Historical - General

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Mr. Darcy's Diary

Amanda Grange

A skillful and graceful imagining of the hero's point of view in one of the most beloved and enduring romance stories of all time. As Darcy records his struggles to avoid falling in love with Elizabeth Bennett and the difficulties ...

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Published: Mar 2007

Black Hills

Dan Simmons

When Paha Sapa, a young Sioux warrior, "counts coup" on General George Armstrong Custer as Custer lies dying on the battlefield at the Little Bighorn, the legendary general's ghost enters him - and his voice will speak to hi...

Unabridged CD
Published: Feb 2010

Pearl Harbor

Newt Gingrich

After their New York Times bestselling series on the American Civil War, Newt Gingrich and William R. Forstchen now turn to the events leading up to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and examine how different decisions might have pr...

Abridged CD
Published: May 2007

I, Mona Lisa

Jeanne Kalogridis

A meticulously detailed historical novel, set against the turbulent backdrop of fifteenth-century Florence, chronicles the life and times of Madonna Lisa, the mysterious woman who becomes the subject of Leonardo da Vinci's most famous...

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Published: Oct 2006

Tallgrass

Sandra Dallas

During Word War II, a family fnds life turned upside down when the government opens a Japanese internment camp in their small Colorado town. After a young girl is murdered, all eyes (and suspicions) turn to the newcomers, the interlop...

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Published: Feb 2008

Madame Tussaud of the French Revoluti...

Michelle Moran

The world knows Madame Tussaud as a wax artist extraordinaire . . . but who was this woman who became one of the most famous sculptresses of all time? In these pages, her tumultuous and amazing story comes to life as only Michelle Mor...

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Published: Dec 2011

We Shall Not Sleep (World War One Nov...

Anne Perry

Anne Perry’s magnificent Victorian mysteries established her as one of the world’s best known and loved historical novelists. Now, in her vividly imagined World War I novels, Perry’s talents “have taken a quant...

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Published: Mar 2008

The Glorious Cause

Jeff Shaara

Though the events depicted here should be extraordinarily rousing..., Shaara manages to render almost all of them mundane. He has an excellent grasp of the military and political significance of what's going on, but his flat tone and ...

Abridged CD
Published: Oct 2002

The Warrior's Path

Tex Burns

Filled with exciting tales of the frontier, the chronicle of the Sackett family is perhaps the crowning achievement of one of our greatest storytellers. In The Warrior's Path L'Amour tells the story of Yance and Kin Sackett, two broth...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jul 2005

The Exiled

Posie Graeme-Evans

Enjoying her successes as a merchant, exiled fifteenth-century single mother Anne incites the wrath of chauvinist local merchants who resent competition from a woman, a situation that threatens to reveal her son's identity as the ille...

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Published: Jun 2005

News of the World: A Novel

Paulette Jiles

In the aftermath of the Civil War, an aging itinerant news reader agrees to transport a young captive of the Kiowa back to her people in this exquisitely rendered, morally complex, multilayered novel of historical fiction from the aut...

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Published: Jun 2017

The Huntress

Kate Quinn

One of Marie Claire's Best Women's Fiction of 2019! One of Bookbub's biggest books of 2019"If you enjoyed "The Tattooist of Auschwitz," read "The Huntress," by Kate Quinn." The Washington PostFrom the aut...

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Published: Feb 2019

The Wicked Day (The Arthurian Saga, B...

Mary Stewart

Born of an incestuous relationship between King Arthur and his half sister, the evil sorceress Morgause, the bastard Mordred is reared in secrecy. Called to Camelot by events he cannot deny, Mordred becomes Arthur's most trusted couns...

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Published: May 2003

The Secret Warriors (Men at War, 2)

W. E. B. Griffin

Washington, D.C., 1942: With the help of Charles A. Lindbergh, ace OSS pilot Richard Canidy sets up an air maneuver that will drop agents into the Belgian Congo to smuggle out uranium ore essential to the arms race. But this time, Can...

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Published: Jun 1999

That Summer: A Novel

Lauren Willig

2009: When Julia Conley hears that she has inherited a house outside London from an unknown great-aunt, she assumes it's a joke. She hasn't been back to England since the car crash that killed her mother when she was six, an event she...

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Published: May 2015

The Light in the Ruins

Chris Bohjalian

From the New York Times bestselling author of Midwives and The Sandcastle Girls comes a spellbinding novel of love, despair, and revenge—set in war-ravaged Tuscany. 1943: Tucked away in the idyllic hills south of Florence, the Rosat...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jul 2013

The Tuscan Child

Rhys Bowen

From New York Times bestselling author Rhys Bowen comes a haunting novel about a woman who braves her father's hidden past to discover his secrets…In 1944, British bomber pilot Hugo Langley parachuted from his stricken plane into th...

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Published: Feb 2018

The Wild Rose

Jennifer Donnelly

Includes a Reading Group Guide and Author Q&A  The Wild Rose is a part of the sweeping, multi-generational saga that began with The Tea  Rose and continued with The Winter Rose. It is London, 1914. World War I looms...

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Published: May 2012

Days of Infamy

Newt Gingrich

Pearl Harbor is in utter chaos after the unexpected third strike by Imperial Japanese Naval Air Forces, ordered into the attack by Admiral Yamamoto. A victory has been achieved, but is it total victory? Yamamoto is horrified to discov...

Unabridged CD
Published: Apr 2008

Bound

Sally Gunning

Alice Cole spent her first seven years living in two smoky, crowded rooms in London with her family. But a new home and a better life waited in the colonies, or so her father promised—a bright dream that turned to ashes when her br...

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Published: Apr 2009

The Quilter's Homecoming: An Elm Cree...

Jennifer Chiaverini

A Roaring Twenties adventure unfolds in The Quilter's Homecoming, as Jennifer Chiaverini continues her bestselling Elm Creek Quilts series 'that neatly stitches together social drama and the art of quilting' (Library Journal). As youn...

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Published: Jan 2008

Enemy Women

Paulette Jiles

After her father is taken away by Union soldiers, Adair Randolph Colley, who is 18 at the height of the Civil War, is herself imprisoned on a false charge of spying for the enemy. The prison commander, Major William Neumann, falls in ...

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Published: Apr 2007

Orphan #8

Kim Van Alkemade

A stunning debut novel in the vein of Sarah Waters' historical fiction and inspired by true events, it tells the fascinating story of a woman who must choose between revenge and mercy when she encounters the doctor who subjected her t...

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Published: Jul 2015

A Hundred Summers

Beatriz Williams

As the 1938 hurricane bears down on Rhode Island, a storm of another kind is brewing in this novel that "blends history, romance, and social commentary into...much more than a summer guilty pleasure" (Connecticut Post)...Mem...

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Published: Apr 2014

The Lure of the Moonflower: A Pink Ca...

Lauren Willig

In the final Pink Carnation novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Mark of the Midnight Manzanilla, Napoleon has occupied Lisbon, and Jane Wooliston, aka the Pink Carnation, teams up with a rogue agent to protect th...

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Published: Aug 2015

A Greater Glory (Trials of Kit Shanno...

James Scott Bell

Book 1 of THE TRIALS OF KIT SHANNON by James Scott Bell, a Christy Award winner. Having proved she's a legal success, Kit Shannon again battles injustices found in Los Angeles, the city she has come to love. She now takes up the cause...

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Published: Feb 2003

The Killer Angels

Michael Shaara

A reissue of a Pulitzer prize-winning classic, and now the major motion picture GETTYSBURG. As a result of these acclamations, this book is considered one of the greatest novels written on the Civil War.From the Hardcover edition.

Unabridged CD
Published: Apr 2011

Under the Light of the Italian Moon: ...

Jennifer Anton

A promise keeps them apart until WWII threatens to destroy their love forever Fonzaso Italy, between two wars Nina Argenta doesn't want the traditional life of a rural Italian woman. The daughter of a strong-willed midwife, she is...

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Published: Mar 2021

Lucy

Ellen Feldman

A fictional account of FDR's romance with Eleanor's social secretary, Lucy Mercer, follows their pre-World War I affair, its impact on his marriage, and FDR and Mercer's reacquaintance years later as he prepared for an unprecedented t...

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Published: Jan 2004

The Vengeance of Mothers: The Journal...

Jim Fergus

The stunning sequel to the award-winning novel One Thousand White Women: A Novel."Clever and satisfying...Fergus is a superb writer [and] the characters are as real as any pioneer women who braved the rigors of westering." �...

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Published: Sep 2018
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