Historical - General

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The Waiting Time

Eugenia Price

A new edition of Eugenia Price's final novel, presented by Turner PublishingFrom one of America's best-loved storytellers, The Waiting Time is an ambitious, romantic, historically rich epic, sure to delight new and loyal readers alike...

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Published: Nov 2017

The Winthrop Woman

Anya Seton

"The Winthrop Woman is that rare literary accomplishment — living history. Really good fictionalized history [like this] often gives closer reality to a period than do factual records." – Chicago TribuneIn 1631 Elizabeth...

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Published: Apr 2014

The Fountain Overflows

Rebecca West

The lives of the talented Aubrey children have long been clouded by their father?s genius for instability, but his new job in the London suburbs promises, for a time at least, reprieve from scandal and the threat of ruin. Mrs. Aubrey,...

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Published: Jan 2003

The Summer Country

Lauren Willig

"Tense, atmospheric, and gorgeously written, The Summer Country is a novel to savor " - Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author of The Huntress and The Alice Network A brilliant, multigenerational saga in the traditio...

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Published: Jun 2020

The Blessing Stone

Barbara Wood

Millions of years ago, a meteorite fell to earth and a beautiful blue stone shattered from it. One hundred thousand years ago, a girl named Tall One found the crystal on the African plain---and it formed her destiny, as well as the de...

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Published: Jan 2004

Uther (Camulod Chronicles)

Jack Whyte

With Uther, Jack Whyte, author of the richly praised Camulod Chronicles, has given us a portrait of Uther Pendragon, Merlyn's shadow--his boyhood companion and closest friend. And the man who would sire the King of the Britons.From th...

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Published: Dec 2001

Winter of the World: Book Two of the ...

Ken Follett

THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Picking up where Fall of Giants, the first novel in the extraordinary Century Trilogy, left off, Winter of the World follows its five interrelated families—American, German, Russian, English, and W...

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Published: Sep 2014

Falls the Shadow

Sharon Kay Penman

Simon de Montfort was a man ahead of his time in the thirteenth century, a disinherited Frenchman who talked his way into an English earldom and marriage with a sister of the English king, Henry III. A charismatic, obstinate leader...

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Published: Aug 2008

From Fields of Gold

Alexandra Ripley

Reduced to destitution by the Civil War, Francesca "Chess" Standish struggles to win the love of her younger husband, whom she married in order to capitalize on her only remaining asset, a tobacco-machine patent. Reprint. PW.

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Published: Jan 1996

Mary, Called Magdalene

Margaret George

Was Mary Magdalene a prostitute, a female divinity figure, a church leader, or all of those? Biblical references to her are tantalizingly brief, but we do know that she was the first person to whom the risen Christ appeared-and the on...

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Published: May 2003

At Some Disputed Barricade

Anne Perry

Anne Perry’s gift for illuminating the heart’s deepest secrets shines through in her bestselling series of World War I novels. With compelling immediacy, she depicts the struggles of men and women torn by their convictions...

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Published: Mar 2008

Family

J. California Cooper

In this wise, beguiling, beautiful novel set in the era of the Civil War, an award-winning playwright and author paints a haunting portrait of a woman named Always, born a slave, and four generations of her African-American family.

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Published: Dec 1991

A Clearing in the Wild

Jane Kirkpatrick

Young Emma Wagner chafes at the constraints of Bethel colony, an 1850s religious community in Missouri that is determined to remain untainted by the concerns of the world. A passionate and independent thinker, she resents the limitati...

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Published: Apr 2006

Secrets of a Charmed Life

Susan Meissner

The author of A Fall of Marigolds journeys from the present day to World War II England, as two sisters are separated by the chaos of wartime ...She stood at a crossroads, half-aware that her choice would send her down a path from whi...

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Published: Feb 2015

The Yellow House

Patricia Falvey

THE YELLOW HOUSE delves into the passion and politics of Northern Ireland at the beginning of the 20th Century. Eileen O'Neill's family is torn apart by religious intolerance and secrets from the past. Determined to reclaim her ancest...

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Published: Feb 2011

People of the Weeping Eye (First Nort...

W. Michael Gear

People called Old White the 'Seeker,' a man never long with any people or place. For years he had wandered, leaving a trail of war, wonder, and broken love in his wake. Now he is headed home, called back by visions of chaos, blood, a...

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Published: Dec 2008

The Paris Seamstress

Natasha Lester

For readers of Lilac Girls and The Nightingale comes a World War II novel that spans generations, crosses oceans, and proves just how much two young women are willing to sacrifice for love and family. 1940: As the Germans advance upon...

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Published: Sep 2018

The Pilgrim Song (House of Winslow)

Gilbert Morris

Book 29 of THE HOUSE OF WINSLOW. Lewis Winslow has money, a fine home, and a bright future in business+but he has lost his beloved wife and is disappointed with the way his children have turned out. Josh cares for nothing but pleasure...

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Published: Apr 2003

The Secret Wife

Gill Paul

‘A cleverly crafted novel and an enthralling story… A triumph.’ DINAH JEFFERIESA Russian grand duchess and an English journalist. Linked by one of the world’s greatest mysteries . . .Love. Guilt. Heartbreak.1914Russia is on th...

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Published: Nov 2016

Doc

Mary Doria Russell

NATIONAL BESTSELLER Born to the life of a Southern gentleman, Dr. John Henry Holliday arrives on the Texas frontier hoping that the dry air and sunshine of the West will restore him to health. Soon, with few job prospects, Doc Hollid...

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Published: Feb 2012

Once a Rake

Eileen Dreyer

In the bestselling tradition of Stephanie Laurens and Eloisa James...All he wants is her help . . .Colonel Ian Ferguson may be a rake, but he's no traitor. Accused of trying to kill the Duke of Wellington, the disgraced Scotsman is no...

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Published: Oct 2013

Dark Tides: A Novel (2) (The Fairmile...

Philippa Gregory

#1 New York Times bestselling author of Tidelands—the “searing portrait of a woman that resonates across the ages” (People)—returns with an evocative historical novel tracking the rise of the Tidelands family ...

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Published: Jun 2021

As Bright as Heaven

Susan Meissner

From the acclaimed author of A Bridge Across the Ocean and The Last Year of the War comes a new novel set in Philadelphia during the Spanish flu epidemic of 1918, which tells the story of a family reborn through loss and love.In 1918,...

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Published: Jan 2019

Sarah's Key

Tatiana De Rosnay

Paris, July 1942: Sarah, a ten year-old girl, is brutally arrested with her family by the French police in the Vel' d'Hiv' roundup, but not before she locks her younger brother in a cuoard in the family's apartment, thinking that she ...

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Published: Sep 2008

Year of Wonders

Geraldine Brooks

Young Anna Frith, a vicar's maid, is faced with the loss of her family, the disintegration of her local community, and a passionate, illicit love as she and her village confront the horrors of the plague, in a historical novel based o...

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Published: Apr 2002

The Perfect Rake

Anne Gracie

When their evil grandfather is injured, Prudence Merridew, at the behest of her four beautiful sisters, devises a clever scheme to escape him once and for all, but her plan backfires spectacularly when she ends up in the arms of a not...

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Published: Jul 2005

The House at Riverton

Kate Morton

The House at Riverton is a gorgeous debut novel set in England between the wars. It is the story of an aristocratic family, a house, a mysterious death and a way of life that vanished forever, told in flashback by a woman who witnesse...

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Published: Mar 2009

Duty and Desire of Fitzwilliam Darcy,...

Pamela Aidan

A second installment of the series that began with An Assembly Such as This retells Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice from Darcy's perspective and follows his private struggles to shake off his feelings for Elizabeth after dissuading ...

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Published: Oct 2006

The Lady Elizabeth

Alison Weir

Following the tremendous success of her first novel, Innocent Traitor, which recounted the riveting tale of the doomed Lady Jane Grey, acclaimed historian and New York Times bestselling author Alison Weir turns her masterly storytelli...

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Published: Nov 2008

The Seduction of the Crimson Rose

Lauren Willig

Now in paperback—a novel that "handily fulfills its promise of intrigue and romance."(Publishers Weekly)Determined to secure another London season without assistance from her new brother-in-law, Mary Alsworthy accepts a se...

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Published: Dec 2008
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