Historical - General

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The Tudor Secret (The Elizabeth I Spy...

C. W. Gortner

Summer 1553: A time of danger and deceit. Brendan Prescott, an orphan, is reared in the household of the powerful Dudley family. Brought to court, he finds himself sent on an illicit mission to the King's brilliant but enigmatic siste...

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Published: Feb 2011

Lady Macbeth

Susan Fraser King

I am granddaughter to a king and daughter to a prince, a wife twice over, a queen as well. I have fought with sword and bow, and struggled fierce to bear my babes into this world. I have loved deeply and hated deeply, too. Lady Gruad...

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Published: Apr 2009

The Golden Tulip

Rosalind Laker

Francesca’s father is a well-known painter in the bustling port city of Amsterdam; he is also a gambler. Though their household is in economic chaos, thankfully the lessons she learned in his studio have prepared her to study wi...

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Published: Nov 2007

Charity Girl

Michael Lowenthal

During World War I, seventeen-year-old Frieda Mintz secures a job at a Boston department store and strikes out on her own, escaping her repressive Jewish mother and marriage to a wealthy widower twice her age. Determined to find love ...

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Published: Jan 2008

Fortune's Favorites

Colleen McCullough

They were blessed by the gods at birth with wealth and privilege. In a time of cataclysmic upheaval, a bold new generation of Romans vied for greatness amid the disintegrating remnants of their beloved Republic. But there was one who ...

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Published: Nov 2008

The Water Devil: A Margaret of Ashbur...

Judith Merkle Riley

Returning to England after rescuing her husband, Gregory, from his French captors, Margaret turns to old friend Brother Malechi to help her save her young daughter from an unwanted marriage brokered by Gregory's meddling father, a sit...

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Published: Jan 2007

Walkers of the Wind (First Americans ...

William Sarabande

Mesmerizing, dramatic, unsurpasses in scope and suthenticity, this is the fourth exciting volume of the magnificent new series THE FIRST AMERICANS, which began with Beyond the Sea of Ice and continued with Corridor of Storms and Forbi...

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Published: Aug 1990

No Less Than Victory of World War II

Jeff Shaara

After the success at Normandy, the Allied commanders are confident that the war in Europe will soon be over. But in December 1944, in the Ardennes Forest, the Germans launch a ruthless counteroffensive that begins the Battle of the Bu...

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Published: May 2010

The Last Enchantment (The Arthurian S...

Mary Stewart

Arthur Pendragon is King! Unchallenged on the battlefield, he melds the country together in a time of promise. But sinister powers plot to destroy Camelot, and when the witch-queen Morgause -- Arthur's own half sister -- ensnares him ...

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Published: May 2003

The Red Heart

James Alexander Thom

great condition.

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Published: Sep 1998

In the Presence of Mine Enemies

Harry Turtledove

In a novel of alternative history, Germany has won World War II, and in the twenty-first century rules most of Europe and North America, but beneath an Aryan facade, Jews survive within the Nazi regime, hoping not to be detected. Repr...

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Published: Nov 2004

Lady Katherne's Wild Ride (Signet Ecl...

Jeane Westin

Accused of murdering her lecherous uncle, Lady Katherne Lindsay, to avoid a death sentence, masquerades as an actress with the help of handsome actor and notorious womanizer Jeremy Hughes, whom she wants to play a leading role in her ...

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Published: Aug 2006

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

War Brides

Helen Bryan

With war threatening to spread from Europe to England, the sleepy village of Crowmarsh Priors settles into a new sort of normal: Evacuees from London are billeted in local homes. Nightly air raids become grimly mundane. The tighten...

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Published: Jun 2012

Gentlemen of the Road: A Tale of Adve...

Michael Chabon

Michael Chabon's Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, sprang from an early passion for the derring-do and larger-than-life heroes of classic comic books. Now, once more mining the rich past, Ch...

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Published: Sep 2008

The Scarlet Lion

Elizabeth Chadwick

A page-turning novel of honor, intrigue, treachery, and love, continuing the story of England's greatest knight of the Middle Ages, William Marshal. Bestselling author Elizabeth Chadwick, "an author who makes historical fiction c...

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Published: Mar 2010

The Empty Throne: A Novel (Saxon Tale...

Bernard Cornwell

This eighth entry in New York Times bestselling author Bernard Cornwell's epic Saxon Tales series brings to life the harrowing and turbulent tale of a nation torn apart by sectarian and religious strife, a political struggle dominated...

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Published: Jan 2016

To Be Queen of the Early Life of Elea...

Christy English

The author of The Queen's Pawn delves into the early life of the legendary Eleanor of Aquitaine in her new historical novel. After her father's sudden death, fifteen-year-old Eleanor is quickly crowned Duchess of Aquitaine and betrot...

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Published: Apr 2011

The Gods of Gotham

Lyndsay Faye

1845: New York City forms its first police force. The great potato famine hits Ireland. These two events will change New York City forever… Timothy Wilde tends bar, saving every dollar in hopes of winning the girl of his dreams. Bu...

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Published: Mar 2013

On a Highland Shore

Kathleen Givens

In an age when Norse invaders threaten Scottish civilization, one woman will defend her clan's honor and claim her own exceptional destiny.1263: As the Highland village of Somerstrath prepares for the joyous wedding of Margaret MacDon...

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Published: Jul 2006

Where the Lost Wander: A Novel

Amy Harmon

In this epic and haunting love story set on the Oregon Trail, a family and their unlikely protector find their way through peril, uncertainty, and loss. The Overland Trail, 1853: Naomi May never expected to be widowed at twenty. Eage...

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Published: Apr 2020

Mistress of Mourning

Karen Harper

In a gripping historical novel of suspense and romance from the national bestselling author of The Queen's Governess, two women fight to defeat the enemies of the precarious Tudor monarchy by uncovering the secrets of the dead...div ...

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Published: Jul 2012

The Queen's Lady

Barbara Kyle

London, 1527. Marry or serve: for Honor Larke, the choice is clear. Unwilling to perish of boredom as an obedient wife, she leaves the home of her ward, the brilliant Sir Thomas More, to attend Her Majesty, Queen Catherine of Aragon. ...

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Published: Aug 2008

A Spectacle of Corruption

David Liss

I sentence you, Mr. Weaver, to be hanged for the most horrible crime of murder.' Hearing that judicial decree, Benjamin Weaver--former pugilist, current 'thief-taker,' and future master of disguise--begins one of the sorriest days of ...

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Published: Nov 2004

The Captive Queen of Scots

Jean Plaidy

A fictional portrait of the doomed Mary Stuart follows the beautiful, clever, and Catholic queen of Scotland from her return to a Protestant Scotland from France, through her disastrous marriages, to the intrigues and political machin...

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Published: Nov 2006

The Oracle Glass

Judith Merkle Riley

"Absorbing and arresting." —New York Times "Fascinating and factual." —Los Angeles Times "Chilly, witty, and completely engrossing ... great, good fun." — Kirkus Reviews "An outstanding histori...

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Published: Nov 2012

The Fire Kimono: A Thriller (Sano Ich...

Laura Joh Rowland

Japan, March 1700. The strife between Sano Ichiro, the samurai detective who has risen to power in the shogun's court, and his enemies has escalated to the brink of war.When a long-buried skeleton with mysterious links to the sho...

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Published: Sep 2009

Dreamers of the Day

Mary Doria Russell

"I suppose I ought to warn you at the outset that my present circumstances are puzzling, even to me. Nevertheless, I am sure of this much: My little story has become your history. You won't really understand your times until you ...

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Published: Dec 2008

Never Kiss a Rake

Anne Stuart

Anguished by death. Driven by revenge. Bryony Russell and her two sisters are left destitute by the disgrace and unexpected death of their father, a wealthy shipping magnate. He left a cryptic note, and Bryony is determined to find th...

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Published: Aug 2013

The Secret History: A Novel of Empres...

Stephanie Thornton

Where Theodora went, trouble followed…. In sixth-centuryConstantinople, one woman, Theodora, defied every convention and all the odds and rose from common theater tart to empress of a great kingdom, the most powerful woman the Roman...

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Published: Jul 2013
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