Historical - General

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City of Secrets (A Counterfeit Lady N...

Victoria Thompson

The latest book in the exciting series featuring woman-on-the-run Elizabeth Miles—from the beloved national bestselling author of the Gaslight Mysteries. Elizabeth Miles knows that honesty is not always the best policy when it comes...

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Published: Sep 2019

The Cavendon Luck: A Novel (Cavendon ...

Barbara Taylor Bradford

#1 New York Times bestselling author Barbara Taylor Bradford’s magnificent saga continues. What does fate have in store for the aristocratic Inghams and the loyal Swann family who have served them for centuries? THE CAVENDON LUCK I...

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Published: Jan 2017

The Ionian Mission

Patrick O'Brian

Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin, veterans now of many battles, return in this novel to the seas where they first sailed as shipmates. But a sudden turn of events takes them off on a hazardous mission to the Greek isles, where they are...

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Published: Jan 1992

Lord John and the Hand of Devils

Diana Gabaldon

Diana Gabaldon, the New York Times bestselling author of Lord John and the Brotherhood of the Blade and the wildly popular Outlander novels, delivers three tales of war, intrigue, and espionage that feature one of her most popular cha...

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Published: Nov 2008

Fall of Giants: Book One of the Centu...

Ken Follett

Ken Follett's magnificent new historical epic begins, as five interrelated families move through the momentous dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women's suffrage. A thirteen-year-old Welsh bo...

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Published: Sep 2012

Wolf Hall

Hilary Mantel

WINNER OF THE 2009 MAN BOOKER PRIZEWINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR FICTIONA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLEREngland in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the king dies without a male heir, the country could be de...

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Published: Aug 2010

Imperium of Ancient Rome

Robert Harris

A tale inspired by the writings of Tiro, Marcus Cicero's confidential secretary, traces the life of the famous ancient Roman orator and philosopher from his beginnings as a radical young lawyer through his competitions with such figur...

Unabridged CD
Published: Sep 2006

Murder Most Royal: The Story of Anne ...

Jean Plaidy

Rich historical details vividly capture the splendor, treachery, and intrigues of Tudor England in a novel that intertwines the stories of Anne Boleyn and her younger cousin, Catherine Howard, both of whom found tragedy as the wife of...

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Published: Jan 2006

Fortune's Rocks

Anita Shreve

[P]leasantly atmospheric....Olympia leaps out in sharp focus from the first page, but the conscientiously tangled plodding and the muddle it provokes in her show the strain of transplanting a millennial sensibility back a hundred year...

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Published: Jan 2001

The Family

Mario Puzo

The author of The Godfather takes readers back four hundred years to a fifteenth-century Italy populated by corrupt popes and despotic families to introduce the first of the mafia families, Rodrigo Borgia, Pope Alexander VI, and his c...

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Published: Sep 2002

The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox

Maggie O'Farrell

In the middle of tending to the everyday business at her vintage-clothing shop and sidestepping her married boyfriend’s attempts at commitment, Iris Lockhart receives a stunning phone call: Her great-aunt Esme, whom she never kn...

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Published: Jun 2008

The Dovekeepers

Alice Hoffman

Over five years in the writing, The Dovekeepers is Alice Hoffman's most ambitious and mesmerizing novel, a tour de force of imagination and research, set in ancient Israel. In 70 C.E., nine hundred Jews held out for months against arm...

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Published: Apr 2012

Once Upon a Tartan

Grace Burrowes

"Burrowes delivers red-hot chemistry with a masterful mix of playfulness and sensuality." —Publishers WeeklyHonor or happiness-he can't have both. Tiberius Flynn travels to Scot land with orders to snatch his young niece a...

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Published: Aug 2013

The Mark of the Midnight Manzanilla: ...

Lauren Willig

NEVER BEFORE PUBLISHED! In the latest Pink Carnation novel from New York Times bestselling author Lauren Willig, rumors spreading among the ton turn deadly as a young couple unites to solve a mystery....  In October of 1806, the...

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Published: Aug 2014

Speaking from Among the Bones: A Flav...

Alan Bradley

From award-winning author Alan Bradley comes the next cozy British mystery starring intrepid young sleuth Flavia de Luce, hailed by USA Today as "one of the most remarkable creations in recent literature."  Eleven-year-old ...

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Published: Feb 2013

The Last Tudor (The Plantagenet and T...

Philippa Gregory

The latest novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Philippa Gregory features one of the most famous girls in history, Lady Jane Grey, and her two sisters, each of whom dared to defy her queen.Jane Grey was queen of England for...

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Published: Aug 2017

Obasan

Joy Kogawa

Based on the author's own experiences, this award-winning novel was the first to tell the story of the evacuation, relocation, and dispersal of Canadian citizens of Japanese ancestry during the Second World War.

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Published: Dec 1993

Stella Bain

Anita Shreve

An epic story, set against the backdrop of World War I, from bestselling author Anita Shreve.When an American woman, Stella Bain, is found suffering from severe shell shock in an exclusive garden in London, surgeon August Bridge and h...

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Published: Nov 2013

The Award

Danielle Steel

Capturing historical events, terrifying moments of danger, tragedy, the price of war, and the invincible spirit of a woman of honor, The Award is a monumental tale from one of our most gifted storytellers―Danielle Steel's finest, mo...

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Published: Nov 2016

Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt (Anne R...

Anne Rice

Presents a new novel by the author of Interview with the Vampire, incorporating the latest New Testament scholarship to chronicle the life of Jesus Christ, from his early years, through his ministry, through his final days, crucifixio...

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Published: Nov 2005

The Lost Girls of Paris

Pam Jenoff

Cosmopolitan best book club book of 2019PopSugar must-read book of 2019"Fraught with danger, filled with mystery, and meticulously researched, The Lost Girls of Paris is a fascinating tale of the hidden women who helped to win th...

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Published: Feb 2019

The Widow's War

Sally Gunning

When Lyddie Berry's husband is lost in a whaling disaster, she becomes the dependent of her nearest male relative, her ruthless son-in-law, who tries to take everything she and her husband had worked for, but as Lyddie's social and le...

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Published: Feb 2007

Luncheon of the Boating Party

Susan Vreeland

A vivid exploration of one of the most beloved Renoir paintings in the world, "done with a flourish worthy of Renoir himself" (USA Today) With her richly textured novels, Susan Vreeland has offered pioneering portraits of a...

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Published: Mar 2008

Never Call Retreat: Lee and Grant: Th...

Newt Gingrich

A final installment of the best-selling Civil War series by the co-authors of Grant Comes East traces the events surrounding the pivotal battle of August 1863, during which Lee and Grant both cross the Susquehanna and make decisions t...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jun 2005

The Second Mrs. Astor: A Heartbreakin...

Shana Abe

"Abé is an exquisite storyteller....deeply moving." —Fiona Davis, New York Times bestselling author of The Lions of Fifth Avenue Inspired by the scandalous real-life love story between America's richest man and teenage ...

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Published: Aug 2021

Sixth Lamentation

William Brodrick

Based partly on the author's own life and family history, THE SIXTH LAMENTATION is an intelligent thriller full of twists, turns, and surprises that moves effortlessly back and forth in time between occupied France and modern day Engl...

Abridged CD
Published: Jul 2003

The House I Loved

Tatiana De Rosnay

From the New York Times bestselling author of Sarah's Key and A Secret Kept comes an absorbing new novel about one woman's resistance during an epoque that shook Paris to its very core. Paris, France: 1860's. Hundreds of houses are b...

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Published: Feb 2012

The Queen's Governess

Karen Harper

The national bestselling author of Mistress Shakespeare delivers the epic tale of Elizabeth I's most trusted companion-a commoner who lived among royals... Katherine Ashley, the clever, beguiling daughter of a poor country beekeeper,...

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Published: Aug 2011

Under the Wide and Starry Sky: A Nove...

Nancy Horan

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • TODAY SHOW BOOK CLUB PICKLook for special features inside. Join the Random House Reader's Circle for author chats and more.From Nancy Horan, New York Times bestselling author of Loving Frank, comes her m...

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Published: Sep 2014

Read Pink A Bride Unveiled: The Brida...

Jillian Hunter

Miss Violet Knowlton knows the dangerous boy she watches in secret from her window is someone a proper young lady should avoid. Yet temptation overcomes her. Kit scoffs at her offer of friendship-until slowly, her innocent trust open...

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Published: Oct 2011
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