Historical - General

631-660 of 1801

The Jester

James Patterson

Hugh De Luc, an innkeeper barely able to keep his inn from the nobles who rule France, joins the Crusades in an attempt to get out from under the royal boot. What he finds on the road to Jerusalem, however, is much worse than what he ...

Paperback
Published: Feb 2004

The Poisonwood Bible

B. Kingsolver

The Poisonwood Bible is a story told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959. They carry with them everything they believe they will n...

Paperback
Published: Oct 1999

Mistress of the Art of Death

Ariana Franklin

The national bestselling hit hailed by the New York Times as a 'vibrant medieval mystery...[it] outdoes the competition.' In medieval Cambridge, England, Adelia, a female forensics expert, is summoned by King Henry II to investigate ...

Paperback
Published: Feb 2008

Alias Grace

Margaret Atwood

In Alias Grace, bestselling author Margaret Atwood has written her most captivating, disturbing, and ultimately satisfying work since The Handmaid's Tale. She takes us back in time and into the life of one of the most enigmatic and n...

Paperback
Published: Oct 1997

Innocent Traitor of Lady Jane Grey

Alison Weir

I am now a condemned traitor . . . I am to die when I have hardly begun to live.Historical expertise marries page-turning fiction in Alison Weir’s enthralling debut novel, breathing new life into one of the most significant and ...

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Published: Nov 2007

Passion

Lisa Valdez

While visiting London's Crystal Palace, beautiful young widow Passion Elizabeth Dare has an erotic encounter with a mysterious stranger that leads to many more romantic interludes, until blackmail, betrayal, and scandal threaten to te...

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Published: Jul 2005

A Bride Most Begrudging

Deeanne Gist

When Lady Constance Morrow finds herself held against her will aboard a ship bound for the American colonies-a ship filled with 'tobacco brides' and felons-she is quite sure that as soon as she arrives she will find a reasonable man w...

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Published: Jul 2005

An Assembly Such as This of Fitzwilli...

Pamela Aidan

A first installment of a trilogy based on Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice is told from the perspective of Darcy, begins with his observations of the Bennet family during a disastrous Netherfield Park ball, and offers insight i...

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Published: May 2006

The Virgin Blue

Tracy Chevalier

This first novel by the author of GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING is about Ella, an American woman, and her husband, Rick, who move to France, to the town where Ella's ancestors lived centuries ago.As Ella tries to settle in, she has a drea...

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Published: Jun 2003

The Masque of the Black Tulip

Lauren Willig

When a London War Office courier is murdered for the confidential dispatch he carried for an elusive spy known as the Pink Carnation, Henrietta Uppington and Miles Dorrington decipher a secret message and work with the War Office to p...

Paperback
Published: Nov 2006

The White Queen (Cousins' War)

Philippa Gregory

THE COUSINS' WAR Book One Philippa Gregory, 'the queen of royal fiction,'* presents the first of a new series set amid the deadly feuds of England known as the Wars of the Roses. Brother turns on brother to win the ultimate ...

Paperback
Published: Apr 2010

The Hidden Diary of Marie Antoinette

Carolly Erickson

Awaiting her execution, Marie Antoinette writes the story of her life from her prison cell, in a diary that describes her privileged childhood as an Austrian archduchess, years as the glamorous mistress of Versailles, love affair with...

Paperback
Published: Aug 2006

Princess: (Book 2 in the Ascension Tr...

Gaelen Foley

Dear Reader,I'm so proud to introduce Gaelen Foley, a captivating new writer who will sweep you away with this unforgettable story of forbidden love and wondrous destiny.Darius Santiago is the King's most trusted man, a master spy and...

Paperback
Published: Jun 1999

The Last Wife of Henry VIII

Carolly Erickson

From the bestselling and critically acclaimed author of The Hidden Diary of Marie Antoinette comes a powerful new novel about Catherine Parr, The Last Wife of Henry VIII. The least known of Henry VIII's six wives was the cleverest of ...

Paperback
Published: Apr 2007

One Thousand White Women: The Journal...

Jim Fergus

Based on actual historical events, this novel follows the indomitable May Dodd as she travels to the Cheyenne, becomes the bride of Little Wolf, chief of that tribe, and struggles with living in and being loyal to two different worlds...

Unabridged CD
Published: Apr 2006

These Three Remain of Fitzwilliam Dar...

Pamela Aidan

A concluding installment to the best-selling trilogy follows Darcy's journey of self-discovery after Elizabeth Bennet's rejection of his marriage proposal, a period during which he hopes to renew his suit and finds his resolve tested ...

Paperback
Published: Jan 2007

Nefertiti

Michelle Moran

Nefertiti and her younger sister, Mutnodjmet, have been raised in a powerful family that has provided wives to the rulers of Egypt for centuries. Ambitious, charismatic, and beautiful, Nefertiti is destined to marry Amunhotep, an unst...

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Published: May 2008

By Order of the President (Presidenti...

W. E. B. Griffin

Two armed men board a 727 all but forgotten at an airfield in Angola. Hijacking the jet, they then slit the throat of the lone crew and fly to parts unknown. The consternation is immediate, as the CIA, FBI, and other agencies race to ...

Unabridged CD
Published: Dec 2004

The Courts of Love: The Story of Elea...

Jean Plaidy

When I look back over my long and tempestuous life, I can see that much of what happened to me—my triumphs and most of my misfortunes—was due to my passionate relationships with men. I was a woman who considered herself th...

Paperback
Published: May 2006

River Knows, The

Amanda Quick

The first kiss occurred in a dimly lit hallway on the upper floor of Elwin Hastings's grand house. Louisa never saw it coming. . . .Of course, Anthony Stalbridge couldn't possibly have had romantic intentions. The kiss was an act of d...

Unabridged MP3-CD
Published: Apr 2007

Cleopatra's Daughter

Michelle Moran

The marriage of Marc Antony and Cleopatra is one of the greatest love stories of all time, a tale of unbridled passion with earth-shaking political consequences. Feared and hunted by the powers in Rome, the lovers choose to die by the...

Paperback
Published: Jul 2010

The Bastard (Kent Family Chronicles, ...

John Jakes

The illegitimate son of a British nobleman journeys to America where he finds a true passion for life under the tutelage of Benjamin Franklin and works at a printing house where he discovers the radical writings of Sam Adams, leading ...

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Published: Jan 2004

Moloka'i

Alan Brennert

Dreaming of far-off lands away from her loving 1890s Honolulu home, seven-year-old Rachel is forcibly removed from her family when she contracts leprosy and is placed in a settlement, where she loses a series of new friends before new...

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Published: Oct 2004

Courtesan

Diane Haeger

Widow Diane de Poitiers, the mistress to King Henri II of France, is smitten by her royal lover, but she can never publicly acknowledge her feelings, especially after his marriage to Catherine de Medici, in a fictional account of a re...

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Published: Jul 2006

The Seekers (The Kent Family Chronicl...

John Jakes

Returning to Boston, Abraham Kent, who had helped pacify the Indian threat on the frontier, finds himself unable to follow the path chosen for him by his controlling father and sets out on a perilous journey to the West, along with hi...

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Published: Jul 2004

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 ...

Paperback
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 Ballad of Frankie Silver

Sharyn McCrumb

When he is asked to witness the execution of a young man found guilty of a double murder, Tennessee Sheriff Spencer Arrowood is reminded of a convicted murderer hanged in 1833. But like the long-ago trial and hanging of Frankie Silver...

Paperback
Published: May 1999

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
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