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An Assembly Such as This of Fitzwilli...

Pamela Aidan

A first installment of a trilogy based on Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice is told from the perspective of Darcy, begins with his observations of the Bennet family during a disastrous Netherfield Park ball, and offers insight i...

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Published: May 2006

The Virgin Blue

Tracy Chevalier

This first novel by the author of GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING is about Ella, an American woman, and her husband, Rick, who move to France, to the town where Ella's ancestors lived centuries ago.As Ella tries to settle in, she has a drea...

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Published: Jun 2003

The Masque of the Black Tulip

Lauren Willig

When a London War Office courier is murdered for the confidential dispatch he carried for an elusive spy known as the Pink Carnation, Henrietta Uppington and Miles Dorrington decipher a secret message and work with the War Office to p...

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Published: Nov 2006

The Hidden Diary of Marie Antoinette

Carolly Erickson

Awaiting her execution, Marie Antoinette writes the story of her life from her prison cell, in a diary that describes her privileged childhood as an Austrian archduchess, years as the glamorous mistress of Versailles, love affair with...

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Published: Aug 2006

Princess: (Book 2 in the Ascension Tr...

Gaelen Foley

Dear Reader,I'm so proud to introduce Gaelen Foley, a captivating new writer who will sweep you away with this unforgettable story of forbidden love and wondrous destiny.Darius Santiago is the King's most trusted man, a master spy and...

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Published: Jun 1999

The Last Wife of Henry VIII

Carolly Erickson

From the bestselling and critically acclaimed author of The Hidden Diary of Marie Antoinette comes a powerful new novel about Catherine Parr, The Last Wife of Henry VIII. The least known of Henry VIII's six wives was the cleverest of ...

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Published: Apr 2007

These Three Remain of Fitzwilliam Dar...

Pamela Aidan

A concluding installment to the best-selling trilogy follows Darcy's journey of self-discovery after Elizabeth Bennet's rejection of his marriage proposal, a period during which he hopes to renew his suit and finds his resolve tested ...

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Published: Jan 2007

Nefertiti

Michelle Moran

Nefertiti and her younger sister, Mutnodjmet, have been raised in a powerful family that has provided wives to the rulers of Egypt for centuries. Ambitious, charismatic, and beautiful, Nefertiti is destined to marry Amunhotep, an unst...

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Published: May 2008

The Courts of Love: The Story of Elea...

Jean Plaidy

When I look back over my long and tempestuous life, I can see that much of what happened to me—my triumphs and most of my misfortunes—was due to my passionate relationships with men. I was a woman who considered herself th...

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Published: May 2006

Cleopatra's Daughter

Michelle Moran

The marriage of Marc Antony and Cleopatra is one of the greatest love stories of all time, a tale of unbridled passion with earth-shaking political consequences. Feared and hunted by the powers in Rome, the lovers choose to die by the...

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Published: Jul 2010

The Bastard (Kent Family Chronicles, ...

John Jakes

The illegitimate son of a British nobleman journeys to America where he finds a true passion for life under the tutelage of Benjamin Franklin and works at a printing house where he discovers the radical writings of Sam Adams, leading ...

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Published: Jan 2004

Moloka'i

Alan Brennert

Dreaming of far-off lands away from her loving 1890s Honolulu home, seven-year-old Rachel is forcibly removed from her family when she contracts leprosy and is placed in a settlement, where she loses a series of new friends before new...

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Published: Oct 2004

Courtesan

Diane Haeger

Widow Diane de Poitiers, the mistress to King Henri II of France, is smitten by her royal lover, but she can never publicly acknowledge her feelings, especially after his marriage to Catherine de Medici, in a fictional account of a re...

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Published: Jul 2006

The Seekers (The Kent Family Chronicl...

John Jakes

Returning to Boston, Abraham Kent, who had helped pacify the Indian threat on the frontier, finds himself unable to follow the path chosen for him by his controlling father and sets out on a perilous journey to the West, along with hi...

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Published: Jul 2004

The Winter King (The Arthur Books #1)...

Bernard Cornwell

It takes a remarkable writer to make an old story as fresh and compelling as the first time we heard it. With The Winter King, the first volume of his magnificent Warlord Chronicles, Bernard Cornwell finally turns to the story he was ...

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Published: Apr 1997

The Song of Achilles

Madeline Miller

“At once a scholar’s homage to The Iliad and startlingly original work of art by an incredibly talented new novelist….A book I could not put down.”—Ann Patchett“Mary Renault lives again!” declares Emma Donoghue, author o...

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Published: Nov 2012

The Temptation of the Night Jasmine (...

Lauren Willig

Unabridged CDs • 11 CDs, 14 hours The much- anticipated fifth installment in the inventive and original Pink Carnation series.

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Published: Jan 2010

The True Story of Hansel and Gretel

Louise Murphy

A retelling of the classic fairy tale, set in Nazi-occupied Poland, follows two Jewish children, left by their father and stepmother to seek refuge in a dense forest, as they wander the woods until being taken in by Magda, an eccentri...

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Published: Jul 2003

The Hunter: A Highland Guard Novel

Monica McCarty

The war for Scotland's freedom continues as King Robert the Bruce battles on. At his command is an elite army of trained warriors, soldiers dedicated to their king, their country—and to the remarkable women they love.  Prized for h...

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Published: Jun 2013

Dragon's Lair (Ballantine Reader's Ci...

Sharon Kay Penman

July 1193. King Richard Lionheart lies in a German prison, held for ransom by the emperor. His mother, Dowager Queen Eleanor, ransacks England for gold to buy his freedom, while his younger brother, John, plots with King Philippe of F...

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Published: Nov 2004

The Crystal Cave (The Arthurian Saga,...

Mary Stewart

Born the bastard son of a Welsh princess, Myridden Emrys -- or as he would later be known, Merlin -- leads a perilous childhood, haunted by portents and visions. But destiny has great plans for this no-man's-son, taking him from proph...

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Published: May 2003

My Lady of Cleves of Henry VIII and A...

Margaret Campbell Barnes

My Lady of Cleves reveals the mesmerizing story of Anne of Cleves, Henry VIII's fourth wife, one of the rare women who matched wits successfully with the fiery king and lived to tell the tale. Written by world-renowned historical nove...

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Published: Sep 2008

The Burning Land

Bernard Cornwell

In a clash of heroes, the kingdom is born. At the end of the ninth century, King Alfred of Wessex is in ill health; his heir, an untested youth. His enemy, the Danes, having failed to conquer Wessex, now see their chance for victory...

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Published: Sep 2010

Mr. Darcy, Vampyre

Amanda Grange

Sourcebooks Landmark, the leading publisher of Jane Austen-related fiction, is excited to announce a major release: Mr. Darcy, Vampyre by international bestselling author Amanda Grange. Amanda Grange, bestselling author of Mr. Darcy's...

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Published: Aug 2009

The Warriors (The Kent Family Chronic...

John Jakes

The Kent Family Chronicles continue as Confederate Corporal Jeremiah Kent carries out his commander's dying request-while the Union Army ravages Georgia.

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Published: Jan 2005

The Betrayal of the Blood Lily: A Pin...

Lauren Willig

A New York Times extended list bestseller in hardcover-the sensational sixth book in the national bestselling Pink Carnation series. Whisked away to nineteenth-century India, Penelope Deveraux plunges into the court intrigues of the ...

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Published: Jan 2011

The Secret Diary of Anne Boleyn

Robin Maxwell

In this 'energetic' (Kirkus Reviews) re-creation of Anne Boleyn's tragic life -- and death -- Robin Maxwell offers a pitch-perfect version of a bawdy and exuberant time filled with lust, betrayal, love, and murder.When the young Q...

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Published: May 1998

Virgin: Prelude to the Throne

Robin Maxwell

...a riveting portrait of Elizabeth I as a romantic and vulnerable teenager, dangerously awakening to a perilous liaison with the wrong man. England, 1547: King Henry is dead. Elizabeth's half-brother, nine-year-old Edward, is king i...

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Published: Jul 2002

Chesapeake

James A. Michener

A panoramic narrative of human and animal life on Maryland's Eastern Shore focuses on a ten-square-mile area at the mouth of the Choptank River and the families that settle there, from the early seventeenth century to the present day....

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Published: Sep 2003

The Hollow Hills (The Arthurian Saga,...

Mary Stewart

Keeping watch over the young Arthur Pendragon, the prince and prophet Merlin Ambrosius is haunted by dreams of the magical sword Caliburn, which has been hidden for centuries. When Uther Pendragon is killed in battle, the time of dest...

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Published: May 2003
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