Historical - General

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Sacrilege

S. J. Parris

London, summer of 1584: Radical philosopher, ex-monk, and spy Giordano Bruno suspects he is being followed by an old enemy. Instead, he is shocked to discover that his pursuer is in fact Sophia Underhill, a young woman with whom he wa...

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Published: Feb 2013

Sisi: Empress on Her Own: A Novel

Allison Pataki

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • For readers of Philippa Gregory, Paula McLain, and Daisy Goodwin comes a sweeping and powerful novel by Allison Pataki. Sisi tells the little-known story of Empress Elisabeth of Austria-Hungary, the Pri...

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Published: Feb 2017

The Secret Orphan

Glynis Peters

Keep her secret Keep her safeOn the 14th November 1940, Hitler's bombs rain down on Coventry. From the rubble of a bombed-out family home, a young girl is saved…This is a stunning and memorable page-turner of love, loss and resilien...

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Published: Jul 2019

The Lost Queen

Signe Pike

"Outlander meets Camelot" (Kirsty Logan, author of The Gracekeepers) in the first book of an exciting historical trilogy that reveals the untold story of Languoreth—a powerful and, until now, tragically forgotten queen of ...

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Published: May 2019

The Lion and the Rose

Kate Quinn

From the national bestselling author of The Serpent and the Pearl comes the continuing saga of the ruthless family that holds all of Rome in its grasp, and the three outsiders thrust into their twisted web of blood and deceit . . . ...

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Published: Jan 2014

After the War Is Over

Jennifer Robson

The International bestselling author of Somewhere in France returns with her sweeping second novel—a tale of class, love, and freedom—in which a young woman must find her place in a world forever changed.After four years as a mili...

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Published: Jan 2015

Moonlight Over Paris

Jennifer Robson

An aristocratic young woman leaves the sheltered world of London to find adventure, passion, and independence in 1920s Paris in this mesmerizing story from the USA Today and internationally bestselling author of Somewhere in France an...

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Published: Jan 2016

Stories from Suffragette City

M. J. Rose

A collection of short stories from a chorus of bestselling writers all set on the same day, October 23, 1915, in which over a million women marched for the right to vote in New York City, with an introduction by Kristin Hannah Stor...

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Published: Mar 2022

The Muralist

B. A. Shapiro

“Vibrant and suspenseful . . . Like The Art Forger, this new story takes us into the heart of what it means to be an artist.” —The Washington Post“B. A. Shapiro captivated us in 2012 with her ‘addictive’ novel The Art Forg...

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Published: Oct 2016

Letters from Yellowstone

Diane Smith

In the spring of 1898, A. E. (Alexandria) Bartram--a spirited young woman with a love for botany--is invited to join a field study in Yellowstone National Park. The study's leader, a mild-mannered professor from Montana, assumes she i...

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Published: Jun 2000

The Tiger's Prey: A Novel of Adventur...

Wilbur Smith

The New York Times bestselling author of Desert God and Pharaoh adds another chapter to his popular historical saga featuring the seafaring Tom Courtney, the hero of Monsoon and Blue Horizon, with this magnificent swashbuckling saga s...

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Published: Jul 2018

City of God of Passion and Wonder in ...

Beverly Swerling

City of God, the latest installment in Beverly Swerling's gripping saga of old New York, takes readers to Manhattan's clamorous streets as the nation struggles to find a compromise between slave and free, but hears the drums of war. T...

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Published: Sep 2009

The Gilded Years

Karin Tanabe

"Tanabe immerses the reader in a world of romance and manners, but also leaves you gripping the edge of your seat…An elegant and extremely gratifying imagining of one remarkable woman's life." —USA TODAY"Think: 'Gat...

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Published: Jun 2016

The Perfume Collector: A Novel

Kathleen Tessaro

A remarkable novel about secrets, desire, memory, passion, and possibility.Newlywed Grace Monroe doesn't fit anyone's expectations of a successful 1950s London socialite, least of all her own. When she receives an unexpected inheritan...

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Published: Feb 2014

The Quality of Mercy

Barry Unsworth

It is the spring of 1767, and the vengeful Erasmus Kemp has had the mutinous sailors of his father's ship brought back to London to stand trial on piracy charges. Much to Kemp's dismay, the Irish fiddler Sullivan has escaped, and retr...

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Published: Aug 2012

Sea of Memories

Fiona Valpy

When Kendra first visits her ailing grandmother, Ella has only one request: that Kendra write her story down, before she forgets…In 1937, seventeen-year-old Ella's life changes forever when she is sent to spend the summer on the bea...

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Published: Jan 2018

The Skylark's Secret

Fiona Valpy

Loch Ewe, 1940. When gamekeeper’s daughter Flora’s remote highland village finds itself the base for the Royal Navy’s Arctic convoys, life in her close-knit community changes forever. In defiance of his disapproving ...

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Published: Sep 2020

Evidence of Things Unseen

Marianne Wiggins

Marianne Wiggins writes about a man named Ray Foster, who fights in World War I and then returns home to the woman he loves--Opal, daughter of the local glassblower--with whom he lives through the staggering events of mid-20th-century...

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Published: Jun 2004

The Summer Country

Lauren Willig

"Tense, atmospheric, and gorgeously written, The Summer Country is a novel to savor " - Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author of The Huntress and The Alice Network A brilliant, multigenerational saga in the traditio...

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Published: Jun 2020

Dawnlands: A Novel (3) (The Fairmile ...

Philippa Gregory

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Published: Nov 2022

Jane Austen Society

Natalie Jenner

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Published: Jul 2021

The Other Boleyn Girl

Philippa Gregory

Two sisters competing for the greatest prize: the love of a kingWhen Mary Boleyn comes to court as an innocent girl of fourteen, she catches the eye of Henry VIII. Dazzled by the king, Mary falls in love with both her golden prince an...

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Published: Jun 2002

The Heretic Queen

Michelle Moran

In ancient Egypt, a forgotten princess must overcome her family's past and remake history.The winds of change are blowing through Thebes. A devastating palace fire has killed the Eighteenth Dynasty's royal family—all with the except...

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Published: Sep 2009

Winter of the World: Book Two of the ...

Ken Follett

Ken Follett follows up his #1 New York Times bestseller Fall of Giants with a brilliant, page-turning epic about the heroism and honor of World War II, and the dawn of the atomic age.br Ken Follett's Fall of Giants, the first novel in...

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Published: Sep 2012

I, Elizabeth

Rosalind Miles

A fictional autobiography of Elizabeth I of England combines historical accuracy and exciting, fully drawn characters to give an accurate and insightful behind-the-scenes look at the world in 1600 as the great queen recalls her father...

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Published: Mar 2003

Dreams of Joy

Lisa See

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn her most powerful novel yet, acclaimed author Lisa See returns to the story of sisters Pearl and May from Shanghai Girls, and Pearl's strong-willed nineteen-year-old daughter, Joy. Reeling from newly unc...

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Published: Feb 2012

The Nutmeg of Consolation (Aubrey Mat...

Patrick O'Brian

The 14th novel in O'Brian's highly acclaimed series, the Aubrey/Maturin novels, about a captain in the Royal Navy and his ship's surgeon during the Napoleonic Wars. In this installment, Jack and Stephen must deal with not only a tribe...

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Published: Mar 2007

Desolation Island (Patrick O'Brian)

Patrick O'Brian

Captain Jack Aubrey is sailing the Leopard to Australia with a hold full of convicts and a Dutch man-of-war to windward. Undermanned and outgunned, the Leopard sails for her life into the freezing Antarctic, where, in mountainous seas...

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Published: Sep 2004

Sharpe's Triumph

Bernard Cornwell

Sergeant Richard Sharpe is the sole survivor of a murderous attack led by Major William Dodd, a cold-blooded English turncoat fighting for the mercenary forces of the Mahratta confederation. Determined to avenge the deaths of his comr...

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Published: Jul 2004

The Passion

Jeanette Winterson

Set during the tumultuous years of the Napoleonic Wars, The Passion intertwines the destinies of two remarkable people: Henri, a simple French soldier, who follows Napoleon from glory to Russian ruin, and Villanelle, the red-haired da...

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Published: Aug 1997
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