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Patrick O'Brian

In response to the interest of millions of O'Brian fans, here is the final, partial installment of the Aubrey/Maturin series--the proposed follow-up to 'Blue at the Mizzen.' These are the three chapters left on O'Brian's desk at the t...

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Published: Oct 2004

Remembering: A Novel (Port William)

Wendell Berry

Remembering takes place in a single day in 1976. Andy Catlett, at the bottom of a deep dark depression since losing his hand in a farming accident, is alone in San Francisco, and takes a long walt through the walking street ofthe city...

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Published: Aug 2009

White Rose, Black Forest

Eoin Dempsey

An Amazon Charts bestseller.In the shadows of World War II, trust becomes the greatest risk of all for two strangers.December 1943. In the years before the rise of Hitler, the Gerber family’s summer cottage was filled with laughter....

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Published: Mar 2018

A Column of Fire (Kingsbridge)

Ken Follett

International bestselling author Ken Follett has enthralled millions of readers with the first two books of his Kingsbridge series, The Pillars of the Earth and World Without End. The saga now continues with Follett's magnificent new ...

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Published: Sep 2017

A Dangerous Fortune

Ken Follett

In 1866 tragedy strikes at the exclusive Windfield School when a mysterious accident takes the life of a student. Among the student's circle of friends are Hugh Pilaster; Hugh's older cousin Edward, dissolute heir to the Pilaster ban...

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Published: Jun 2012

Close Quarters

Larry Heinemann

Philip Dosier views and participates in the skirmishes, battles, noise, obscenities, marijuana highs, battlefield racism, spirit of atrocity, and other ingredients of the war in Vietnam and returns home to make his own peace on the ba...

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Published: May 2006

Dillinger

Jack Higgins

In 1934, after his spectacular jailbreak from a cell in Indiana, Dillinger was like a ghost―some claimed to spot him in New York, others in London, New Orleans, or California. Though the FBI would eventually find and kill Dillinger ...

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Published: Aug 2016

The Dovekeepers: A Novel

Alice Hoffman

Over five years in the writing, The Dovekeepers is Alice Hoffman's most ambitious and mesmerizing novel, a tour de force of imagination and research, set in ancient Israel. In 70 C.E., nine hundred Jews held out for months against arm...

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Published: Mar 2015

The Rich Are Different

Susan Howatch

The Rich Are Different is the story of Dinah Slade, a young English woman of immense vitality and sensual power, whose life becomes intertwined with the fate of a great American banking family. When the handsome and powerful American...

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Published: Jul 2007

The Scarlet Contessa of the Italian R...

Jeanne Kalogridis

Historical fiction author Jeanne Kalogridis tells the remarkable story of Caterina Sforza, daughter of the Duke of Milan and the bravest warrior Renaissance Italy ever knew.

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Published: Jul 2010

The Daughters of Mars

Thomas Keneally

Naomi and Sally Durance are daughters of a dairy farmer from the Macleay Valley. Bound together in complicity by what they consider a crime, when the Great War begins in 1914 they hope to submerge their guilt by leaving for Europe to ...

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Published: May 2014

The Twelfth Enchantment

David Liss

Lucy Derrick is a young woman of good breeding and poor finances. After the death of her beloved father, she is forced to maintain a shabby dignity as the unwanted boarder of her tyrannical uncle, fending off marriage to a local mill ...

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Published: Oct 2011

Cleopatra's Daughter

Michelle Moran

From the author of the national bestseller Nefertiti comes the incredible story of Queen Cleopatra and Marc Antony's orphaned children, who were taken to Rome to be raised as hostages in the palace of their father's greatest rival.

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Published: Nov 2009

Golden Lion CD: A Novel of Heroes in ...

Wilbur Smith

For readers of Game of Thrones, Ken Follett, and Clive Cussler: an epic adventure spanning land and sea. . . time and distance. . . courage, revenge, and everything in between.He saw his father executed in battle. He spent his youth a...

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Published: Oct 2015

Golden Lion Low Price CD: A Novel of ...

Wilbur Smith

"The best historical novelist."—Stephen KingFor readers of Game of Thrones, Ken Follett, and Clive Cussler: an epic adventure spanning land and sea. . . time and distance. . . courage, revenge, and everything in between.H...

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Published: Apr 2016

Habits of the House

Fay Weldon

From the award-winning novelist and writer of Upstairs Downstairs, the launch of a brilliant new trilogy about what life was really like for masters and servants before the world of Downton AbbeyAs the Season of 1899 comes to an end, ...

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Published: Jan 2013

Second Sight: An Arcane Society Novel...

Amanda Quick

A killer stalks two psychics posing as husband and wife in this suspenseful paranormal romance set in the Victorian era. Lonely spinster photographer Venetia Milton decides to seduce her employer, Gabriel Jones, who has hired her to t...

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Published: May 2006

The Last Wife of Henry VIII

Carolly Erickson

The author of The Hidden Diary of Marie Anotinette offers a fictional portrait of the sixth wife of Henry VIII, Catherine Parr, following this alluring, witty, and resourceful woman from the intrigues and perils of Henry's court to he...

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Published: Oct 2006

The Seduction of the Crimson Rose

Lauren Willig

Lauren Willig continues the exciting series with her fourth novel, The Seduction of the Crimson Rose, featuring Lord Vaughn, the delightfully devilish spy from The Masque of the Black Tulip, and Mary Alsworthy, the raven-haired beauty...

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Published: Feb 2008

Jackdaws

Ken Follett

With the Allies preparing for the invasion of Nazi-occupied Europe, Felicity "Flick" Clariet, an agent in the ranks of the British Special Operations Executive, is given the job of destroying German lines of communications, ...

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Published: Dec 2001

Captain Alatriste

Arturo Perez-Reverte

In a first installment of a new series of historical novels by the author of The Queen of the South, wounded seventeenth-century Spanish soldier Alatriste works as a swordsman-for-hire in Madrid, but when his latest job takes an unexp...

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Published: Jun 2005

Fortune's Rocks

Anita Shreve

[P]leasantly atmospheric....Olympia leaps out in sharp focus from the first page, but the conscientiously tangled plodding and the muddle it provokes in her show the strain of transplanting a millennial sensibility back a hundred year...

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Published: Nov 1999

The Dress Lodger

Sheri Holman

Young Gustine is a dress lodger, a prostitute who rents a beautiful blue dress from her landlord to attract a higher class of clientele. By day a potter's assistant, by night a courtesan of the streets, Gustine works hard to support h...

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Published: Jun 2001

Grant Comes East

Newt Gingrich

[A]n exciting alternative history of the Civil War....Building on their strong first volume, Gingrich and Forstchen craft an original, dramatic and historically plausible 'what if?' story. Character depictions--of Lincoln, Grant and L...

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Published: Jun 2004

The Painted Veil

W. Somerset Maugham

First published in 1925, The Painted Veil is an affirmation of the human capacity to grow, change, and forgive. Set in England and Hong Kong in the 1920s, it is the story of the beautiful but shallow young Kitty Fane. When her husband...

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Published: Sep 2006

A Thread of Grace

Mary Doria Russell

In September 1943, Claudette Blum and her father flee across the Alps into Italy with other Jews seeking refuge, only to find an open battle ground among the Nazis, Allied forces, resistance fighters, and ordinary Italians struggling ...

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Published: Feb 2005

To Try Men's Souls of George Washingt...

Newt Gingrich

After two bestselling series examining the Civil War and WWII, Newt Gingrich and William R. Forstchen have turned their sharp eye for detail on the Revolutionary War. Their story follows three men with three very different roles to pl...

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Published: Oct 2009

The Red Queen (The Cousins' War)

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 ...

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Published: Aug 2010

The Crown (Joanna Stafford Series, Bo...

Nancy Bilyeau

In this debut historical thriller, an aristocratic young nun must find a legendary crown in order to save her father's life and preserve all she holds dear. When novitiate nun Joanna Stafford learns her rebel cousin is condemned b...

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Published: Jan 2012

Fan-Tan

Marlon Brando

This swashbuckling adventure was the brainchild of the late Marlon Brando, who came up with the storyline in 1979. A collaboration with director Donald Cammell, who wrote a screenplay and later a novel based on the material, FAN-TAN i...

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Published: Oct 2005
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