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Children of Liberty

Paullina Simons

Children of Liberty, the much-anticipated prequel to Paullina Simons's The Bronze Horseman, is a story of love and possibility in turn-of-the-century America. Gina Attaviano travels from Sicily to Boston to start a new life with only...

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Published: Feb 2013

Pharaoh: A Novel of Ancient Egypt

Wilbur Smith

#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER!EGYPT IS UNDER ATTACK…Pharaoh Tamose lies mortally wounded. The ancient city of Luxor is surrounded. All seems lost.Taita prepares for the enemy's final, fatal push. The ex-slave, now general of Tamose's ...

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Published: May 2017

Holy Skirts of a Flamboyant Woman Who...

Rene Steinke

In 1917 no one had ever seen a woman like the Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven. She regally stalked the streets of Greenwich Village wearing a bustle with a flashing taillight, a brassiere made from tomato cans, or a birdcage nec...

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Published: Jan 2006

Daughter of the Gods: A Novel of Anci...

Stephanie Thornton

Egypt, 1400s BC. The pharaoh's pampered second daughter, lively, intelligent Hatshepsut, delights in racing her chariot through the marketplace and testing her archery skills in the Nile's marshlands. But the death of her elder sist...

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Published: May 2014

My Mother's Secret: A Novel Based on ...

J. L. Witterick

Inspired by a true story, My Mother's Secret is a captivating and ultimately uplifting tale intertwining the lives of two Jewish families in hiding from the Nazis, a fleeing German soldier, and the mother and daughter who team up to s...

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Published: Sep 2014

When the Emperor Was Divine

Julie Otsuka

A story told from five different points of view--a mother receiving the evacuation order, her daughter on the train ride to the camp, the son in the desert internment camp, the family's return home, and the final release of the father...

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Published: Oct 2003

Sarah (Canaan Trilogy)

Marek Halter

The first novel in a trilogy, SARAH brings to life the world of the Bible in the story of the Sumerian woman who becomes a high priestess serving the goddess Ishtar. But she is also the lover of Abraham, and with him she runs away fro...

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Published: Apr 2005

The Widow of the South

Robert Hicks

A story based on the true experiences of a Civil War heroine finds Carrie McGavock witnessing the bloodshed of the Battle of Franklin, falling in love with a wounded man with a hardscrabble past, and dedicating her home as a burial si...

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Published: Sep 2006

In the Shadow of the Crown: The Tudor...

Jean Plaidy

As Henry VIII's only child, the future seemed golden for Princess Mary. She was the daughter of Henry's first queen, Katharine of Aragon, and was heir presumptive to the throne of England. Red-haired like her father, she was also inte...

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Published: May 2004

Secrets of a Lady

Tracy Grant

In the glittering world of Regency London, where gossip is exchanged—and reputations ruined—with the tilt of a fan, Melanie Fraser is the perfect wife. Devoted to her husband, Charles, the grandson of a duke, she is ackno...

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Published: Aug 2007

Sea of Poppies

Amitav Ghosh

At the heart of this vibrant saga is a vast ship, the Ibis. The ship's destiny is a tumultuous voyage across the Indian Ocean; its purpose is to fight China's vicious nineteenth-century Opium Wars. As for the crew, they are a motley a...

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Published: Sep 2009

The Spanish Bride

Georgette Heyer

Based on the true story of Brigade-Major Harry Smith and the very young Spanish noblewoman he met and married during the Peninsular Wars, when the Duke of Wellington's forces fought Napoleon's army in Spain and Portugal.After marrying...

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Published: Apr 2008

My Theodosia

Anya Seton

The short life of Theodosia Burr (1783–1813) is hauntingly realized in this bestselling historical novel about the daughter of Aaron Burr, Thomas Jefferson’s vice president. A central figure in her father’s political...

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Published: Sep 2007

Wild Life

Molly Gloss

In her highly original new novel, Molly Gloss delivers a rare blend of "heady cerebral satisfactions, gorgeous prose, and page-turning adventure" (Karen Joy Fowler). Set among lava sinkholes and logging camps at the fringe o...

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Published: Sep 2001

On Agate Hill

Lee Smith

A dusty box discovered in the wreckage of a once prosperous plantation on Agate Hill in Nnorth Carolina contains the remnants of an extraordinary life: diaries, letters, poems, songs, newspaper clippings, court records, marbles, rocks...

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Published: Aug 2007

The Darling Strumpet of Nell Gwynn, W...

Gillian Bagwell

A thrilling debut novel starring one of history's most famous and beloved courtesans. From London's slums to its bawdy playhouses, The Darling Strumpet transports the reader to the tumultuous world of seventeenth-century England, cha...

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Published: Jan 2011

Terra Incognita of the Roman Empire

Ruth Downie

"Downie's attention to day-in-the-life period details, judiciously doled-out twists, and dry British humor make Incognita one hell of a toga party."—Entertainment Weekly Following her widely acclaimed, New York Times bests...

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Published: Mar 2009

The King's Curse (The Cousins' War)

Philippa Gregory

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author behind the acclaimed Starz series The White Queen comes the story of lady-in-waiting Margaret Pole and her unique view of King Henry VIII's stratospheric rise to power in Tudor England.As ...

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Published: Apr 2015

Confessions of Marie Antoinette

Juliet Grey

A novel for fans of Philippa Gregory and Michelle Moran, Confessions of Marie Antoinette blends rich historical detail with searing drama, bringing to life the first years of the French Revolution and the final days of the legendary F...

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Published: Sep 2013

The First Princess of Wales

Karen Harper

Hoping to redeem her family's disgraced name, Joan of Kent journeys to the intrigue-filled court of King Edward III, where, as part of her revenge on the royal family for their betrayal of her father, she targets Edward, Prince of Wal...

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Published: Dec 2006

The Talisman Ring

Georgette Heyer

One of Heyer's funniest Regency romances, and one of readers' favorites. The Talisman Ring is one of Heyer's funniest and fastest-paced romantic comedies, telling the story of a fugitive heir, a tempestuous Frenchwoman, and the two se...

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Published: Mar 2009

The Gods of Newport

John Jakes

In the late nineteenth century, Newport, Rhode Island-with its giant marble mansions, lavish dinner parties, and vicious social climbing- is a summer playground of the very rich. Into this rarefied world comes infamous railroad mogul...

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Published: Oct 2007

His Majesty's Hope: A Maggie Hope Mys...

Susan Elia MacNeal

For fans of Jacqueline Winspear, Laurie R. King, and Anne Perry, whip-smart heroine Maggie Hope returns to embark on a clandestine mission behind enemy lines where no one can be trusted, and even the smallest indiscretion can be deadl...

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Published: Apr 2013

The Dark Enquiry (A Lady Julia Grey N...

Deanna Raybourn

Partners now in marriage and in trade, Lady Julia and Nicholas Brisbane have finally returned from abroad to set up housekeeping in London. But merging their respective collections of gadgets, pets and servants leaves little room for ...

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Published: Jun 2011

The First Desire

Nancy Reisman

1929. Buffalo, New York. A beautiful July day, the kind one waits for through the long, cold winters. Sadie Feldstein, née Cohen, looks out her window at the unexpected sight of her brother, Irving. His news is even more unexpect...

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Published: Aug 2005

Travels with Charley in Search of Ame...

John Steinbeck

With his dog Charley, John Steinbeck set out in his truck to explore and experience America in the 1960s. As he talked with all kinds of people, he sadly noted the passing of region speech, fell in love with Montana, and was appalled ...

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Published: Feb 2002

English Creek

Ivan Doig

In this prizewinning portrait of a time and place -- Montana in the 1930s -- that at once inspires and fulfills a longing for an explicable past, Ivan Doig has created one of the most captivating families in American fiction, the McCa...

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Published: May 2005

The Island of the Day Before

Umberto Eco

The author of The Name of the Rose presents a panoramic historical novel, set in the seventeenth century, about a young aristocrat who goes to sea to find love and an old Jesuit with a boundless scientific knowledge. 300,000 first pri...

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Published: Jun 2006

Flashman and the Tiger

George MacDonald Fraser

The eleventh volume of Fraser's books detailing the history and adventures of world-class cad and inadvertent hero Harry Flashman consists of three short pieces which detail Harry's involvement with the maiden journey of the Orient Ex...

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Published: Nov 2001

Three Sisters, Three Queens

Philippa Gregory

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Philippa Gregory, the little-known story of three Tudor women who are united in sisterhood and yet compelled to be rivals when they fulfill their destinies as queens.As sisters they share an e...

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Published: Feb 2017
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