Historical - General

721-750 of 1801

The River Knows

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...

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Published: Mar 2008

The Water Devil: A Margaret of Ashbur...

Judith Merkle Riley

Returning to England after rescuing her husband, Gregory, from his French captors, Margaret turns to old friend Brother Malechi to help her save her young daughter from an unwanted marriage brokered by Gregory's meddling father, a sit...

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Published: Jan 2007

Walkers of the Wind (First Americans ...

William Sarabande

Mesmerizing, dramatic, unsurpasses in scope and suthenticity, this is the fourth exciting volume of the magnificent new series THE FIRST AMERICANS, which began with Beyond the Sea of Ice and continued with Corridor of Storms and Forbi...

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Published: Aug 1990

No Less Than Victory of World War II

Jeff Shaara

After the success at Normandy, the Allied commanders are confident that the war in Europe will soon be over. But in December 1944, in the Ardennes Forest, the Germans launch a ruthless counteroffensive that begins the Battle of the Bu...

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Published: May 2010

Assegai

Wilbur Smith

It is 1913 and ex-soldier turned professional big game hunter, Leon Courtney, is in British East Africa guiding rich and powerful men from America and Europe on safaris in the Masai tribe territories. One of his clients, German indust...

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Published: Mar 2010

The Last Enchantment (The Arthurian S...

Mary Stewart

Arthur Pendragon is King! Unchallenged on the battlefield, he melds the country together in a time of promise. But sinister powers plot to destroy Camelot, and when the witch-queen Morgause -- Arthur's own half sister -- ensnares him ...

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Published: May 2003

The Red Heart

James Alexander Thom

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Published: Sep 1998

Give Me Back My Legions! of Ancient R...

Harry Turtledove

Bestselling author Harry Turtledove turns his attention to an epic battle that pits three Roman legions against Teutonic barbarians in a thrilling novel of Ancient Rome.

Unabridged CD
Published: Apr 2009

In the Presence of Mine Enemies

Harry Turtledove

In a novel of alternative history, Germany has won World War II, and in the twenty-first century rules most of Europe and North America, but beneath an Aryan facade, Jews survive within the Nazi regime, hoping not to be detected. Repr...

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Published: Nov 2004

Lady Katherne's Wild Ride (Signet Ecl...

Jeane Westin

Accused of murdering her lecherous uncle, Lady Katherne Lindsay, to avoid a death sentence, masquerades as an actress with the help of handsome actor and notorious womanizer Jeremy Hughes, whom she wants to play a leading role in her ...

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Published: Aug 2006

War Brides

Helen Bryan

With war threatening to spread from Europe to England, the sleepy village of Crowmarsh Priors settles into a new sort of normal: Evacuees from London are billeted in local homes. Nightly air raids become grimly mundane. The tighten...

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Published: Jun 2012

Gentlemen of the Road: A Tale of Adve...

Michael Chabon

Michael Chabon's Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, sprang from an early passion for the derring-do and larger-than-life heroes of classic comic books. Now, once more mining the rich past, Ch...

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Published: Sep 2008

The Scarlet Lion

Elizabeth Chadwick

A page-turning novel of honor, intrigue, treachery, and love, continuing the story of England's greatest knight of the Middle Ages, William Marshal. Bestselling author Elizabeth Chadwick, "an author who makes historical fiction c...

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Published: Mar 2010

The Empty Throne: A Novel (Saxon Tale...

Bernard Cornwell

This eighth entry in New York Times bestselling author Bernard Cornwell's epic Saxon Tales series brings to life the harrowing and turbulent tale of a nation torn apart by sectarian and religious strife, a political struggle dominated...

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Published: Jan 2016

To Be Queen of the Early Life of Elea...

Christy English

The author of The Queen's Pawn delves into the early life of the legendary Eleanor of Aquitaine in her new historical novel. After her father's sudden death, fifteen-year-old Eleanor is quickly crowned Duchess of Aquitaine and betrot...

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Published: Apr 2011

The Gods of Gotham

Lyndsay Faye

1845: New York City forms its first police force. The great potato famine hits Ireland. These two events will change New York City forever… Timothy Wilde tends bar, saving every dollar in hopes of winning the girl of his dreams. Bu...

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Published: Mar 2013

On a Highland Shore

Kathleen Givens

In an age when Norse invaders threaten Scottish civilization, one woman will defend her clan's honor and claim her own exceptional destiny.1263: As the Highland village of Somerstrath prepares for the joyous wedding of Margaret MacDon...

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Published: Jul 2006

The Queen's Vow of Isabella of Castil...

C. W. Gortner

C.W. Gortner's gripping novel follows young Isabella of Castile in her dramatic and turbulent ascent to power, transforming from the defiant, passionate daughter of an exiled widow into the famed warrior-queen who irrevocably changed ...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jun 2012

Mistress of Mourning

Karen Harper

In a gripping historical novel of suspense and romance from the national bestselling author of The Queen's Governess, two women fight to defeat the enemies of the precarious Tudor monarchy by uncovering the secrets of the dead...div ...

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Published: Jul 2012

The Ambassador's Daughter: A Novel

Pam Jenoff

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Lost Girls of Paris.For one woman in the aftermath of World War I, the City of Light harbors dark secrets and dangerous liaisons.Paris, 1919. Margot Rosenthal has arrived in France wit...

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Published: Dec 2019

Dark Angels

Karleen Koen

An ambitious young woman, Alice Verney risks everything for pride and status as she deals with the political intrigues, private passions, shifting alliances, and social machinations of the Restoration court of King Charles II. By the ...

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Published: Sep 2006

The Queen's Lady

Barbara Kyle

London, 1527. Marry or serve: for Honor Larke, the choice is clear. Unwilling to perish of boredom as an obedient wife, she leaves the home of her ward, the brilliant Sir Thomas More, to attend Her Majesty, Queen Catherine of Aragon. ...

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Published: Aug 2008

A Spectacle of Corruption

David Liss

I sentence you, Mr. Weaver, to be hanged for the most horrible crime of murder.' Hearing that judicial decree, Benjamin Weaver--former pugilist, current 'thief-taker,' and future master of disguise--begins one of the sorriest days of ...

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Published: Nov 2004

The House at Riverton

Kate Morton

Summer 1924: On the eve of a glittering Society party, by the lake of a grand English country house, a young poet takes his life. The only witnesses, sisters Hannah and Emmeline Hartford, will never speak to each other again. Winter 1...

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Published: Oct 2012

A Christmas Garland

Anne Perry

DIV"[Anne] Perry's Victorian-era holiday mysteries [are] an annual treat," declared IThe Wall Street Journal. Perry continues this magnificent tradition with IA Christmas Garland, a yuletide tale set in exotic India. This ...

Unabridged CD
Published: Oct 2012

The Captive Queen of Scots

Jean Plaidy

A fictional portrait of the doomed Mary Stuart follows the beautiful, clever, and Catholic queen of Scotland from her return to a Protestant Scotland from France, through her disastrous marriages, to the intrigues and political machin...

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Published: Nov 2006

The Oracle Glass

Judith Merkle Riley

"Absorbing and arresting." —New York Times "Fascinating and factual." —Los Angeles Times "Chilly, witty, and completely engrossing ... great, good fun." — Kirkus Reviews "An outstanding histori...

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Published: Nov 2012

The Fire Kimono: A Thriller (Sano Ich...

Laura Joh Rowland

Japan, March 1700. The strife between Sano Ichiro, the samurai detective who has risen to power in the shogun's court, and his enemies has escalated to the brink of war.When a long-buried skeleton with mysterious links to the sho...

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Published: Sep 2009

Dreamers of the Day

Mary Doria Russell

"I suppose I ought to warn you at the outset that my present circumstances are puzzling, even to me. Nevertheless, I am sure of this much: My little story has become your history. You won't really understand your times until you ...

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Published: Dec 2008

The Seventh Scroll

Wilbur Smith

For 4,000 years, the lavish crypt of the Pharaoh Mamose has never been found...until the Seventh Scroll, a cryptic message written by he slave Taita, gives beautiful Egyptologist Royan Al Simma a tantalizing clue to its location.But t...

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Published: Feb 2008
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