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The Unknown Shore

Patrick O'Brian

The Unknown Shore, a sort-of sequel to The Golden Ocean, is a fascinating blue-print for the Aubrey-Maturin series. We follow Jack Byron and Tobias Barrow, two unlikely neighbors and fast friends in whom we catch glimpses of the her...

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Published: Oct 1996

Treason's Harbour

Patrick O'Brian

All of O'Brian's strengths are on parade in this novel of action and intrigue, set partly in the treacherous, pirate-infested waters of the Red Sea. While Captain Aubrey worries about repairs to his ship, Stephen Maturin assumes the c...

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Published: Apr 1992

The Gown: A Novel of the Royal Weddin...

Jennifer Robson

"The Gown is marvelous and moving, a vivid portrait of female self-reliance in a world racked by the cost of war."--Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author of The Alice NetworkFrom the internationally bestselling auth...

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Published: Dec 2018

Winter in Madrid

C. J. Sansom

A popular mystery writer breaks out with this page-turning international bestseller set in post-Civil War Spain September 1940: the Spanish Civil War is over, Madrid lies in ruin, while the Germans continue their march through Europe,...

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Published: Feb 2009

Anya

Susan Fromberg Schaeffer

ANYA SAVIKIN lived among well-to-do Russian Jews in Poland, in a world more like Tolstoy's than our own, until the first bombing of Warsaw and the chaos that ensued. Her story incarnates the strength and love of eastern European Jewry...

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Published: Feb 2004

Desert God: A Novel of Ancient Egypt

Wilbur Smith

#1 International Bestseller!Game of Thrones meets ancient Egypt in this magnificent epic from one of the world's biggest-selling authors. Conjuring the magic, mystery, and bloody intrigue of a fascinating lost world, Desert God presen...

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Published: Jul 2015

City of Schemes (A Counterfeit Lady N...

Victoria Thompson

Elizabeth Miles is preparing for her wedding to Gideon Bates, when a menacing shadow from her past threatens to destroy the life she has built for herself in this all-new Counterfeit Lady Novel from USA Today bestselling author Victor...

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Published: Nov 2021

The Wise Woman

Philippa Gregory

In this book, originally published after her bestselling debut with the Wideacre trilogy, New York Times bestselling author Philippa Gregory takes readers to Henry VIII's England, on a journey to the outer reaches of passion, where ma...

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Published: May 2008

Empress Orchid

Anchee Min

EMPRESS ORCHID is the story of one of the concubines of the Chinese emperor in the last days of the Ch'ing dynasty. Though she is only 17, Orchid rises in the emperor's favor until, as the empire falls, she finds herself in the positi...

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Published: Apr 2005

Lord John and the Brotherhood of the ...

Diana Gabaldon

In her much-anticipated new novel, the New York Times bestselling author of the Outlander saga brings back one of her most compelling characters: Lord John Grey—soldier, gentleman, and no mean hand with a blade. Here Diana Gabaldon ...

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Published: Aug 2008

The Crimson Petal and the White

Michel Faber

The panoramic novel takes place in the 1870s, and focuses on a writer named William Rackham who is married to the sickly, depressed Agnes but is so enamored of a prostitute named Sugar that he hires her as governess for his daughter. ...

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Published: Sep 2003

A Respectable Trade

Philippa Gregory

Bristol in 1787 is booming, a city where power beckons those who dare to take risks. Josiah Cole, a small dockside trader, is prepared to gamble everything to join the big players of the city. But he needs capital and a well-connected...

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Published: Jan 2007

The Silver Rose

Susan Carroll

Returning to her ancestral home to seek refuge from the turmoil of civil war and to grieve for her exiled family, Miri Cheney, the youngest and most powerful of the "Sisters of Faire Isle" and a gifted healter and clairvoyan...

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Published: Mar 2006

Zorro

Isabel Allende

Witnessing the injustices against Native Americans by European settlers from childhood, Diego de la Vega, the son of an aristocratic Spanish landowner and a Shoshone mother, returns to California from school in Spain to reclaim the ha...

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Published: May 2006

Falling Angel

Tracy Chevalier

In a novel of manners and social divisions set against the backdrop of turn-of-the-century England, two girls from different classes become friends, and their families' lives become intertwined in the process. By the author of Girl Wi...

Unabridged CD
Published: Sep 2001

The Russian Concubine

Kate Furnivall

A sweeping novel set in war-torn 1928 China, with a star-crossed love story at its center. In a city full of thieves and Communists, danger and death, spirited young Lydia Ivanova has lived a hard life. Always looking over her should...

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Published: Jun 2007

Oh My Stars

Lorna Landvik

I am convinced that at birth the cake is already baked. Nurture is the nuts or frosting, but if you're a spice cake, you're a spice cake, and nothing is going to change you into an angel food.Tall, slender Violet Mathers is growing up...

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Published: Feb 2006

The Last Town on Earth

Thomas Mullen

Wow. This stunning book succeeds on so many different levels--as an engrossing story, a character study, a history lesson, a modern day political allegory--I don't even know where to begin the praise. The Last Town on Earth centers on...

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Published: Jul 2007

Sword Song (The Saxon Chronicles, Boo...

Bernard Cornwell

The year is 885, and England is at peace, divided between the Danish kingdom to the north and the Saxon kingdom of Wessex in the south. Uhtred, the dispossessed son of a Northumbrian lord'warrior by instinct, Viking by nature'has fina...

Abridged CD
Published: Jan 2008

Lord John and the Hand of Devils

Diana Gabaldon

A keepsake collection of Lord John Grey's shorter adventures and a spectacular addition to any Gabaldon fan's library, Lord John and the Hand of Devils brings three unique novellas together for the first time. Lord John and the Hel...

Unabridged CD
Published: Nov 2007

The Hounds and the Fury

Rita Mae Brown

Critics and fans alike are wild about Rita Mae Brown’s richly imagined and utterly engaging foxhunting mysteries–and this latest novel promises more thrilling hunts, breathtaking vistas, and an all-new sinister scandal. Mi...

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Published: Sep 2007

The Lost Apothecary: A Novel

Sarah Penner

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERNamed Most Anticipated of 2021 by Newsweek, Good Housekeeping, Hello! magazine, Oprah.com, Bustle, Popsugar, Betches, Sweet July, and GoodReads!March 2021 Indie Next Pick and #1 LibraryReads Pick&ldquo...

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Published: Feb 2022

Medicus

Ruth Downie

A doctor for the Roman Empire in occupied Britain, Gaius Petrius Ruso faces a wide array of problems in the backwater frontier: foul living conditions, a lousy boss, financial problems, a divorce, an ungrateful slave-girl, and the mys...

Unabridged CD
Published: Mar 2007

A Vision of Light: A Margaret of Ashb...

Judith Merkle Riley

The bestselling novel that introduces Margaret of Ashbury and launches a trilogy featuring this irrepressible womanMargaret of Ashbury wants to write her life story. However, like most women in fourteenth-century England, she is illit...

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Published: May 2006

The Haunting of Maddy Clare

Simone St. James

Sarah Piper's lonely, threadbare existence changes when her temporary agency sends her to assist a ghost hunter. Alistair Gellis-rich, handsome, scarred by World War I, and obsessed with ghosts- has been summoned to investigate the s...

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Published: Mar 2012

The Other Daughter: A Novel

Lauren Willig

Raised in a poor yet genteel household, Rachel Woodley is working in France as a governess when she receives news that her mother has died, suddenly. Grief-stricken, she returns to the small town in England where she was raised to cle...

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Published: Jul 2016

A Free Man of Color (Benjamin January...

Barbara Hambly

In Barbara Hambly's rich and poignant thriller, it's 1833 and Ben January--a man of mixed blood making his living as a musician because he's not allowed to practice surgery--is back home in New Orleans after years of freedom in Paris....

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Published: Jun 1998

Hugh and Bess

Susan Higginbotham

'A delightful novel full of chivalry, romance, and real-life terrors.' Historical Novels Review Forced to marry Hugh le Despenser, the son and grandson of disgraced traitors, Bess de Montacute, just 13 years old, is appalled at his ...

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Published: Aug 2009

Crystal Gardens

Amanda Quick

Evangeline Ames has rented a country cottage far from the London streets where she was recently attacked. Fascinated by the paranormal energy of nearby Crystal Gardens, she finds pleasure in sneaking past the wall to explore the groun...

Unabridged MP3-CD
Published: Apr 2012

Death Comes to Pemberley (Vintage)

P. D. James

A rare meeting of literary genius: P. D. James, long among the most admired mystery writers of our time, draws the characters of Jane Austen's beloved novel Pride and Prejudice into a tale of murder and emotional mayhem.br br It is 1...

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Published: Oct 2012
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