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The March

E. L. Doctorow

E. L. Doctorow digs deeply into American history once again in this epic tale of Sherman’s march to the sea--a 60-mile trail of death and destruction--toward the end of the Civil War. Mingling real historical figures with imagin...

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Published: Sep 2006

Holy Fools

Joanne Harris

Joanne Harris, bestselling author of Chocolat, presents her most accomplished novel yet -- an intoxicating concoction that blends theology and reason, deception and masquerade, with a dash of whimsical humor and a soupçon of sens...

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Published: May 2005

Virgin Earth

Philippa Gregory

As England descends into civil war, John Tradescant the Younger, gardener to King Charles I, finds his loyalties in question, his status an ever-growing danger to his family. Fearing royal defeat and determined to avoid serving the re...

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Published: Apr 2006

The Thistle and the Rose: The Tudor P...

Jean Plaidy

From the pen of the legendary historical novelist Jean Plaidy comes the story of Princess Margaret Tudor, whose life of tragedy, bloodshed, and scandal would rival even that of her younger brother, Henry VIII.Princess Margaret Tudor i...

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Published: Jan 2004

Lords of the North (Saxon Tales)

Bernard Cornwell

The year is 878. Uhtred, the dispossessed son of a Northumbrian lord, has helped the Saxons of Wessex defeat the invading Danes. Now, finally free of his allegiance to the victorious, ungrateful King Alfred, he is heading home to res...

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Published: Jan 2008

The Last Town on Earth

Thomas Mullen

Wow. This stunning book succeeds on so many different levels--as an engrossing story, a character study, a history lesson, a modern day political allegory--I don't even know where to begin the praise. The Last Town on Earth centers on...

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Published: Jul 2007

The Observations

Jane Harris

An extraordinary historical novel about a peculiar friendship between the mistress of a Scottish estate and her irresistibly appealing housemaid Scotland, 1863. In an attempt to escape her not-so-innocent past in Glasgow, Bessy Buckl...

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Published: Aug 2007

Burning Bright

Tracy Chevalier

From the bestselling author of Girl With a Pearl Earring comes a stirring eighteenth-century coming-of-age tale Tracy Chevalier, author of the international bestseller Girl With a Pearl Earring, returns with another brilliantly rende...

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Published: Mar 2008

The Lost Apothecary: A Novel

Sarah Penner

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERNamed Most Anticipated of 2021 by Newsweek, Good Housekeeping, Hello! magazine, Oprah.com, Bustle, Popsugar, Betches, Sweet July, and GoodReads!March 2021 Indie Next Pick and #1 LibraryReads Pick&ldquo...

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Published: Feb 2022

The Kitchen Boy of the Last Tsar

Robert Alexander

Drawing from decades of work, travel, and research in Russia, Robert Alexander re-creates the tragic, perennially fascinating story of the final days of Nicholas and Alexandra as seen through the eyes of the Romanovs' young kitchen bo...

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Published: Jan 2004

My Name Is Mary Sutter

Robin Oliveira

"A simply remarkable book. Robin Oliveira brings the Civil War era vividly alive with a heroine no reader will ever forget." -Ron Rash, author of Serena Mary Sutter is a brilliant young midwife who dreams of becoming a surg...

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Published: Mar 2011

The Chili Queen

Sandra Dallas

The Chili Queen is a whorehouse in 1860s New Mexico, and the story of the place is told first by Addie French, the madam; Ned Partner, a bank robber who patronizes the whorehouse; Emma Roby, a mail-order bride; and Welcome, the whoreh...

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Published: Sep 2003

Fair Is the Rose

Liz Curtis Higgs

The Scottish Lowlands, October 1789.A year has come and gone since Jamie McKie fled for his life, arriving at Auchengray in search of sanctuary and a bonny wife. Young Rose McBride, as fair a lass as any in Scotland, dearly loves her ...

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Published: Mar 2004

Beloved Impostor

Patricia Potter

While escaping from an arranged marriage to a much-older man, Felicia Camell is taken hostage by Rory Maclean, the leader of a rival clan, and finds herself drawn to the enemy, which could cause a clan war to erupt. Original.

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Published: Sep 2004

Hot Springs (Earl Swagger Novels)

Stephen Hunter

You can get anything you want in postwar Hot Springs, Arkansas--girls, gambling, drugs, or booze--courtesy of gangster Owney Madden, a picaresque character who affects jodhpurs, ascots, and an English accent to disguise his origins in...

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Published: Jun 2001

When Christ and His Saints Slept

Sharon Kay Penman

A COMPELLING, WELL-WRITTEN EPIC. . .Penman is an accomplished novelist and certainly has staked a claim to medieval England as her literary fiefdom.'--The Philadelphia InquirerA.D. 1135. As church bells tolled for the death of England...

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Published: Feb 1996

The House Girl: A Novel

Tara Conklin

The House Girl, the historical fiction debut by Tara Conklin, is an unforgettable story of love, history, and a search for justice, set in modern-day New York and 1852 Virginia.Weaving together the story of an escaped slave in the pre...

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Published: Oct 2013

Enemy of God (The Arthur Books #2)

Bernard Cornwell

With the Winter King, the first volume of his magnificent Warlord

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Published: Mar 1998

A Mortal Bane (Magdaline La Batarde)

Roberta Gellis

Roberta Gellis, acclaimed author of The Roselynde Chronicles, brings medieval London to life--and death--with her latest tale of splendor and squalor. Magdalene la Bâtarde is the madam of the Old Priory Guesthouse in Southwark. She a...

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Published: Sep 2001

Mary Queen of Scotland & The Isles

Margaret George

She was a child crowned a queen....A sinner hailed as a saint....A lover denounced as a whore...A woman murdered for her dreams...

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Published: Apr 1997

Shadowheart

Laura Kinsale

Willing to do anything to regain his rightful position in the wealthy Italian principality of Monteverde, Allegreto, a charismatic and dangerous assassin, plans to use the beautiful Lady Elena, a long-lost Monteverde princess, to soli...

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Published: Sep 2006

Cloud Atlas

David Mitchell

Now a major motion picture starring Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Susan Sarandon, and Hugh Grant, and directed by Lana and Andy Wachowski and Tom Tykwer Includes a new Afterword by David Mitchell A postmodern visionary who is also a ma...

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Published: Aug 2004

New York: The Novel

Edward Rutherfurd

Winner of the David J. Langum, Sr., Prize in American Historical Fiction Named one of the best books of the year by The Washington Post and "Required Reading" by the New York PostEdward Rutherfurd celebrates America's great...

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Published: Sep 2010

The Rebels of Ireland: The Dublin Sag...

Edward Rutherfurd

The reigning master of grand historical fiction returns with the stirring conclusion to his bestselling Dublin Saga.  The Princes of Ireland, the first volume of Edward Rutherfurd's magisterial epic of Irish history, ended with the ...

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Published: Feb 2007

The Confusion (The Baroque Cycle, Vol...

Neal Stephenson

In the year 1689, a cabal of Barbary galley slaves -- including one Jack Shaftoe, aka King of the Vagabonds, aka Half-Cocked Jack -- devises a daring plan to win freedom and fortune. A great adventure ensues -- a perilous race for an ...

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Published: Jun 2005

The Tudor Rose: The Story of the Quee...

Margaret Campbell Barnes

One woman holds the key to England's most glorious empire in this intimate retelling of the launch of the Tudor dynasty A magnificent portrait of Elizabeth of York, set against the dramatic background of fifteenth century England. Eli...

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Published: Oct 2009

The Last Runaway: A Novel

Tracy Chevalier

A powerful journey brimming with color and drama, The Last Runaway is New York Times bestselling author Tracy Chevalier's vivid exploration of an iconic chapter in American history.  Ohio 1850. For a modest English Quaker stranded fa...

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Published: Oct 2013

Sharpe's Prey: Richard Sharpe and the...

Bernard Cornwell

Richard Sharpe's plans to leave the army are put on hold when the Honorable John Kavisser convinces him to embark on a secret mission to Copenhagen to deliver a bribe, but when he arrives in Denmark, he is plunged into a world of dang...

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Published: Apr 2003

The Glassblower of Murano

Marina Fiorato

Venice, 1681. Glassblowing is the lifeblood of the Republic, and Venetian mirrors are more precious than gold. Jealously guarded by the murderous Council of Ten, the glassblowers of Murano are virtually imprisoned on their island i...

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Published: May 2009

The Reckoning

Sharon Kay Penman

This book completes the splendid sequence of novels on the struggle between the independent Welsh Princes and the growing English strength which began with 'Here be Dragons', continued with 'Falls the Shadow' and is now completed with...

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Published: Apr 2009
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