Historical - General

181-210 of 1801

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

Last Car to Elysian Fields

James Lee Burke

A fatal car crash sets detective Dave Robicheaux on a path destined for trouble in this 13th volume in the series. As his investigation draws closer and closer to the truth, Robicheaux finds clues in his own past surfacing, and his li...

Abridged CD
Published: Mar 2007

The Magic of Ordinary Days

Ann Howard Creel

The powerful story of one woman's passion in a world at war. Olivia Dunne, a studious minister's daughter who dreams of becoming an archaeologist, never thought that the drama of World War II would affect her quiet life in Denver. But...

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Published: Aug 2011

The Yellow House

Patricia Falvey

THE YELLOW HOUSE delves into the passion and politics of Northern Ireland at the beginning of the 20th Century. Eileen O'Neill's family is torn apart by religious intolerance and secrets from the past. Determined to reclaim her ancest...

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Published: Feb 2011

People of the Weeping Eye (First Nort...

W. Michael Gear

People called Old White the 'Seeker,' a man never long with any people or place. For years he had wandered, leaving a trail of war, wonder, and broken love in his wake. Now he is headed home, called back by visions of chaos, blood, a...

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Published: Dec 2008

The Paris Seamstress

Natasha Lester

For readers of Lilac Girls and The Nightingale comes a World War II novel that spans generations, crosses oceans, and proves just how much two young women are willing to sacrifice for love and family. 1940: As the Germans advance upon...

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Published: Sep 2018

The Pilgrim Song (House of Winslow)

Gilbert Morris

Book 29 of THE HOUSE OF WINSLOW. Lewis Winslow has money, a fine home, and a bright future in business+but he has lost his beloved wife and is disappointed with the way his children have turned out. Josh cares for nothing but pleasure...

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Published: Apr 2003

The Nutmeg of Consolation

Patrick O'Brian

At the end of O'Brian's Thirteen Gun Salute, Captain Aubrey and the crew of the Diane are shipwrecked by a typhoon on a remote island in the Dutch East Indies. After they are rescued, Aubrey and crew continue their interrupted mission...

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Published: Jul 1993

The Secret Wife

Gill Paul

‘A cleverly crafted novel and an enthralling story… A triumph.’ DINAH JEFFERIESA Russian grand duchess and an English journalist. Linked by one of the world’s greatest mysteries . . .Love. Guilt. Heartbreak.1914Russia is on th...

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Published: Nov 2016

Doc

Mary Doria Russell

NATIONAL BESTSELLER Born to the life of a Southern gentleman, Dr. John Henry Holliday arrives on the Texas frontier hoping that the dry air and sunshine of the West will restore him to health. Soon, with few job prospects, Doc Hollid...

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Published: Feb 2012

Heads You Win

Jeffrey Archer

With a final twist that will shock even his most ardent listeners, Heads You Win is #1 New York Times bestseller Jeffrey Archer's most ambitious and creative work since Kane and Abel. Leningrad, Russia, 1968. Alexander Karpenko is n...

Unabridged CD
Published: Nov 2018

Once a Rake

Eileen Dreyer

In the bestselling tradition of Stephanie Laurens and Eloisa James...All he wants is her help . . .Colonel Ian Ferguson may be a rake, but he's no traitor. Accused of trying to kill the Duke of Wellington, the disgraced Scotsman is no...

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Published: Oct 2013

Dark Tides: A Novel (2) (The Fairmile...

Philippa Gregory

#1 New York Times bestselling author of Tidelands—the “searing portrait of a woman that resonates across the ages” (People)—returns with an evocative historical novel tracking the rise of the Tidelands family ...

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Published: Jun 2021

As Bright as Heaven

Susan Meissner

From the acclaimed author of A Bridge Across the Ocean and The Last Year of the War comes a new novel set in Philadelphia during the Spanish flu epidemic of 1918, which tells the story of a family reborn through loss and love.In 1918,...

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Published: Jan 2019

Sarah's Key

Tatiana De Rosnay

Paris, July 1942: Sarah, a ten year-old girl, is brutally arrested with her family by the French police in the Vel' d'Hiv' roundup, but not before she locks her younger brother in a cuoard in the family's apartment, thinking that she ...

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Published: Sep 2008

Year of Wonders

Geraldine Brooks

Young Anna Frith, a vicar's maid, is faced with the loss of her family, the disintegration of her local community, and a passionate, illicit love as she and her village confront the horrors of the plague, in a historical novel based o...

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Published: Apr 2002

The Perfect Rake

Anne Gracie

When their evil grandfather is injured, Prudence Merridew, at the behest of her four beautiful sisters, devises a clever scheme to escape him once and for all, but her plan backfires spectacularly when she ends up in the arms of a not...

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Published: Jul 2005

The Perfect Waltz

Anne Gracie

During the London season, Sebastian Reyne, a notorious rake with a questionable lineage, searches for a practical, demure wife to care for his sisters, but instead finds himself captivated, after one sensual waltz, by Hope Merridew, t...

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Published: Nov 2005

The House at Riverton

Kate Morton

The House at Riverton is a gorgeous debut novel set in England between the wars. It is the story of an aristocratic family, a house, a mysterious death and a way of life that vanished forever, told in flashback by a woman who witnesse...

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Published: Mar 2009

Hearts In Atlantis MTI

Stephen King

...[I]It's not just King's stories and their indelible moments...that explains his tight connection to readers. IIt's the man's uncanny talent for carefully rendering everyday life....Sounds right, feels right, so we respond with grat...

Unabridged CD
Published: Sep 2001

The Lady Elizabeth

Alison Weir

Following the tremendous success of her first novel, Innocent Traitor, acclaimed historian and New York Times bestselling author Alison Weir turns her masterly storytelling skills to the early life of young Elizabeth Tudor, who ...

Unabridged CD
Published: Apr 2008

Duty and Desire of Fitzwilliam Darcy,...

Pamela Aidan

A second installment of the series that began with An Assembly Such as This retells Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice from Darcy's perspective and follows his private struggles to shake off his feelings for Elizabeth after dissuading ...

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Published: Oct 2006

The Lady Elizabeth

Alison Weir

Following the tremendous success of her first novel, Innocent Traitor, which recounted the riveting tale of the doomed Lady Jane Grey, acclaimed historian and New York Times bestselling author Alison Weir turns her masterly storytelli...

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Published: Nov 2008

The Seduction of the Crimson Rose

Lauren Willig

Now in paperback—a novel that "handily fulfills its promise of intrigue and romance."(Publishers Weekly)Determined to secure another London season without assistance from her new brother-in-law, Mary Alsworthy accepts a se...

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Published: Dec 2008

The Heretic's Daughter

Kathleen Kent

Martha Carrier was one of the first women to be accused, tried and hanged as a witch in Salem, Massachusetts. Like her mother, young Sarah Carrier is bright and willful, openly challenging the small, brutal world in which they live. ...

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Published: Oct 2009

Murder on Mulberry Bend (Gaslight Mys...

Victoria Thompson

Risking her own life in a quest for justice, midwife Sarah Brandt enlists the help of Sergeant Frank Malloy to discover the truth surrounding the brutal murder of a young woman from the Prodigal Son Mission on Mulberry Bend, a refuge ...

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Published: Mar 2003

The Last Kingdom

Bernard Cornwell

This is the first installment in a new series, in which the life story of a fictional vassal to Alfred the Great of Wessex serves as a vehicle to recount the history of the late ninth-century Anglo-Saxon king. The Danish Viking Ragnar...

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Published: Jan 2006

The Autobiography of Henry VIII: With...

Margaret George

Much has been written about the mighty, egotistical Henry VIII: the man who dismantled the Church because it would not grant him the divorce he wanted; who married six women and beheaded two of them; who executed his friend Thomas ore...

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Published: Sep 1998

The Red Queen

Philippa Gregory

Heiress to the red rose of Lancaster, Margaret Beaufort never surrenders her belief that her house is the true ruler of England and that she has a great destiny before her. Her ambitions are disappointed when her sainted cousin Henry ...

Paperback
Published: Jun 2011
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