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Rachel and Leah: Women of Genesis

Orson Scott Card

In this third volume of his Women of Genesis series, Orson Scott Card paints a vivid picture of the intertwined lives of four celebrated women. We meet Leah, the oldest daughter of Laban, whose 'tender eyes' prevent her from fully par...

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Published: Dec 2005

Shogun

James Clavell

A bold English adventuer. An invincible Japanese warlord. A beautiful woman torn between two ways of life, two ways of love. All brought together in a mighty saga of a time and place aflame with conflict, passion, ambition, lust a...

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Published: Sep 1986

Summer at Seaside Cove

Jacquie D'Alessandro

After Janie Newman's half sister Laurel steals her boyfriend, Jamie leaves New York and the humiliation behind for the island of Seaside Cove, North Carolina. But the cozy cottage she booked turns out to be a rundown bungalow. And she...

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Published: May 2011

Special Ops (Brotherhood of War)

W. E. B. Griffin

Bestselling author W.E.B. Griffin, whose novels about various branches of the military have won him battalions of fans, returns to the Brotherhood of War series with this crackling yarn. A detachment of Special Forces hotshots team...

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Published: Jan 2002

Aztec

Gary Jennings

Here is the extraordinary story of the last and greatest native civilization of North America, at the height of its magnificent. It is a story told in the words of one of the most robust and memorable characters in modern fiction. His...

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Published: Aug 1997

The Second Empress: A Novel of Napole...

Michelle Moran

National bestselling author Michelle Moran returns to Paris, this time under the rule of Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte as he casts aside his beautiful wife to marry a Hapsburg princess he hopes will bear him a royal heir    After the...

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Published: May 2013

The Singing Sword: The Dream of Eagle...

Jack Whyte

This second installment in The Camulod Chronicles details the forgotten Roman soldiers whose fierce grit and determination, even in the face of abandonment by their own empire, shaped the Arthurian legend. This is a prehistory of Came...

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Published: May 2002

Fortune Is a Woman

Elizabeth Adler

The three met in the aftermath of San Franciscos devastating 1906 earthquake--the Mandarin Lai Tsin, a runaway American heiress, and a young Englishwoman. Against all odds they made their dreams come true, building one of the worlds l...

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Published: Dec 1992

Sharpe's Siege (#9) (Sharpe's Adventu...

Bernard Cornwell

A classic Sharpe adventure: Richard Sharpe and the Winter Campaign, 1814. The invasion of France is under way, and the British Navy has called upon the services of Major Richard Sharpe. He and a small force of Riflemen are to capture ...

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Published: Nov 2001

The Archer's Tale

Bernard Cornwell

Thomas of Hookton, a young archer fighting on the side of King Edward III in the Hundred Years War, is the protagonist of Cornwell's historical novel. He rescues a woman called Blackbird from assault by the evil Sir Simon Jekyll, whom...

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Published: Sep 2002

Mary, Called Magdalene

Margaret George

Was Mary Magdalene a prostitute, a female divinity figure, a church leader, or all of those? Biblical references to her are tantalizingly brief, but we do know that she was the first person to whom the risen Christ appeared-and the on...

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Published: May 2003

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (Rando...

Lisa See

Lily is haunted by memories–of who she once was, and of a person, long gone, who defined her existence. She has nothing but time now, as she recounts the tale of Snow Flower, and asks the gods for forgiveness.In nineteenth-century C...

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Published: Feb 2006

Sharpe's Regiment (#8) (Sharpe's Adve...

Bernard Cornwell

Major Sharpe should be fighting the French -- but his worst enemies are in England...Major Richard Sharpe's men were in mortal danger -- not from the French, but from the bureaucrats of Whitehall. Unless reinforcements could be brough...

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Published: Oct 2001

Waterloo (#11) (Sharpe's Adventures)

Bernard Cornwell

Just as Sharpe comes face-to-face with his estranged wife and her lover at a grand society ball, news comes that the British-Prussian link is under attack. In the Battle of Waterloo, Sharpe once again plays a pivotal role in the outco...

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Published: Nov 2001

Queenmaker of King David's Queen

India Edghill

For over forty years, Michal lived and reigned in David's court. She was the beautiful and proud daughter of King Saul and the prize David would risk his kingdom to win. Behind the palace doors, beneath the burning sun of the desert, ...

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Published: Jan 2003

Child of the Morning

Pauline Gedge

Based closely on historical events, this sensuously beautiful, astonishingly evocative novel tells the story of one of history's most remarkable women—the first female Pharaoh of Egypt. Thirty-five centuries ago, Hatshepsut, the y...

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Published: Apr 2010

The Chaperone

Laura Moriarty

The New York Times bestseller and the USA Today #1 Hot Fiction Pick for the summer, The Chaperone is a captivating novel about the woman who chaperoned an irreverent Louise Brooks to New York City in 1922 and the summer that wou...

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Published: Jun 2013

These Tangled Threads (Bells of Lowel...

Tracie Peterson

Book 3 of Bells of Lowell. Timid yet alluring Daughtie Winfield finds herself in a precarious position when the new doctor casts his favor upon her. Though flattered by his attention, she is drawn to Liam Donohue, a local Irish artisa...

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Published: Sep 2003

To the Last Man of the First World Wa...

Jeff Shaara

Jeff Shaara has enthralled readers with his New York Times bestselling novels set during the Civil War and the American Revolution. Now the acclaimed author turns to World War I, bringing to life the sweeping, emotional story of the w...

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Published: Aug 2005

Daughters of the Witching Hill

Mary Sharratt

InDaughters of the Witching Hill, Mary Sharratt brings history to life in a vivid and wrenching novel of strong women, family and betrayal inspired by the 1612 Pendle witch trials.Bess Southerns, an impoverished widow, lives with her ...

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Published: Jan 2011

Birds of Prey (A Courtney Family Adve...

Wilbur Smith

A best-seller in England, this novel is about a young sailor named Hal Courtenay, who has grown up on the coast of Africa, and whose coming of age is fraught with piracy, perilous sea voyages, wild escapes from danger, and buried trea...

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Published: Jul 1998

Secrets of a Charmed Life

Susan Meissner

The author of A Fall of Marigolds journeys from the present day to World War II England, as two sisters are separated by the chaos of wartime ...She stood at a crossroads, half-aware that her choice would send her down a path from whi...

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Published: Feb 2015

The Shadow Sister: Book Three

Lucinda Riley

"Riley's engaging and mezmerizing story of self-discovery and love...can be perfectly read as a standalone. This book will appeal to readers of Edwardian novels and Jane Austen-style fiction." —Library Journal (starred review)“[Lu...

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Published: Jan 2018

In the Shadow of Lady Jane (Richard S...

Edward Charles

It is April 1551. While the family of Lord Henry Grey are visiting their Devon estate, the Grey sisters are saved from drowning by a local medical apprentice, Richard Stocker. Little does Richard know that this single act will plunge ...

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Published: Nov 2008

Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker: A Novel

Jennifer Chiaverini

New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini's compelling historical novel unveils the private lives of Abraham and Mary Lincoln through the perspective of the First Lady's most trusted confidante and friend, her dressmaker, ...

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Published: Sep 2013

Sharpe's Escape: Richard Sharpe and t...

Bernard Cornwell

In this installment in the long and eventful career of his perennial hero, Bernard Cornwell sends Captain Sharpe to Portugal, where he must protect the city of Lisbon from the ravening French army under Napoleon. Before long, not only...

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Published: May 2006

Bette (Women of Ivy Manor)

Lyn Cote

Award-winning author Lyn Cote continues her series about four generations of women set against the tapestry of the 20th century. Elizabeth Bette Leigh Black comes of age in the years before WW II. Although money is scarce in the after...

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Published: Sep 2005

The Gilded Hour

Sara Donati

The international bestselling author of Into the Wilderness makes her highly anticipated return with a remarkable epic about two female doctors in nineteenth-century New York.  The year is 1883, and in New York City, Anna Savard and ...

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Published: May 2016

The Favored Queen of Henry VIII's Thi...

Carolly Erickson

From The New York Times bestselling author of The Last Wife of Henry VIII comes a powerful and moving novel about Jane Seymour, third wife of Henry VIII, who married him only days after the execution of Anne Boleyn and ultimately lost...

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Published: Aug 2012

Yellow Wife: A Novel

Sadeqa Johnson

A Best Book of 2021 by NPR and Christian Science Monitor Called “wholly engrossing” by New York Times bestselling author Kathleen Grissom, this “fully immersive” (Lisa Wingate, #1 bestselling author of Befo...

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Published: Jan 2022
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