Historical - General

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The Book of Unholy Mischief

Elle Newmark

In a world of violence and intrigue, who guards the truth?It is 1498, the dawn of the Renaissance, and Venice teems with rumors of an ancient book that holds the secret to unimaginable power. It is an alchemist's dream, with recipes f...

Unabridged CD
Published: Dec 2008

Starter for Ten

David Nicholls

Now a major motion picture“Utterly charming . . . a big-hearted, flawless coming-of-age tale, as scary and funny as your yearbook picture.”–People (****/Critic’s Choice)The year is 1985. Brian Jackson, a workin...

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Published: Jan 2007

The Virgin Widow

Anne O'Brien

A dazzling historical novel set during England's War of the Roses- the story of the courageous Anne Neville, future wife of Richard III, who comes of age in a time of chaos... Anne Neville, daughter of the powerful Earl of Warwick, g...

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Published: Nov 2010

Hide Me Among the Graves: A Novel

Tim Powers

From Last Call to On Stranger Tides to Declare to Three Days to Never, any book by the inimitable Tim Powers is a wonder. With Hide Me Among the Graves, it's possible that the uniquely ingenious Powers has surpassed even himself. A b...

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Published: Feb 2013

Crystal Gardens

Amanda Quick

Evangeline Ames has rented a country cottage far from the London streets where she was recently attacked. Fascinated by the paranormal energy of nearby Crystal Gardens, she finds pleasure in sneaking past the wall to explore the groun...

Unabridged CD
Published: Apr 2012

City of Jasmine

Deanna Raybourn

Set against the lush, exotic European colonial outposts of the 1920s, New York Times bestselling author Deanna Raybourn delivers the captivating tale of one woman who embarks upon a journey to see the world—and ends up finding intri...

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Published: Feb 2014

On Leaving Charleston

Alexandra Ripley

Garden Tradd's fairy tale wedding to Sky Harris and her travels around the world during the roaring twenties cannot free her from her family's scandalous Charleston past

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Published: Sep 1991

The Lifeboat: A Novel

Charlotte Rogan

Grace Winter, 22, is both a newlywed and a widow. She is also on trial for her life.In the summer of 1914, the elegant ocean liner carrying Grace and her husband Henry across the Atlantic suffers a mysterious explosion. Setting aside ...

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Published: Jan 2013

New York: The Novel

Edward Rutherfurd

The bestselling master of historical fiction weaves a grand, sweeping drama of New York from the city's founding to the present day.Rutherfurd celebrates America's greatest city in a rich, engrossing saga that showcases his extraordin...

Abridged CD
Published: Nov 2009

I, Eliza Hamilton

Susan Holloway Scott

In this beautifully written novel of historical fiction, bestselling author Susan Holloway Scott tells the story of Alexander Hamilton's wife, Eliza—a fascinating, strong-willed heroine in her own right and a key figure in one of...

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Published: Sep 2017

The Passion of Artemisia

Susan Vreeland

A sweeping novel, set against the backdrops of Renaissance Rome, Florence, and Genoa, vibrantly recreates the life of Artemisia Gentileschi, an influential female artist, whose search for love, forgiveness, and wholeness through her a...

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Published: Dec 2002

Katherine of Aragon, The True Queen: ...

Alison Weir

Bestselling author and acclaimed historian Alison Weir takes on what no fiction writer has done before: creating a dramatic six-book series in which each novel covers one of King Henry VIII's wives. In this captivating opening volume,...

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Published: May 2017

The English Wife: A Novel

Lauren Willig

From New York Times bestselling author Lauren Willig comes The English Wife, a scandalous novel set in the Gilded Age full of family secrets, affairs, and even murder. "Brings to life old world New York City and London with all t...

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Published: Feb 2019

A Wilder Rose

Susan Wittig Albert

The Little House books, which chronicled the pioneer adventures of Laura Ingalls Wilder, are among the most beloved books in the American literary canon. Lesser known is the secret, concealed for decades, of how they came to be. Now, ...

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Published: Mar 2015

City of Light

Lauren Belfer

In 1901 Buffalo, New York, Louisa Barrett, the progressive headmistress of the exclusive Macaulay School for Girls, stumbles upon a secret involving the powerful members of her school board that could destroy everything for which she ...

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Published: Aug 2005

Lady Clementine

Marie Benedict

From Marie Benedict, the New York Times bestselling author of The Only Woman in the Room! An incredible novel that focuses on one of the people who had the most influence during World War I and World War II: Clementine Churchill.I...

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Published: Aug 2020

Dandelion Wine

Ray Bradbury

An endearing classic of childhood fancies and memories of an idyllic Midwestern summer from America's most beloved storyteller.

Unabridged CD
Published: Nov 2010

The Chaneysville Incident

David Bradley

The legends say something happened in Chaneysville. The Chaneysville Incident is the powerful story of one man's obsession with discovering what that something was--a quest that takes the brilliant and bitter young black historian Joh...

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Published: May 1990

Summerset Abbey: A Bloom in Winter

T. J. Brown

The highly anticipated second installment in the Summerset Abbey series, which picks up just after the climatic conclusion of book one.After Prudence's desperate marriage and move to Devonshire, sisters Rowena and Victoria fear they h...

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Published: Mar 2013

The Chemistry of Tears (Vintage Inter...

Peter Carey

When Catherine Gehrig, a museum conservator in London, falls into grief after her lover's sudden death, her boss gives her a special project. She will bring back to "life" a nineteenth-century mechanical bird. As she begins ...

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Published: Feb 2013

The Spymistress: A Novel

Jennifer Chiaverini

New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini is back with another enthralling historical novel set during the Civil War era, this time inspired by the life of "a true Union woman as true as steel" who risked everyth...

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Published: Mar 2014

The Seed Woman

Petra Durst-Benning

From bestselling author Petra Durst-Benning comes a sweeping emotional story of courage, triumph, and love against all odds in nineteenth-century Germany.After a long and trying journey from her home, Hannah arrives at a charming vill...

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Published: Oct 2017

Jane Steele

Lyndsay Faye

Nominated for the 2017 Edgar Award for Best NovelThe reimagining of Jane Eyre as a gutsy, heroic serial killer that The New York Times Book Review calls "wonderfully entertaining" and USA Today describes as "sheer mayhe...

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Published: Mar 2017

The Tudor Conspiracy

C. W. Gortner

Hunted by a shadowy foe in Bloody Mary's court, Brendan Prescott plunges into London's treacherous underworld to unravel a dark conspiracy that could make Elizabeth queen—or send her to her death in C.W. Gortner's The Tudor Conspira...

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Published: Jul 2013

The Lost Girls of Paris

Pam Jenoff

From the author of the runaway bestseller The Orphan's Tale comes a remarkable story of friendship and courage centered around three women and a ring of female secret agents during World War II.1946, ManhattanOne morning while passing...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jan 2019

The Orphan's Tale

Pam Jenoff

[Read by Jennifer Wydra and Kyla Garcia] A powerful novel of friendship set in a traveling circus during World War II, The Orphan's Tale introduces two extraordinary women and their harrowing stories of sacrifice and survival.Sixtee...

Unabridged CD
Published: Feb 2017

Blindspot: By a Gentleman in Exile & ...

Jane Kamensky

Written with wit and exuberance by longtime friends and accomplished historians, Blindspot is at once fiction and history, mystery and love story, tragedy and farce.

Unabridged CD
Published: Dec 2008

A Christmas Hope: A Novel

Anne Perry

[Read by Simon Prebble] Anne Perry's ''vastly entertaining'' (Newark (NJ) Star-Ledger) holiday novels are ''as delicious as mince pie and plum pudding'' (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel). A Christmas Hope is just as delectable, the grippin...

Unabridged CD
Published: Dec 2013

The Egyptologist

Arthur Phillips

This darkly comic labyrinth of a novel opens on the desert plains of Egypt in 1922, before winding its way from the slums of 1900s Australia to the ballrooms of 1920s Boston, by way of Oxford, the battlefields of the First World War, ...

Unabridged CD
Published: Sep 2004

Empress of the Seven Hills

Kate Quinn

From the national bestselling author of Daughters of Rome and Mistress of Rome comes a tale of love, power, and intrigue spanning the wilds of the Empire to the seven hills of Rome. Powerful, prosperous, and expanding ever farther int...

Paperback
Published: Apr 2012
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