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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...

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Published: Jul 2013

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...

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Published: Apr 2008

I Am Half-Sick of Shadows: A Flavia d...

Alan Bradley

It's Christmastime, and the precocious Flavia de Luce—an eleven-year-old sleuth with a passion for chemistry and a penchant for crime-solving—is tucked away in her laboratory, whipping up a concoction to ensnare Saint Nick. But sh...

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Published: Nov 2011

The Killer Angels

Michael Shaara

A reissue of a Pulitzer prize-winning classic, and now the major motion picture GETTYSBURG. As a result of these acclamations, this book is considered one of the greatest novels written on the Civil War.From the Hardcover edition.

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Published: Apr 2011

Queen Lucia (Mapp and Lucia)

E. F. Benson

England between the wars was a paradise of calm and leisure for the very, very rich. Into this enclave is born Mrs. Emmeline Lucas—La Lucia, as she is known—a woman determined to lead a life quite different from the subdued formal...

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Published: Jul 2011

The Cavendon Women

Barbara Taylor Bradford

Cavendon Women, the stunning sequel to Barbara Taylor Bradford's Cavendon Hall follows the Inghams' and the Swanns' journey from a family weekend in the summer of 1926 through to the devastation of the Wall Street crash of 1929.  ...

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Published: Mar 2015

The Miniaturist: A Novel

Jessie Burton

[Read by Davina Porter] ''There is nothing hidden that will not be revealed . . . '' On a brisk autumn day in 1686, eighteen-year-old Nella Oortman arrives in Amsterdam to begin a new life as the wife of illustrious merchant trader Jo...

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Published: Aug 2014

Sword of Kings CD: A Novel (Saxon Tal...

Bernard Cornwell

The twelfth installment of Bernard Cornwell’s bestselling Saxon Tales series chronicling the epic story of the making of England, “like Game of Thrones, but real” (The Observer, London)—the basis for the hit Netflix series The...

Unabridged CD
Published: Nov 2019

The Leopard (Modern fiction)

Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa

Elegiac, bittersweet and profoundly moving, The Leopard chronicles the turbulent transformation of the Risorgimento, in the period of Italian Unification. The waning feudal authority of the elegant and stately Prince of Salina is pitt...

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Published: Nov 2009

Conclave: A novel

Robert Harris

The best-selling author of Enigma and Fatherland turns to today's Vatican in a ripped-from-the-headlines novel, and gives us his most ambitious, page-turning thriller yet--where the power of God is nearly equaled by the ambition of me...

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Published: Nov 2016

Circe

Madeline Miller

"A bold and subversive retelling of the goddess's story," this #1 New York Times bestseller "manages to be both epic and intimate in its scope, recasting the most infamous female figure from the Odyssey as a hero in her...

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Published: Apr 2018

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...

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Published: Sep 2001

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...

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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

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...

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Published: Mar 2007

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

The Technologists

Matthew Pearl

The first class at M.I.T. The last hope for a city in peril.  The acclaimed author of The Dante Club reinvigorates the historical thriller. Matthew Pearl's spellbinding new novel transports readers to tumultuous nineteenth-century Bo...

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Published: Feb 2012

Sea Glass

Anita/ Sedgwick Shreve

From its opening pages, Anita Shreve's Sea Glass surrounds the reader in the surprisingly rich feeling of the New Hampshire coast in winter. Vividly evoking the life of the coastal community at the beginning of the Great Depression, S...


Published: Apr 2002

The Tattooist of Auschwitz

Richard Armitage

The Tattooist of Auschwitz is based on the true story of Lale and Gita Sokolov, two Slovakian Jews, who survived Auschwitz and eventually made their home in Australia. In that terrible place, Lale was given the job of tattooing the pr...

Unabridged CD
Published: Sep 2018

A Christmas Hope: A Novel

Anne Perry

[Read by Simon Prebble] Anne Perry's ''vastly entertaining'' (Newark (NJ) Star-Ledger) holiday novels are ''as delicious as mince pie and plum pudding'' (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel). A Christmas Hope is just as delectable, the grippin...

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Published: Dec 2013

On Agate Hill

Lee Smith

A dusty box discovered in the wreckage of a North Carolina plantation house contains the remnants of an extraordinary life: an 1870s diary of a young girl, letters, poems, songs, newspaper clippings, court records, marbles, rocks, dol...

Unabridged CD
Published: Oct 2006

A Soldier of the Great War

Mark Helprin

Available for the first time on audio, a beautiful, heart-rending tale of love, loss, and honor from the bestselling author of Winter's Tale! On his last long walk, septuagenarian war hero, deserter, and professor Alessandro Giuli...

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Published: Oct 2007

Abundance of Marie Antoinette

Sena Jeter Naslund

Published the same month as the U.S. release of Sofia Coppola's film MARIE-ANTOINETTE, Sena Jeter Naslund's novel takes a similarly forgiving angle on the young French queen who became the most famous guillotine victim of the French R...

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Published: Oct 2006

The Sheen on the Silk

Anne Perry

The bestselling author of Victorian mysteries makes an ambitious leap into historical fiction, setting her first stand-alone novel in the Ottoman Empire, and telling the story of Anastasius, a young woman who disguises herself as a eu...

Unabridged CD
Published: Mar 2010

Echoes

Danielle Steel

On the shores of Lake Geneva in 1915, the Jewish beauty Beata Wittgenstein falls in love with a Catholic French officer and marries him despite the wishes of her family, but when Hitler's terror arrives, Beata has to undertake a harro...

Abridged CD
Published: Oct 2004

Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald

Therese Anne Fowler

Picture a late-May morning in 1918, a time when Montgomery wore her prettiest spring dress and finest floral perfume—same as I would wear that evening…Thus begins the story of beautiful, reckless, seventeen-year-old Zelda Sayre on...

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Published: Mar 2013

The Sheen on the Silk

Anne Perry

The bestselling author of Victorian mysteries makes an ambitious leap into historical fiction, setting her first stand-alone novel in the Ottoman Empire, and telling the story of Anastasius, a young woman who disguises herself as a eu...

Unabridged MP3-CD
Published: Mar 2010

This Rock

Robert Morgan

In the Appalachian Mountains of the 1920s, the Powell brothers struggle to figure out their place in the world and their relationship with each other, as Moody drifts into alcohol and gambling, while Muir's path changes their family f...

Abridged CD
Published: Oct 2001

Terra Incognita of the Roman Empire

Ruth Downie

In this highly anticipated sequel to Ruth Downie's New York Times bestselling debut, beloved army doctor Gaius Petrius Ruso strikes out for the uncivilized borders of Roman Britain, where he runs into murder and the ghosts of his vexi...

Unabridged CD
Published: Mar 2008

The Fortune Hunter: A Novel

Daisy Goodwin

Empress Elizabeth of Austria, known as "Sisi," is the Princess Diana of nineteenth-century Europe. Famously beautiful, as captured in a portrait with diamond stars in her hair, she is unfulfilled in her marriage to the older...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jul 2014
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