Historical - General

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The Winter King (The Arthur Books #1)...

Bernard Cornwell

It takes a remarkable writer to make an old story as fresh and compelling as the first time we heard it. With The Winter King, the first volume of his magnificent Warlord Chronicles, Bernard Cornwell finally turns to the story he was ...

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Published: Apr 1997

The Temptation of the Night Jasmine (...

Lauren Willig

Unabridged CDs • 11 CDs, 14 hours The much- anticipated fifth installment in the inventive and original Pink Carnation series.

Paperback
Published: Jan 2010

The True Story of Hansel and Gretel

Louise Murphy

A retelling of the classic fairy tale, set in Nazi-occupied Poland, follows two Jewish children, left by their father and stepmother to seek refuge in a dense forest, as they wander the woods until being taken in by Magda, an eccentri...

Paperback
Published: Jul 2003

Gods and Generals

Jeff Shaara

The lives and careers of four great military leaders--Stonewall Jackson, Winfield Scott Hancock, Joshua Chamberlain, and Robert E. Lee--reach a climax as Union and Confederate forces clash on the battlefields of the Civil War. Read by...

Abridged CD
Published: Jan 2003

The Hunter: A Highland Guard Novel

Monica McCarty

The war for Scotland's freedom continues as King Robert the Bruce battles on. At his command is an elite army of trained warriors, soldiers dedicated to their king, their country—and to the remarkable women they love.  Prized for h...

Paperback
Published: Jun 2013

Dragon's Lair (Ballantine Reader's Ci...

Sharon Kay Penman

July 1193. King Richard Lionheart lies in a German prison, held for ransom by the emperor. His mother, Dowager Queen Eleanor, ransacks England for gold to buy his freedom, while his younger brother, John, plots with King Philippe of F...

Paperback
Published: Nov 2004

The Crystal Cave (The Arthurian Saga,...

Mary Stewart

Born the bastard son of a Welsh princess, Myridden Emrys -- or as he would later be known, Merlin -- leads a perilous childhood, haunted by portents and visions. But destiny has great plans for this no-man's-son, taking him from proph...

Paperback
Published: May 2003

My Lady of Cleves of Henry VIII and A...

Margaret Campbell Barnes

My Lady of Cleves reveals the mesmerizing story of Anne of Cleves, Henry VIII's fourth wife, one of the rare women who matched wits successfully with the fiery king and lived to tell the tale. Written by world-renowned historical nove...

Paperback
Published: Sep 2008

The Burning Land

Bernard Cornwell

In a clash of heroes, the kingdom is born. At the end of the ninth century, King Alfred of Wessex is in ill health; his heir, an untested youth. His enemy, the Danes, having failed to conquer Wessex, now see their chance for victory...

Paperback
Published: Sep 2010

Mr. Darcy, Vampyre

Amanda Grange

Sourcebooks Landmark, the leading publisher of Jane Austen-related fiction, is excited to announce a major release: Mr. Darcy, Vampyre by international bestselling author Amanda Grange. Amanda Grange, bestselling author of Mr. Darcy's...

Paperback
Published: Aug 2009

The Warriors (The Kent Family Chronic...

John Jakes

The Kent Family Chronicles continue as Confederate Corporal Jeremiah Kent carries out his commander's dying request-while the Union Army ravages Georgia.

Paperback
Published: Jan 2005

The Betrayal of the Blood Lily: A Pin...

Lauren Willig

A New York Times extended list bestseller in hardcover-the sensational sixth book in the national bestselling Pink Carnation series. Whisked away to nineteenth-century India, Penelope Deveraux plunges into the court intrigues of the ...

Paperback
Published: Jan 2011

The Secret Diary of Anne Boleyn

Robin Maxwell

In this 'energetic' (Kirkus Reviews) re-creation of Anne Boleyn's tragic life -- and death -- Robin Maxwell offers a pitch-perfect version of a bawdy and exuberant time filled with lust, betrayal, love, and murder.When the young Q...

Paperback
Published: May 1998

Virgin: Prelude to the Throne

Robin Maxwell

...a riveting portrait of Elizabeth I as a romantic and vulnerable teenager, dangerously awakening to a perilous liaison with the wrong man. England, 1547: King Henry is dead. Elizabeth's half-brother, nine-year-old Edward, is king i...

Paperback
Published: Jul 2002

Chesapeake

James A. Michener

A panoramic narrative of human and animal life on Maryland's Eastern Shore focuses on a ten-square-mile area at the mouth of the Choptank River and the families that settle there, from the early seventeenth century to the present day....

Paperback
Published: Sep 2003

The Hollow Hills (The Arthurian Saga,...

Mary Stewart

Keeping watch over the young Arthur Pendragon, the prince and prophet Merlin Ambrosius is haunted by dreams of the magical sword Caliburn, which has been hidden for centuries. When Uther Pendragon is killed in battle, the time of dest...

Paperback
Published: May 2003

Sharpe's Revenge (#10) (Sharpe's Adve...

Bernard Cornwell

Richard Sharpe and the Peace of 1814. It is 1814. After a long and exhausting series of battles the British and Spanish armies are pushing into south-western France from Spain. Rumours abound that Napoleon has surrendered, been murder...

Paperback
Published: Nov 2001

Sharpe's Trafalgar: Richard Sharpe an...

Bernard Cornwell

Fresh from his heroic adventures in India (in 'Sharpe's Fortress'), Richard Sharpe faces a new enemy when the ship carrying him home is attacked by a formidable French warship. With the help of a Royal Navy captain, Sharpe learns the ...

Paperback
Published: Jul 2002

The House I Loved

Tatiana De Rosnay

From IThe New York Times bestselling author ofI Sarah's Key and IA Secret Kept comes an absorbing new novel about one woman's resistance during an epoque that shook Paris to its very coreDIV DIV Paris, France: 1860s. Hundreds of hou...

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Published: Oct 2012

The Secret Life of Josephine: Napoleo...

Carolly Erickson

The bestselling author of The Hidden Diary of Marie Antoinette and The Last Wife of Henry VIII returns with an enchanting novel about the ambitious, amoral, vulnerable woman who became the first wife of Napoleon Bonaparte.Fashion icon...

Paperback
Published: Aug 2008

The Signature of All Things: A Novel

Elizabeth Gilbert

A glorious, sweeping novel of desire, ambition, and the thirst for knowledge, from the # 1 New York Times bestselling author of Eat, Pray, Love and Committed In The Signature of All Things, Elizabeth Gilbert returns to fiction, in...

Unabridged CD
Published: Oct 2013

Ten Thousand Charms (Crossroads of Gr...

Allison Pittman

Unfit for Love? Pregnant - by a man who will never know or care. Gloria, born into a life of prostitution, sees only one solution: get rid of the child. But then she meets John William MacGregan, a miner, left with a newborn daughter ...

Paperback
Published: May 2006

The Ashford Affair

Lauren Willig

From New York Times bestselling author Lauren Willig comes The Ashford Affair, a page-turning novel about two women in different eras, and on different continents, who are connected by one deeply buried secret.As a lawyer in a large M...

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Published: Mar 2014

The Second Mrs. Darcy

Elizabeth Aston

The next adventure of the Darcy family from the author of Mr. Darcy's Daughters -- the story of a reluctant heiress who has been left a widow by Darcy's cousin Christopher. It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single woman in...

Paperback
Published: Mar 2007

Sharpe's Fury: Richard Sharpe & the B...

Bernard Cornwell

The year is 1811. With the British army penned into a small part of Portugal, and all of Spain except for the coastal city of Cádiz fallen to the invader, the French appear to have won their war. Raised in the gutters of London and ...

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Published: Sep 2007

Revenge of the Rose

Nicole Galland

An impoverished young knight living in rural Burgundy, Willem of Dole greets with surprise—and apprehension—his summons to the magnificent court of Konrad, Holy Roman Emperor, whose realm spans half of Europe. Immediately...

Paperback
Published: Sep 2007

A Sundial in a Grave: 1610

Mary Gentle

In 1610 Europe, Valentin Rochefort, a notorious duellist, impoverished aristocrat, and spy for the Duc de Sully, France's powerful finance minister, is drawn into a treacherous plot to kill King James I of England. Reader's Guide avai...

Paperback
Published: May 2005

Victoria: A Novel

Daisy Goodwin

NATIONAL BESTSELLER"Victoria is an absolutely captivating novel of youth, love, and the often painful transition from immaturity to adulthood. Daisy Goodwin breathes new life into Victoria's story, and does so with sensitivity, v...

Paperback
Published: Sep 2017

The Titans (The Kent Family Chronicle...

John Jakes

Former minister-turned-reporter Jephtha Kent, the son of a mountain man and a Shoshoni Indian who lost his congregation, fortune, and family, finds himself and his sons on opposite sides of the Civil War when they take up the Confeder...

Paperback
Published: Nov 2004

The Firebird

Susanna Kearsley

Two women. One mysterious relic. Separated by centuries. Nicola Marter was born with a gift so rare and dangerous, she keeps it buried deep. When she encounters a desperate woman trying to sell a small wooden carving called "The ...

Unabridged MP3-CD
Published: Jun 2013
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