Historical - General

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King's Mountain: A Ballad Novel

Sharyn McCrumb

John Sevier had not taken much interest in the American Revolution; he was too busy fighting Indians in the Carolinas and taming the wilderness. But when an arrogant British officer threatens his settlement, the war becomes personal. ...

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Published: Sep 2014

Bittersweet: A Novel

Colleen McCullough

Colleen McCullough's new, romantic Australian novel about four unforgettable sisters taking their places in life during the tumultuous years after World War I is "just as epic as her ultra-romantic classic, The Thorn Birds" ...

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Published: May 2015

Caesar's Women

Colleen McCullough

His victories were legend -- in battle and bedchamber alike. Love was a political weapon he wielded cunningly and ruthlessly in his private war against enemies in the forum. Genius, general, patrician, Gaius Julius Caesar was history....

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Published: Nov 2008

Tim

Colleen McCullough

Mary Horton is content with her comfortable, solitary existence . . . until she meets Tim. A beautiful young man with the mind of a child -- a gentle outcast in a cruel, unbending world -- he illuminates the darkness of Mary's days wi...

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Published: Jul 1997

Streets of Laredo

Larry McMurtry

In the long-awaited sequel to Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry spins an exhilarating tale of legend and heroism. Captain Woodrow Call, Augustus McCrae's old partner, is now a bounty hunter hired to track down a brutal, young Mexican band...

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Published: Nov 1995

Vegas Rich

Fern Michaels

When Sallie Coleman abandons Texas to follow her dreams in Las Vegas, she never imagines she'll win so soon - and so big. But a stroke of luck makes her the richest, most powerful businesswoman in Nevada, and in no time at all her tra...

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Published: Jul 2001

Taking Liberties (Makepeace Hedley)

Diana Norman

In this follow-up to her debut, Diana Norman spins a vivid new tale of two women as they begin a journey through life, love, and liberty... In the chaos of wartime Plymouth, in the early days of the American Revolution, two women com...

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Published: Jun 2009

Blind Justice: A William Monk Novel

Anne Perry

NATIONAL BESTSELLERFor a generation, Anne Perry's New York Times bestselling novels have invited readers to explore the brilliantly seductive heart of Victorian London, where great wealth and great evil live side by side, and great me...

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Published: Sep 2014

The Quarryman's Bride

Tracie Peterson

Peterson Hits the Bestseller Lists Again and Again!Emmalyne Knox and Tavin MacLachlan were destined to be together...until the tragic deaths of Emmalyne's youngest sisters. Family tradition mandates that the youngest daughter should ...

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Published: Jun 2013

A Chain of Thunder: A Novel of the Si...

Jeff Shaara

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERContinuing the series that began with A Blaze of Glory, Jeff Shaara returns to chronicle another decisive chapter in America's long and bloody Civil War. In A Chain of Thunder, the action shifts to the fortre...

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Published: May 2014

A New Day Rising (Red River of the No...

Lauraine Snelling

The Spring of 1883 has come to Dakota Territory and Ingeborg Bjorklund is definitely on the mend after her long struggle over the loss of her husband Roald. With the arrival of Roald's distant cousin to temporarily take over the heavy...

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Published: Sep 1996

The Hidden Thread

Liz Trenow

The Hidden Thread is a breathtaking novel about the intricate craft of silk and the heartbreak of forbidden love.When Anna Butterfield's mother dies, she's sent to live with her uncle, a silk merchant in London, to make a good match a...

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Published: May 2017

Sacajawea (Lewis & Clark Expedition)

Anna Lee Waldo

Clad in a doeskin, alone and unafraid, she stood straight and proud before the onrushing forces of America's destiny: Sacajawea, child of a Shoshoni chief, lone woman on Lewis and Clark's historic trek -- beautiful spear of a dying na...

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Published: Jul 1984

The Book of Lost Friends: A Novel

Lisa Wingate

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Published: Jun 2021

The Boleyn Inheritance

Philippa Gregory

ANNE OF CLEVES: She runs from her tiny country, her hateful mother, and her abusive brother to a court ruled by the terror of a vengeful king who despises her. Her Boleyn Inheritance: accusations and false witness. KATHERINE HOWARD...

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Published: Aug 2007

Dragonswan

Sherrilyn Kenyon

New York Times bestselling author Sherrilyn Kenyon delivers a special collector's-edition tale of unexpected passion woven from the mysteries of a celebrated ancient tapestry. Beautiful scholar Channon MacRea has spent years studyi...

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Published: Sep 2005

The Notebook

Nicholas Sparks

Back in North Carolina after the war, Noah Calhoun cannot stop thinking about the girl he had lost a decade ago, and even though she is on the verge of marriage, she cannot stop thinking about him. Reprint.

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Published: Mar 2004

The Virgin's Lover

Philippa Gregory

The National BestsellerIn the autumn of 1558, church bells across England ring out the joyous news that Elizabeth I is the new queen. One woman hears the tidings with utter dread. She is Amy Dudley, wife of Sir Robert, and she knows t...

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Published: Aug 2005

The Jester

James Patterson

Hugh De Luc, an innkeeper barely able to keep his inn from the nobles who rule France, joins the Crusades in an attempt to get out from under the royal boot. What he finds on the road to Jerusalem, however, is much worse than what he ...

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Published: Feb 2004

The Poisonwood Bible

B. Kingsolver

The Poisonwood Bible is a story told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959. They carry with them everything they believe they will n...

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Published: Oct 1999

Mistress of the Art of Death

Ariana Franklin

The national bestselling hit hailed by the New York Times as a 'vibrant medieval mystery...[it] outdoes the competition.' In medieval Cambridge, England, Adelia, a female forensics expert, is summoned by King Henry II to investigate ...

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Published: Feb 2008

Alias Grace

Margaret Atwood

In Alias Grace, bestselling author Margaret Atwood has written her most captivating, disturbing, and ultimately satisfying work since The Handmaid's Tale. She takes us back in time and into the life of one of the most enigmatic and n...

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Published: Oct 1997

Innocent Traitor of Lady Jane Grey

Alison Weir

I am now a condemned traitor . . . I am to die when I have hardly begun to live.Historical expertise marries page-turning fiction in Alison Weir’s enthralling debut novel, breathing new life into one of the most significant and ...

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Published: Nov 2007

Passion

Lisa Valdez

While visiting London's Crystal Palace, beautiful young widow Passion Elizabeth Dare has an erotic encounter with a mysterious stranger that leads to many more romantic interludes, until blackmail, betrayal, and scandal threaten to te...

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Published: Jul 2005

A Bride Most Begrudging

Deeanne Gist

When Lady Constance Morrow finds herself held against her will aboard a ship bound for the American colonies-a ship filled with 'tobacco brides' and felons-she is quite sure that as soon as she arrives she will find a reasonable man w...

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Published: Jul 2005

An Assembly Such as This of Fitzwilli...

Pamela Aidan

A first installment of a trilogy based on Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice is told from the perspective of Darcy, begins with his observations of the Bennet family during a disastrous Netherfield Park ball, and offers insight i...

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Published: May 2006

The Virgin Blue

Tracy Chevalier

This first novel by the author of GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING is about Ella, an American woman, and her husband, Rick, who move to France, to the town where Ella's ancestors lived centuries ago.As Ella tries to settle in, she has a drea...

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Published: Jun 2003

The Masque of the Black Tulip

Lauren Willig

When a London War Office courier is murdered for the confidential dispatch he carried for an elusive spy known as the Pink Carnation, Henrietta Uppington and Miles Dorrington decipher a secret message and work with the War Office to p...

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Published: Nov 2006

The White Queen (Cousins' War)

Philippa Gregory

THE COUSINS' WAR Book One Philippa Gregory, 'the queen of royal fiction,'* presents the first of a new series set amid the deadly feuds of England known as the Wars of the Roses. Brother turns on brother to win the ultimate ...

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Published: Apr 2010

The Hidden Diary of Marie Antoinette

Carolly Erickson

Awaiting her execution, Marie Antoinette writes the story of her life from her prison cell, in a diary that describes her privileged childhood as an Austrian archduchess, years as the glamorous mistress of Versailles, love affair with...

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Published: Aug 2006
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