Historical - General

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Obasan

Joy Kogawa

Based on the author's own experiences, this award-winning novel was the first to tell the story of the evacuation, relocation, and dispersal of Canadian citizens of Japanese ancestry during the Second World War.

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Published: Dec 1993

The Lost Girls of Paris

Pam Jenoff

Cosmopolitan best book club book of 2019PopSugar must-read book of 2019"Fraught with danger, filled with mystery, and meticulously researched, The Lost Girls of Paris is a fascinating tale of the hidden women who helped to win th...

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Published: Feb 2019

The Widow's War

Sally Gunning

When Lyddie Berry's husband is lost in a whaling disaster, she becomes the dependent of her nearest male relative, her ruthless son-in-law, who tries to take everything she and her husband had worked for, but as Lyddie's social and le...

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Published: Feb 2007

Luncheon of the Boating Party

Susan Vreeland

A vivid exploration of one of the most beloved Renoir paintings in the world, "done with a flourish worthy of Renoir himself" (USA Today) With her richly textured novels, Susan Vreeland has offered pioneering portraits of a...

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Published: Mar 2008

The Second Mrs. Astor: A Heartbreakin...

Shana Abe

"Abé is an exquisite storyteller....deeply moving." —Fiona Davis, New York Times bestselling author of The Lions of Fifth Avenue Inspired by the scandalous real-life love story between America's richest man and teenage ...

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Published: Aug 2021

The Queen's Governess

Karen Harper

The national bestselling author of Mistress Shakespeare delivers the epic tale of Elizabeth I's most trusted companion-a commoner who lived among royals... Katherine Ashley, the clever, beguiling daughter of a poor country beekeeper,...

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Published: Aug 2011

Under the Wide and Starry Sky: A Nove...

Nancy Horan

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • TODAY SHOW BOOK CLUB PICKLook for special features inside. Join the Random House Reader's Circle for author chats and more.From Nancy Horan, New York Times bestselling author of Loving Frank, comes her m...

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Published: Sep 2014

Read Pink A Bride Unveiled: The Brida...

Jillian Hunter

Miss Violet Knowlton knows the dangerous boy she watches in secret from her window is someone a proper young lady should avoid. Yet temptation overcomes her. Kit scoffs at her offer of friendship-until slowly, her innocent trust open...

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Published: Oct 2011

Angels Watching Over Me (Shenandoah S...

Michael Phillips

Two girls in 1860s North Carolina--a slave girl and a plantation owner's daughter--are the only survivors of a devastating raid. They join forces, relying on God (and the plantation's untouched livestock and crops) to see them through...

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Published: Jan 2003

Train

Pete Dexter

Quietly navigating his way between his hostile patrons and brutal fellow workers in 1953 Los Angeles, African-American caddy Train finds an unexpected ally in a police detective who encourages Train's ambitions and oversees a case inv...

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Published: Feb 2005

Fate & Fortune

Fern Michaels

Dear Reader,I’ve been lucky enough to share my stories with you for over forty years, and those first books occupy a special place in my heart. Vixen in Velvet and Whitefire are two of my earliest stories, and I am so happy to have ...

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Published: May 2018

The Dream Lover: A Novel

Elizabeth Berg

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY USA TODAY • Elizabeth Berg has written a lush historical novel based on the sensuous Parisian life of the nineteenth-century writer George Sand—which ...

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Published: Mar 2016

The Sheen on the Silk

Anne Perry

New York Times bestselling novelist Anne Perry, the undisputed Queen of Victorian mysteries and the author of an acclaimed series set during World War I, now broadens her canvas with her first major stand-alone book—an epic historic...

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Published: Jan 2011

All the Queen's Players

Jane Feather

At Queen Elizabeth's palace, intrigue abounds. And when a naive girl with a gift for keen observation enters the court, she can hardly imagine the role she will play in bringing England—indeed, the whole of Europe—to the brink of ...

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Published: Apr 2010

America's First Daughter

Stephanie Dray

In a compelling, richly researched novel that draws from thousands of letters and original sources, bestselling authors Stephanie Dray and Laura Kamoie tell the fascinating, untold story of Thomas Jefferson's eldest daughter, Martha &...

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Published: Mar 2016

Kiss Carlo: A Novel

Adriana Trigiani

From Adriana Trigiani, the beloved New York Times-bestselling author of The Shoemaker's Wife, comes an exhilarating epic novel of love, loyalty, and creativity—the story of an Italian-American family on the cusp of change.It's 19...

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Published: Jan 2018

The Light of Luna Park

Addison Armstrong

In the spirit of The Orphan Train and Before We Were Yours, a historical debut about a nurse who chooses to save a baby's life, and risks her own in the process, exploring the ties of motherhood and the little-known history of Coney ...

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Published: Aug 2021

A Treacherous Paradise (Vintage)

Henning Mankell

In 1904, Hanna Renstrom boards a ship bound for Australia hoping to escape the cold and poverty that have dominated her life in Sweden. Her harrowing journey lands her in Portuguese East Africa, a world where colonialism and white col...

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Published: May 2014

The Queen of Bedlam

Robert McCammon

His epic masterwork Speaks the Nightbird, a tour de force of witchhunt terror in a colonial town, was hailed by Sandra Brown as 'deeplysatisfying...told with matchless insight into the human soul.' Now, Robert McCammon brings the hero...

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Published: Oct 2007

The Rose Code: A Novel

Kate Quinn

“The reigning queen of historical fiction” —  Fiona Davis, New York Times bestselling author of The Lions of Fifth Avenue   The New York Times and USA Todaybestselling author of The Hunt...

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Published: Mar 2021

Once We Were Brothers

Ronald H. Balson

The gripping tale about two boys, once as close as brothers, who find themselves on opposite sides of the Holocaust.Elliot Rosenzweig, a respected civic leader and wealthy philanthropist, is attending a fundraiser when he is suddenl...

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Published: Oct 2013

Checkmate: Sixth in the Legendary Lym...

Dorothy Dunnett

For the first time Dunnett's Lymond Chronicles are available in the United States in quality paperback editions.Sixth in the legendary Lymond Chronicles, Checkmate takes place in 1557, where Francis Crawford of Lymond is once again in...

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Published: Sep 1997

Troy: Fall of Kings

David Gemmell

Darkness falls on the Great Green, and the Ancient World is fiercely divided.On the killing fields outside the golden city of Troy, forces loyal to the Mykene King mass. Among them is Odysseus, fabled storyteller and reluctant ally to...

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Published: Mar 2009

The Silver Witch: A Novel

Paula Brackston

A year after her husband's sudden death, ceramic artist Tilda Fordwells finally moves into the secluded Welsh cottage that was to be their new home. She hopes that the tranquil surroundings will help ease her grief, and lessen her dis...

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Published: Feb 2016

The Magic of Ordinary Days

Ann Howard Creel

The powerful story of one woman's passion in a world at war. Olivia Dunne, a studious minister's daughter who dreams of becoming an archaeologist, never thought that the drama of World War II would affect her quiet life in Denver. But...

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Published: Aug 2011

The Room on Rue Amélie

Kristin Harmel

A moving and entrancing novel set in Paris during World War II about an American woman, a dashing pilot, and a young Jewish girl whose fates unexpectedly entwine—perfect for the fans of Kristen Hannah's The Nightingale and Martha Ha...

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Published: Oct 2018

Heartstone: A Matthew Shardlake Tudor...

C. J. Sansom

The clever plotting and brilliantly evoked world of Heartstone-the fifth Matthew Shardlake mystery from bestselling author C. J. Sansom-will dazzle both mystery fans and Tudor history buffs. Summer 1545. A massive French armada is t...

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Published: Jan 2012

The Orphan Collector

Ellen Marie Wiseman

From the internationally bestselling author ofWhat She Left Behind, a powerful tale of upheaval, resilience and hope set in Philadelphia during the 1918 Spanish Flu outbreak--the deadly pandemic that went on to infect one-third of the...

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Published: Jul 2020

Eye of the Needle: A Novel

Ken Follett

The worldwide phenomenon from the bestselling author of The Pillars of the Earth, World Without End, and A Column of FireHis code name was "The Needle." He was a German aristocrat of extraordinary intelligence—a master spy...

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Published: Oct 2017

People of the Longhouse (North Americ...

W. Michael Gear

Six hundred years ago in what would become the northeastern United States and southeastern Canada, five Iroquois tribes were locked in bitter warfare. From the ashes of violence, a great Peacemaker was born…Young Odion and his littl...

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Published: Feb 2011
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