Historical - General

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The Eye in the Door

Pat Barker

The Eye in the Door is the second installation of Pat Barker's acclaimed and haunting historical fiction trilogy about British soldiers traumatized by World War I trench warfare and the methods used by psychiatrist William Rivers to t...

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Published: Apr 1995

City of Light

Lauren Belfer

In 1901 Buffalo, New York, Louisa Barrett, the progressive headmistress of the exclusive Macaulay School for Girls, stumbles upon a secret involving the powerful members of her school board that could destroy everything for which she ...

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Published: Aug 2005

Lady Clementine

Marie Benedict

From Marie Benedict, the New York Times bestselling author of The Only Woman in the Room! An incredible novel that focuses on one of the people who had the most influence during World War I and World War II: Clementine Churchill.I...

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Published: Aug 2020

The Chaneysville Incident

David Bradley

The legends say something happened in Chaneysville. The Chaneysville Incident is the powerful story of one man's obsession with discovering what that something was--a quest that takes the brilliant and bitter young black historian Joh...

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Published: May 1990

Summerset Abbey: A Bloom in Winter

T. J. Brown

The highly anticipated second installment in the Summerset Abbey series, which picks up just after the climatic conclusion of book one.After Prudence's desperate marriage and move to Devonshire, sisters Rowena and Victoria fear they h...

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Published: Mar 2013

The Chemistry of Tears (Vintage Inter...

Peter Carey

When Catherine Gehrig, a museum conservator in London, falls into grief after her lover's sudden death, her boss gives her a special project. She will bring back to "life" a nineteenth-century mechanical bird. As she begins ...

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Published: Feb 2013

The Spymistress: A Novel

Jennifer Chiaverini

New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini is back with another enthralling historical novel set during the Civil War era, this time inspired by the life of "a true Union woman as true as steel" who risked everyth...

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Published: Mar 2014

The Seed Woman

Petra Durst-Benning

From bestselling author Petra Durst-Benning comes a sweeping emotional story of courage, triumph, and love against all odds in nineteenth-century Germany.After a long and trying journey from her home, Hannah arrives at a charming vill...

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Published: Oct 2017

Jane Steele

Lyndsay Faye

Nominated for the 2017 Edgar Award for Best NovelThe reimagining of Jane Eyre as a gutsy, heroic serial killer that The New York Times Book Review calls "wonderfully entertaining" and USA Today describes as "sheer mayhe...

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Published: Mar 2017

The Tudor Conspiracy

C. W. Gortner

Hunted by a shadowy foe in Bloody Mary's court, Brendan Prescott plunges into London's treacherous underworld to unravel a dark conspiracy that could make Elizabeth queen—or send her to her death in C.W. Gortner's The Tudor Conspira...

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Published: Jul 2013

Empress of the Seven Hills

Kate Quinn

From the national bestselling author of Daughters of Rome and Mistress of Rome comes a tale of love, power, and intrigue spanning the wilds of the Empire to the seven hills of Rome. Powerful, prosperous, and expanding ever farther int...

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Published: Apr 2012

The Seven Wonders: A Novel of the Anc...

Steven Saylor

The year is 92 B.C. Gordianus has just turned eighteen and is about to embark on the adventure of a lifetime: a far-flung journey to see the Seven Wonders of the World. Gordianus is not yet called "the Finder"—but at each ...

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Published: Apr 2013

Gods and Generals

Jeff Shaara

The extraordinary lives, passions, and careers of four great military leaders--Stonewall Jackson, Winfield Scott Hancock, Joshua Chamberlain, and Robert E. Lee--come to a climax as Union and Confederate forces clash on the battlefield...

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Published: May 1997

Children of Liberty

Paullina Simons

Children of Liberty, the much-anticipated prequel to Paullina Simons's The Bronze Horseman, is a story of love and possibility in turn-of-the-century America. Gina Attaviano travels from Sicily to Boston to start a new life with only...

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Published: Feb 2013

Holy Skirts of a Flamboyant Woman Who...

Rene Steinke

In 1917 no one had ever seen a woman like the Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven. She regally stalked the streets of Greenwich Village wearing a bustle with a flashing taillight, a brassiere made from tomato cans, or a birdcage nec...

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Published: Jan 2006

Daughter of the Gods: A Novel of Anci...

Stephanie Thornton

Egypt, 1400s BC. The pharaoh's pampered second daughter, lively, intelligent Hatshepsut, delights in racing her chariot through the marketplace and testing her archery skills in the Nile's marshlands. But the death of her elder sist...

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Published: May 2014

My Mother's Secret: A Novel Based on ...

J. L. Witterick

Inspired by a true story, My Mother's Secret is a captivating and ultimately uplifting tale intertwining the lives of two Jewish families in hiding from the Nazis, a fleeing German soldier, and the mother and daughter who team up to s...

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Published: Sep 2014

The Sunbird

Wilbur Smith

For archaeologist Ben Kazin and wealthy adventurer Louren Sturvesant an expedition to Africa to find the long-lost, legendary, ancient Egyptian city of Opet leads to a nightmare as a remarkable discover, an act of betrayal, and a two-...

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Published: Dec 2002

Gap Creek

Robert Morgan

A 'New York Times' Notable Book and Oprah Book Club selection from the 'poet laureate of the Carolinas'. 'Gap Creek' is the gripping story of one young woman's courage in the face of the hardships of 19th-century country life. In Juli...

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Published: Oct 2000

When the Emperor Was Divine

Julie Otsuka

A story told from five different points of view--a mother receiving the evacuation order, her daughter on the train ride to the camp, the son in the desert internment camp, the family's return home, and the final release of the father...

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Published: Oct 2003

Sarah (Canaan Trilogy)

Marek Halter

The first novel in a trilogy, SARAH brings to life the world of the Bible in the story of the Sumerian woman who becomes a high priestess serving the goddess Ishtar. But she is also the lover of Abraham, and with him she runs away fro...

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Published: Apr 2005

Katharine of Aragon: The Wives of Hen...

Jean Plaidy

An evocative historical novel chronicles the life of Henry VIII's first wife, Katharine of Aragon, from her early days in England after being sent from Spain to marry Henry's sickly older brother, through her subsequent marriage to He...

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Published: Feb 2005

The Widow of the South

Robert Hicks

A story based on the true experiences of a Civil War heroine finds Carrie McGavock witnessing the bloodshed of the Battle of Franklin, falling in love with a wounded man with a hardscrabble past, and dedicating her home as a burial si...

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Published: Sep 2006

Secrets of a Lady

Tracy Grant

In the glittering world of Regency London, where gossip is exchanged—and reputations ruined—with the tilt of a fan, Melanie Fraser is the perfect wife. Devoted to her husband, Charles, the grandson of a duke, she is ackno...

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Published: Aug 2007

Infamous Army

Georgette Heyer

On the eve of battle, passions are running high...'A brilliant achievement...vivid, accurate, dramatic...the description of Waterloo is magnificent.'-DAILY MAIL'My favorite historical novelist.'-MARGARET DRABBLEIN THE SUMMER OF 1815, ...

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Published: Sep 2007

Sea of Poppies

Amitav Ghosh

At the heart of this vibrant saga is a vast ship, the Ibis. The ship's destiny is a tumultuous voyage across the Indian Ocean; its purpose is to fight China's vicious nineteenth-century Opium Wars. As for the crew, they are a motley a...

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Published: Sep 2009

The Spanish Bride

Georgette Heyer

Based on the true story of Brigade-Major Harry Smith and the very young Spanish noblewoman he met and married during the Peninsular Wars, when the Duke of Wellington's forces fought Napoleon's army in Spain and Portugal.After marrying...

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Published: Apr 2008

My Theodosia

Anya Seton

The short life of Theodosia Burr (1783–1813) is hauntingly realized in this bestselling historical novel about the daughter of Aaron Burr, Thomas Jefferson’s vice president. A central figure in her father’s political...

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Published: Sep 2007

The Signature of All Things: A Novel

Elizabeth Gilbert

A glorious, sweeping novel of desire, ambition, and the thirst for knowledge, from the # 1 New York Times bestselling author of Eat, Pray, Love and Committed In The Signature of All Things, Elizabeth Gilbert returns to fiction, inse...

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Published: Jun 2014

Wild Life

Molly Gloss

In her highly original new novel, Molly Gloss delivers a rare blend of "heady cerebral satisfactions, gorgeous prose, and page-turning adventure" (Karen Joy Fowler). Set among lava sinkholes and logging camps at the fringe o...

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Published: Sep 2001
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