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Sixth Lamentation

William Brodrick

Based partly on the author's own life and family history, THE SIXTH LAMENTATION is an intelligent thriller full of twists, turns, and surprises that moves effortlessly back and forth in time between occupied France and modern day Engl...

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Published: Jul 2003

The House I Loved

Tatiana De Rosnay

From the New York Times bestselling author of Sarah's Key and A Secret Kept comes an absorbing new novel about one woman's resistance during an epoque that shook Paris to its very core. Paris, France: 1860's. Hundreds of houses are b...

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Published: Feb 2012

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...

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Published: Apr 2012

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 br...

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Published: Aug 2007

The Devil's Elixir

Raymond Khoury

Unabridged, 10 CDs, 12 hoursRead by TBD Sean Reilly and Tess Chaykin, heroes of Raymond Khoury's bestselling Templar thrillers, return in an edge-of-your-seat story that reaches from beyond.

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Published: Jul 2011

Under the Wide and Starry Sky: A Nove...

Nancy Horan

From Nancy Horan, New York Times bestselling author of Loving Frank, comes her much-anticipated second novel, which tells the improbable love story of Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson and his tempestuous American wife, Fanny.  ...

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Published: Jan 2014

Before We Were Yours: A Novel

Lisa Wingate

THE BLOCKBUSTER HIT—A New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and Publishers Weekly BestsellerFor readers of Orphan Train and The Nightingale comes a "thought-provoking [and] complex tale about two families, two g...

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Published: Oct 2018

The Fallen Angels: A Novel (The Crown...

Bernard Cornwell

In the sequel to A Crowning Mercy, Lady Campion Lazender’s courage, faith, and family loyalty is tested when she must complete a perilous journey between two worlds—from the sunlit splendor of a great English estate to the...

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Published: Jan 2022

The Fateful Lightning: A Novel of the...

Jeff Shaara

From New York Times bestselling author Jeff Shaara comes the riveting final installment in the Civil War series that began with A Blaze of Glory and continued in A Chain of Thunder and The Smoke at Dawn.  November 1864: As the Civil ...

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Published: Jun 2015

The Wine-dark Sea (Aubrey Maturin)

Patrick O'Brian

The 'wine-dark sea' of the title is the Great South Sea, and Jack Aubrey and the crew of the Surprise are pursuing an American privateer. They are beset not only by the eruption of a volcano which takes innumerable lives, but by revol...

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Published: May 2007

Sharpe's Company: Sharpes's novel # 1...

Bernard Cornwell

To lead an assault on the thick, sheer battlements of the Badajoz fortress is suicide, yet Richard Sharpe must lead one. For inside the walls are his wife and daughter, and only he can save them.

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Published: Mar 2009

Sharpe's Siege: Sharpes's novel # 20:...

Bernard Cornwell

Outmaneuvered by the treachery of his old enemy Pierre Ducos and abandoned by his own navy, Sharpe must escape with the aid of the charming, unscrupulous American mercenary Cornelius Killick, or die.

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Published: Mar 2009

Blue at the Mizzen: Aubrey-Maturin Se...

Patrick O'Brian

Napoleon has been defeated at Waterloo, but the ensuing peace becomes ugly for Captain Jack Aubrey, with violent celebrations of the English sailors in Gibraltar and the desertion of nearly half his crew. To cap it all off, the Surpri...

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Published: Feb 2008

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

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.

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Published: Mar 2009

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...

Unabridged CD
Published: Mar 2021

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...

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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...

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Published: Jun 2007

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

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.

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Published: Mar 2009

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...

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Published: Mar 2007

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

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

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...

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Published: Jun 2001

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...

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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...

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Published: May 2007

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 ...

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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
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