Historical - General

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What Is the What

Dave Eggers

In a heartrending and astonishing novel, Eggers illuminates the history of the civil war in Sudan through the eyes of Valentino Achak Deng, a refugee now living in the United States. We follow his life as he's driven from his home as ...

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Published: Oct 2007

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...

Abridged CD
Published: Jun 2001

Dissolution

C. J. Sansom

In 1537, the conflict in England between Catholics and the newly established Church of England is at its height, as monasteries are closed and turned into secular institutions. When a Church official is murdered in one of them, a hunc...

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Published: May 2004

These is my Words: The Diary of Sarah...

Nancy Turner

'A thread of truth can weave a powerful story. Plumb powerful, as Sarah Prine might say....Taking great-grandmother Sarah's diary as an inspiration, Tucson novelist Nancy E. Turner has spun a frontier novel that teeters on the fine e...

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Published: Apr 2008

Mudbound

Hillary Jordan

In Jordan's prize-winning debut, prejudice takes many forms, both subtle and brutal. It is 1946, and city-bred Laura McAllan is trying to raise her children on her husband's Mississippi Delta farm—a place she finds foreign and frigh...

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Published: Mar 2009

The Huntress

Susan Carroll

In a time of intrigue and betrayal, the huntress is on a quest that could jeopardize two empires and two great queens: Catherine de Medici and Elizabeth I.The year is 1585–and prophecy has foretold the coming of a daughter of th...

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Published: Jul 2007

Mr. Darcy's Diary

Amanda Grange

A skillful and graceful imagining of the hero's point of view in one of the most beloved and enduring romance stories of all time. As Darcy records his struggles to avoid falling in love with Elizabeth Bennett and the difficulties ...

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Published: Mar 2007

Black Hills

Dan Simmons

When Paha Sapa, a young Sioux warrior, "counts coup" on General George Armstrong Custer as Custer lies dying on the battlefield at the Little Bighorn, the legendary general's ghost enters him - and his voice will speak to hi...

Unabridged CD
Published: Feb 2010

Pearl Harbor

Newt Gingrich

After their New York Times bestselling series on the American Civil War, Newt Gingrich and William R. Forstchen now turn to the events leading up to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and examine how different decisions might have pr...

Abridged CD
Published: May 2007

I, Mona Lisa

Jeanne Kalogridis

A meticulously detailed historical novel, set against the turbulent backdrop of fifteenth-century Florence, chronicles the life and times of Madonna Lisa, the mysterious woman who becomes the subject of Leonardo da Vinci's most famous...

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Published: Oct 2006

Tallgrass

Sandra Dallas

During Word War II, a family fnds life turned upside down when the government opens a Japanese internment camp in their small Colorado town. After a young girl is murdered, all eyes (and suspicions) turn to the newcomers, the interlop...

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Published: Feb 2008

My Cousin Rachel

Daphne Du Maurier

From the bestselling author of Rebecca, another classic set in beautiful and mysterious Cornwall. Philip Ashley's older cousin Ambrose, who raised the orphaned Philip as his own son, has died in Rome. Philip, the heir to Ambrose's bea...

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Published: Mar 2009

The Thorn Birds

Colleen McCullough

Now, 25 years after it first took the world by storm, Colleen McCullough's sweeping family saga of dreams, titanic struggles, dark passions, and forbidden love in the Australian Outback returns to enthrall a new generation. As powerf...

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Published: May 1978

Madame Tussaud of the French Revoluti...

Michelle Moran

The world knows Madame Tussaud as a wax artist extraordinaire . . . but who was this woman who became one of the most famous sculptresses of all time? In these pages, her tumultuous and amazing story comes to life as only Michelle Mor...

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Published: Dec 2011

We Shall Not Sleep (World War One Nov...

Anne Perry

Anne Perry’s magnificent Victorian mysteries established her as one of the world’s best known and loved historical novelists. Now, in her vividly imagined World War I novels, Perry’s talents “have taken a quant...

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Published: Mar 2008

The Glorious Cause

Jeff Shaara

Though the events depicted here should be extraordinarily rousing..., Shaara manages to render almost all of them mundane. He has an excellent grasp of the military and political significance of what's going on, but his flat tone and ...

Abridged CD
Published: Oct 2002

The Warrior's Path

Tex Burns

Filled with exciting tales of the frontier, the chronicle of the Sackett family is perhaps the crowning achievement of one of our greatest storytellers. In The Warrior's Path L'Amour tells the story of Yance and Kin Sackett, two broth...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jul 2005

The Exiled

Posie Graeme-Evans

Enjoying her successes as a merchant, exiled fifteenth-century single mother Anne incites the wrath of chauvinist local merchants who resent competition from a woman, a situation that threatens to reveal her son's identity as the ille...

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Published: Jun 2005

News of the World: A Novel

Paulette Jiles

In the aftermath of the Civil War, an aging itinerant news reader agrees to transport a young captive of the Kiowa back to her people in this exquisitely rendered, morally complex, multilayered novel of historical fiction from the aut...

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Published: Jun 2017

Hidden in a Whisper, repack (Westward...

Tracie Peterson

Westward Chronicles Book 2 Rachel has secured herself a rare position at the newest Harvey House in New Mexico. She looks forward to a new life there, far from the memories and longings of her heart--only to find that the very man her...

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Published: Aug 2005

The Huntress

Kate Quinn

One of Marie Claire's Best Women's Fiction of 2019! One of Bookbub's biggest books of 2019"If you enjoyed "The Tattooist of Auschwitz," read "The Huntress," by Kate Quinn." The Washington PostFrom the aut...

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Published: Feb 2019

The Wicked Day (The Arthurian Saga, B...

Mary Stewart

Born of an incestuous relationship between King Arthur and his half sister, the evil sorceress Morgause, the bastard Mordred is reared in secrecy. Called to Camelot by events he cannot deny, Mordred becomes Arthur's most trusted couns...

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Published: May 2003

The Secret Warriors (Men at War, 2)

W. E. B. Griffin

Washington, D.C., 1942: With the help of Charles A. Lindbergh, ace OSS pilot Richard Canidy sets up an air maneuver that will drop agents into the Belgian Congo to smuggle out uranium ore essential to the arms race. But this time, Can...

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Published: Jun 1999

That Summer: A Novel

Lauren Willig

2009: When Julia Conley hears that she has inherited a house outside London from an unknown great-aunt, she assumes it's a joke. She hasn't been back to England since the car crash that killed her mother when she was six, an event she...

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Published: May 2015

The Light in the Ruins

Chris Bohjalian

From the New York Times bestselling author of Midwives and The Sandcastle Girls comes a spellbinding novel of love, despair, and revenge—set in war-ravaged Tuscany. 1943: Tucked away in the idyllic hills south of Florence, the Rosat...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jul 2013

The Tuscan Child

Rhys Bowen

From New York Times bestselling author Rhys Bowen comes a haunting novel about a woman who braves her father's hidden past to discover his secrets…In 1944, British bomber pilot Hugo Langley parachuted from his stricken plane into th...

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Published: Feb 2018

The Wild Rose

Jennifer Donnelly

Includes a Reading Group Guide and Author Q&A  The Wild Rose is a part of the sweeping, multi-generational saga that began with The Tea  Rose and continued with The Winter Rose. It is London, 1914. World War I looms...

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Published: May 2012

Days of Infamy

Newt Gingrich

Pearl Harbor is in utter chaos after the unexpected third strike by Imperial Japanese Naval Air Forces, ordered into the attack by Admiral Yamamoto. A victory has been achieved, but is it total victory? Yamamoto is horrified to discov...

Unabridged CD
Published: Apr 2008

Bound

Sally Gunning

Alice Cole spent her first seven years living in two smoky, crowded rooms in London with her family. But a new home and a better life waited in the colonies, or so her father promised—a bright dream that turned to ashes when her br...

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Published: Apr 2009

The Quilter's Homecoming: An Elm Cree...

Jennifer Chiaverini

A Roaring Twenties adventure unfolds in The Quilter's Homecoming, as Jennifer Chiaverini continues her bestselling Elm Creek Quilts series 'that neatly stitches together social drama and the art of quilting' (Library Journal). As youn...

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Published: Jan 2008
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