Historical - General

451-480 of 1801

Genghis: Birth of an Empire

Conn Iggulden

Genghis Khan was born Temujin, the son of a khan, raised in a clan of hunters migrating across the rugged steppe. Shaped by abandonment and betrayal, Temujin endured, driven by a singular fury: to survive in the face of death, to kill...

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Published: Jul 2010

Galway Bay

Mary Pat Kelly

In a hidden Ireland where fishermen and tenant farmers find solace in their ancient faith, songs, stories, and communal celebrations, young Honora Keeley and Michael Kelly wed and start a family. Because they and their countrymen must...

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Published: Feb 2011

Spectacle of Corruption, A

David Liss

Benjamin Weaver, the quick-witted pugilist turned private investigator, who was first introduced in the Edgar Award-winning novel, THE CONSPIRACY OF PAPER, returns. While inquiring into some threatening notes sent to a Church of Engla...

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Published: Jun 2004

The House at Old Vine (The Suffolk Tr...

Norah Lofts

The doomed love story of Josiana Greenwood and Walter Rancon sets the scene as the destiny of the great Suffolk house known as the Old Vine continues to unfold. Haunted by the stubbornness of its founder, Martin Reed, and the mystical...

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Published: Nov 2013

Beyond the Wild River

Sarah Maine

For fans of Kate Morton and Beatriz Williams, a highly atmospheric and suspenseful historical novel, set in the 1890s about a Scottish heiress who unexpectedly encounters her childhood friend in North America, five years after he disa...

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Published: Apr 2017

The Mirror & the Light: A Novel (Wolf...

Hilary Mantel

The brilliant #1 New York Times bestsellerNamed a best book of 2020 by The New York Times, The Washington Post, TIME, The Guardian, and many more With The Mirror & the Light, Hilary Mantel brings to a triumphant close the trilogy she...

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Published: May 2021

Attila: The Judgment

William Napier

AD 449: the future of the world hangs in the balance.  The once mighty Roman Empire lies open and vulnerable to attack from a huge Hunnish army that has gathered on the banks of the Danube and is poised and ready to strike - but only...

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Published: Oct 2010

The Reverse of the Medal (Aubrey Matu...

Patrick O'Brian

Ashore between cruises, Captain Jack Aubrey is persuaded to sink some money into an investment scheme. Soon this innocent decision enmeshes him in various criminal and even treasonous enterprises, which threaten to destroy his entire ...

Unabridged CD
Published: Feb 2006

The Yellow Admiral

Patrick O'Brian

At last! Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin are back as Patrick O'Brian provides his indomitably loyal fans with another adventure, this one by land as well as by sea. Lucky Jack Aubrey finds himself not so lucky as his troubles amoun...

Unabridged CD
Published: Mar 2007

Madame Serpent: A Catherine de Medici...

Jean Plaidy

Back in print after more than twenty years and for the first time in eBook, Madame Serpent, the first novel in Jean Plaidy's classic Catherine de Medici trilogy, introduces readers to the young de Medici princess.Sullen-eyed and brok...

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Published: Jul 2012

The Italian Woman: A Catherine de' Me...

Jean Plaidy

The second book in the classic Catherine de' Medici trilogy from Jean Plaidy, the grande dame of historical fiction When Catherine de' Medici was forced to marry Henry, Duke of Orleans, her heart was not the only one that was broken. ...

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Published: Jan 2013

The Edge of the World

William Sarabande

From William Sarabande, whose brilliant re-creation of the prehistoric world of the First American has thrilled readers everywhere, comes a major new novel that awakens us to the true spirit of our ancestors. Following their desti...

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Published: Nov 1993

Fort Pillow of the Civil War

Harry Turtledove

A harrowing novel of the Civil War's most controversial battle by New York Times bestselling author Harry Turtledove.

Unabridged MP3-CD
Published: May 2009

Reunion

Fred Uhlman

A daring novella about the loss of innocence in pre-war Germany. 'Reunion is the story of intense and innocent devotion between two young men growing up in 'the soft, serene, bluish hills of Swabia,' and the sinister (but all too mund...

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Published: Jun 1997

Becoming Josephine

Heather Webb

A sweeping historical debut about the Creole socialite who transformed herself into an empress  Readers are fascinated with the wives of famous men. In Becoming Josephine, debut novelist Heather Webb follows Rose Tascher as she s...

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Published: Dec 2013

The Skystone

Jack Whyte

Everyone knows the story-how Arthur pulled the sword from the stone, how Camelot came to be, and about the power struggles that ultimately destroyed Arthur's dreams. But what of the time before Arthur and the forces that created him?H...

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Published: Oct 1996

The Daylight Gate

Jeanette Winterson

"Mixing historical detail and dark horror, [Winterson] brilliantly brews a spellbinding take on the 1612 English witch trials."-PeopleAn instant bestseller in the UK, The Daylight Gate is Jeanette Winterson's singular vision...

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Published: Oct 2014

The Valley of Horses (Earth's Childre...

Jean M. Auel

This odyssey into the distant past carries us back to the awesome mysteries of the exotic, primeval world of The Clan of the Cave Bear, and to Ayla, now grown into a beautiful and courageous young woman.Cruelly cast out by the new lea...

Unabridged CD
Published: May 2016

Return to Me

Lynn N. Austin

Bestselling Author Lynn Austin Launches New Biblical SagaAfter years of watching his children and grandchildren wander from their faith, Iddo's prayers are answered: King Cyrus is allowing God's chosen people to return to Jerusalem. J...

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Published: Oct 2013

The House at the Edge of Night

Catherine Banner

"A perfect summer read [that] brims with heart . . . Don't be surprised if you keep turning the pages long into the night, spellbound by its magic."—The Denver PostA sweeping saga about four generations of a family who liv...

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Published: Jun 2017

The Children's Blizzard: A Novel

Melanie Benjamin

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Aviator’s Wife comes a story of courage on the prairie, inspired by the devastating storm that struck the Great Plains in 1888, threatening the lives of hundreds of immigrant hom...

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Published: Jan 2022

The Swans of Fifth Avenue: A Novel

Melanie Benjamin

The New York Times bestselling author of The Aviator's Wife returns with a triumphant new novel about New York's "Swans" of the 1950s—and the scandalous, headline-making, and enthralling friendship between literary legend ...

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Published: Jan 2016

The Garden of Lost Secrets

Kelly Bowen

Two sisters discover the fairy tales written by their great-grandmother during WWII in this riveting tale of one woman’s secrets lost in the chaos of war—perfect for fans of Julia Kelly and Natasha Lester.  1940 - Sta...

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Published: May 2023

The Victory Garden: A Novel

Rhys Bowen

From the bestselling author of The Tuscan Child comes a beautiful and heart-rending novel of a woman's love and sacrifice during the First World War.As the Great War continues to take its toll, headstrong twenty-one-year-old Emily Bry...

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Published: Feb 2019

The Woman at the Light

Joanna Brady

One afternoon in 1839, Emily Lowry's husband vanishes from Wreckers' Cay, an isolated island off the coast of Key West where he tends to the lighthouse. As days stretch into months, Emily has no choice but take charge of Wrecker's Cay...

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Published: Jul 2012

Mr. Emerson's Wife

Amy Belding Brown

Living in the shadow of her famous poet husband, Lidian Emerson, disillusioned by marriage and silenced by social conventions, is drawn to the erotic energy and intellect of family friend Henry David Thoreau, a situation that challeng...

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Published: May 2006

The Valley

Helen Bryan

Left suddenly penniless, the Honorable Sophia Grafton, a viscount's orphaned daughter, sails to the New World to claim the only property left to her name: a tobacco plantation in the remote wilds of colonial Virginia. Enlisting the re...

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Published: Jul 2016

Benjamin Franklin's Bastard

Sally Cabot

Benjamin Frankiln's Bastard by Sally Cabot is an absorbing and compelling work of literary historical fiction that brings to life a little-known chapter of the American Revolution — the story of Benjamin Franklin and his bastard son...

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Published: Jun 2014

Nelly Dean: A Return to Wuthering Hei...

Alison Case

A riveting and heartbreaking novel that re-imagines life at Wuthering Heights through the eyes of the Earnshaws' loyal servant, Nelly Dean.Young Nelly Dean has been Hindley's closest companion for as long as she can remember, living f...

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Published: Mar 2017

The Rathbones

Janice Clark

Mercy, fifteen years old, is the last of the Rathbone whaling clan. Her father has been lost at sea for nearly ten years—ever since the last sperm whale was seen off the coast of Connecticut. As Mercy's memories of her father grow d...

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Published: May 2014
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