Historical - General

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Midnight in Europe: A Novel

Alan Furst

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERParis, 1938. As the shadow of war darkens Europe, democratic forces on the Continent struggle against fascism and communism, while in Spain the war has already begun. Alan Furst, whom Vince Flynn has called &q...

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Published: Mar 2015

The Scottish Prisoner (Lord John)

Diana Gabaldon

Includes a preview of the new novel in the Outlander series."This could be the worthy Lord John Grey's breakout novel, as readers are treated to large dollops of Outlander hero Jamie Fraser. . . . The strong chemistry between the...

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Published: May 2012

The Battle of the Crater

Newt Gingrich

New York Times bestselling authors Newt Gingrich and William R. Forstchen take readers to the center of a nearly forgotten confrontation, shedding light on the tragic errors and unexpected heroism of one epic Civil War battleground Ju...

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Published: May 2012

Valley Forge

Newt Gingrich

In To Try Men's Souls, New York Times bestselling authors Newt Gingrich and William R. Forstchen cast a new light on the year 1776 and the man who would become the father of our nation, George Washington. Valley Forge picks up the nar...

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Published: Sep 2011

Band of Sisters

Cathy Gohlke

Maureen O'Reilly and her younger sister flee Ireland in hope of claiming the life promised to their father over twenty years before. After surviving the rigors of Ellis Island, Maureen learns that their benefactor, Colonel Wakefield, ...

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Published: Sep 2012

Mistress of the Sun

Sandra Gulland

The author of the internationally acclaimed Josephine Bonaparte trilogy returns with another irresistible historical novel, this one based on the life of Louise de la Vallière, who, against all odds, became one of the most mysterious...

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Published: Apr 2009

Close Quarters

Larry Heinemann

Philip Dosier views and participates in the skirmishes, battles, noise, obscenities, marijuana highs, battlefield racism, spirit of atrocity, and other ingredients of the war in Vietnam and returns home to make his own peace on the ba...

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Published: May 2006

Dillinger

Jack Higgins

In 1934, after his spectacular jailbreak from a cell in Indiana, Dillinger was like a ghost―some claimed to spot him in New York, others in London, New Orleans, or California. Though the FBI would eventually find and kill Dillinger ...

Unabridged CD
Published: Aug 2016

The Book Spy: A WW2 Novel of Libraria...

Alan Hlad

An American librarian. A Portuguese bookseller. A WWII mission to change the tide of the war. Inspired by true stories of the heroic librarian spies of WWII and spanning from the New York Public Library to Portugal’s city of ...

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Published: Jan 2023

The Long Flight Home

Alan Hlad

A USA TodayBestseller  Inspired by fascinating, true, yet little-known events during World War II,The Long Flight Homeis a testament to the power of courage in our darkest hours—a moving, masterfully written story of lov...

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Published: Apr 2020

The Dovekeepers: A Novel

Alice Hoffman

Over five years in the writing, The Dovekeepers is Alice Hoffman's most ambitious and mesmerizing novel, a tour de force of imagination and research, set in ancient Israel. In 70 C.E., nine hundred Jews held out for months against arm...

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Published: Mar 2015

The Rich Are Different

Susan Howatch

The Rich Are Different is the story of Dinah Slade, a young English woman of immense vitality and sensual power, whose life becomes intertwined with the fate of a great American banking family. When the handsome and powerful American...

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Published: Jul 2007

Mortal Arts

Anna Lee Huber

Scotland, 1830. Lady Kiera Darby is no stranger to intrigue-in fact, it seems to follow wherever she goes. After her foray into murder investigation, Kiera must journey to Edinburgh with her family so that her pregnant sister can be c...

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Published: Sep 2013

Jane Austen's First Love

Syrie James

INSPIRED BY ACTUAL EVENTS  Fifteen-year-old Jane Austen dreams of three things: doing something useful, writing something worthy, and falling madly in love. When she visits her brother in Kent to celebrate his engagement, she meets...

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Published: Aug 2014

The Scarlet Contessa of Italian Renai...

Jeanne Kalogridis

What Philippa Gregory has done for Tudor England, Jeanne Kalogridis does for Renaissance Italy. Her latest irresistible historical novel is about a countess whose passion and willfulness knew no bounds—Caterina Sforza Daughter of th...

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Published: Jul 2011

The Scarlet Contessa of the Italian R...

Jeanne Kalogridis

Historical fiction author Jeanne Kalogridis tells the remarkable story of Caterina Sforza, daughter of the Duke of Milan and the bravest warrior Renaissance Italy ever knew.

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Published: Jul 2010

The Light Over London

Julia Kelly

Reminiscent of Martha Hall Kelly's Lilac Girls and Kristin Hannah's The Nightingale, this entrancing story "is a poignant reminder that there is no limit to what women can do. A nostalgic, engrossing read" (Julia London, New...

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Published: Sep 2019

The Daughters of Mars

Thomas Keneally

Naomi and Sally Durance are daughters of a dairy farmer from the Macleay Valley. Bound together in complicity by what they consider a crime, when the Great War begins in 1914 they hope to submerge their guilt by leaving for Europe to ...

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Published: May 2014

The Outcasts: A Novel

Kathleen Kent

A taut, thrilling adventure story about buried treasure, a manhunt, and a woman determined to make a new life for herself in the old west.It's the 19th century on the GulfCoast, a time of opportunity and lawlessness. After escaping th...

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Published: Oct 2014

The King's Deryni (A Novel of the Der...

Katherine Kurtz

The thrilling conclusion to New York Times bestselling author Katherine Kurtz's epic Childe Morgan trilogy.  Alaric Morgan has one clear purpose in life—to stand alongside the King of Gwynedd. The old king knew that his successor w...

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Published: Nov 2015

King's Captain: An Alan Lewrie Naval ...

Dewey Lambdin

Promoted to frigate captain after proving himself in the Battle of Cape St. Vincent, Alan Lewrie soon finds himself under Spanish guns again as he confronts a mutiny that rages through the British fleet and the reappearance of an old...

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Published: Sep 2002

Sawbones

Melissa Lenhardt

Wrongfully accused of murder, Dr. Catherine Bennett is destined to hang... unless she can disappear.With the untamed territory of Colorado as her most likely refuge, she packs her physician's kit and heads West. But even with a new li...

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Published: Apr 2017

Storm Coming: A novel of the Civil Wa...

Jack W. Lewis

Based on a true story, this first of a trilogy of Civil War novels chronicles the fateful events of 1861 in western Virginia, as a young man learns to cope with his world turned upside down by war. It is April of 1861. The shocking e...

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Published: May 2017

The Twelfth Enchantment

David Liss

Lucy Derrick is a young woman of good breeding and poor finances. After the death of her beloved father, she is forced to maintain a shabby dignity as the unwanted boarder of her tyrannical uncle, fending off marriage to a local mill ...

Unabridged CD
Published: Oct 2011

Mrs. Lee and Mrs. Gray

Dorothy Love

A general's wife and a slave girl forge a friendship that transcends race, culture, and the crucible of Civil War.Mary Anna Custis Lee is a great-granddaughter of Martha Washington, wife of Confederate General Robert E. Lee, and heire...

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Published: Jun 2016

The Owl Killers

Karen Maitland

From the author of Company of Liars, hailed as "a jewel of a medieval mystery"* and "an atmospheric tale of treachery and magic,"** comes a magnificent new novel of an embattled village and a group of courageous wo...

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Published: Jul 2010

Belle Cora

Phillip Margulies

In the home where Arabella Godwin was raised it is forbidden to speak her name, and her picture is turned to the wall. But in the turbulent America of the 1850s, everyone knows her as "Belle Cora," madam of San Francisco's f...

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Published: Oct 2014

Folly and Glory (Berrybender Narrativ...

Larry McMurtry

As this final volume of The Berrybender Narratives opens, Tasmin and her family are under irksome, though comfortable, arrest in Mexican Santa Fe. Her father, the eccentric Lord Berrybender, is planning to head for Texas with his whol...

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Published: Aug 2005

The Fever Tree

Jennifer McVeigh

"There is nothing more exciting than a new writer with a genuine voice. I loved it." -Julian Fellowes, creator of Downton Abbey Frances Irvine, left destitute in the wake of her father's sudden death, has been forced to ab...

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Published: Feb 2014

The Source

James A. Michener

In his signature style of grand storytelling, James Michener sweeps us back through time to the Holy Land, thousands of years ago. By exploring the lives and discoveries of modern archaeologists excavating the site of Tell Makor, Mich...

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Published: Mar 1986
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