Historical - General

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Angels Watching Over Me (Shenandoah S...

Michael Phillips

Two girls in 1860s North Carolina--a slave girl and a plantation owner's daughter--are the only survivors of a devastating raid. They join forces, relying on God (and the plantation's untouched livestock and crops) to see them through...

Paperback
Published: Jan 2003

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...

Abridged CD
Published: Apr 2012

Train

Pete Dexter

Quietly navigating his way between his hostile patrons and brutal fellow workers in 1953 Los Angeles, African-American caddy Train finds an unexpected ally in a police detective who encourages Train's ambitions and oversees a case inv...

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Published: Feb 2005

Fate & Fortune

Fern Michaels

Dear Reader,I’ve been lucky enough to share my stories with you for over forty years, and those first books occupy a special place in my heart. Vixen in Velvet and Whitefire are two of my earliest stories, and I am so happy to have ...

Paperback
Published: May 2018

The Dream Lover: A Novel

Elizabeth Berg

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY USA TODAY • Elizabeth Berg has written a lush historical novel based on the sensuous Parisian life of the nineteenth-century writer George Sand—which ...

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Published: Mar 2016

The Sheen on the Silk

Anne Perry

New York Times bestselling novelist Anne Perry, the undisputed Queen of Victorian mysteries and the author of an acclaimed series set during World War I, now broadens her canvas with her first major stand-alone book—an epic historic...

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Published: Jan 2011

Lord John and the Brotherhood of the ...

Diana Gabaldon

In her much-anticipated new novel, the New York Times bestselling author of the Outlander saga brings back one of her most compelling characters: Lord John Grey'soldier, gentleman, and no mean hand with a blade. Here Diana Gabaldon br...

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Published: Aug 2007

Kiss Carlo: A Novel

Adriana Trigiani

From Adriana Trigiani, the beloved New York Times-bestselling author of The Shoemaker's Wife, comes an exhilarating epic novel of love, loyalty, and creativity—the story of an Italian-American family on the cusp of change.It's 19...

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Published: Jan 2018

The Devil's Elixir

Raymond Khoury

Unabridged, 10 CDs, 12 hoursRead by TBD Sean Reilly and Tess Chaykin, heroes of Raymond Khoury's bestselling Templar thrillers, return in an edge-of-your-seat story that reaches from beyond.

Unabridged CD
Published: Jul 2011

All the Queen's Players

Jane Feather

At Queen Elizabeth's palace, intrigue abounds. And when a naive girl with a gift for keen observation enters the court, she can hardly imagine the role she will play in bringing England—indeed, the whole of Europe—to the brink of ...

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Published: Apr 2010

America's First Daughter

Stephanie Dray

In a compelling, richly researched novel that draws from thousands of letters and original sources, bestselling authors Stephanie Dray and Laura Kamoie tell the fascinating, untold story of Thomas Jefferson's eldest daughter, Martha &...

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Published: Mar 2016

Under the Wide and Starry Sky: A Nove...

Nancy Horan

From Nancy Horan, New York Times bestselling author of Loving Frank, comes her much-anticipated second novel, which tells the improbable love story of Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson and his tempestuous American wife, Fanny.  ...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jan 2014

The Summer Before the War: A Novel

Helen Simonson

The bestselling author of Major Pettigrew's Last Stand returns with a breathtaking novel of love on the eve of World War I that reaches far beyond the small English town in which it is set.  East Sussex, 1914. It is the end of Englan...

Unabridged CD
Published: Mar 2016

Before We Were Yours: A Novel

Lisa Wingate

THE BLOCKBUSTER HIT—A New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and Publishers Weekly BestsellerFor readers of Orphan Train and The Nightingale comes a "thought-provoking [and] complex tale about two families, two g...

Unabridged CD
Published: Oct 2018

The Maid's Version: A Novel

Daniel Woodrell

The American master's first novel since Winter's Bone (2006) tells of a deadly dance hall fire and its impact over several generations.Alma DeGeer Dunahew, the mother of three young boys, works as the maid for a prominent citizen and ...

Unabridged CD
Published: Sep 2013

The Light of Luna Park

Addison Armstrong

In the spirit of The Orphan Train and Before We Were Yours, a historical debut about a nurse who chooses to save a baby's life, and risks her own in the process, exploring the ties of motherhood and the little-known history of Coney ...

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Published: Aug 2021

The Fallen Angels: A Novel (The Crown...

Bernard Cornwell

In the sequel to A Crowning Mercy, Lady Campion Lazender’s courage, faith, and family loyalty is tested when she must complete a perilous journey between two worlds—from the sunlit splendor of a great English estate to the...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jan 2022

A Treacherous Paradise (Vintage)

Henning Mankell

In 1904, Hanna Renstrom boards a ship bound for Australia hoping to escape the cold and poverty that have dominated her life in Sweden. Her harrowing journey lands her in Portuguese East Africa, a world where colonialism and white col...

Paperback
Published: May 2014

The Queen of Bedlam

Robert McCammon

His epic masterwork Speaks the Nightbird, a tour de force of witchhunt terror in a colonial town, was hailed by Sandra Brown as 'deeplysatisfying...told with matchless insight into the human soul.' Now, Robert McCammon brings the hero...

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Published: Oct 2007

The Surgeon's Mate

Patrick O'Brian

Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin are ordered home by dispatch vessel to bring the news of their latest victory to the government. But Maturin is a marked man for the havoc he has wrought in the French intelligence network in the New Wo...

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Published: Jan 1992

The Fateful Lightning: A Novel of the...

Jeff Shaara

From New York Times bestselling author Jeff Shaara comes the riveting final installment in the Civil War series that began with A Blaze of Glory and continued in A Chain of Thunder and The Smoke at Dawn.  November 1864: As the Civil ...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jun 2015

The Rose Code: A Novel

Kate Quinn

“The reigning queen of historical fiction” —  Fiona Davis, New York Times bestselling author of The Lions of Fifth Avenue   The New York Times and USA Todaybestselling author of The Hunt...

Paperback
Published: Mar 2021

The Wine-dark Sea (Aubrey Maturin)

Patrick O'Brian

The 'wine-dark sea' of the title is the Great South Sea, and Jack Aubrey and the crew of the Surprise are pursuing an American privateer. They are beset not only by the eruption of a volcano which takes innumerable lives, but by revol...

Abridged MP3-CD
Published: May 2007

Once We Were Brothers

Ronald H. Balson

The gripping tale about two boys, once as close as brothers, who find themselves on opposite sides of the Holocaust.Elliot Rosenzweig, a respected civic leader and wealthy philanthropist, is attending a fundraiser when he is suddenl...

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Published: Oct 2013

Sharpe's Company: Sharpes's novel # 1...

Bernard Cornwell

To lead an assault on the thick, sheer battlements of the Badajoz fortress is suicide, yet Richard Sharpe must lead one. For inside the walls are his wife and daughter, and only he can save them.

Unabridged CD
Published: Mar 2009

Sharpe's Siege: Sharpes's novel # 20:...

Bernard Cornwell

Outmaneuvered by the treachery of his old enemy Pierre Ducos and abandoned by his own navy, Sharpe must escape with the aid of the charming, unscrupulous American mercenary Cornelius Killick, or die.

Unabridged CD
Published: Mar 2009

Checkmate: Sixth in the Legendary Lym...

Dorothy Dunnett

For the first time Dunnett's Lymond Chronicles are available in the United States in quality paperback editions.Sixth in the legendary Lymond Chronicles, Checkmate takes place in 1557, where Francis Crawford of Lymond is once again in...

Paperback
Published: Sep 1997

Troy: Fall of Kings

David Gemmell

Darkness falls on the Great Green, and the Ancient World is fiercely divided.On the killing fields outside the golden city of Troy, forces loyal to the Mykene King mass. Among them is Odysseus, fabled storyteller and reluctant ally to...

Paperback
Published: Mar 2009

Cilka's Journey

Heather Morris

From the author of the multi-million copy bestseller The Tattooist of Auschwitz comes a new novel based on a riveting true story of love and resilience. Her beauty saved her — and condemned her.Cilka is just sixteen years old whe...

Paperback
Published: Sep 2020

Blue at the Mizzen: Aubrey-Maturin Se...

Patrick O'Brian

Napoleon has been defeated at Waterloo, but the ensuing peace becomes ugly for Captain Jack Aubrey, with violent celebrations of the English sailors in Gibraltar and the desertion of nearly half his crew. To cap it all off, the Surpri...

Unabridged CD
Published: Feb 2008
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