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1261-1290 of 1801

The Girl from the Train

Irma Joubert

Six-year-old Gretl Schmidt is on a train bound for Aushwitz. Jakób Kowalski is planting a bomb on the tracks.As World War II draws to a close, Jakób fights with the Polish resistance against the crushing forces of Germany and Russia...

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Published: Sep 2015

Mrs. Houdini

Victoria Kelly

"Richly lyrical and thought-provoking" (Publishers Weekly, starred review), this "stellar debut from a novelist to watch" (Geraldine Brooks, Pulitzer Prize winning author) explores the passionate marriage of Harry ...

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Published: Mar 2017

The Heart Remembers (Frontier Doctor ...

Al Lacy

This final book in the Frontier Doctor trilogy continues the story of Dane and Tharyn Logan, husband and wife medical team serving a mining community west of Denver. While caring for the physical ailments of the residents of this fron...

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Published: Sep 2004

Pastel Orphans

Gemma Liviero

In 1930s Berlin, young Henrik, the son of a Jewish father and Aryan mother, watches the world around him crumbling: people are rioting in the streets, a strange yellow star begins appearing in shop windows, and friends are forced to m...

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Published: Jun 2015

The Witch's Trinity

Erika Mailman

The year is 1507, and a friar has arrived in Tierkinddorf, a remote German village nestled deeply in the woods. The village has been suffering a famine, and the villagers are desperately hungry. The friar's arrival is a miracle, and w...

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Published: Oct 2008

The Secret Diary of Anne Boleyn

Robin Maxwell

Robin Maxwell's debut novel introduces Anne Boleyn and her daughter, Elizabeth: one was queen for a thousand days, the other for more than forty years. Both were passionate, headstrong women, loved and hated by Henry VIII. At the be...

Unabridged CD
Published: Sep 2012

My Heart Laid Bare

Joyce Carol Oates

New York Times Bestselling Author\n\nFinally returned to print in a beautiful trade paperback edition, a haunting gothic tale that illuminates the fortunes and misfortunes of a 19th-century immigrant family of confidence artists—...

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Published: Apr 2015

A Favorite of the Queen: The Story of...

Jean Plaidy

Torn between her heart's passion and duty to her kingdom, a young queen makes a dark choice…   Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester was the most powerful man in England during the reign of Elizabeth I. Handsome and clever, he drew the ...

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Published: Mar 2010

The Loves of Charles II: The Stuart S...

Jean Plaidy

The three volumes of the Stuart Saga come together in an omnibus edition that chronicles the story of England's King Charles II, from his rise to the throne following the execution of his father, Charles I, through his political marri...

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Published: Oct 2005

The Rebel Wife

Taylor Polites

This "gloriously gothic"* novel about a young widow trying to survive in the violent world of Reconstruction Alabama is "history with a heartbeat, lovingly described and yet a true page turner" (IProvidence Journal...

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Published: Sep 2012

Golden Lion: A Novel of Heroes in a T...

Wilbur Smith

In this sweeping adventure full of danger, action, and intrigue, the master who has been the model for bestselling authors such as Clive Cussler and Bernard Cornwell returns to his longest-running series, taking fans back to the very ...

Unabridged CD
Published: Mar 2021

Leaving Lucy Pear

Anna Solomon

"From the first page, I was under Anna Solomon's spell." —Sue Monk KiddChosen as a must-read book by TIME Magazine, InStyle, Good Housekeeping, The Millions, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and BookPageSet in 1920s New E...

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Published: Jun 2017

Give Me Back My Legions!

Harry Turtledove

Publius Quinctilius Varus, a Roman politician, is summoned by the emperor, Augustus Caesar, given three legions, and sent to the Roman frontier east of the Rhine. His mission is to subdue the barbarous German tribes where others h...

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Published: Apr 2010

Our Kind of People

Carol Wallace

Fans of Bridgerton will love this "exuberant novel of manners for our own gilded age" (Stacy Schiff, author of Cleopatra) as we follow the Wilcox family's journey through riches and ruin. Among New York City's Gilded Age ...

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Published: Jan 2022

To Have and to Hoax: A Novel

Martha Waters

Named a Best Romance of April by Goodreads, Popsugar, Bustle, and more In this fresh and hilarious historical rom-com, an estranged husband and wife in Regency England feign accidents and illness in an attempt to gain attention--and...

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Published: Apr 2020

Anna of Kleve, The Princess in the Po...

Alison Weir

The surprising and dramatic life of the least known of King Henry VIII's wives is illuminated in the fourth volume in the Six Tudor Queens series--for fans of Philippa Gregory, Hilary Mantel, and The Crown. Newly widowed and the fa...

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Published: May 2020

Tony's Wife Low Price CD: A Novel

Adriana Trigiani

Set in the lush Big Band era of the 1940s and World War II, this spellbinding saga from beloved New York Times bestselling author Adriana Trigiani tells the story of two talented working class kids who marry and become a successful si...

Unabridged CD
Published: Nov 2019

Master of His Fate (The House of Falc...

Barbara Taylor Bradford

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

Unabridged CD
Published: Nov 2018

Triple: A Novel

Ken Follett

A New York Times bestselling novel of international suspense and terror from the author of The Pillars of the Earth, World Without End, and A Column of Fire As Egypt comes closer and closer to developing a nuclear bomb, the Mossad’s...

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Published: Aug 2010

An Empty Cup

Sarah Price

Amish woman Rosanna Zook lost her self-confidence within the confines of a loveless and abusive marriage. In the years spent quietly dealing with her burdens and dutifully caring for others, she forgot her sense of self and ability to...

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Published: Apr 2015

A Line of Driftwood: The Ada Blackjac...

In September 1921, a young Inupiat woman named Ada Blackjack traveled to Wrangel Island, 200 miles off the Arctic Coast of Siberia, as a cook and seamstress, along with four professional explorers. The expedition did not go as planne...

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Published: Sep 2021

Red Sky Over Hawaii: A Novel

Sara Ackerman

Inspired by real places and events of WWII,Red Sky Over Hawaiiimmerses the reader in a time of American history full of suspicion and peril in this lush and poignant tale about the indisputable power of doing the right thing against a...

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Published: May 2020

The Lieutenant's Nurse

Sara Ackerman

"An emotional and heartfelt tale of love and courage." —Chanel Cleeton, bestselling author of the Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick Next Year in HavanaNovember, 1941. She's never even seen the ocean before, but Eva Cassidy ...

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Published: Mar 2019

Wells Brothers: The Young Cattle King...

Andy Adams

Two orphans face starvation on the prairie of northeastern Kansas during the terrible winter of 1885-86. Dell and Joel Wells, redheads who have barely reached shaving age, are about to abandon their dead father's claim on Beaver Creek...

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Published: May 1997

A Wilder Rose

Susan Wittig Albert

The Little House books, which chronicled the pioneer adventures of Laura Ingalls Wilder, are among the most beloved books in the American literary canon. Lesser known is the secret, concealed for decades, of how they came to be. Now, ...

Unabridged CD
Published: Mar 2015

The Liars' Gospel: A Novel

Naomi Alderman

"A visceral retelling of the events surrounding the life of Jesus....The ferocity of Barabbas and Judas seizes the narrative and occupies its center ground." --- Hilary MantelA year after the death of Yehoshuah, a mysterious...

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Published: Apr 2014

The War Girls: A WW2 Novel of Sisterh...

V. S. Alexander

Based on true WWII stories of life in the Warsaw Ghetto during the Occupation and the women who served the Allies as agents and spies... Casting light into one of the darkest periods of World War II, acclaimed author V.S. Alexander&...

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Published: Jul 2022

In the Midst of Winter: A Novel

Isabel Allende

New York Times and worldwide bestselling author Isabel Allende returns with a sweeping novel that journeys from present-day Brooklyn to Guatemala in the recent past to 1970s Chile and Brazil. An instant New York Times bestseller, In t...

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Published: Sep 2018

In the Midst of Winter: A Novel

Isabel Allende

New York Times and worldwide bestselling "dazzling storyteller" (Associated Press) Isabel Allende returns with a sweeping novel about three very different people who are brought together in a mesmerizing story that journeys ...

Unabridged CD
Published: Nov 2017

The Pregnant Widow

Martin Amis

The year is 1970, and it's a long, hot summer. In a castle on a mountainside in Italy, half a dozen young lives are afloat on a sea of change, trapped inside the history of the sexual revolution. The girls are acting like boys, the bo...

Unabridged CD
Published: Dec 2010
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