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Dreamland

Kevin Baker

Kevin Baker's Dreamland is the kind of novel that begins with a two-page list of characters and ends with a nine-page glossary. In between, this vast, sprawling carnival of a book takes in Coney Island and the Lower East Side, midgets...

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Published: Jan 2006

Red Grass River: A Legend

James Carlos Blake

James Carlos Blake is a masterful chronicler of the restless, outcast, the lawless, and the lonelyheart. His previous novel, In the Rogue Blood, was awarded the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction. Now he has written a powerful a...

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Published: Aug 2000

In the Lion's Den: A House of Falcone...

Barbara Taylor Bradford

From New York Timesbestselling author Barbara Taylor Bradford comes the highly anticipated second book in the House of Falconer saga. James Lionel Falconer has risen quickly from a mere shop worker to being the right-hand man of He...

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Published: Nov 2021

War Lord: A Novel (Saxon Tales, 13)

Bernard Cornwell

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “I gulped it right down. Excellent, as always. . . . Cornwell brings battles to life like no one else.” –George R.R. Martin, Author of Game of Thrones The final installment in Bernard Corn...

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Published: Nov 2021

The Daisy Children

Sofia Grant

Inspired by true events, in Sofia Grant's powerfully moving new novel a young woman peels back the layers of her family's history, discovering a tragedy in the past that explains so much of the present. This unforgettable story is one...

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Published: Aug 2018

In Gallant Company (Richard Bolitho N...

Alexander Kent

As a junior officer in the British Royal Navy, Bolitho is caught up in the turmoil of American Revolution sea battles. Against a growing fleet of American and French privateers, the navy must maintain its blockade of Washington's vit...

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Published: Apr 1998

The Darkening Sea

Alexander Kent

Soon after taking part in the dramatic capture of Martinique in the Caribbean, Vice-Admiral Sir Richard Bolitho is next despatched to the African coast to gather a flotilla and stop French attacks on British trade routes. But Bolitho ...

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Published: Oct 2000

The Other Side of the Sun

Madeleine L'Engle

A young British bride is caught up in her new family's complicated history in this atmospheric novel set in the American South after the Civil War. When nineteen-year-old Stella marries Theron Renier, she has no idea what kind of cla...

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Published: Sep 2017

The Paris Orphan

Natasha Lester

An American soldier and an enterprising photographer brave occupied France during World War II to help give a little girl her dream--a family--in this gripping novel from the bestselling author of The Paris Seamstress.New York City/Pa...

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Published: Sep 2019

Sins of the Highlander

Connie Mason

Even with her gift of the Sight, never had Elspeth Stewart imagined her wedding would be interrupted by a darkhaired stranger charging in on a black stallion, scooping her into his arms, and carrying her off across the wild Scottish h...

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Published: Jan 2012

The Accursed

Joyce Carol Oates

A major historical novel from "one of the great artistic forces of our time" (The Nation)—an eerie, unforgettable story of possession, power, and loss in early-twentieth-century Princeton, a cultural crossroads of the powe...

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Published: Nov 2013

The Miner's Lady

Tracie Peterson

Tracie Peterson Delivers Romance and AdventureWhen Chantel Panetta's younger sister claims to be in love with Orlando Calarco, Chantel knows there is no hope. The Panettas and Calarcos have been sworn enemies for decades, and young lo...

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Published: Sep 2013

The Black Swan of Paris: A Novel

Karen Robards

"Boldly conceived and richly realized…an emotional and powerful tale." —Pam Jenoff, New York Timesbestselling author of The Lost Girls of Paris A world at war. A beautiful young star. A mission no one expecte...

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Published: Jul 2022

The Nun's Tale: The Owen Archer Serie...

Candace Robb

"[An] engrossing tale…imbued with the flavor of English medieval life, Robb's story melds true events with fiction to create a gripping historical mystery." ―PUBLISHERS WEEKLY Based on an enigmatic entry in the records ...

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Published: Jul 2015

Eternal

Lisa Scottoline

#1 bestselling author Lisa Scottoline offers a sweeping and shattering epic of historical fiction fueled by shocking true events, the tale of a love triangle that unfolds in the heart of Rome...in the creeping shadow of fascism. Wh...

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Published: Feb 2022

The Duchess: A Novel

Danielle Steel

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The incomparable Danielle Steel breaks new ground as she takes us to nineteenth-century England, where a high-born young woman is forced out into the world—and begins a journey of survival, sensuality,...

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Published: Feb 2018

Shadowbrook of Love, War, and the Bir...

Beverly Swerling

A sweeping tale of love, ambition, and a war that ignited a revolution...1754. In a low-lying glen in Ohio Country, where both the French and English claim dominion, the first musket ball fired signals the start of a savage seven-year...

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Published: Mar 2005

No Time Like the Past: The Chronicles...

Jodi Taylor

The fifth book in the bestselling British madcap time-travelling series, served with a dash of wit that seems to be everyone's cup of tea.Behind the seemingly innocuous facade of St. Mary's Institute of Historical Research, a differen...

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Published: Jan 2017

The Mammoth Hunters

Jean M. Auel

Once again Jean M. Auel opens the door of a time long past to reveal an age of wonder and danger at the dawn of the modern human race. With all the consummate storytelling artistry and vivid authenticity she brought to The Clan of th...

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Published: Nov 1986

Song of the Axe

John R. Dann

Agon, a powerful ancient warrior, his beloved Eena, and their children become the targets of Ka, an evil shaman, and his vengeful offspring, in a historical saga set against the backdrop of the end of the last Ice Age in prehistoric E...

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Published: Jul 2002

Grass Crown

Colleen McCullough

Throughout the Western world, great kingdoms have fallen and despots lay crushed beneath the heels of Rome's advancing legions. But in this age of magnificent triumph and barbaric cruelty, internal rebellion threatens the stability an...

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Published: Nov 2008

The Silver Witch: A Novel

Paula Brackston

A year after her husband's sudden death, ceramic artist Tilda Fordwells finally moves into the secluded Welsh cottage that was to be their new home. She hopes that the tranquil surroundings will help ease her grief, and lessen her dis...

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Published: Feb 2016

The Midwife of Hope River

Patricia Harman

p Midwife Patience Murphy has a gift: a talent for escorting mothers through the challenges of bringing children into the world. Working in the hardscrabble conditions of Appalachia during the Depression, Patience takes the jobs that ...

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Published: Aug 2012

Yellow Crocus

Laila Ibrahim

Moments after Lisbeth is born, she's taken from her mother and handed over to an enslaved wet nurse, Mattie, a young mother separated from her own infant son in order to care for her tiny charge. Thus begins an intense relationship th...

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Published: Aug 2014

The Midnight Rose

Lucinda Riley

Spanning four generations, The Midnight Rose sweeps from the glittering palaces of the great maharajas of India to the majestic stately homes of England, following the extraordinary life of a remarkable girl, Anahita Chaval, from 1911...

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Published: Mar 2014

Rare Objects

Kathleen Tessaro

In Depression-era Boston, a city divided by privilege and poverty, two unlikely friends are bound by a dangerous secret in this mesmerizing work of historical fiction from the New York Times bestselling author of The Perfume Collector...

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Published: Apr 2017

The Other Einstein: A Novel

Marie Benedict

One of PopSugar's "25 Books You're Going to Curl Up with this Fall.""The Other Einstein takes you into Mileva's heart, mind, and study as she tries to forge a place for herself in a scientific world dominated by men.&qu...

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Published: Jul 2017

Warriors of the Storm: A Novel (Saxon...

Bernard Cornwell

The ninth installment of Bernard Cornwell's bestselling series chronicling the epic saga of the making of England, "like Game of Thrones, but real" (The Observer, London)—the basis for The Last Kingdom, the hit BBC America...

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Published: Oct 2016

Twain's End

Lynn Cullen

From the bestselling and highly acclaimed author of the "page-turning tale" (Library Journal, starred review) Mrs. Poe comes a fictionalized imagining of the personal life of America's most iconic writer: Mark Twain.In March...

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Published: Jun 2016

The Midwife's Revolt

Jodi Daynard

On a dark night in 1775, Lizzie Boylston is awakened by the sound of cannons. From a hill south of Boston, she watches as fires burn in Charlestown, in a battle that she soon discovers has claimed her husband's life.Alone in a new tow...

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Published: Apr 2015
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