much toward contemporary feminist critics as it is toward patriarchy. Rather than trying to reclaim lost feminist writers of the past, she suggests, feminist criticism should concentrate on reclaiming the present's lost fabulative feminist writers, writers steeped in nonpatriarchal definitions of reality who can guide us into another order of world altogether. Barr offers very specific plans for new structures that will benefit women, feminist theory, postmodern theory, and science fiction theory alike. Feminist fabulation calls for a new understanding which enables the canon to accommodate feminist difference and emphasizes that the literature called "feminist SF" is an important site of postmodern feminist difference. Barr forces the reader to rethink the whole country club of postmodernism, not just its membership list - and in so doing provides a discourse of this century worthy of a prominent reading by all scholars, feminists, writers, and literary theorists and critics.

A young heroine faces a stunning defeat in a divine war, must trust an unlikely foe and venture into the Underworld to free a dangerous god, risking everything to protect her world.

The novelist Maurice Bendrix's love affair with his friend's wife, Sarah, had begun in London during the Blitz. But, out of the blue she ended the relationship. Years later he sends a private detective to follow Sarah and find out the truth.

A bodyguard's new assignment turns a woman's life upside down.