Historical - General

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The Island of the Day Before

Umberto Eco

The author of The Name of the Rose presents a panoramic historical novel, set in the seventeenth century, about a young aristocrat who goes to sea to find love and an old Jesuit with a boundless scientific knowledge. 300,000 first pri...

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Published: Jun 2006

Flashman and the Tiger

George MacDonald Fraser

The eleventh volume of Fraser's books detailing the history and adventures of world-class cad and inadvertent hero Harry Flashman consists of three short pieces which detail Harry's involvement with the maiden journey of the Orient Ex...

Paperback
Published: Nov 2001

Three Sisters, Three Queens

Philippa Gregory

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Philippa Gregory, the little-known story of three Tudor women who are united in sisterhood and yet compelled to be rivals when they fulfill their destinies as queens.As sisters they share an e...

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Published: Feb 2017

I, Jane: In the Court of Henry VIII (...

Diane Haeger

Though her path to the throne was long and paved with treachery, Jane Seymour would win the heart of her king—and heal her own. Jane Seymour of Wiltshire is not meant to go to Court. Not a child like her, with her lack of beauty an...

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Published: Sep 2012

Stormy Weather

Paulette Jiles

Oil is king of East Texas during the darkest years of the Great Depression. The Stoddard girls—responsible Mayme, whip-smart tomboy Jeanine, and bookish Bea—know no life but an itinerant one, trailing their father from town to to...

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Published: Jun 2008

A Place of Greater Safety

Hilary Mantel

Mantel’s three protagonists--Danton, Robespierre, and Desmoulins--were important figures in the French Revolution. Mantel brings them to life and tells the stories of their relationships with each other as well as with their wiv...

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Published: Nov 2006

The Last Witchfinder

James Morrow

Jennet Stearne's father hangs witches for a living in Restoration England. But when she witnesses the unjust and horrifying execution of her beloved aunt Isobel, the precocious child decides to make it her life's mission to bring dow...

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Published: Mar 2007

Rebels of Ireland: The Dublin Saga

Edward Rutherfurd

Edward Rutherfurd’s stirring account of Irish history, the Dublin Saga, concludes in this magisterial work of historical fiction. Beginning where the first volume, The Princes of Ireland, left off, The Rebels of Ireland takes us...

Abridged CD
Published: Jan 2008

The Eagle of the Ninth: A BBC Full-Ca...

Rosemary Sutcliff

Around 117 A.D., the Roman Ninth Legion was ordered to put down an uprising among the Caledonian tribes. Four thousand men vanished without a trace into the swirling mists of the north of Roman Britain. Many years after their disappea...

Unabridged CD
Published: Apr 2011

The Forgotten Seamstress

Liz Trenow

"Liz Trenow sews together the strands of past and present as delicately as the exquisite stitching on the quilt that forms the centerpiece of the story."—Lucinda Riley, author of The Orchid HouseShe Kept Her Secret for a L...

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Published: May 2014

Year of Wonders of the Plague

Geraldine Brooks

A young woman's struggle to save her family and her soul during the most extraordinary year of 1666, when plague suddenly visited a small Derbyshire village and the villagers, inspired by a charismatic preacher, elected to quarantine ...

Unabridged MP3-CD
Published: Aug 2010

Eaters of the Dead

Michael Crichton

The year is A.D. 922. A refined Arab courtier, representative of the powerful Caliph of Baghdad, encounters a party of Viking warriors who are journeying to the barbaric North. He is appalled by their Viking customs―the wanton sexua...

Abridged CD
Published: Nov 2015

The Saturday Evening Girls Club

Jane Healey

For four young immigrant women living in Boston's North End in the early 1900s, escaping tradition doesn't come easy. But at least they have one another and the Saturday Evening Girls Club, a social pottery-making group offering respi...

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Published: Apr 2017

The Devil's Queen

Jeanne Kalogridis

Catherine de Medici is one of the most maligned monarchs in history: blamed for the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre in which hundreds of innocents died. What motivated this Renaissance woman who was born of Florence's most powerful fam...

Abridged CD
Published: Jul 2009

Testimony of an Irish Slave Girl

Kate McCafferty

Cot Daley, a young Irishwoman is kidnapped and sold in slavery to Barbados as an indentured servant. Because of her involvement in a failed rebellion, Cot must give testimony not only about what happened, but about her own experiences...

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Published: Jan 2003

The English Patient

Michael Ondaatje

A novel about four people in an Italian villa at the end of World War II: Hana the nurse, Caravaggio the thief, Kip the Sikh, and the horribly burned English patient whose memories of love take the narrative back to the 1930s, and a d...

Abridged CD
Published: May 2007

Devil's Brood

Sharon Kay Penman

The long-awaited and highly anticipated final volume in Penman's trilogy of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine—a tumultuous conclusion to this timeless story of love, power, ambition, and betrayal. Where the second novel in the trilo...

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Published: Jul 2009

Celia's House

D. E. Stevenson

There's no place like homeCelia Dunne may be an old spinster, but she's no fool. She knows that changing her will to leave the grand family estate, Dunnian, to her grand-nephew will ruffle feathers within the family. But Celia also kn...

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Published: Jul 2015

A Child's Christmas In Wales: And Fiv...

Dylan Thomas

First recorded in February of 1952, this remastered recording of Dylan Thomas reading his A Child's Christmas in Wales recalls all of the sights, smells, and sounds of a long-ago-Christmas. Thomas's wonderful recollection of this holi...

Abridged CD
Published: Nov 2002

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & ...

Michael Chabon

It's 1939, in New York City. Joe Kavalier, a young artist who has also been trained in the art of Houdiniesque escape, has just pulled off his greatest feat - smuggling himself out of Hitler's Prague. He's looking to make big money, ...

Abridged CD
Published: Jan 2005

The Fort of the Revolutionary War

Bernard Cornwell

In the summer of 1779, as the major fighting of the Revolutionary War moves to the South, a British force consisting of fewer than a thousand Scottish infantry and backed by three sloops-of-war sails to the fogbound coast of New Engl...

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Published: Jan 2012

The Welsh Girl

Peter Ho Davies

Following two widely praised short-story collections, Equal Love and The Ugliest House in the World, Peter Ho Davies's first novel, The Welsh Girl, deserves to be equally well received. It carefully examines two great themes, dislocat...

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Published: Jan 2008

The Fall of the Towers

Samuel R. Delany

Come and enter Samuel Delany’s tomorow, in this trilogy of high adventure, with acrobats and urchins, criminals and courtiers, fishermen and factory-workers, madmen and mind-readers, dwarves and ducheses, giants and geniuses, me...

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Published: Feb 2004

The Cellist of Sarajevo (Contemporary...

Steven Galloway

Sarajevo, in the 1990s, is a hellish place. The ongoing war devours human life, tears families apart and transforms even banal routines, such as acquiring water, into life-threatening expeditions. Day after day, a cellist stations him...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jan 2010

The Cottingley Secret

Hazel Gaynor

"The Cottingley Secret tells the tale of two girls who somehow convince the world that magic exists. An artful weaving of old legends with new realities, this tale invites the reader to wonder: could it be true?" — Kate Al...

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Published: Aug 2017

The Shadow Queen

Sandra Gulland

The daughter of actors, Claudette has been playing different roles since she was a child. After settling in Paris, where her mother becomes a star, Claudette finds a position as personal assistant to Athenaïs de Montespan, the highly...

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Published: Jan 2015

The It Girls

Karen Harper

From New York Times bestselling author Karen Harper comes a novel based on the lives of two amazing sisters . . .One sailed the Titanic and started a fashion empire . . .The other overtook Hollywood and scandalized the world . . .Toge...

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Published: Oct 2017

The Taker

Alma Katsu

IBTrue love can last an eternity . . . but immortality comes at a price../B/IPOn the midnight shift at a hospital in rural St. Andrew, Maine, Dr. Luke Findley is expecting a quiet evening. Until a mysterious woman arrives in his ER, e...

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Published: Mar 2012

We Must Be Brave

Frances Liardet

THE NATIONAL BESTSELLERSpanning the sweep of the twentieth century, We Must Be Brave explores the fierce love that we feel for our children and the power of that love to endure. Beyond distance, beyond time, beyond life itself."A...

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Published: Dec 2019

The Amber Keeper

Freda Lightfoot

Set against the backdrop of revolutionary Russia, The Amber Keeper is a sweeping tale of jealousy and revenge, reconciliation and forgiveness.English Lake District, 1960s: A young Abbie Myers returns home after learning of her mother'...

Paperback
Published: Nov 2014
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