Historical - General

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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...

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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...

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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

The Silver Witch: A Novel

Paula Brackston

A year after her husband's sudden death, ceramic artist Tilda Fordwells finally moves into the secluded Welsh cottage that was to be their new home. She hopes that the tranquil surroundings will help ease her grief, and lessen her dis...

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Published: Feb 2016

Sharpe's Rifles: Sharpes's novel # 6:...

Bernard Cornwell

Its 1809, and Lieutenant Richard Sharpe is newly in command of the demoralized, distrustful men of the Ninety-fifth Rifles. He must lead them to safety by a treacherous trek through the enemy-infested mountains of Spain.

Unabridged CD
Published: Mar 2009

The Magic of Ordinary Days

Ann Howard Creel

The powerful story of one woman's passion in a world at war. Olivia Dunne, a studious minister's daughter who dreams of becoming an archaeologist, never thought that the drama of World War II would affect her quiet life in Denver. But...

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Published: Aug 2011

The Room on Rue Amélie

Kristin Harmel

A moving and entrancing novel set in Paris during World War II about an American woman, a dashing pilot, and a young Jewish girl whose fates unexpectedly entwine—perfect for the fans of Kristen Hannah's The Nightingale and Martha Ha...

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Published: Oct 2018

Heartstone: A Matthew Shardlake Tudor...

C. J. Sansom

The clever plotting and brilliantly evoked world of Heartstone-the fifth Matthew Shardlake mystery from bestselling author C. J. Sansom-will dazzle both mystery fans and Tudor history buffs. Summer 1545. A massive French armada is t...

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Published: Jan 2012

The Orphan Collector

Ellen Marie Wiseman

From the internationally bestselling author ofWhat She Left Behind, a powerful tale of upheaval, resilience and hope set in Philadelphia during the 1918 Spanish Flu outbreak--the deadly pandemic that went on to infect one-third of the...

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Published: Jul 2020

Sharpe's Revenge: Sharpes's novel # 2...

Bernard Cornwell

Accused of stealing Napoleons personal treasure, Sharpe escapes from a British military court and embarks on the battle of his life, armed only with the unflinching resolve to protect his honor.

Unabridged CD
Published: Mar 2009

Eye of the Needle: A Novel

Ken Follett

The worldwide phenomenon from the bestselling author of The Pillars of the Earth, World Without End, and A Column of FireHis code name was "The Needle." He was a German aristocrat of extraordinary intelligence—a master spy...

Paperback
Published: Oct 2017

People of the Longhouse (North Americ...

W. Michael Gear

Six hundred years ago in what would become the northeastern United States and southeastern Canada, five Iroquois tribes were locked in bitter warfare. From the ashes of violence, a great Peacemaker was born…Young Odion and his littl...

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Published: Feb 2011

One for the Blackbird, One for the Cr...

Olivia Hawker

From the bestselling author of The Ragged Edge of Night comes a powerful and poetic novel of survival and sacrifice on the American frontier.Wyoming, 1876. For as long as they have lived on the frontier, the Bemis and Webber families ...

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Published: Oct 2019

Midnight at Marble Arch: A Charlotte ...

Anne Perry

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn this superbly accomplished new Charlotte and Thomas Pitt adventure, Anne Perry takes us beneath the glittering surface of wealthy Victorian society into a nightmare world of fear and intimidation, where wom...

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Published: Mar 2014

The Waiting Time

Eugenia Price

A new edition of Eugenia Price's final novel, presented by Turner PublishingFrom one of America's best-loved storytellers, The Waiting Time is an ambitious, romantic, historically rich epic, sure to delight new and loyal readers alike...

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Published: Nov 2017

The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek

Kim Michele Richardson

The hardscrabble folks of Troublesome Creek have to scrap for everything everything except books, that is. Thanks to Roosevelt s Kentucky Pack Horse Library Project, Troublesome s got its very own traveling librarian, Cussy Mary Carte...

Unabridged CD
Published: May 2019

Eternal

Lisa Scottoline

#1 bestselling author Lisa Scottoline offers a sweeping and shattering epic of historical fiction fueled by shocking true events, the tale of a love triangle that unfolds in the heart of Rome...in the creeping shadow of fascism. Wh...

Unabridged CD
Published: Mar 2021

The Winthrop Woman

Anya Seton

"The Winthrop Woman is that rare literary accomplishment — living history. Really good fictionalized history [like this] often gives closer reality to a period than do factual records." – Chicago TribuneIn 1631 Elizabeth...

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Published: Apr 2014

The Fountain Overflows

Rebecca West

The lives of the talented Aubrey children have long been clouded by their father?s genius for instability, but his new job in the London suburbs promises, for a time at least, reprieve from scandal and the threat of ruin. Mrs. Aubrey,...

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Published: Jan 2003

The Summer Country

Lauren Willig

"Tense, atmospheric, and gorgeously written, The Summer Country is a novel to savor " - Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author of The Huntress and The Alice Network A brilliant, multigenerational saga in the traditio...

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Published: Jun 2020

The Blessing Stone

Barbara Wood

Millions of years ago, a meteorite fell to earth and a beautiful blue stone shattered from it. One hundred thousand years ago, a girl named Tall One found the crystal on the African plain---and it formed her destiny, as well as the de...

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Published: Jan 2004

The Pillars of the Earth

Ken Follett

Follett risks all and comes out a clear winner,' extolled Publishers Weekly on the release of The Pillars of the Earth. A departure for the bestselling thriller writer, the historical epic stunned readers and critics alike with its am...

Abridged CD
Published: Oct 2007

North River

Pete Hamill

It is 1934, and New York City is in the icy grip of the Great Depression. With enormous compassion, Dr. James Delaney tends to his hurt, sick, and poor neighbors, who include gangsters, day laborers, prostitutes, and housewives. If th...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jun 2007

World Without End

Ken Follett

Ken Follett has 90 million readers worldwide. The Pillars of the Earth is his bestselling book of all time. Now, eighteen years after the publication of The Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett has written the most-anticipated sequel of ...

Abridged CD
Published: Oct 2007

Uther (Camulod Chronicles)

Jack Whyte

With Uther, Jack Whyte, author of the richly praised Camulod Chronicles, has given us a portrait of Uther Pendragon, Merlyn's shadow--his boyhood companion and closest friend. And the man who would sire the King of the Britons.From th...

Paperback
Published: Dec 2001

Winter of the World: Book Two of the ...

Ken Follett

THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Picking up where Fall of Giants, the first novel in the extraordinary Century Trilogy, left off, Winter of the World follows its five interrelated families—American, German, Russian, English, and W...

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Published: Sep 2014

Falls the Shadow

Sharon Kay Penman

Simon de Montfort was a man ahead of his time in the thirteenth century, a disinherited Frenchman who talked his way into an English earldom and marriage with a sister of the English king, Henry III. A charismatic, obstinate leader...

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Published: Aug 2008

From Fields of Gold

Alexandra Ripley

Reduced to destitution by the Civil War, Francesca "Chess" Standish struggles to win the love of her younger husband, whom she married in order to capitalize on her only remaining asset, a tobacco-machine patent. Reprint. PW.

Paperback
Published: Jan 1996

Mary, Called Magdalene

Margaret George

Was Mary Magdalene a prostitute, a female divinity figure, a church leader, or all of those? Biblical references to her are tantalizingly brief, but we do know that she was the first person to whom the risen Christ appeared-and the on...

Paperback
Published: May 2003
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