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Black Sheep

Georgette Heyer

Abigail Wendover, on the shelf at 28, is kept busy when her niece falls head over heels in love with a handsome fortune hunter and Abbie is forced into a confrontation with his scandalous uncle.Miles Calvery is the black sheep of his ...

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Published: Jun 2008

Edge of Eternity: Book Three of the C...

Ken Follett

EDGE OF ETERNITY is the sweeping, passionate conclusion to Ken Follett’s extraordinary historical epic, The Century Trilogy.  Throughout these books, Follett has followed the fortunes of five intertwined families – American, G...

Unabridged CD
Published: Sep 2014

The Shoemaker's Wife

Adriana Trigiani

Beloved New York Times bestselling author Adriana Trigiani returns with the most epic and ambitious novel of her career—a breathtaking multigenerational love story that spans two continents, two World Wars, and the quest of two star...

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Published: Dec 2012

The Sanctuary

Raymond Khoury

After centuries of destruction, one unsuspecting woman stands at the center of a conspiracy that could change the world forever.

Paperback
Published: Aug 2008

The Art Forger

B. A. Shapiro

On March 18, 1990, thirteen works of art worth today over $500 million were stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. It remains the largest unsolved art heist in history, and Claire Roth, a struggling young artist, i...

Paperback
Published: May 2013

The All-Girl Filling Station's Last R...

Fannie Flagg

The one and only Fannie Flagg, beloved author of Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, Can't Wait to Get to Heaven, and I Still Dream About You, is at her hilarious and superb best in this new comic mystery novel about two wo...

Unabridged CD
Published: Nov 2013

Red Sky at Morning

Richard Bradford

The classic coming-of-age story set during World War II about the enduring spirit of youth and the values in life that count.

Paperback
Published: Jun 1999

We Were the Lucky Ones: A Novel

Georgia Hunter

Inspired by the incredible true story of one Jewish family separated at the start of World War II, determined to survive—and to reunite—We Were the Lucky Ones is a tribute to the triumph of hope and love against all odds "Lo...

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Published: Feb 2018

Grave Goods (Mistress of the Art of D...

Ariana Franklin

The "richly detailed, almost indecently thrilling" (New York Times) follow up to The Serpent's Tale When a fire at Glastonbury Abbey reveals two skeletons, rumor has it they may belong to King Arthur and Queen Guinevere. Ki...

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Published: Mar 2010

The Red Queen (The Cousins' War)

Philippa Gregory

In her second book of the Cousins' War series, #1 'New York Times'-bestselling author Gregory moves to the Lancaster side, and the story of a determined woman who believes she is destined to shape the course of history.

Unabridged CD
Published: Aug 2010

The Samurai's Garden

Gail Tsukiyama

divThe daughter of a Chinese mother and a Japanese father, Tsukiyama uses the Japanese invasion of China during the late 1930s as a somber backdrop for her unusual story about a 20-year-old Chinese painter named Stephen who is sent to...

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Published: May 1996

Bring Up the Bodies (Wolf Hall Trilog...

Hilary Mantel

The sequel to Hilary Mantel's 2009 Man Booker Prize winner and New York Times bestseller, Wolf Hall delves into the heart of Tudor history with the downfall of Anne Boleyn Though he battled for seven years to marry her, Henry is disen...

Unabridged CD
Published: May 2012

The Paris Library: A Novel

Janet Skeslien Charles

An instant New York Times, Washington Post,and USA TODAY bestseller—based on the true story of the heroic librarians at the American Library in Paris during World War II—The Paris Library is a moving and unforgettable &ldq...

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Published: Mar 2022

Along the Infinite Sea

Beatriz Williams

An epic story of star-crossed lovers in pre-war Europe collides with a woman on the run in the swinging '60s, in another riveting novel of the Schuyler sisters from the New York Times bestselling author of Tiny Little Thing.In the aut...

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Published: Aug 2016

The Dovekeepers

Alice Hoffman

Over five years in the writing, The Dovekeepers is Alice Hoffman's most ambitious and mesmerizing novel, a tour de force of imagination and research, set in ancient Israel. In 70 C.E., nine hundred Jews held out for months against arm...

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Published: Apr 2012

The Enchantress of Florence

Salman Rushdie

The Enchantress of Florence is the story of a mysterious woman, a great beauty believed to possess the powers of enchantment and sorcery, attempting to command her own destiny in a man's world. It is the story of two cities at the hei...

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Published: Jan 2009

The Little Book

Selden Edwards

An irresistible triumph of the imagination more than thirty years in the making, The Little Book is a breathtaking love story that spans generations, ranging from fin de siècle Vienna through the pivotal moments of the twentieth cent...

Unabridged CD
Published: Aug 2008

His Wicked Reputation

Madeline Hunter

From the New York Times bestselling Madeline Hunter comes this first in a stunning new trilogy about three irresistibly attractive brothers.  This is the story of the bastard brother.... For fans of Mary Balogh and Amanda Quick. Ga...

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Published: Mar 2015

Rasputin's Shadow

Raymond Khoury

An ingenious, fast-paced historical thriller from the author of the New York Times bestseller The Last Templar On a cold, bleak day in 1916, all hell breaks loose in a mining pit in the Ural Mountains. Overcome by a strange paranoia, ...

Unabridged CD
Published: Oct 2013

Before We Were Yours: A Novel

Lisa Wingate

THE BLOCKBUSTER HIT—A New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and Publishers Weekly BestsellerFor readers of Orphan Train and The Nightingale comes a "thought-provoking [and] complex tale about two families, two g...

Unabridged CD
Published: Oct 2018

Believe

Victoria Alexander

Tessa St. James thinks as little of love as she does of the Arthurian legend--it's a myth. But when an enchanted tome falls into the teacher's hands, she finds she must rethink her philosophy. Suddenly in Merlin's Camelot, Tessa will ...

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Published: Jul 1998

The Rose Code CD: A Novel

Kate Quinn

“The hidden history of Bletchley Park has been waiting for a master storyteller like Kate Quinn to bring it to life. THE ROSE CODE effortlessly evokes the frantic, nervy, exuberant world of the Enigma codebreakers through the ey...

Unabridged CD
Published: Mar 2021

The Rose Code: A Novel

Kate Quinn

“The reigning queen of historical fiction” —  Fiona Davis, New York Times bestselling author of The Lions of Fifth Avenue   The New York Times and USA Todaybestselling author of The Hunt...

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Published: Mar 2021

The Golden Ocean

Patrick O'Brian

Commodore (late Admiral) Anson's fatefaul circumnavigation of the globe in 1740, wherein Anson and his men encounter disaster, disease, and astonishing success, is the ground to The Golden Ocean. Here ia a tale certain to please not o...

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Published: Oct 1996

The Book of Lost Names

Kristin Harmel

“A fascinating, heartrending page-turner that, like the real-life forgers who inspired the novel, should never be forgotten.” —Kristina McMorris, New York Times bestselling author of Sold on a Monday Inspired by ...

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Published: Mar 2021

The Orphan Collector

Ellen Marie Wiseman

From the internationally bestselling author ofWhat She Left Behind, a powerful tale of upheaval, resilience and hope set in Philadelphia during the 1918 Spanish Flu outbreak--the deadly pandemic that went on to infect one-third of the...

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Published: Jul 2020

The Fortune of War

Patrick O'Brian

This time it's the War of 1812 that gets in the way of Captain Jack Aubery's plans. Caught en route to England in a dispatch vessel, Aubrey and Maturin are soon in the thick of a typically bloody naval engagement. Next stop: an Americ...

Paperback
Published: Aug 1991

The Saint: A Highland Guard Novel

Monica McCarty

Robert the Bruce consolidates lands and loyalty in a bold war for Scotland's independence, as his elite team of warriors, the Highland Guard, fight for king, country . . . and love. Magnus MacKay is the ultimate Highlander: tough, pr...

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Published: Mar 2012

The Sugar Camp Quilt: An Elm Creek Qu...

Jennifer Chiaverini

In Creek's Crossing, Pennsylvania, in the years before the Civil War, Dorothea Granger agrees to sew an unusual quilt to fulfill her uncle's deathbed request, realizing later that the quilt pattern contains an Underground Railroad map.

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Published: Jan 2005

H.M.S. Surprise

Patrick O'Brian

Third in the series of Aubrey-Maturin adventures, this book is set among the strange sights and smells of the Indian subcontinent, and in the distant waters ploughed by the ships of the East India Company. Aubrey is on the defensive, ...

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Published: May 1991
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