Historical - General

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War Brides

Helen Bryan

With war threatening to spread from Europe to England, the sleepy village of Crowmarsh Priors settles into a new sort of normal: Evacuees from London are billeted in local homes. Nightly air raids become grimly mundane. The tighten...

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Published: Jun 2012

Gentlemen of the Road: A Tale of Adve...

Michael Chabon

Michael Chabon's Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, sprang from an early passion for the derring-do and larger-than-life heroes of classic comic books. Now, once more mining the rich past, Ch...

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Published: Sep 2008

The Scarlet Lion

Elizabeth Chadwick

A page-turning novel of honor, intrigue, treachery, and love, continuing the story of England's greatest knight of the Middle Ages, William Marshal. Bestselling author Elizabeth Chadwick, "an author who makes historical fiction c...

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Published: Mar 2010

The Empty Throne: A Novel (Saxon Tale...

Bernard Cornwell

This eighth entry in New York Times bestselling author Bernard Cornwell's epic Saxon Tales series brings to life the harrowing and turbulent tale of a nation torn apart by sectarian and religious strife, a political struggle dominated...

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Published: Jan 2016

To Be Queen of the Early Life of Elea...

Christy English

The author of The Queen's Pawn delves into the early life of the legendary Eleanor of Aquitaine in her new historical novel. After her father's sudden death, fifteen-year-old Eleanor is quickly crowned Duchess of Aquitaine and betrot...

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Published: Apr 2011

The Gods of Gotham

Lyndsay Faye

1845: New York City forms its first police force. The great potato famine hits Ireland. These two events will change New York City forever… Timothy Wilde tends bar, saving every dollar in hopes of winning the girl of his dreams. Bu...

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Published: Mar 2013

On a Highland Shore

Kathleen Givens

In an age when Norse invaders threaten Scottish civilization, one woman will defend her clan's honor and claim her own exceptional destiny.1263: As the Highland village of Somerstrath prepares for the joyous wedding of Margaret MacDon...

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Published: Jul 2006

The Queen's Vow of Isabella of Castil...

C. W. Gortner

C.W. Gortner's gripping novel follows young Isabella of Castile in her dramatic and turbulent ascent to power, transforming from the defiant, passionate daughter of an exiled widow into the famed warrior-queen who irrevocably changed ...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jun 2012

Where the Lost Wander: A Novel

Amy Harmon

In this epic and haunting love story set on the Oregon Trail, a family and their unlikely protector find their way through peril, uncertainty, and loss. The Overland Trail, 1853: Naomi May never expected to be widowed at twenty. Eage...

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Published: Apr 2020

Mistress of Mourning

Karen Harper

In a gripping historical novel of suspense and romance from the national bestselling author of The Queen's Governess, two women fight to defeat the enemies of the precarious Tudor monarchy by uncovering the secrets of the dead...div ...

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Published: Jul 2012

Dark Angels

Karleen Koen

An ambitious young woman, Alice Verney risks everything for pride and status as she deals with the political intrigues, private passions, shifting alliances, and social machinations of the Restoration court of King Charles II. By the ...

Abridged CD
Published: Sep 2006

The Queen's Lady

Barbara Kyle

London, 1527. Marry or serve: for Honor Larke, the choice is clear. Unwilling to perish of boredom as an obedient wife, she leaves the home of her ward, the brilliant Sir Thomas More, to attend Her Majesty, Queen Catherine of Aragon. ...

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Published: Aug 2008

A Spectacle of Corruption

David Liss

I sentence you, Mr. Weaver, to be hanged for the most horrible crime of murder.' Hearing that judicial decree, Benjamin Weaver--former pugilist, current 'thief-taker,' and future master of disguise--begins one of the sorriest days of ...

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Published: Nov 2004

A Christmas Garland

Anne Perry

DIV"[Anne] Perry's Victorian-era holiday mysteries [are] an annual treat," declared IThe Wall Street Journal. Perry continues this magnificent tradition with IA Christmas Garland, a yuletide tale set in exotic India. This ...

Unabridged CD
Published: Oct 2012

The Captive Queen of Scots

Jean Plaidy

A fictional portrait of the doomed Mary Stuart follows the beautiful, clever, and Catholic queen of Scotland from her return to a Protestant Scotland from France, through her disastrous marriages, to the intrigues and political machin...

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Published: Nov 2006

The Oracle Glass

Judith Merkle Riley

"Absorbing and arresting." —New York Times "Fascinating and factual." —Los Angeles Times "Chilly, witty, and completely engrossing ... great, good fun." — Kirkus Reviews "An outstanding histori...

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Published: Nov 2012

The Fire Kimono: A Thriller (Sano Ich...

Laura Joh Rowland

Japan, March 1700. The strife between Sano Ichiro, the samurai detective who has risen to power in the shogun's court, and his enemies has escalated to the brink of war.When a long-buried skeleton with mysterious links to the sho...

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Published: Sep 2009

Dreamers of the Day

Mary Doria Russell

"I suppose I ought to warn you at the outset that my present circumstances are puzzling, even to me. Nevertheless, I am sure of this much: My little story has become your history. You won't really understand your times until you ...

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Published: Dec 2008

Never Kiss a Rake

Anne Stuart

Anguished by death. Driven by revenge. Bryony Russell and her two sisters are left destitute by the disgrace and unexpected death of their father, a wealthy shipping magnate. He left a cryptic note, and Bryony is determined to find th...

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Published: Aug 2013

The Secret History: A Novel of Empres...

Stephanie Thornton

Where Theodora went, trouble followed…. In sixth-centuryConstantinople, one woman, Theodora, defied every convention and all the odds and rose from common theater tart to empress of a great kingdom, the most powerful woman the Roman...

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Published: Jul 2013

Restoration

Rose Tremain

The Booker shortlisted novel that "restored the historical novel to its rightful place of honor" (New York Times).Robert Merivel, son of a glove maker and an aspiring physician, finds his fortunes transformed when he is give...

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Published: Apr 2013

Willow Springs

Jan Watson

The year is 1883 and following a whirlwind courtship, seventeen-year-old Copper Brown finds herself living in the bustling city of Lexington, KY, far away from her beloved mountain home, newly married to a man she barely knows. Having...

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Published: Mar 2007

The Trouble with Highlanders

Mary Wine

After a night of intense passion, beautiful heiress Daphne MacLeod left Norris Sutherland without so much as a backward glance. Norris, the son of a very powerful Earl, is used to getting what he wants — and right now, he wants Daph...

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Published: Oct 2012

The Silver Music Box

Mina Baites

A captivating cross-generational novel from German author Mina Baites about a Jewish family divided by World War II and an inheritance with the power to bring them back together.1914. For Paul, with love. Jewish silversmith Johann Blu...

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Published: Dec 2017

The Trouble with Being a Duke: At the...

Sophie Barnes

The Trouble With Being a Duke by Sophie Barnes has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher.

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Published: Aug 2013

The Cavendon Women

Barbara Taylor Bradford

From blockbuster bestselling author Barbara Taylor Bradford comes a stunning saga of love and loyalty set in early twentieth-century England. Cavendon Hall is home to the aristocratic Inghams and the Swanns who serve them. But after t...

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Published: Dec 2015

Old Friends and New Fancies

Sybil G. Brinton

This is a reprint of the first sequel ever written to any of Jane Austen's books. It weaves favorite characters from all six of Jane Austen's novels into a riotous, but pleasurable story. As with all of Jane Austen's stories, this has...

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Published: Jul 2007

An Extraordinary Union

Alyssa Cole

"Richly detailed setting, heart-stopping plot, and unforgettable characters." —Deanna Raybourn, New York Times bestselling authorAs the Civil War rages between the states, a courageous pair of spies plunge fearlessly int...

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Published: Mar 2017

Rutherford

Elizabeth Cooke

Snow had fallen in the night, and now the great house, standing at the head of the valley,seemed like a five-hundred-year old ship sailing in a white ocean… For the Cavendish family, Rutherford Park is much more than a place to cal...

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Published: Jul 2013

Gallows Thief

Bernard Cornwell

In the cobbled streets outside Newgate Prison, the common and desperate of London gather regularly to enjoy the spectacle of human necks broken at the end of a hangman's rope.For Rider Sandman, newly returned from the Napoleonic Wars,...

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Published: May 2005
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