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Historical Books that Evoke Familiar Feelings


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“Humans are not ideally set up to understand logic; they are ideally set up to understand stories. ~ Roger C. Shank, Cognitive Scientist

Bio: Cheryl King is a dyslexia therapist and author of teen historical fiction Sitting on Top of the World, a 2022 Eric Hoffer YA winner, First Horizon winner, and Grand Prize finalist. She is working on a sequel and enjoying various flash fiction contests. Readers can learn more at https://CherylKingWritesThings.com.

Cheryl’s website: https://cherylkingwritesthings.com/

Cheryl’s second book, Under the Pawpaw Trees, both books available at, Amazon, Apple books, Barnes and Noble, Walmart, Bookshop.com, and her website.

Book narrator, Whitney Dykhouse

ACX, an Audible company

NYC Midnight Flash Fiction

Eric Hoffer Book Awards, for Small, Academic, and Independent Press

The Space Between Time, Lucinda Sage-Midgorden on Apple Books

Sunflowers Beneath the Snow, Teri M. Brown, novel about Ukraine, Story-Power episode 67, 1/25/23

Steampunk, according to Wikipedia, Sci-fi stories which “features anachronistic technologies or retrofuturistic inventions as the people in the 19th century might have envisioned them.”

The Invisible Library, Genevieve Cogman, book on of the series.

Embers at Galdrilene(Dragon’s Call series book 1) A. D. Trosper, She has other series as well. Story-Power episode 28, 8/4/21, “Dragons are Good”

Quest of the Dreamwalker, (Corthan Legacy book 1) Stacy Bennett, Story-Power episode 29, 8/18/21, “Writing is Better with a Buddy”

Ivan Bodley, Story-Power episode 35 11/10/21, “Am I Famous Yet?”

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