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Race To The Pole: Tragedy, Heroism, A...

Sir Ranulph Fiennes

Now in paperback, the real story of Captain Robert Scott's legendary Antarctic quest, told by the man whom the Guinness Book of World Records has proclaimed 'the world's greatest living explorer' In 1911, Captain Robert Scott and his...

Unabridged MP3-CD
Published: Dec 2004

The Book of Lost and Found: A Novel

Lucy Foley

From London to Corsica to Paris--as a young woman pursues the truth about her late mother, two captivating love stories unfurl.Kate Darling's enigmatic mother--a once-famous ballerina--has passed away, leaving Kate bereft. When her gr...

Paperback
Published: Aug 2015

Well-Behaved Woman

Therese Anne Fowler

The riveting novel of iron-willed Alva Vanderbilt and her illustrious family as they rule Gilded-Age New York, written by Therese Anne Fowler, the New York Times bestselling author of Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald.Alva Smith, her sou...

Paperback
Published: Oct 2019

Watch the Lady

Elizabeth Fremantle

From "a brilliant new player in the court of royal fiction" (People), comes the mesmerizing story of Lady Penelope Devereux—the daring young beauty in the Tudor court, who inspired Sir Philip Sidney's famous sonnets even w...

Paperback
Published: Jun 2015

The Search for Maggie Ward

Andrew M. Greeley

The Search for Maggie Ward is a poignant tale of love, loss, and faith set in the aftermath of World War I, from acclaimed New York Times bestsellling author and theologian Andrew M. Greeley.Young Navy flier Jerry Keenan is supposed t...

Paperback
Published: Dec 2018

The White Queen: A Novel (The Cousins...

Philippa Gregory

Philippa Gregory, "the queen of royal fiction" (USA Today) Presents the first of a new series set amid the deadly feuds of England known as the Wars of the Roses. Brother turns on brother to win the ultimate prize, the thron...

Abridged CD
Published: Aug 2009

Desperadoes

Ron Hansen

At age 65, Emmett Dalton, the sole survivor of the infamous Dalton gang makes a living by selling his outrageous adventure stories to Hollywood. Desperadoes details his memories of the murders, bootlegging and thievery he and his poss...

Paperback
Published: Feb 1997

All the Forgivenesses

Elizabeth Hardinger

Set in Appalachia and the Midwest at the turn of the twentieth century and inspired by the author\'s family lore, this exquisite novel paints an intimately rendered portrait of one resilient farm family\'s challenges and hard-won triu...

Paperback
Published: Sep 2020

The Forest of Vanishing Stars: A Nove...

Kristin Harmel

Parade “Best Books of Summer” pick * Real Simple pick * She Reads “Best WWII Fiction of Summer 2021” pick The New York Times bestselling author of the “heart-stopping tale of survival and heroism&rdqu...

Paperback
Published: May 2022

A Settling of Accounts

Carolyn Hart

In 1966, Kay Emory is a gentle and respectable antiques dealer; not even her closest friends know about the long-ago life she tries to forget. But when a business trip to London exposes her to a ruthless killer that only she can ident...

Paperback
Published: Mar 2013

The Twelve-Mile Straight

Eleanor Henderson

*NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2017 BY THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE**An Entertainment Weekly "Must-Read" Book for Fall*From New York Times bestselling author Eleanor Henderson, an audacious American epic set in rural Georgia during the years of...

Paperback
Published: Sep 2018

My Lord John: A tale of intrigue, hon...

Georgette Heyer

Georgette Heyer's final novel, set in her own favorite time period. With her signature wit, drama and impeccable historical accuracy, Georgette Heyer tells the story of a medieval royal family on the rise. Set in the last days of the ...

Paperback
Published: May 2009

The Conqueror: A novel of William the...

Georgette Heyer

The stirring history of William the Conqueror, Duke of Normandy, who invaded England and became the King. His victory, concluded at the Battle of Hastings in 1066, is known as the Norman Conquest.William was an illegitimate child of a...

Paperback
Published: Sep 2008

The Forever Queen: Sometimes, a despe...

Helen Hollick

"Helen Hollick has it all. She tells a great story" -Bernard CornwellMarried to a king incompetent both on the throne and in bed, Emma does not love her husband. But she does love England. Even as her husband fails, Emma vow...

Paperback
Published: Nov 2010

The Blood of Gods: A Novel of Rome: T...

Conn Iggulden

One of history's most notorious assassinations sets the stage for a riveting tale of political intrigue, epic battle, and righteous retribution in a new novel of ancient Rome from #1 New York Times bestselling author Conn Iggulden.THE...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jul 2013

News of the World

Paulette Jiles

National Book Award Finalist—FictionIt is 1870 and Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels through northern Texas, giving live readings to paying audiences hungry for news of the world. An elderly widower who has lived through three war...

Unabridged MP3-CD
Published: Jun 2017

One Glorious Ambition: The Compassion...

Jane Kirkpatrick

One dedicated woman...giving voice to the suffering of many Born to an unavailable mother and an abusive father, Dorothea Dix longs simply to protect and care for her younger brothers, Charles and Joseph. But at just fourteen, she is...

Paperback
Published: Apr 2013

The Wife, the Maid, and the Mistress

Ariel Lawhon

One summer night in 1930, Judge Joseph Crater steps into a New York City cab and is never heard from again. Behind this great man are three women, each with her own tale to tell: Stella, his fashionable wife, the picture of propriety;...

Paperback
Published: Oct 2014

Lost Nation

Jeffrey Lent

Lost Nation delves beneath the bright, promising veneer of early-nineteenth-century New England to unveil a startling parable of individualism and nationhood. The novel opens with a man known as Blood, guiding an oxcart of rum toward ...

Paperback
Published: Mar 2003

Fellow Travelers

Thomas Mallon

From the highly acclaimed author of Bandbox and Dewey Defeats Truman–a searing new historical novel about the competing claims of faith, love, and politics during the McCarthy era.Washington, D.C., in the early 1950s: a world of...

Paperback
Published: May 2008

Transatlantic

Colum McCann

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY KIRKUS REVIEWSIn the National Book Award–winning Let the Great World Spin, Colum McCann thrilled readers with a marvelo...

Paperback
Published: Jun 2014

Landsman

Peter Charles Melman

Peter Charles Melman's debut novel, Landsman, is a boisterous, sometimes brutal, and full-hearted tale of a Jewish hoodlum turned Confederate soldier in the Civil War. Elias Abrams is the son of an indentured servant in New Orleans wh...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jun 2007

Mexico

James A. Michener

Pulitzer Prize–winning author James A. Michener, whose novels hurtle from the far reaches of history to the dark corners of the world, paints an intoxicating portrait of a land whose past and present are as turbulent, fascinating, a...

Paperback
Published: Mar 1994

All the Living

C. E. Morgan

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Aloma is an orphan, raised by her aunt and uncle, educated at a mission school in the Kentucky mountains. At the start of the novel, she moves to an isolated tobacco farm to be with her lo...

Paperback
Published: Mar 2010

Symphony

Jude Morgan

"A deeply empathic exploration of obsession and art, genius and madness. . . . Morgan's ability to bring each character to life is virtuosic." —The Washington Post Book WorldIn 1827 Harriet Smithson, a beautiful young Iris...

Paperback
Published: Dec 2008

What Is Left the Daughter

Howard Norman

Howard Norman, widely regarded as one of this country's finest novelists, returns to the mesmerizing fictional terrain of his major books -- The Bird Artist, The Museum Guard, and The Haunting of L -- in this erotically charged and mo...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jul 2010

The Forbidden Queen

Anne O'Brien

An innocent pawn A kingdom without a king A new dynasty will reign… 1415. The jewel in the French crown, Katherine de Valois, is waiting under lock and key for King Henry V. While he's been slaughtering her kinsmen in Agincourt, ...

Paperback
Published: Jan 2014

Coming of the Storm: Book One of Cont...

Kathleen O'Neal Gear

The mass market edition of the first book in a new series about Native American and European first contact by Kathleen O'Neal and W. Michael Gear.

Paperback
Published: Aug 2010

Surviving the Fatherland: A True Comi...

Annette Oppenlander

***An IWIC Hall of Fame Novel*** Spanning thirteen years from 1940 to 1953 and set against the epic panorama of WWII, author Annette Oppenlander's SURVIVING THE FATHERLAND is a sweeping saga of family, love, and betrayal that illumin...

Paperback
Published: Mar 2017

Heroic Measures

Jo-Ann Power

Honoring those who have served their country in war, most focus on those who have fought on the battlefields. But one group's heroics under fire have slipped through the pages of history, a group whose blood and sweat were left in ope...

Paperback
Published: Sep 2013
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