Historical - General

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Murder on Mulberry Bend (Gaslight Mys...

Victoria Thompson

Risking her own life in a quest for justice, midwife Sarah Brandt enlists the help of Sergeant Frank Malloy to discover the truth surrounding the brutal murder of a young woman from the Prodigal Son Mission on Mulberry Bend, a refuge ...

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Published: Mar 2003

The Autobiography of Henry VIII: With...

Margaret George

Much has been written about the mighty, egotistical Henry VIII: the man who dismantled the Church because it would not grant him the divorce he wanted; who married six women and beheaded two of them; who executed his friend Thomas ore...

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Published: Sep 1998

Dissolution

C. J. Sansom

In 1537, the conflict in England between Catholics and the newly established Church of England is at its height, as monasteries are closed and turned into secular institutions. When a Church official is murdered in one of them, a hunc...

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Published: May 2004

These is my Words: The Diary of Sarah...

Nancy Turner

'A thread of truth can weave a powerful story. Plumb powerful, as Sarah Prine might say....Taking great-grandmother Sarah's diary as an inspiration, Tucson novelist Nancy E. Turner has spun a frontier novel that teeters on the fine e...

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Published: Apr 2008

The Aviator's Wife: A Novel

Melanie Benjamin

In the spirit of Loving Frank and The Paris Wife, acclaimed novelist Melanie Benjamin pulls back the curtain on the marriage of one of America's most extraordinary couples: Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh. "The histo...

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Published: Nov 2013

Mudbound

Hillary Jordan

In Jordan's prize-winning debut, prejudice takes many forms, both subtle and brutal. It is 1946, and city-bred Laura McAllan is trying to raise her children on her husband's Mississippi Delta farm—a place she finds foreign and frigh...

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Published: Mar 2009

The Huntress

Susan Carroll

In a time of intrigue and betrayal, the huntress is on a quest that could jeopardize two empires and two great queens: Catherine de Medici and Elizabeth I.The year is 1585–and prophecy has foretold the coming of a daughter of th...

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Published: Jul 2007

Mr. Darcy's Diary

Amanda Grange

A skillful and graceful imagining of the hero's point of view in one of the most beloved and enduring romance stories of all time. As Darcy records his struggles to avoid falling in love with Elizabeth Bennett and the difficulties ...

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Published: Mar 2007

I, Mona Lisa

Jeanne Kalogridis

A meticulously detailed historical novel, set against the turbulent backdrop of fifteenth-century Florence, chronicles the life and times of Madonna Lisa, the mysterious woman who becomes the subject of Leonardo da Vinci's most famous...

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Published: Oct 2006

Tallgrass

Sandra Dallas

During Word War II, a family fnds life turned upside down when the government opens a Japanese internment camp in their small Colorado town. After a young girl is murdered, all eyes (and suspicions) turn to the newcomers, the interlop...

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Published: Feb 2008

Madame Tussaud of the French Revoluti...

Michelle Moran

The world knows Madame Tussaud as a wax artist extraordinaire . . . but who was this woman who became one of the most famous sculptresses of all time? In these pages, her tumultuous and amazing story comes to life as only Michelle Mor...

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Published: Dec 2011

We Shall Not Sleep (World War One Nov...

Anne Perry

Anne Perry’s magnificent Victorian mysteries established her as one of the world’s best known and loved historical novelists. Now, in her vividly imagined World War I novels, Perry’s talents “have taken a quant...

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Published: Mar 2008

The Exiled

Posie Graeme-Evans

Enjoying her successes as a merchant, exiled fifteenth-century single mother Anne incites the wrath of chauvinist local merchants who resent competition from a woman, a situation that threatens to reveal her son's identity as the ille...

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Published: Jun 2005

News of the World: A Novel

Paulette Jiles

In the aftermath of the Civil War, an aging itinerant news reader agrees to transport a young captive of the Kiowa back to her people in this exquisitely rendered, morally complex, multilayered novel of historical fiction from the aut...

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Published: Jun 2017

Hidden in a Whisper, repack (Westward...

Tracie Peterson

Westward Chronicles Book 2 Rachel has secured herself a rare position at the newest Harvey House in New Mexico. She looks forward to a new life there, far from the memories and longings of her heart--only to find that the very man her...

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Published: Aug 2005

The Wicked Day (The Arthurian Saga, B...

Mary Stewart

Born of an incestuous relationship between King Arthur and his half sister, the evil sorceress Morgause, the bastard Mordred is reared in secrecy. Called to Camelot by events he cannot deny, Mordred becomes Arthur's most trusted couns...

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Published: May 2003

The Secret Warriors (Men at War, 2)

W. E. B. Griffin

Washington, D.C., 1942: With the help of Charles A. Lindbergh, ace OSS pilot Richard Canidy sets up an air maneuver that will drop agents into the Belgian Congo to smuggle out uranium ore essential to the arms race. But this time, Can...

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Published: Jun 1999

That Summer: A Novel

Lauren Willig

2009: When Julia Conley hears that she has inherited a house outside London from an unknown great-aunt, she assumes it's a joke. She hasn't been back to England since the car crash that killed her mother when she was six, an event she...

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Published: May 2015

The Tuscan Child

Rhys Bowen

From New York Times bestselling author Rhys Bowen comes a haunting novel about a woman who braves her father's hidden past to discover his secrets…In 1944, British bomber pilot Hugo Langley parachuted from his stricken plane into th...

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Published: Feb 2018

The Wild Rose

Jennifer Donnelly

Includes a Reading Group Guide and Author Q&A  The Wild Rose is a part of the sweeping, multi-generational saga that began with The Tea  Rose and continued with The Winter Rose. It is London, 1914. World War I looms...

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Published: May 2012

Bound

Sally Gunning

Alice Cole spent her first seven years living in two smoky, crowded rooms in London with her family. But a new home and a better life waited in the colonies, or so her father promised—a bright dream that turned to ashes when her br...

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Published: Apr 2009

The Quilter's Homecoming: An Elm Cree...

Jennifer Chiaverini

A Roaring Twenties adventure unfolds in The Quilter's Homecoming, as Jennifer Chiaverini continues her bestselling Elm Creek Quilts series 'that neatly stitches together social drama and the art of quilting' (Library Journal). As youn...

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Published: Jan 2008

Enemy Women

Paulette Jiles

After her father is taken away by Union soldiers, Adair Randolph Colley, who is 18 at the height of the Civil War, is herself imprisoned on a false charge of spying for the enemy. The prison commander, Major William Neumann, falls in ...

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Published: Apr 2007

The Yankee Widow

Linda Lael Miller

A richly layered, emotional novel about one woman's courage and the choices she must make in the face of a dangerous war. Caroline, the young wife of Jacob, is raising their daughter on their Gettysburg farm while her husband is awa...

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Published: Apr 2020

Orphan #8

Kim Van Alkemade

A stunning debut novel in the vein of Sarah Waters' historical fiction and inspired by true events, it tells the fascinating story of a woman who must choose between revenge and mercy when she encounters the doctor who subjected her t...

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Published: Jul 2015

A Hundred Summers

Beatriz Williams

As the 1938 hurricane bears down on Rhode Island, a storm of another kind is brewing in this novel that "blends history, romance, and social commentary into...much more than a summer guilty pleasure" (Connecticut Post)...Mem...

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Published: Apr 2014

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

A Greater Glory (Trials of Kit Shanno...

James Scott Bell

Book 1 of THE TRIALS OF KIT SHANNON by James Scott Bell, a Christy Award winner. Having proved she's a legal success, Kit Shannon again battles injustices found in Los Angeles, the city she has come to love. She now takes up the cause...

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Published: Feb 2003

Under the Light of the Italian Moon: ...

Jennifer Anton

A promise keeps them apart until WWII threatens to destroy their love forever Fonzaso Italy, between two wars Nina Argenta doesn't want the traditional life of a rural Italian woman. The daughter of a strong-willed midwife, she is...

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Published: Mar 2021

Lucy

Ellen Feldman

A fictional account of FDR's romance with Eleanor's social secretary, Lucy Mercer, follows their pre-World War I affair, its impact on his marriage, and FDR and Mercer's reacquaintance years later as he prepared for an unprecedented t...

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Published: Jan 2004
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