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Mr. Emerson's Wife

Amy Belding Brown

Living in the shadow of her famous poet husband, Lidian Emerson, disillusioned by marriage and silenced by social conventions, is drawn to the erotic energy and intellect of family friend Henry David Thoreau, a situation that challeng...

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Published: May 2006

The Valley

Helen Bryan

Left suddenly penniless, the Honorable Sophia Grafton, a viscount's orphaned daughter, sails to the New World to claim the only property left to her name: a tobacco plantation in the remote wilds of colonial Virginia. Enlisting the re...

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Published: Jul 2016

Benjamin Franklin's Bastard

Sally Cabot

Benjamin Frankiln's Bastard by Sally Cabot is an absorbing and compelling work of literary historical fiction that brings to life a little-known chapter of the American Revolution — the story of Benjamin Franklin and his bastard son...

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Published: Jun 2014

Nelly Dean: A Return to Wuthering Hei...

Alison Case

A riveting and heartbreaking novel that re-imagines life at Wuthering Heights through the eyes of the Earnshaws' loyal servant, Nelly Dean.Young Nelly Dean has been Hindley's closest companion for as long as she can remember, living f...

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Published: Mar 2017

The Rathbones

Janice Clark

Mercy, fifteen years old, is the last of the Rathbone whaling clan. Her father has been lost at sea for nearly ten years—ever since the last sperm whale was seen off the coast of Connecticut. As Mercy's memories of her father grow d...

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Published: May 2014

Ralph Compton Slaughter Canyon (Ralph...

Ralph Compton

Deputy U.S. Marshal Matt Battles has to discover why Hatfield J. Warful is gathering every notorious gunslinger in the West at his home in Slaughter Canyon. And if his mission fails, it could result in a second Civil War.

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Published: Jan 2012

An Arrangement of Sorts

Rebecca Connolly

He was intrigued... Nathaniel Hammond, Earl of Beverton, is working to restore his new estate and aid his tenants. But everything changes when he meets the beautiful and mysterious Moira Dennison, a bold young woman who offers to hir...

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Published: Jun 2015

Reign of Madness

Lynn Cullen

From the author of The Creation of Eve, "an intoxicating tale of love, betrayal and redemption,"*comes a novel of passion and madness, royal intrigue and marital betrayal, set during the Golden Age of Spain. Juana of Castil...

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Published: May 2012

The Persian Pickle Club 20th Annivers...

Sandra Dallas

It is the 1930s, and hard times have hit Harveyville, Kansas, where the crops are burning up, and there's not a job to be found. For Queenie Bean, a young farm wife, a highlight of each week is the gathering of the Persian Pickle Club...

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Published: Sep 2014

Last Bus to Wisdom: A Novel

Ivan Doig

Named a Best Book of the Year by the Seattle Times and Kirkus ReviewThe final novel from a great American storyteller.Donal Cameron is being raised by his grandmother, the cook at the legendary Double W ranch in Ivan Doig's beloved Tw...

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Published: Aug 2016

The Absentee

Maria Edgeworth

This important novel, written in 1812, was a work of social criticism that raised people's consciousness about the evils of absentee landlords, specifically the English in Ireland. The story involves the efforts of young Lord Colambre...

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Published: May 2000

Love and Other Consolation Prizes: A ...

Jamie Ford

From the bestselling author of Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet comes a powerful novel, inspired by a true story, about a boy whose life is transformed at Seattle's epic 1909 World's Fair."An evocative, heartfelt, beautifu...

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Published: Jun 2018

Drums of Autumn (Starz Tie-in Edition...

Diana Gabaldon

"Unforgettable characters . . . richly embroidered with historical detail . . . I just can't put it down."—The Cincinnati PostIn this breathtaking novel, rich in history and adventure, #1 New York Times bestselling author ...

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Published: Oct 2018

The Girl from the Savoy

Hazel Gaynor

Presenting a dazzling new historical novel … The Girl From The Savoy is as sparkling as champagne and as thrilling as the era itself.'Sometimes life gives you cotton stockings. Sometimes it gives you a Chanel gown …'Dolly Lane is ...

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Published: Jun 2016

The Dawn Country: A People of the Lon...

W. Michael Gear

Young Wrass is still being held captive, along with several other children, in Gannajero's camp. Wrass knows he can't wait to be rescued. He has to organize the children for an assault on Gannajero's warriors.  Even if he dies, someo...

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Published: Nov 2011

The Fortune Hunter: A Novel

Daisy Goodwin

The Fortune Hunter, the New York Times bestselling novel by Daisy Goodwin, is a lush, irresistible story of the public lives and private longings of grand historical figures. Empress Elizabeth of Austria, known as Sisi, is the Princes...

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Published: Apr 2015

A Darcy Christmas

Amanda Grange

From two bestselling and a debut author comes heartwarming Christmas tales sure to delight Jane Austen fansFrom Amanda Grange, the bestselling author of Mr. Darcy's Diary and Mr. Darcy, Vampyre, Christmas finds the Darcy's celebrating...

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Published: Oct 2010

One for the Blackbird, One for the Cr...

Olivia Hawker

From the bestselling author of The Ragged Edge of Night comes a powerful and poetic novel of survival and sacrifice on the American frontier.Wyoming, 1876. For as long as they have lived on the frontier, the Bemis and Webber families ...

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Published: Oct 2019

The Beantown Girls

Jane Healey

A novel of love, courage, and danger unfolds as World War II's brightest heroines—the best of friends—take on the front lines.1944: Fiona Denning has her entire future planned out. She'll work in city hall, marry her fiance when h...

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Published: Feb 2019

Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific by Raft

Thor Heyerdahl

Kon-Tiki is the record of an astonishing adventure -- a journey of 4,300 nautical miles across the Pacific Ocean by raft. Intrigued by Polynesian folklore, biologist Thor Heyerdahl suspected that the South Sea Islands had been settled...

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Published: May 1990

Trail of Thread: A Woman's Westward J...

Linda K. Hubalek

Taste the dust of the road and feel the wind in your face as you travel with a Kentucky family by wagon trail to the new territory of Kansas in 1854. In the form of letters she wrote on the journey, Deborah Pieratt describes the scene...

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Published: Jun 1995

The Abbot's Tale: A Novel

Conn Iggulden

From New York Times bestselling author Conn Iggulden comes a new novel set in the red-blooded days of Anglo-Saxon England. This is the original game for the English throne.In the year 937, the new king of England, a grandson of Alfred...

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Published: Oct 2019

Wars of the Roses: Stormbird

Conn Iggulden

The first book in #1 New York Times bestselling author Conn Iggulden's brilliant new historical series about two families that plunged England into a devastating, decades-long civil war.In 1437, the Lancaster king Henry VI ascends th...

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Published: May 2015

Turn the Stars Upside Down: The Last ...

Terry C. Johnston

For more than a decade one man struck fear in the hearts of U.S. soldiers on the frontier: Crazy horse, the great Oglala Sioux leader, who destroyed Custer at Little Big Horn, fought Crook toe-to-toe at the Rosebud, and outwitted and ...

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Published: Jun 2002

Little Century: A Novel

Anna Keesey

"Anna Keesey's debut novel hums with raw energy: its youthful heroine's, the small town around which the ranches lie, and the new century that's just unfolding....Exhilarating."—The Boston Globe In the tradition of such We...

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Published: Jul 2013

The Last Confessions of Sylvia P.: A ...

Lee Kravetz

The Millions Most Anticipated Pick and A GMAMarch Reads Pick “Lee Kravetz has created a bit of a miracle, a plot-driven literary puzzle box whose mystery lives in both its winding approach to history and its wonderous story. It...

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Published: Mar 2023

Finding Dorothy: A Novel

Elizabeth Letts

This richly imagined novel tells the story behind The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the book that inspired the iconic film, through the eyes of author L. Frank Baum's intrepid wife, Maud."A breathtaking read that will transport you ove...

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Published: Dec 2019

The Violin Maker's Daughter: Absolute...

Sharon Maas

When the Nazis march onto the cobbled streets of Colmar on November 1st 1940, Josef, a Jewish violin maker, gathers his wife and daughters closely to him and tells them everything will be all right. But one year later, three sharp kno...

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Published: Jul 2019

Girl in Disguise: A Novel

Greer Macallister

"Electrifying...a rollicking nineteenth-century thrill ride."  ―Amy Stewart, New York Times bestselling author of Girl Waits with GunInspired by the real story of investigator Kate Warne, this spirited novel follows the detective's...

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Published: Feb 2018

The Last Bookshop in London: A Novel ...

Madeline Martin

“An irresistible tale which showcases the transformative power of literacy, reminding us of the hope and sanctuary our neighborhood bookstores offer during the perilous trials of war and unrest.” —KIM MICHELE RICH...

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Published: Apr 2021
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