Historical - General

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Regeneration

Pat Barker

Regeneration, one in Pat Barker's series of novels confronting the psychological effects of World War I, focuses on treatment methods during the war and the story of a decorated English officer sent to a military hospital after public...

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Published: Jul 1993

Death of Kings

Bernard Cornwell

p The latest chapter in the epic saga of the making of England, magnificently brought to life by "the reigning king of historical fiction" (USA Today), Bernard Cornwell. As the ninth century wanes, Alfred the Great lies dyi...

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Published: Aug 2012

The Yankee Widow

Linda Lael Miller

A richly layered, emotional novel about one woman's courage and the choices she must make in the face of a dangerous war. Caroline, the young wife of Jacob, is raising their daughter on their Gettysburg farm while her husband is awa...

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Published: Apr 2020

The Mauritius Command

Patrick O'Brian

Ashore without a command--and on half-pay to boot--Jack Aubrey's prayers are answered when Stephen Maturin shows up with a secret mission for him. The two men have been ordered to the Cape of Good Hope. There they hope to dislodge the...

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Published: May 1991

The Nickel Boys

Colson Whitehead

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR Time, Esquire, The Washington Post, The Guardian, Slate, NPR, Entertainment Weekly, Vox, Variety, Christian Science Monitor, The Minneapolis Star Tribune, The Dallas Mo...

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Published: Jul 2020

The Evening and the Morning: A Novel ...

Ken Follett

#1 New York Times Bestseller An Amazon Best Book of 2020   The thrilling and addictive prequel to The Pillars of the Earth—set in England at the dawn of a new era: the Middle Ages "Just as transporting as [The...

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Published: Aug 2022

A Silent Ocean Away: Colette's Domini...

Deva Gantt

Charmaine Ryan knows only poverty and pain growing up. In the wake of a horrifying tragedy, she seeks a new life, and fate leads her into the private world of the wealthy Duvoisin clan. At first, it seems as if nothing terrible could ...

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Published: Oct 2008

City of Secrets (A Counterfeit Lady N...

Victoria Thompson

The latest book in the exciting series featuring woman-on-the-run Elizabeth Miles—from the beloved national bestselling author of the Gaslight Mysteries. Elizabeth Miles knows that honesty is not always the best policy when it comes...

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Published: Sep 2019

The Cavendon Luck: A Novel (Cavendon ...

Barbara Taylor Bradford

#1 New York Times bestselling author Barbara Taylor Bradford’s magnificent saga continues. What does fate have in store for the aristocratic Inghams and the loyal Swann family who have served them for centuries? THE CAVENDON LUCK I...

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Published: Jan 2017

The Ionian Mission

Patrick O'Brian

Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin, veterans now of many battles, return in this novel to the seas where they first sailed as shipmates. But a sudden turn of events takes them off on a hazardous mission to the Greek isles, where they are...

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Published: Jan 1992

Lord John and the Hand of Devils

Diana Gabaldon

Diana Gabaldon, the New York Times bestselling author of Lord John and the Brotherhood of the Blade and the wildly popular Outlander novels, delivers three tales of war, intrigue, and espionage that feature one of her most popular cha...

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Published: Nov 2008

Fall of Giants: Book One of the Centu...

Ken Follett

Ken Follett's magnificent new historical epic begins, as five interrelated families move through the momentous dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women's suffrage. A thirteen-year-old Welsh bo...

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Published: Sep 2012

Wolf Hall

Hilary Mantel

WINNER OF THE 2009 MAN BOOKER PRIZEWINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR FICTIONA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLEREngland in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the king dies without a male heir, the country could be de...

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Published: Aug 2010

Murder Most Royal: The Story of Anne ...

Jean Plaidy

Rich historical details vividly capture the splendor, treachery, and intrigues of Tudor England in a novel that intertwines the stories of Anne Boleyn and her younger cousin, Catherine Howard, both of whom found tragedy as the wife of...

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Published: Jan 2006

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: Jan 2001

The Family

Mario Puzo

The author of The Godfather takes readers back four hundred years to a fifteenth-century Italy populated by corrupt popes and despotic families to introduce the first of the mafia families, Rodrigo Borgia, Pope Alexander VI, and his c...

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Published: Sep 2002

The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox

Maggie O'Farrell

In the middle of tending to the everyday business at her vintage-clothing shop and sidestepping her married boyfriend’s attempts at commitment, Iris Lockhart receives a stunning phone call: Her great-aunt Esme, whom she never kn...

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Published: Jun 2008

Once Upon a Tartan

Grace Burrowes

"Burrowes delivers red-hot chemistry with a masterful mix of playfulness and sensuality." —Publishers WeeklyHonor or happiness-he can't have both. Tiberius Flynn travels to Scot land with orders to snatch his young niece a...

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Published: Aug 2013

The Mark of the Midnight Manzanilla: ...

Lauren Willig

NEVER BEFORE PUBLISHED! In the latest Pink Carnation novel from New York Times bestselling author Lauren Willig, rumors spreading among the ton turn deadly as a young couple unites to solve a mystery....  In October of 1806, the...

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Published: Aug 2014

The Dollhouse

Fiona Davis

"Rich both in twists and period detail, this tale of big-city ambition is impossible to put down."—People Fiona Davis's stunning debut novel pulls readers into the lush world of New York City's glamorous Barbizon Hotel fo...

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Published: Jul 2017

Obasan

Joy Kogawa

Based on the author's own experiences, this award-winning novel was the first to tell the story of the evacuation, relocation, and dispersal of Canadian citizens of Japanese ancestry during the Second World War.

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Published: Dec 1993

The Lost Girls of Paris

Pam Jenoff

Cosmopolitan best book club book of 2019PopSugar must-read book of 2019"Fraught with danger, filled with mystery, and meticulously researched, The Lost Girls of Paris is a fascinating tale of the hidden women who helped to win th...

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Published: Feb 2019

The Widow's War

Sally Gunning

When Lyddie Berry's husband is lost in a whaling disaster, she becomes the dependent of her nearest male relative, her ruthless son-in-law, who tries to take everything she and her husband had worked for, but as Lyddie's social and le...

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Published: Feb 2007

Luncheon of the Boating Party

Susan Vreeland

A vivid exploration of one of the most beloved Renoir paintings in the world, "done with a flourish worthy of Renoir himself" (USA Today) With her richly textured novels, Susan Vreeland has offered pioneering portraits of a...

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Published: Mar 2008

The Second Mrs. Astor: A Heartbreakin...

Shana Abe

"Abé is an exquisite storyteller....deeply moving." —Fiona Davis, New York Times bestselling author of The Lions of Fifth Avenue Inspired by the scandalous real-life love story between America's richest man and teenage ...

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Published: Aug 2021

The Queen's Governess

Karen Harper

The national bestselling author of Mistress Shakespeare delivers the epic tale of Elizabeth I's most trusted companion-a commoner who lived among royals... Katherine Ashley, the clever, beguiling daughter of a poor country beekeeper,...

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Published: Aug 2011

Under the Wide and Starry Sky: A Nove...

Nancy Horan

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • TODAY SHOW BOOK CLUB PICKLook for special features inside. Join the Random House Reader's Circle for author chats and more.From Nancy Horan, New York Times bestselling author of Loving Frank, comes her m...

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Published: Sep 2014

Read Pink A Bride Unveiled: The Brida...

Jillian Hunter

Miss Violet Knowlton knows the dangerous boy she watches in secret from her window is someone a proper young lady should avoid. Yet temptation overcomes her. Kit scoffs at her offer of friendship-until slowly, her innocent trust open...

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Published: Oct 2011

Angels Watching Over Me (Shenandoah S...

Michael Phillips

Two girls in 1860s North Carolina--a slave girl and a plantation owner's daughter--are the only survivors of a devastating raid. They join forces, relying on God (and the plantation's untouched livestock and crops) to see them through...

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Published: Jan 2003

Train

Pete Dexter

Quietly navigating his way between his hostile patrons and brutal fellow workers in 1953 Los Angeles, African-American caddy Train finds an unexpected ally in a police detective who encourages Train's ambitions and oversees a case inv...

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Published: Feb 2005
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