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Dawn of a Thousand Nights: A Story of...

Tricia Goyer

This powerful historical novel tells the tale of the men and women involved in lesser-known World War II conflicts, including Dan Fletcher who, after surviving the Bataan Death March in the Philippines, is imprisoned in the American P...

Paperback
Published: Sep 2005

Monticello: A Daughter and Her Father...

Sally Cabot Gunning

From the critically acclaimed author of The Widow's War comes a captivating work of literary historical fiction that explores the tenuous relationship between a brilliant and complex father and his devoted daughter—Thomas Jefferson ...

Paperback
Published: Jun 2017

I'll Be Seeing You

Suzanne Hayes

"I hope this letter gets to you quickly. We are always waiting, aren't we? Perhaps the greatest gift this war has given us is the anticipation…"It's January 1943 when Rita Vincenzo receives her first letter from Glory Whit...

Paperback
Published: May 2013

Blue Asylum

Kathy Hepinstall

 "A first-rate choice for fans of intelligent historical romances."—Library Journal, starred review Amid the mayhem of the Civil War, Iris Dunleavy is put on trial by her husband, convicted of madness, and sent to Sanibel...

Paperback
Published: Apr 2013

A Game for Heroes

Jack Higgins

The days of the Third Reich are numbered. But on a solitary island in the middle of the English Channel, a brilliant, ruthless SS commander has vowed to fight to the death. It is the Nazi's last outpost. And its downfall is the ultima...

Paperback
Published: Jan 2002

The Tea Planter's Wife

Dinah Jefferies

#1 International bestselling novel set in 1920s Ceylon, about a young Englishwoman who marries a charming tea plantation owner and widower, only to discover he's keeping terrible secrets about his past, including what happened to his ...

Paperback
Published: Jun 2017

The Land of Promise (A Place to Call ...

Al Lacy

Late Nineteenth Century Land Rush 1889. Cherokee Rose and police chief Britt Claiborne are forced onto reservations along with their descendants and the five 'civilized' tribes in the Oklahoma District. The U.S. government has told th...

Paperback
Published: Feb 2007

Broken Angels

Gemma Liviero

A Nazi doctor. A Jewish rebel. A little girl. Each one will fight for freedom—or die trying.Imprisoned in the Lodz Ghetto, Elsi discovers her mother's desperate attempt to end her pregnancy and comes face-to-face with the impossibil...

Paperback
Published: Apr 2016

Watergate: A Novel (Vintage)

Thomas Mallon

A New York Times Notable BookFrom one of our most esteemed historical novelists, a remarkable retelling of the Watergate scandal, as seen through a kaleidoscope of its colorful perpetrators and investigators.  For all the monumental ...

Paperback
Published: Jan 2013

A Bridge Across the Ocean

Susan Meissner

Wartime intrigue spans the lives of three women—past and present—in the latest novel from the acclaimed author of Secrets of a Charmed Life. February, 1946. World War Two is over, but the recovery from the most intimate of its ho...

Paperback
Published: Mar 2017

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Patrick O'Brian

In response to the interest of millions of O'Brian fans, here is the final, partial installment of the Aubrey/Maturin series--the proposed follow-up to 'Blue at the Mizzen.' These are the three chapters left on O'Brian's desk at the t...

Abridged CD
Published: Oct 2004

The Wild Princess of Queen Victoria's...

Mary Hart Perry

The astronomical success of the historical novels of Phillipa Gregory and Christine Trent prove that readers simply can't get enough of the British royals—and now Mary Hart Perry enters the fray with an exciting, deliciously sensual...

Paperback
Published: Jul 2012

An Ocean Between Us

Rachel Quinn

Can their love survive the darkest of days?1943: Europe is at war—but neutral Ireland is isolated from the storm. In a sleepy coastal village south of Dublin, eighteen-year-old Aileen Sweeney meets soldier Niall O'Rourke at a dance,...

Paperback
Published: Dec 2018

The Black Swan of Paris: A WWII Novel...

Karen Robards

An exquisite WWII novel illuminating the strength of three women in occupied Paris, for fans of The Nightingale, The Alice Network and The Lost Girls of Paris.\r\n\r\n“A truly outstanding novel…The Black Swan of Paris remi...

Paperback
Published: Dec 2020

The Eloquence of Blood (Charles Du Lu...

Judith Rock

"An exciting new discovery" (Library Journal) returns to seventeenth-century Paris with a new historical novel of intrigue. Christmas in Paris, 1686. The spirit of the season is shattered when Martine Mynette is murdered wh...

Paperback
Published: Sep 2011

The Hearth and Eagle

Anya Seton

Combining thoroughly documented history with superb storytelling, this sympathetic tale imparts lessons on early New England while examining issues around the importance of home. From the perspective of the memorable Hesper Honeywood,...

Paperback
Published: Apr 2008

The Real Minerva

Mary Sharratt

As the relationship between Penny and her mother, Barbara, worsens, Penny goes to work for a woman who has fled a bad marriage and intends to raise her child on her grandfather’s farm, her presence changing both Penny’s an...

Paperback
Published: Jan 2006

My Name Is Resolute

Nancy E. Turner

Nancy Turner burst onto the literary scene with her hugely popular novels These Is My Words, Sarah's Quilt, and The Star Garden. Now, Turner has written the novel she was born to write, this exciting and heartfelt story of a woman st...

Paperback
Published: Feb 2015

The Boleyn Reckoning

Laura Andersen

Perfect for fans of Philippa Gregory and Alison Weir, The Boleyn Reckoning heralds the triumphant conclusion of Laura Andersen's enthralling trilogy about the Tudor king who never was: the son of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn—Henry IX�...

Paperback
Published: Jul 2014

The Color of Secrets

Lindsay Ashford

Everyone has secrets, but some can change your life forever…In the midst of the Second World War, Eva receives the devastating news that her husband is missing and presumed dead. Neither wife nor widow, she lives in a numb state of ...

Paperback
Published: Apr 2015

Down the Common: A Year in the Life o...

Ann Baer

Ann Baer has produced a sensitive, knowledgeable month-by-month account of the hardships suffered by Marion and Peter Carpenter, set from March through the following February of one year of their struggle for existence in Medieval En...

Paperback
Published: Oct 1998

A Long Long Way

Sebastian Barry

Leaving behind his family in Dublin in order to join the Allied forces during World War I, eighteen-year-old Willie Dunne survives the horrors of war through his correspondences with loved ones and his friendships with fellow soldiers...

Paperback
Published: Feb 2006

The Only Woman in the Room: A Novel

Marie Benedict

The instant New York Times bestsellerShe possessed a stunning beauty. She also possessed a stunning mind. Could the world handle both? Her beauty almost certainly saved her from the rising Nazi party and led to marriage with an Austri...

Paperback
Published: Sep 2019

Remembering: A Novel (Port William)

Wendell Berry

Remembering takes place in a single day in 1976. Andy Catlett, at the bottom of a deep dark depression since losing his hand in a farming accident, is alone in San Francisco, and takes a long walt through the walking street ofthe city...

Unabridged CD
Published: Aug 2009

Secrets of the Tudor Court

D. L. Bogdan

When young Mary Howard receives the news that she will be leaving her home for the grand court of King Henry VIII, to attend his mistress Anne Boleyn, she is ecstatic. Everything Anne touches seems to turn to gold, and Mary is certain...

Paperback
Published: May 2010

Above the Bay of Angels

Rhys Bowen

"…Sweeping and intimate, warm and gripping. I loved it!" —Louise Penny, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Chief Inspector Gamache novelsA single twist of fate puts a servant girl to work in Queen Victoria's roy...

Paperback
Published: Feb 2020

Master of His Fate: A House of Falcon...

Barbara Taylor Bradford

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Barbara Taylor Bradford comes the first book in a stunning new historical saga.Victorian England is a country of sharp divides between rich and poor, but James Lionel Falconer, who spends his ...

Paperback
Published: Nov 2019

The Sand-Reckoner (Tom Doherty Associ...

Gillian Bradshaw

The young scholar Archimedes has just had the best three years of his life at Ptolemy's Museum at Alexandria. To be able to talk and think all day, every day, sharing ideas and information with the world's greatest minds, is heaven to...

Paperback
Published: Jun 2001

The Orphan Train

Steve Brigman

TEN-YEAR-OLD JAMES CANNOT IMAGINE THE FATE THAT AWAITS HIM AND THE PRETTY LITTLE GIRL WHO SITS NEXT TO HIM ON THE INFAMOUS ORPHAN TRAIN."...a superb, coarse-grained voice that makes you want more...the Ozark's new narrator who wi...

Paperback
Published: Mar 2014

The Handsome Road (Plantation Trilogy...

Gwen Bristow

New York Times-bestselling author Gwen Bristow brings to life Civil War-era Louisiana in the impassioned, poignant story of a plantation mistress and a poor seamstress-and the men they love-whose lives are irrevocably changed as the O...

Paperback
Published: May 2014
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