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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

Her Highness, the Traitor

Susan Higginbotham

Praise for Susan Higginbotham's Novels/strong"Susan Higginbotham transports her readers into a vividly portrayed past."—Helen Hollick, author of emThe Pendragon's Banner/em trilogy A daughter can be a dangerous weapon in ...

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Published: Jun 2012

Great House

Nicole Krauss

"[An] elegiac novel . . . achieved through exquisitely chosen sensory details that reverberate with emotional intensity."-Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, The New York Times Book Review (front page)For twenty-five years, a reclu...

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Published: Sep 2011

Stars Over Sunset Boulevard

Susan Meissner

In this new novel from the acclaimed author of Secrets of a Charmed Life, two women working in Hollywood during its Golden Age discover the joy and heartbreak of true friendship.Los Angeles, Present Day. When an iconic hat worn by Sca...

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Published: Jan 2016

Queen Lucia (Mapp and Lucia)

E. F. Benson

England between the wars was a paradise of calm and leisure for the very, very rich. Into this enclave is born Mrs. Emmeline Lucas—La Lucia, as she is known—a woman determined to lead a life quite different from the subdued formal...

Abridged CD
Published: Jul 2011

On a Cold Dark Sea

Elizabeth Blackwell

On April 15, 1912, three women climbed into Lifeboat 21 and watched in horror as the Titanic sank into the icy depths. They were strangers then…Con artist Charlotte Digby lied her way through London and onto the Titanic. The disaste...

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Published: Apr 2018

The Last September

Elizabeth Bowen

The Last September is Elizabeth Bowen's portrait of a young woman's coming of age in a brutalized time and place, where the ordinariness of life floats like music over the impending doom of history.In 1920, at their country home in Co...

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Published: Mar 2000

The Cavendon Women

Barbara Taylor Bradford

Cavendon Women, the stunning sequel to Barbara Taylor Bradford's Cavendon Hall follows the Inghams' and the Swanns' journey from a family weekend in the summer of 1926 through to the devastation of the Wall Street crash of 1929.  ...

Unabridged CD
Published: Mar 2015

Honolulu

Alan Brennert

From the bestselling author of the "dazzling historical saga" (The Washington Post), Moloka'i, comes the irresistible story of a young immigrant bride in a ramshackle town that becomes a great modern city "In Korea in t...

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Published: Feb 2010

The Secret Chord: A Novel

Geraldine Brooks

"A page turner. . .Brooks is a master at bringing the past alive. . .in her skillful hands the issues of the past echo our own deepest concerns:  love and loss, drama and tragedy, chaos and brutality." – Alice Hoffman, Th...

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Published: Oct 2016

The Miniaturist: A Novel

Jessie Burton

[Read by Davina Porter] ''There is nothing hidden that will not be revealed . . . '' On a brisk autumn day in 1686, eighteen-year-old Nella Oortman arrives in Amsterdam to begin a new life as the wife of illustrious merchant trader Jo...

Unabridged CD
Published: Aug 2014

Hall of Secrets

Cate Campbell

For generations, the Benedicts have been one of Seattle's most distinguished families, residing in the splendid Queen Anne mansion known as Benedict Hall amid a host of loyal servants. But the dawn of the 1920s and the aftermath of th...

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Published: Jan 2014

Sword of Kings CD: A Novel (Saxon Tal...

Bernard Cornwell

The twelfth installment of Bernard Cornwell’s bestselling Saxon Tales series chronicling the epic story of the making of England, “like Game of Thrones, but real” (The Observer, London)—the basis for the hit Netflix series The...

Unabridged CD
Published: Nov 2019

The Leopard (Modern fiction)

Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa

Elegiac, bittersweet and profoundly moving, The Leopard chronicles the turbulent transformation of the Risorgimento, in the period of Italian Unification. The waning feudal authority of the elegant and stately Prince of Salina is pitt...

Unabridged CD
Published: Nov 2009

The Scottish Prisoner (Lord John)

Diana Gabaldon

Includes a preview of the new novel in the Outlander series."This could be the worthy Lord John Grey's breakout novel, as readers are treated to large dollops of Outlander hero Jamie Fraser. . . . The strong chemistry between the...

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Published: May 2012

Jeremy Poldark: A Novel of Cornwall, ...

Winston Graham

Book 3 of the beloved Poldark novels, now the subject of a forthcoming major new series on Masterpiece™ on PBS®Ross Poldark faces the darkest hour of his life in this third novel of the Poldark series. Reeling from the tragic de...

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Published: Aug 2015

Conclave: A novel

Robert Harris

The best-selling author of Enigma and Fatherland turns to today's Vatican in a ripped-from-the-headlines novel, and gives us his most ambitious, page-turning thriller yet--where the power of God is nearly equaled by the ambition of me...

Unabridged CD
Published: Nov 2016

Circe

Madeline Miller

"A bold and subversive retelling of the goddess's story," this #1 New York Times bestseller "manages to be both epic and intimate in its scope, recasting the most infamous female figure from the Odyssey as a hero in her...

Unabridged CD
Published: Apr 2018

The Unknown Shore

Patrick O'Brian

The Unknown Shore, a sort-of sequel to The Golden Ocean, is a fascinating blue-print for the Aubrey-Maturin series. We follow Jack Byron and Tobias Barrow, two unlikely neighbors and fast friends in whom we catch glimpses of the her...

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Published: Oct 1996

The Gown: A Novel of the Royal Weddin...

Jennifer Robson

"The Gown is marvelous and moving, a vivid portrait of female self-reliance in a world racked by the cost of war."--Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author of The Alice NetworkFrom the internationally bestselling auth...

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Published: Dec 2018

Winter in Madrid

C. J. Sansom

A popular mystery writer breaks out with this page-turning international bestseller set in post-Civil War Spain September 1940: the Spanish Civil War is over, Madrid lies in ruin, while the Germans continue their march through Europe,...

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Published: Feb 2009

Anya

Susan Fromberg Schaeffer

ANYA SAVIKIN lived among well-to-do Russian Jews in Poland, in a world more like Tolstoy's than our own, until the first bombing of Warsaw and the chaos that ensued. Her story incarnates the strength and love of eastern European Jewry...

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Published: Feb 2004

City of Schemes (A Counterfeit Lady N...

Victoria Thompson

Elizabeth Miles is preparing for her wedding to Gideon Bates, when a menacing shadow from her past threatens to destroy the life she has built for herself in this all-new Counterfeit Lady Novel from USA Today bestselling author Victor...

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Published: Nov 2021

The Wise Woman

Philippa Gregory

In this book, originally published after her bestselling debut with the Wideacre trilogy, New York Times bestselling author Philippa Gregory takes readers to Henry VIII's England, on a journey to the outer reaches of passion, where ma...

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Published: May 2008

Empress Orchid

Anchee Min

EMPRESS ORCHID is the story of one of the concubines of the Chinese emperor in the last days of the Ch'ing dynasty. Though she is only 17, Orchid rises in the emperor's favor until, as the empire falls, she finds herself in the positi...

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Published: Apr 2005
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