Book Events for MicheleSchwartz

1870s

• The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

19th century

• Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
• The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

American Civil War

• Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Bataan Death March

• The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel (P.S.) by Barbara Kingsolver

Battle of Hogwarts

• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Book 7) by J. K. Rowling

Battle of Pavia

• Ines of My Soul LP: A Novel by Isabel Allende (1525)

Battle of the Department of Mysteries

• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Book 5) by J. K. Rowling (1995)

Bonfire of Vanities

• The Birth of Venus: A Novel by Sarah Dunant (the original)

California Gold Rush

• Daughter of Fortune: A Novel (P.S.) by Isabel Allende (1848–1855)

Chilean Coup

• The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende (1973)

Christmas

• Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Cold War

• The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel (P.S.) by Barbara Kingsolver

Cultural Revolution

• Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress: A Novel by Dai Sijie

Dust Bowl Era

• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

Execution of Joan of Arc

• Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism by Marina Warner (1431-05-30)

Great Depression

• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
• Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (1930s)

Holocaust

• Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally (1945)

Hundred Years' War

• Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism by Marina Warner (1453)

Invention of chronometer

• Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time by Dava Sobel

Italian Renaissance

• The Birth of Venus: A Novel by Sarah Dunant

Mexican Revolution

• Like Water For Chocolate by Laura Esquivel (1910-1920)

Pinochet regime

• The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende

Reformation

• Witchcraze: A New History of the European Witch Hunts by Anne L. Barstow (1648)

Renaissance

• The Birth of Venus: A Novel by Sarah Dunant

Rumble in the Jungle

• The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel (P.S.) by Barbara Kingsolver

Second Wave Feminism

• The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan

Siege of Orléans

• Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism by Marina Warner (1429)

Spanish Inquisition

• Ines of My Soul LP: A Novel by Isabel Allende

Taiping Rebellion

• Snow Flower and the Secret Fan: A Novel by Lisa See (1864)

The Tri-Wizard Tournament

• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Book 4) by J.K. Rowling

Valdivia earthquake

• The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende (1960-05-22)

Witch Trials

• Witchcraze: A New History of the European Witch Hunts by Anne L. Barstow (1750)

World Trade Center attack

• The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

World War II

• The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel (P.S.) by Barbara Kingsolver
• Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally (1945)