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The Poisoned Crown (The Accursed King...

Maurice Druon

'This was the original game of thrones' George R.R. MartinNo man is impervious to the poisons of the crown…Having murdered his wife and exiled his mistress, King Louis X of France becomes besotted with Princess Clemence of Hungary a...

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Published: Apr 2014

The Queen's Sorrow

Suzannah Dunn

A queen brought low by love compromised and power abused -- the tragedy of Mary Tudor. Plain, dutiful and a passionate Catholic, Mary Tudor was overjoyed by joy when she became England's queen. After the misery of her childhood, when...

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Published: Jan 2009

The Glassblower

Petra Durst-Benning

In the village of Lauscha in Germany, things have been done the same way for centuries. The men blow the glass, and the women decorate and pack it. But when Joost Steinmann passes away unexpectedly one September night, his three daugh...

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Published: Oct 2014

The Unfaithful Queen: A Novel of Henr...

Carolly Erickson

From New York Times bestselling author of The Last Wife of Henry VIII, a novel about Catherine Howard, wife of Henry's later years Amid the turbulent, faction-ridden late reign of the fearsome Henry, eager high-spirited Catherine H...

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Published: Jul 2013

Jacob's Oath

Martin Fletcher

As World War II winds to a close, Europe's roads are clogged with twenty million exhausted refugees walking home. Among them are Jacob and Sarah, lonely Holocaust survivors who meet in Heidelberg. But Jacob is consumed with hatred an...

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Published: Nov 2014

The Girl in the Glass

Jeffrey Ford

The Great Depression has bound a nation in despair -- and only a privileged few have risen above it: the exorbitantly wealthy ... and the hucksters who feed upon them. Diego, a seventeen-year-old illegal Mexican immigrant, owes his sa...

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Published: Aug 2005

Midnight in Europe: A Novel

Alan Furst

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERParis, 1938. As the shadow of war darkens Europe, democratic forces on the Continent struggle against fascism and communism, while in Spain the war has already begun. Alan Furst, whom Vince Flynn has called &q...

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Published: Mar 2015

The Battle of the Crater

Newt Gingrich

New York Times bestselling authors Newt Gingrich and William R. Forstchen take readers to the center of a nearly forgotten confrontation, shedding light on the tragic errors and unexpected heroism of one epic Civil War battleground Ju...

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Published: May 2012

Valley Forge

Newt Gingrich

In To Try Men's Souls, New York Times bestselling authors Newt Gingrich and William R. Forstchen cast a new light on the year 1776 and the man who would become the father of our nation, George Washington. Valley Forge picks up the nar...

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Published: Sep 2011

Band of Sisters

Cathy Gohlke

Maureen O'Reilly and her younger sister flee Ireland in hope of claiming the life promised to their father over twenty years before. After surviving the rigors of Ellis Island, Maureen learns that their benefactor, Colonel Wakefield, ...

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Published: Sep 2012

Mistress of the Sun

Sandra Gulland

The author of the internationally acclaimed Josephine Bonaparte trilogy returns with another irresistible historical novel, this one based on the life of Louise de la Vallière, who, against all odds, became one of the most mysterious...

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Published: Apr 2009

The Book Spy: A WW2 Novel of Libraria...

Alan Hlad

An American librarian. A Portuguese bookseller. A WWII mission to change the tide of the war. Inspired by true stories of the heroic librarian spies of WWII and spanning from the New York Public Library to Portugal’s city of ...

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Published: Jan 2023

The Long Flight Home

Alan Hlad

A USA TodayBestseller  Inspired by fascinating, true, yet little-known events during World War II,The Long Flight Homeis a testament to the power of courage in our darkest hours—a moving, masterfully written story of lov...

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Published: Apr 2020

Mortal Arts

Anna Lee Huber

Scotland, 1830. Lady Kiera Darby is no stranger to intrigue-in fact, it seems to follow wherever she goes. After her foray into murder investigation, Kiera must journey to Edinburgh with her family so that her pregnant sister can be c...

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Published: Sep 2013

Jane Austen's First Love

Syrie James

INSPIRED BY ACTUAL EVENTS  Fifteen-year-old Jane Austen dreams of three things: doing something useful, writing something worthy, and falling madly in love. When she visits her brother in Kent to celebrate his engagement, she meets...

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Published: Aug 2014

The Scarlet Contessa of Italian Renai...

Jeanne Kalogridis

What Philippa Gregory has done for Tudor England, Jeanne Kalogridis does for Renaissance Italy. Her latest irresistible historical novel is about a countess whose passion and willfulness knew no bounds—Caterina Sforza Daughter of th...

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Published: Jul 2011

The Light Over London

Julia Kelly

Reminiscent of Martha Hall Kelly's Lilac Girls and Kristin Hannah's The Nightingale, this entrancing story "is a poignant reminder that there is no limit to what women can do. A nostalgic, engrossing read" (Julia London, New...

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Published: Sep 2019

The Outcasts: A Novel

Kathleen Kent

A taut, thrilling adventure story about buried treasure, a manhunt, and a woman determined to make a new life for herself in the old west.It's the 19th century on the GulfCoast, a time of opportunity and lawlessness. After escaping th...

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Published: Oct 2014

The King's Deryni (A Novel of the Der...

Katherine Kurtz

The thrilling conclusion to New York Times bestselling author Katherine Kurtz's epic Childe Morgan trilogy.  Alaric Morgan has one clear purpose in life—to stand alongside the King of Gwynedd. The old king knew that his successor w...

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Published: Nov 2015

King's Captain: An Alan Lewrie Naval ...

Dewey Lambdin

Promoted to frigate captain after proving himself in the Battle of Cape St. Vincent, Alan Lewrie soon finds himself under Spanish guns again as he confronts a mutiny that rages through the British fleet and the reappearance of an old...

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Published: Sep 2002

Sawbones

Melissa Lenhardt

Wrongfully accused of murder, Dr. Catherine Bennett is destined to hang... unless she can disappear.With the untamed territory of Colorado as her most likely refuge, she packs her physician's kit and heads West. But even with a new li...

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Published: Apr 2017

Storm Coming: A novel of the Civil Wa...

Jack W. Lewis

Based on a true story, this first of a trilogy of Civil War novels chronicles the fateful events of 1861 in western Virginia, as a young man learns to cope with his world turned upside down by war. It is April of 1861. The shocking e...

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Published: May 2017

Mrs. Lee and Mrs. Gray

Dorothy Love

A general's wife and a slave girl forge a friendship that transcends race, culture, and the crucible of Civil War.Mary Anna Custis Lee is a great-granddaughter of Martha Washington, wife of Confederate General Robert E. Lee, and heire...

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Published: Jun 2016

The Owl Killers

Karen Maitland

From the author of Company of Liars, hailed as "a jewel of a medieval mystery"* and "an atmospheric tale of treachery and magic,"** comes a magnificent new novel of an embattled village and a group of courageous wo...

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Published: Jul 2010

Belle Cora

Phillip Margulies

In the home where Arabella Godwin was raised it is forbidden to speak her name, and her picture is turned to the wall. But in the turbulent America of the 1850s, everyone knows her as "Belle Cora," madam of San Francisco's f...

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Published: Oct 2014

Folly and Glory (Berrybender Narrativ...

Larry McMurtry

As this final volume of The Berrybender Narratives opens, Tasmin and her family are under irksome, though comfortable, arrest in Mexican Santa Fe. Her father, the eccentric Lord Berrybender, is planning to head for Texas with his whol...

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Published: Aug 2005

The Fever Tree

Jennifer McVeigh

"There is nothing more exciting than a new writer with a genuine voice. I loved it." -Julian Fellowes, creator of Downton Abbey Frances Irvine, left destitute in the wake of her father's sudden death, has been forced to ab...

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Published: Feb 2014

The Source

James A. Michener

In his signature style of grand storytelling, James Michener sweeps us back through time to the Holy Land, thousands of years ago. By exploring the lives and discoveries of modern archaeologists excavating the site of Tell Makor, Mich...

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Published: Mar 1986

The Only Life That Mattered: The Shor...

James L. Nelson

Fed up with an outlaw existence, Calico Jack Rackam swears off the pirate life, until he meets Anne Bonny, a woman who would as soon stab a man as give him a good tumble--that is, unless he's a pirate. Soon Jack finds himself out on t...

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Published: Oct 2004

The Far Side of the World

Patrick O'Brian

The War of 1812 continues, and Jack Aubrey sets course for Cape Horn on a mission after his own heart: intercepting a powerful American frigate outward bound to play havoc with the British whaling trade. Little do he and Maturin know ...

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Published: Apr 1992
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