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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...

Unabridged MP3-CD
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...

Paperback
Published: Jul 2004

Here Be Dragons

Sharon Kay Penman

Thirteenth-century Wales is a divided country, ever at the mercy of England's ruthless, power-hungry King John. Llewelyn, Prince of North Wales, secures an uneasy truce by marrying the English king's beloved illegitimate daughter, Joa...

Paperback
Published: May 2008

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...

Paperback
Published: Aug 1997

The King's Favorite of Nell Gwyn and ...

Susan Holloway Scott

The acclaimed author of Duchess and Royal Harlot returns with the unforgettable story of a king's last love and London's darling…BR>Nell Gwyn has never been a lady, nor does she pretend to be. Blessed with impudent wit and saucy bea...

Paperback
Published: Jul 2008

Rachel and Leah: Women of Genesis

Orson Scott Card

In this third volume of his Women of Genesis series, Orson Scott Card paints a vivid picture of the intertwined lives of four celebrated women. We meet Leah, the oldest daughter of Laban, whose 'tender eyes' prevent her from fully par...

Paperback
Published: Dec 2005

Shogun

James Clavell

A bold English adventuer. An invincible Japanese warlord. A beautiful woman torn between two ways of life, two ways of love. All brought together in a mighty saga of a time and place aflame with conflict, passion, ambition, lust a...

Paperback
Published: Sep 1986

Summer at Seaside Cove

Jacquie D'Alessandro

After Janie Newman's half sister Laurel steals her boyfriend, Jamie leaves New York and the humiliation behind for the island of Seaside Cove, North Carolina. But the cozy cottage she booked turns out to be a rundown bungalow. And she...

Paperback
Published: May 2011

Special Ops (Brotherhood of War)

W. E. B. Griffin

Bestselling author W.E.B. Griffin, whose novels about various branches of the military have won him battalions of fans, returns to the Brotherhood of War series with this crackling yarn. A detachment of Special Forces hotshots team...

Paperback
Published: Jan 2002

Aztec

Gary Jennings

Here is the extraordinary story of the last and greatest native civilization of North America, at the height of its magnificent. It is a story told in the words of one of the most robust and memorable characters in modern fiction. His...

Paperback
Published: Aug 1997

The Second Empress: A Novel of Napole...

Michelle Moran

National bestselling author Michelle Moran returns to Paris, this time under the rule of Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte as he casts aside his beautiful wife to marry a Hapsburg princess he hopes will bear him a royal heir    After the...

Paperback
Published: May 2013

The Singing Sword: The Dream of Eagle...

Jack Whyte

This second installment in The Camulod Chronicles details the forgotten Roman soldiers whose fierce grit and determination, even in the face of abandonment by their own empire, shaped the Arthurian legend. This is a prehistory of Came...

Paperback
Published: May 2002

Fortune Is a Woman

Elizabeth Adler

The three met in the aftermath of San Franciscos devastating 1906 earthquake--the Mandarin Lai Tsin, a runaway American heiress, and a young Englishwoman. Against all odds they made their dreams come true, building one of the worlds l...

Paperback
Published: Dec 1992

Sharpe's Siege (#9) (Sharpe's Adventu...

Bernard Cornwell

A classic Sharpe adventure: Richard Sharpe and the Winter Campaign, 1814. The invasion of France is under way, and the British Navy has called upon the services of Major Richard Sharpe. He and a small force of Riflemen are to capture ...

Paperback
Published: Nov 2001

The Archer's Tale

Bernard Cornwell

Thomas of Hookton, a young archer fighting on the side of King Edward III in the Hundred Years War, is the protagonist of Cornwell's historical novel. He rescues a woman called Blackbird from assault by the evil Sir Simon Jekyll, whom...

Paperback
Published: Sep 2002

Love and War (North and South Trilogy...

John Jakes

The Hazards and Mains are wrenched apart by battle and swept together by passion during the searing years of the Civil War. 2 cassettes.

Paperback
Published: Jun 2000

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (Rando...

Lisa See

Lily is haunted by memories–of who she once was, and of a person, long gone, who defined her existence. She has nothing but time now, as she recounts the tale of Snow Flower, and asks the gods for forgiveness.In nineteenth-century C...

Paperback
Published: Feb 2006

Sharpe's Regiment (#8) (Sharpe's Adve...

Bernard Cornwell

Major Sharpe should be fighting the French -- but his worst enemies are in England...Major Richard Sharpe's men were in mortal danger -- not from the French, but from the bureaucrats of Whitehall. Unless reinforcements could be brough...

Paperback
Published: Oct 2001

Sharpe's Sword: Sharpes's novel # 14:...

Bernard Cornwell

Colonel Leroux is killing Britains most valuable spies, and its up to Richard Sharpe to stop him. Thrust into the unfamiliar world of political and military intrigue, Sharpe must tangle with the beguiling yet calculating La Marquesa.

Unabridged CD
Published: Mar 2009

Waterloo (#11) (Sharpe's Adventures)

Bernard Cornwell

Just as Sharpe comes face-to-face with his estranged wife and her lover at a grand society ball, news comes that the British-Prussian link is under attack. In the Battle of Waterloo, Sharpe once again plays a pivotal role in the outco...

Paperback
Published: Nov 2001

Queenmaker of King David's Queen

India Edghill

For over forty years, Michal lived and reigned in David's court. She was the beautiful and proud daughter of King Saul and the prize David would risk his kingdom to win. Behind the palace doors, beneath the burning sun of the desert, ...

Paperback
Published: Jan 2003

Child of the Morning

Pauline Gedge

Based closely on historical events, this sensuously beautiful, astonishingly evocative novel tells the story of one of history's most remarkable women—the first female Pharaoh of Egypt. Thirty-five centuries ago, Hatshepsut, the y...

Paperback
Published: Apr 2010

Sarah (Canaan Trilogy, Book 1)

Marek Halter

The first novel in a trilogy, SARAH brings to life the world of the Bible in the story of the Sumerian woman who becomes a high priestess serving the goddess Ishtar. But she is also the lover of Abraham, and with him she runs away fro...

Abridged CD
Published: May 2004

Where the Lost Wander: A Novel

Amy Harmon

In this epic and haunting love story set on the Oregon Trail, a family and their unlikely protector find their way through peril, uncertainty, and loss. The Overland Trail, 1853: Naomi May never expected to be widowed at twenty. Eage...

Paperback
Published: Apr 2020

The Chaperone

Laura Moriarty

The New York Times bestseller and the USA Today #1 Hot Fiction Pick for the summer, The Chaperone is a captivating novel about the woman who chaperoned an irreverent Louise Brooks to New York City in 1922 and the summer that wou...

Paperback
Published: Jun 2013

These Tangled Threads (Bells of Lowel...

Tracie Peterson

Book 3 of Bells of Lowell. Timid yet alluring Daughtie Winfield finds herself in a precarious position when the new doctor casts his favor upon her. Though flattered by his attention, she is drawn to Liam Donohue, a local Irish artisa...

Paperback
Published: Sep 2003

To the Last Man of the First World Wa...

Jeff Shaara

Jeff Shaara has enthralled readers with his New York Times bestselling novels set during the Civil War and the American Revolution. Now the acclaimed author turns to World War I, bringing to life the sweeping, emotional story of the w...

Paperback
Published: Aug 2005

Daughters of the Witching Hill

Mary Sharratt

InDaughters of the Witching Hill, Mary Sharratt brings history to life in a vivid and wrenching novel of strong women, family and betrayal inspired by the 1612 Pendle witch trials.Bess Southerns, an impoverished widow, lives with her ...

Paperback
Published: Jan 2011

Birds of Prey (A Courtney Family Adve...

Wilbur Smith

A best-seller in England, this novel is about a young sailor named Hal Courtenay, who has grown up on the coast of Africa, and whose coming of age is fraught with piracy, perilous sea voyages, wild escapes from danger, and buried trea...

Paperback
Published: Jul 1998

Conspirata of Ancient Rome

Robert Harris

Harris's acclaimed Roman trilogy continues with an historical saga in which the future of democracy is decided, and revenge is the coin of the realm.

Unabridged CD
Published: Feb 2010
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