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Sharpe's Rifles: Sharpes's novel # 6:...

Bernard Cornwell

Its 1809, and Lieutenant Richard Sharpe is newly in command of the demoralized, distrustful men of the Ninety-fifth Rifles. He must lead them to safety by a treacherous trek through the enemy-infested mountains of Spain.

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Published: Mar 2009

The Room on Rue Amélie

Kristin Harmel

A moving and entrancing novel set in Paris during World War II about an American woman, a dashing pilot, and a young Jewish girl whose fates unexpectedly entwine—perfect for the fans of Kristen Hannah's The Nightingale and Martha Ha...

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Published: Oct 2018

The Truelove

Patrick O'Brian

The most recent installment in O'Brian's widely acclaimed series of Aubrey-Maturin novels is in equal parts mystery, adventure, and psychological drama. A British whaler is captured by an ambitious island chief, and Captain Aubrey is ...

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Published: Jul 1993

Heartstone: A Matthew Shardlake Tudor...

C. J. Sansom

The clever plotting and brilliantly evoked world of Heartstone-the fifth Matthew Shardlake mystery from bestselling author C. J. Sansom-will dazzle both mystery fans and Tudor history buffs. Summer 1545. A massive French armada is t...

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Published: Jan 2012

Sharpe's Revenge: Sharpes's novel # 2...

Bernard Cornwell

Accused of stealing Napoleons personal treasure, Sharpe escapes from a British military court and embarks on the battle of his life, armed only with the unflinching resolve to protect his honor.

Unabridged CD
Published: Mar 2009

Eye of the Needle: A Novel

Ken Follett

The worldwide phenomenon from the bestselling author of The Pillars of the Earth, World Without End, and A Column of FireHis code name was "The Needle." He was a German aristocrat of extraordinary intelligence—a master spy...

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Published: Oct 2017

People of the Longhouse (North Americ...

W. Michael Gear

Six hundred years ago in what would become the northeastern United States and southeastern Canada, five Iroquois tribes were locked in bitter warfare. From the ashes of violence, a great Peacemaker was born…Young Odion and his littl...

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Published: Feb 2011

The Wine-Dark Sea

Patrick O'Brian

At the outset of this adventure filled with disaster and delight, Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin pursue an American privateer through the great South Sea. Their ship, the Surprise, is now also a privateer, the better to escape diplom...

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Published: Oct 1994

Midnight at Marble Arch: A Charlotte ...

Anne Perry

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn this superbly accomplished new Charlotte and Thomas Pitt adventure, Anne Perry takes us beneath the glittering surface of wealthy Victorian society into a nightmare world of fear and intimidation, where wom...

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Published: Mar 2014

The Waiting Time

Eugenia Price

A new edition of Eugenia Price's final novel, presented by Turner PublishingFrom one of America's best-loved storytellers, The Waiting Time is an ambitious, romantic, historically rich epic, sure to delight new and loyal readers alike...

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Published: Nov 2017

The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek

Kim Michele Richardson

The hardscrabble folks of Troublesome Creek have to scrap for everything everything except books, that is. Thanks to Roosevelt s Kentucky Pack Horse Library Project, Troublesome s got its very own traveling librarian, Cussy Mary Carte...

Unabridged CD
Published: May 2019

Eternal

Lisa Scottoline

#1 bestselling author Lisa Scottoline offers a sweeping and shattering epic of historical fiction fueled by shocking true events, the tale of a love triangle that unfolds in the heart of Rome...in the creeping shadow of fascism. Wh...

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Published: Feb 2022

Eternal

Lisa Scottoline

#1 bestselling author Lisa Scottoline offers a sweeping and shattering epic of historical fiction fueled by shocking true events, the tale of a love triangle that unfolds in the heart of Rome...in the creeping shadow of fascism. Wh...

Unabridged CD
Published: Mar 2021

The Winthrop Woman

Anya Seton

"The Winthrop Woman is that rare literary accomplishment — living history. Really good fictionalized history [like this] often gives closer reality to a period than do factual records." – Chicago TribuneIn 1631 Elizabeth...

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Published: Apr 2014

The Fountain Overflows

Rebecca West

The lives of the talented Aubrey children have long been clouded by their father?s genius for instability, but his new job in the London suburbs promises, for a time at least, reprieve from scandal and the threat of ruin. Mrs. Aubrey,...

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Published: Jan 2003

The Blessing Stone

Barbara Wood

Millions of years ago, a meteorite fell to earth and a beautiful blue stone shattered from it. One hundred thousand years ago, a girl named Tall One found the crystal on the African plain---and it formed her destiny, as well as the de...

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Published: Jan 2004

The Pillars of the Earth

Ken Follett

Follett risks all and comes out a clear winner,' extolled Publishers Weekly on the release of The Pillars of the Earth. A departure for the bestselling thriller writer, the historical epic stunned readers and critics alike with its am...

Abridged CD
Published: Oct 2007

North River

Pete Hamill

It is 1934, and New York City is in the icy grip of the Great Depression. With enormous compassion, Dr. James Delaney tends to his hurt, sick, and poor neighbors, who include gangsters, day laborers, prostitutes, and housewives. If th...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jun 2007

Circe

Madeline Miller

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER--NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR, The Washington Post, People, Time, Amazon,Entertainment Weekly, Bustle, Newsweek, the A.V. Club, Christian Science Monitor and Refinery 29, Buzzfeed, Paste,...

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Published: Feb 2019

World Without End

Ken Follett

Ken Follett has 90 million readers worldwide. The Pillars of the Earth is his bestselling book of all time. Now, eighteen years after the publication of The Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett has written the most-anticipated sequel of ...

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Published: Oct 2007

Genghis: Lords of the Bow

Conn Iggulden

The #1 bestselling author Conn Iggulden, coauthor of the international sensation The Dangerous Book for Boys, delivers a masterful novel of the mighty Mongol conqueror—as Genghis Khan sets out to unify an entire continent under his ...

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Published: Feb 2009

Uther (Camulod Chronicles)

Jack Whyte

With Uther, Jack Whyte, author of the richly praised Camulod Chronicles, has given us a portrait of Uther Pendragon, Merlyn's shadow--his boyhood companion and closest friend. And the man who would sire the King of the Britons.From th...

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Published: Dec 2001

Winter of the World: Book Two of the ...

Ken Follett

THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Picking up where Fall of Giants, the first novel in the extraordinary Century Trilogy, left off, Winter of the World follows its five interrelated families—American, German, Russian, English, and W...

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Published: Sep 2014

Falls the Shadow

Sharon Kay Penman

Simon de Montfort was a man ahead of his time in the thirteenth century, a disinherited Frenchman who talked his way into an English earldom and marriage with a sister of the English king, Henry III. A charismatic, obstinate leader...

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Published: Aug 2008

From Fields of Gold

Alexandra Ripley

Reduced to destitution by the Civil War, Francesca "Chess" Standish struggles to win the love of her younger husband, whom she married in order to capitalize on her only remaining asset, a tobacco-machine patent. Reprint. PW.

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Published: Jan 1996

At Some Disputed Barricade

Anne Perry

Anne Perry’s gift for illuminating the heart’s deepest secrets shines through in her bestselling series of World War I novels. With compelling immediacy, she depicts the struggles of men and women torn by their convictions...

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Published: Mar 2008

The Terror

Dan Simmons

The bestselling author of Ilium and Olympos transforms the true story of a legendary Arctic expedition into a thriller worthy of Stephen King or Patrick O'Brian. Their captain's insane vision of a Northwest Passage has kept th...

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Published: Jan 2009

Family

J. California Cooper

In this wise, beguiling, beautiful novel set in the era of the Civil War, an award-winning playwright and author paints a haunting portrait of a woman named Always, born a slave, and four generations of her African-American family.

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Published: Dec 1991

Sharpe's Eagle: Sharpes's novel # 8: ...

Bernard Cornwell

As Captain Richard Sharpe prepares to lead his men against the armies of Napoleon, he also must face the envy and treachery of fellow officers who have bought rather than earned their captaincy.

Unabridged CD
Published: Mar 2009

A Clearing in the Wild

Jane Kirkpatrick

Young Emma Wagner chafes at the constraints of Bethel colony, an 1850s religious community in Missouri that is determined to remain untainted by the concerns of the world. A passionate and independent thinker, she resents the limitati...

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Published: Apr 2006
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