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The Big Money (U.S.A.)

John Passos

The Big Money completes John Dos Passos's three-volume "fable of America's materialistic success and moral decline" (American Heritage) and marks the end of "one of the most ambitious projects that an American novelist ...

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Published: Dec 2010

The Virgin's Knot

Holly Payne

She is called Nurdane, the famed weaver of Mavisu. From her remote mountain village in southwestern Turkey, she creates dowries for young brides: dazzling rugs that are marvels of shape and color, texture and light. Her unique rugs po...

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Published: Aug 2015

Dear Mrs. Bird

A. J. Pearce

"A marvelous treat. Charming and delightful." --Nina Stibbe, author of Love, NinaAn irresistible debut set in London during World War II about an adventurous young woman who becomes a secret advice columnist-- a warm, funny,...

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Published: Jul 2018

Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the B...

Steven Pressfield

Gates of Fire puts you at the side of valiant Spartan warriors in 480 BC for the bloody, climactic battle at Thermopylae. There, a few hundred of Sparta's finest sacrificed their lives to hold back the invading Persian millions. The t...

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Published: Aug 2015

Amanda Quick Collection 2: Second Sig...

Amanda Quick

Second Sight: Venetia Milton thought her stay at the remote, ramshackle Arcane House would be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to engineer her own ravishment. She was there to photograph the relics and artifacts collected by a highly...

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Published: Dec 2011

Bridge to Haven

Francine Rivers

To those who matter in 1950s Hollywood, Lena Scott is the hottest rising star to hit the silver screen since Marilyn Monroe. Few know her real name is Abra. Even fewer know the price she' s paid to finally feel like she' s somebody. T...

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Published: Apr 2014

The Black Swan of Paris

Karen Robards

A celebrated singer in WWII occupied France joins the Resistance to save her estranged family from being killed in a German prison. In Occupied France, the Resistance trembles on the brink of destruction. Its operatives, its secrets,...

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Published: Jun 2020

The Girl from Guernica

Karen Robards

Inspired by Picasso’s great masterpiece, Guernica, New York Times bestselling author Karen Robards returns with a riveting story of intrigue, deception and bravery in the face of war… On an April day in 1937, the sky open...

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Published: Sep 2022

The Library of Light and Shadow: A No...

M. J. Rose

In the wake of a dark and brutal war, the glitz and glamour of 1925 Manhattan shine like a beacon for the high-society set who are desperate to keep their gaze firmly fixed toward the future. But Delphine Duplessi sees more than most....

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Published: Jul 2017

The Library of Light and Shadow: A No...

M. J. Rose

In the wake of a dark and brutal war, the glitz and glamour of 1925 Manhattan shine like a beacon for the high-society set who are desperate to keep their gaze firmly fixed toward the future. But Delphine Duplessi sees more than most....

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Published: Jul 2017

The Folded Earth

Anuradha Roy

For Maya, a young widow trying to escape her complicated past, teaching school in a secluded mountain village offers a promise of peace. Here she feels close to the calm heart of the land, where lush foothills meet clear skies. In the...

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Published: Apr 2012

The Chilbury Ladies' Choir: A Novel

Jennifer Ryan

"Just because the men have gone to war, why do we have to close the choir? And precisely when we need it most!"   As England enters World War II's dark early days, spirited music professor Primrose Trent, recently arrived...

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Published: Feb 2017

The Spies of Shilling Lane: A Novel

Jennifer Ryan

From the bestselling author of The Chilbury Ladies' Choir comes a thrilling new WWII story about a village busybody—the mighty Mrs. Braithwaite—who resolves to find, and then rescue, her missing daughter  Mrs. Braithwaite, self...

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Published: Jun 2019

Loyalty

Lisa Scottoline

#1 bestselling author Lisa Scottoline presents Loyalty, an emotional, action-packed epic of love and justice, set during the rise of the Mafia in Sicily. Loyalty can save a soul—or destroy one.     Fra...

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Published: Mar 2023

The Smoke at Dawn: A Novel of the Civ...

Jeff Shaara

New York Times bestselling author Jeff Shaara returns to the Civil War terrain he knows so well, with the latest novel in the series that started with A Blaze of Glory and A Chain of Thunder. In The Smoke at Dawn, the last great push ...

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Published: May 2014

To Wake the Giant: A Novel of Pearl H...

Jeff Shaara

The New York Timesbestselling master of military historical fiction tells the story of Pearl Harbor as only he can in the first novel of a gripping new series set in World War II's Pacific theater. In 1941, President Franklin D. Ro...

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Published: May 2020

Birds of Prey

Wilbur Smith

A simple mission. A battle for their lives.  \n\nIt is 1667, and the war between the Dutch and the English continues apace. Sir Francis Courtney, his son Hal and their crew are carried around the southern tip of the African ...

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Published: Dec 2020

Blue Horizon (Courtney, 11)

Wilbur Smith

Jim sprang back on to the truck of the violently rocking wagon and stared across at Manatasee. She saw him and pointed her assegai at his face. Then he saw the length of slow-match had been exposed across the last yard of trampled ear...

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Published: Mar 2021

The Tiger's Prey: A Novel of Adventur...

Wilbur Smith

The New York Times bestselling author of Desert God and Pharaoh adds another chapter to his popular historical saga featuring the seafaring Tom Courtney, the hero of Monsoon and Blue Horizon, with this magnificent swashbuckli...

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Published: Oct 2017

The Tiger's Prey: A Novel of Adventur...

Wilbur Smith

The New York Times bestselling author of Desert God and Pharaoh adds another chapter to his popular historical saga featuring the seafaring Tom Courtney, the hero of Monsoon and Blue Horizon, with this magnificent swashbuckli...

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Published: Oct 2017

The Lotus Eaters

Tatjana Soli

It's 1975, and the North Vietnamese army is poised to roll into Saigon. As the city falls into chaos, two lovers make their way across the city to escape to a new life. Helen Adams, an American photojournalist, must take leave of a de...

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Published: Mar 2010

The Confusion (Baroque Cycle)

Neal Stephenson

In the year 1689, a cabal of Barbary galley slaves — including one Jack Shaftoe, aka King of the Vagabonds, aka Half-Cocked Jack — devises a daring plan to win freedom and fortune. A great adventure ensues — a perilous race for ...

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Published: Oct 2012

Coronation Summer

Angela Mackail/ May Thirkell

This witty historical novel follows 17-year-old Fanny's journey to London for the six weeks of coronation festivities in the summer of 1838, when young Victoria assumes the throne in England. Happily the pomp and pageantry of London d...

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Published: May 2002

Saint Patrick's Battalion

James Alexander Thom

A stirring fictional account of the amazing real-life story of John Riley, an Irishman who led his men to desert the American military during the Mexican-American War, as seen through the eyes of two memorable narrators.

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Published: Nov 2006

All the Stars in the Heavens Low Pric...

Adriana Trigiani

The movie business is booming in 1935 when twenty-one-year-old Loretta Young meets thirty-four-year-old Clark Gable on the set of The Call of the Wild. Though he's already married, Gable falls for the stunning and vivacious young actr...

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Published: Jul 2016

Joan of Arc

Mark Twain

Twain himself said, "I like Joan of Arc best among all my books." A deeply serious work celebrating the life of Joan and portraying, in the Maid, Twain's ideal of the True Woman.

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Published: Nov 2010

The Last Hours

Minette Walters

In an exciting new direction from an established author, bestselling British author Minette Walters brings her trademark suspense to a vivid historical novel that dramatizes the arrival of the Black Death in England in 1348 and the so...

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Published: Aug 2018

The New Countess (Habits of the House...

Fay Weldon

From the award-winning novelist and writer of Upstairs Downstairs, the third book in a brilliant trilogy about what life was really like for masters and servants before the world of Downton Abbey.England, 1903. Lord Robert and Lady I...

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Published: Dec 2013

The English Wife: A Novel

Lauren Willig

"A dark, romantic mystery full of twists and turns." ― Kirkus ReviewsFrom New York Times bestselling author Lauren Willig comes a scandalous audiobook set in the Gilded Age, full of family secrets, affairs, and murder. The...

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Published: Jan 2018

The Other Daughter: A Novel

Lauren Willig

Raised by her widowed mother in genteel poverty in the 1920s in an isolated English village, for the past six years Rachel Woodley has been working in France as a nursery governess. When her mother unexpectedly dies, she returns to En...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jun 2015
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