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Through a Glass Darkly

Karleen Koen

Sourcebooks Landmark proudly reintroduces this classic historical novel.Karleen Koen's sweeping saga contains unforgettable characters consumed with passion: the extraordinarily beautiful fifteen-year-old noblewoman, Barbara Alderley;...

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Published: May 2003

The Second Duchess

Elizabeth Loupas

A rich, compelling historical novel-and a mystery of royal intrigue. In a city-state known for magnificence, where love affairs and conspiracies play out amidst brilliant painters, poets and musicians, the powerful and ambitious Alfo...

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Published: Mar 2011

Time and Chance (Ballantine Reader's ...

Sharon Kay Penman

In When Christ and His Saints Slept, acclaimed historical novelist Sharon Kay Penman portrayed all the deceit, danger, and drama of Henry II's ascension to the throne. Now, in Time and Chance, she continues the ever-more-captivating t...

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Published: Feb 2003

Cloudsplitter

Russell Banks

A triumph of the imagination and a masterpiece of modern storytelling, Cloudsplitter is narrated by the enigmatic Owen Brown, last surviving son of America's most famous and still controversial political terrorist and martyr, John Bro...

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Published: Feb 1999

The Mark of the Midnight Manzanilla: ...

Lauren Willig

NEVER BEFORE PUBLISHED! In the latest Pink Carnation novel from New York Times bestselling author Lauren Willig, rumors spreading among the ton turn deadly as a young couple unites to solve a mystery....  In October of 1806, the...

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Published: Aug 2014

Longbourn (Vintage)

Jo Baker

A New York Times Book Review Notable Book, a Seattle Times Best Title, a Christian Science Monitor Best Fiction Book, a Miami Herald Favorite Book, and a Kirkus Best Book of the Year• Pride and Prejudice was only half the story •...

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Published: Jun 2014

The French Mistress of the Duchess of...

Susan Holloway Scott

From the author of The King's Favorite—a new novel based on a dazzling and decadent true story of Restoration England. The daughter of a poor nobleman, Louise leaves the French countryside for the court of King Louis XIV, where she ...

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Published: Jul 2009

The Greatest Knight: The Unsung Story...

Elizabeth Chadwick

Royal protector. Loyal servant. Forgotten hero. A penniless young knight with few prospects, William Marshal is plucked from obscurity when he saves the life of Henry II's formidable queen, Eleanor of Aquitaine. In gratitude, she app...

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Published: Sep 2009

The Templar Cross

Paul Christopher

From the USA Today Bestselling author of The Sword of the Templars and The Aztec Heresy Some secrets are too great to bear... Retired Army Ranger Lt. Col. John Holliday has reluctantly settled into his teaching position at West Point ...

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Published: Jan 2010

Once a Midwife: A Hope River Novel

Patricia Harman

Welcome back to Hope River in New York Times bestselling author Patricia Harman's newest novel as midwife Patience Hester, along with her family and friends, face the challenges of the home front during World War II.The women of Hope ...

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Published: Nov 2018

The Woman with the Blue Star: A Novel...

Pam Jenoff

"An emotional novel that you will never forget." —Lisa Scottoline, #1 New York Times bestselling author of EternalFrom the author of The Lost Girls of Paris comes a riveting tale of courage and unlikely friendship du...

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Published: May 2021

Legacy: The Beloved Novel of Elizabet...

Susan Kay

The much-praised Legacy offers an exquisite psychological portrait of the Queen who defined an era, beloved and touted by readers for its stunning storytelling and intriguing take on the monarch's life. From the spectacular era that b...

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Published: Jul 2010

Now Face to Face

Karleen Koen

The unforgettable sequel to Karleen Koen's beloved debut, Through a Glass DarklyA Book-of-the-Month Club main selectionA bride at fifteen, widowed at the tender age of twenty, Barbara, Countess Devane, embarks for colonial Virginia �...

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Published: Jan 2008

The Midwife of Venice

Roberta Rich

A "lavishly detailed" (Elle Canada) debut that masterfully captures sixteenth century Venice against a dramatic and poetic tale of suspense. Not since The Red Tent or People of the Book has a novel transported readers so int...

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Published: Apr 2012

Carnegie's Maid: A Novel

Marie Benedict

From the author of The Other Einstein, the mesmerizing tale of what kind of woman could have inspired an American dynasty.Clara Kelley is not who they think she is. She's not the experienced Irish maid who was hired to work in one of ...

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Published: Aug 2018

The Tsarina's Daughter

Carolly Erickson

From the bestselling author of The Hidden Diary of Marie Antoinette comes a dramatic novel and powerful love story about the last Russian imperial family. It is 1989 and Daria Gradov is an elderly grandmother living in the rural West...

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Published: Aug 2009

Lucrezia Borgia

John Faunce

"A fascinating story, rich in detail. In every case, Faunce portrays [Lucrezia] believably, with wit and sensitivity."--Library JournalHundreds of years after her death, Lucrezia Borgia remains one of the most enigmatic and ...

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Published: Mar 2004

The King's Concubine of Alice Perrers...

Anne O'Brien

England's Most Scandalous Mistress. One marriage. Three people. Proud king. Loving wife. Infamous mistress. 1362, Philippa of Hainault selects a young orphan from a convent. Alice Perrers, a girl born with nothing but ambition. The Qu...

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Published: Jun 2012

The Other Queen

Philippa Gregory

This dazzling novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author Philippa Gregory presents a new and unique view of one of history's most intriguing, romantic, and maddening heroines. Biographers often neglect the captive years of Ma...

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Published: Jul 2009

Victoria Victorious: The Story of Que...

Jean Plaidy

In this unforgettable novel of Queen Victoria, Jean Plaidy re-creates a remarkable life filled with romance, triumph, and tragedy.At birth, Princess Victoria was fourth in line for the throne of England, the often-overlooked daughter ...

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Published: May 2005

The Signature of All Things: A Novel

Elizabeth Gilbert

A glorious, sweeping novel of desire, ambition, and the thirst for knowledge, from the # 1 New York Times bestselling author of Eat, Pray, Love and Committed In The Signature of All Things, Elizabeth Gilbert returns to fiction, inse...

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Published: Jun 2014

The Last Tudor (The Plantagenet and T...

Philippa Gregory

The latest novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Philippa Gregory features one of the most famous women in history, Lady Jane Grey, and her two sisters, each of whom dared to defy her queen.Jane Grey was queen of England for...

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Published: Feb 2018

The Queen's Mistake: In the Court of ...

Diane Haeger

From the author of The Secret Bride, the tragic tale of the fifth wife of Henry VIII…When the young and beautiful Catherine Howard becomes the fifth wife of the fifty-year-old King Henry VIII, she seems to be on top of the world. Ye...

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Published: Oct 2009

The Summer Before the War

Helen Simonson

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • "A novel to cure your Downton Abbey withdrawal . . . a delightful story about nontraditional romantic relationships, class snobbery and the everybody-knows-everybody complications of living in a sma...

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Published: Feb 2017

The Painter from Shanghai

Jennifer Cody Epstein

Reminiscent of Memoirs of a Geisha, a re-imagining of the life of Pan Yuliang and her transformation from prostitute to post-Impressionist.Down the muddy waters of the Yangtze River and into the seedy backrooms of 'The Hall of Eternal...

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Published: Apr 2009

Time After Time

Lisa Grunwald

A magical love story, inspired by the legend of a woman who vanished from Grand Central Terminal, sweeps readers from the 1920s to World War II and beyond. "Readers who enjoyed Audrey Niffenegger's The Time Traveler's Wife wil...

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Published: Jun 2020

Lincoln in the Bardo

George Saunders

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZEThe “devastatingly moving” (People) first novel from the author of Tenth of December: a moving and original father-son story featuring none other than Abraham Lincol...

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Published: Feb 2018

Fallen Women

Sandra Dallas

From the ballrooms and mansions of Denver's newly wealthy, to the seamy life of desperate women, Fallen Women illuminates the darkest places of the human heart. It is the spring of 1885 and wealthy New York socialite Beret Osmundsen ...

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Published: Sep 2014

The Botticelli Secret

Marina Fiorato

In this exhilarating cross between The Da Vinci Code and The Birth of Venus, an irrepressible young woman in 15th-century Italy must flee for her life after stumbling upon a deadly secret when she serves as a model for Bottice...

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Published: Mar 2010

The Secrets of Mary Bowser

Lois Leveen

Based on a remarkable true story, The Secrets of Mary Bowser is an inspiring tale of one daring woman's willingness to sacrifice her own freedom to change the course of history All her life, Mary has been a slave to the wealthy Van ...

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Published: Jan 2012
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