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The Women in the Castle: A Novel

Jessica Shattuck

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER  •  FEATURING AN EXCLUSIVE NEW CHAPTERGoodReads Choice Awards Semifinalist "Moving . . . a plot that surprises and devastates."—New York Times Book Review"A masterful epic.&quo...

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Published: Jan 2018

The Underground Railroad: A Novel

Colson Whitehead

Winner of the Pulitzer PrizeWinner of the National Book AwardWinner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in FictionLonglisted for the Man Booker PrizeWinner of the Arthur C. Clarke AwardFinalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Pr...

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Published: Jan 2018

Rasputin's Daughter

Robert Alexander

Interrogated by the provisional government of revolutionary Russia on the details of her father's death, Maria, the daughter of Rasputin, remembers her father's powerful influence over the throne, her struggles over the discovery of h...

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Published: Jan 2007

What Alice Knew: A Most Curious Tale ...

Paula Marantz Cohen

A fun and clever literary reinterpretation, with Henry James hot on the trail of Jack the RipperHenry James is suffering through boring drunken dinner parties in London, but when his brother William-renowned for his groundbreaking wor...

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Published: Sep 2010

Addicted

Charlotte Featherstone

Friends since childhood, Anais Darnby and Lindsay Markham have long harbored a secret passion for one another. When they finally confess their love, their future together seems assured, sealed with their searing embrace.But when a deb...

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Published: Feb 2009

Edge of Eternity: Book Three of the C...

Ken Follett

The final book in Ken Follett's #1 New York Times bestselling Century Trilogy—following Winter of the World and Fall of Giants—now in mass market paperback.  Five international families—American, German, Russian, English, and W...

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Published: Sep 2016

Night Soldiers

Alan Furst

After his brother is murdered by Bulgarian fascists in 1934, Khristo Stoianev is recruited by the Soviet intelligence service, the NKVD, trained in Moscow, and sent to Spain to serve Russian interests in the Spanish Civil War. Reader'...

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Published: Jul 2002

My Dearest Cecelia of the Southern Be...

Diane Haeger

A historical saga based on the legendary romance between General William T. Sherman and Georgia belle Cecelia Stovallo follows their chance meeting, desperate love and separation on opposing sides during the Civil War, and Sherman's b...

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Published: Apr 2004

The Traitor's Wife

Susan Higginbotham

In fourteenth-century England, young Eleanor de Clare, favorite niece of King Edward II, is delighted with her marriage to Hugh le Despenser and her appointment to Queen IsabellaÂ's household as a lady-in-waiting. It soon becomes app...

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Published: Apr 2009

Death at Glamis Castle (Robin Paige V...

Robin Paige

At the request of King Edward, Lord Charles Sheridan and his American wife, Kate, become embroiled in a sensitive mystery surrounding the murder of a servant at historic Glamis Castle, where they discover that the king's elder brother...

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Published: Mar 2004

The Passion of the Purple Plumeria: A...

Lauren Willig

NEVER BEFORE PUBLISHED!Lauren Willig's Pink Carnation novels have been hailed as "sheer fun"* and "charming."** Now she takes readers on an adventure filled with hidden treasure and a devilishly handsome English co...

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Published: Aug 2013

Crippen

John Boyne

This Edwardian-era historical novel is a fictional account of murderer Hawley Crippen and his mistress Ethel Le Neve's real-life attempted escape from England via an ocean liner bound for North America. When Crippen's marriage to an e...

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Published: Jan 2007

Inheritance

Lan Samantha Chang

Their mother commits suicide, and two traumatized sisters in 1930s China--Junan and Yinan--swear that they will remain together forever. But Junan is claimed by an arranged marriage and, surprisingly, falls in love with her husband. T...

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Published: Aug 2005

The Sugar Camp Quilt

Jennifer Chiaverini

A New York Times Bestseller Told with Jennifer Chiaverini's trademark historical suspense, The Sugar Camp Quilt blends danger, moral courage, romance, and hope into a novel of antebellum America whose lessons resonate with timeless h...

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Published: Jan 2005

Excalibur (The Arthur Books #3)

Bernard Cornwell

In The Winter King and Enemy of God Bernard Cornwell demonstrated his astonishing ability to make the oft-told legend of King Arthur fresh and new for our time. Now, in this riveting final volume of The Warlord Chronicles, Cornwell te...

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Published: Jul 1999

The Dress Lodger

Sheri Holman

The Dress Lodger, a cunning historical thriller charged with a distinctly modern voice, is the book that launched Sheri Holman into bestsellerdom. With over 300,000 copies sold and a consistent top "Reader's Circle" performe...

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Published: Jan 2001

The House of Velvet and Glass

Katherine Howe

Katherine Howe, author of the phenomenal New York Times bestseller The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane, returns with an entrancing historical novel set in Boston in 1915, where a young woman stands on the cusp of a new century, torn ...

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Published: Jan 2013

The White

Deborah Larsen

In 1758, when Mary Jemison is about sixteen, a Shawnee raiding party captures her Irish family near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Mary is the only one not killed and scalped. She is instead given to two Seneca sisters to replace their bro...

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Published: Sep 2003

Peony (Oriental Novels of Pearl S. Bu...

Pearl S. Buck

Young Peony is sold into a rich Chinese household as a bondmaid -- an awkward role in which she is more a servant, but less a daughter. As she grows into a lovely, provocative young woman, Peony falls in love with the family's only...

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Published: Jan 2006

The Forest

Edward Rutherfurd

"AS ENTERTAINING AS SARUM AND RUTHERFURD'S OTHER SWEEPING NOVEL OF BRITISH HISTORY, LONDON."–The Boston Globe"Engaging . . . A sprawling tome that combines fact with fiction and covers 900 years in the history of New ...

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Published: Jul 2001

Beside a Burning Sea

John Shors

From "a master storyteller"* and author of Beneath a Marble Sky comes a new novel that follows a man and a woman from separate worlds, as the barbarity of war looms in the distance.One moment, the World War II hospital ship ...

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Published: Sep 2008

Red River

Lalita Tademy

When Cane River was published in 2001, Lalita Tademy established herself as the chronicler of her own family's life, since their arrival here as slaves in the 1800s. Mixing family history, fiction, and fact made the story rich and un...

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Published: Jan 2008

The Diezmo

Rick Bass

A novel based on the real-life incident of the Mier Expedition, one of the most tragic events in Texas history, follows two young men on an expedition to the Mexican border, during which they are captured in a raid on the Mexcian vill...

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Published: Jun 2006

Portrait of an Unknown Woman

Vanora Bennett

In the year 1527, the great portraitist Hans Holbein, fleeing the Protestant Reformation, comes to England under commission to Sir Thomas More. Over the course of the next six years, Holbein paints two nearly identical portraits of t...

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Published: Apr 2008

Lawless Based on a True Story

Matt Bondurant

A gritty, gripping tale of brotherhood, greed, and murder, this "engrossing" (Entertainment Weekly) novel is now a major motion picture starring Jessica Chastain, Tom Hardy, Shia Labeouf, Gary Oldman, Guy Pearce, and Mia Was...

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Published: Jan 2010

The Pemberley Chronicles

Rebecca Collins

The weddings are over.The guests (including millions of readers and viewers) wish the two happy couples health and happiness. As the music swells and the credits roll, only two things are certain: Elizabeth and Darcy are to be the hap...

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Published: Apr 2008

Finding Rebecca

Eoin Dempsey

Nothing could keep Christopher and Rebecca apart: not her abusive parents, or even the fiance she brought home after running away to England. But when World War II finally strikes the island of Jersey, the Nazi invaders ship Rebecca t...

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Published: Oct 2014

The Daughter of Siena

Marina Fiorato

Amid the intrigue and danger of 18th-century Italy, a young woman becomes embroiled in romance and treachery with a rider in the Palio, the breathtaking horse race set in Siena....It's 1729, and the Palio, a white-knuckle horse race, ...

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Published: May 2011

Take Me Home (Voice of America's Hear...

Dorothy Garlock

"There is nothing better than Dorothy Garlock at her best" --Sandra Brown, New York Times bestselling authorMiller's Creek, Wisconsin, 1945. As a war rages on, a new era of hope takes root . . . and one young woman faces a d...

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Published: Jul 2014

Glory over Everything

Kathleen Grissom

The latest New York Times bestseller from the author of the beloved book club favorite The Kitchen House is a heart racing story about a man’s treacherous journey through the twists and turns of the Underground Railroad on a mission...

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Published: Feb 2017
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