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Desperadoes

Ron Hansen

At age 65, Emmett Dalton, the sole survivor of the infamous Dalton gang makes a living by selling his outrageous adventure stories to Hollywood. Desperadoes details his memories of the murders, bootlegging and thievery he and his poss...

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Published: Feb 1997

The Forest of Vanishing Stars: A Nove...

Kristin Harmel

Parade “Best Books of Summer” pick * Real Simple pick * She Reads “Best WWII Fiction of Summer 2021” pick The New York Times bestselling author of the “heart-stopping tale of survival and heroism&rdqu...

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Published: May 2022

A Settling of Accounts

Carolyn Hart

In 1966, Kay Emory is a gentle and respectable antiques dealer; not even her closest friends know about the long-ago life she tries to forget. But when a business trip to London exposes her to a ruthless killer that only she can ident...

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Published: Mar 2013

The Twelve-Mile Straight

Eleanor Henderson

*NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2017 BY THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE**An Entertainment Weekly "Must-Read" Book for Fall*From New York Times bestselling author Eleanor Henderson, an audacious American epic set in rural Georgia during the years of...

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Published: Sep 2018

My Lord John: A tale of intrigue, hon...

Georgette Heyer

Georgette Heyer's final novel, set in her own favorite time period. With her signature wit, drama and impeccable historical accuracy, Georgette Heyer tells the story of a medieval royal family on the rise. Set in the last days of the ...

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Published: May 2009

The Conqueror: A novel of William the...

Georgette Heyer

The stirring history of William the Conqueror, Duke of Normandy, who invaded England and became the King. His victory, concluded at the Battle of Hastings in 1066, is known as the Norman Conquest.William was an illegitimate child of a...

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Published: Sep 2008

The Forever Queen: Sometimes, a despe...

Helen Hollick

"Helen Hollick has it all. She tells a great story" -Bernard CornwellMarried to a king incompetent both on the throne and in bed, Emma does not love her husband. But she does love England. Even as her husband fails, Emma vow...

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Published: Nov 2010

Code Name Sapphire: A World War 2 Nov...

Pam Jenoff

"A heart-wrenching exploration of the decisions women must make when their loyalties are put to the test in the most unimaginable of circumstances.” –Sarah Penner, New York Times bestselling author of The Lost Apothec...

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Published: Feb 2023

One Glorious Ambition: The Compassion...

Jane Kirkpatrick

One dedicated woman...giving voice to the suffering of many Born to an unavailable mother and an abusive father, Dorothea Dix longs simply to protect and care for her younger brothers, Charles and Joseph. But at just fourteen, she is...

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Published: Apr 2013

The Wife, the Maid, and the Mistress

Ariel Lawhon

One summer night in 1930, Judge Joseph Crater steps into a New York City cab and is never heard from again. Behind this great man are three women, each with her own tale to tell: Stella, his fashionable wife, the picture of propriety;...

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Published: Oct 2014

Lost Nation

Jeffrey Lent

Lost Nation delves beneath the bright, promising veneer of early-nineteenth-century New England to unveil a startling parable of individualism and nationhood. The novel opens with a man known as Blood, guiding an oxcart of rum toward ...

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Published: Mar 2003

Fellow Travelers

Thomas Mallon

From the highly acclaimed author of Bandbox and Dewey Defeats Truman–a searing new historical novel about the competing claims of faith, love, and politics during the McCarthy era.Washington, D.C., in the early 1950s: a world of...

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Published: May 2008

Transatlantic

Colum McCann

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY KIRKUS REVIEWSIn the National Book Award–winning Let the Great World Spin, Colum McCann thrilled readers with a marvelo...

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Published: Jun 2014

Mexico

James A. Michener

Pulitzer Prize–winning author James A. Michener, whose novels hurtle from the far reaches of history to the dark corners of the world, paints an intoxicating portrait of a land whose past and present are as turbulent, fascinating, a...

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Published: Mar 1994

All the Living

C. E. Morgan

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Aloma is an orphan, raised by her aunt and uncle, educated at a mission school in the Kentucky mountains. At the start of the novel, she moves to an isolated tobacco farm to be with her lo...

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Published: Mar 2010

Symphony

Jude Morgan

"A deeply empathic exploration of obsession and art, genius and madness. . . . Morgan's ability to bring each character to life is virtuosic." —The Washington Post Book WorldIn 1827 Harriet Smithson, a beautiful young Iris...

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Published: Dec 2008

The Forbidden Queen

Anne O'Brien

An innocent pawn A kingdom without a king A new dynasty will reign… 1415. The jewel in the French crown, Katherine de Valois, is waiting under lock and key for King Henry V. While he's been slaughtering her kinsmen in Agincourt, ...

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Published: Jan 2014

Coming of the Storm: Book One of Cont...

Kathleen O'Neal Gear

The mass market edition of the first book in a new series about Native American and European first contact by Kathleen O'Neal and W. Michael Gear.

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Published: Aug 2010

Surviving the Fatherland: A True Comi...

Annette Oppenlander

***An IWIC Hall of Fame Novel*** Spanning thirteen years from 1940 to 1953 and set against the epic panorama of WWII, author Annette Oppenlander's SURVIVING THE FATHERLAND is a sweeping saga of family, love, and betrayal that illumin...

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Published: Mar 2017

Heroic Measures

Jo-Ann Power

Honoring those who have served their country in war, most focus on those who have fought on the battlefields. But one group's heroics under fire have slipped through the pages of history, a group whose blood and sweat were left in ope...

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Published: Sep 2013

Killing Rommel

Steven Pressfield

Steven Pressfield's quintet of acclaimed, bestselling novels of ancient warfare— Gates of Fire, Tides of War, Last of the Amazons, The Virtues of Wa,r and The Afghan Campaign— have earned him a reputation as a master chronicler of...

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Published: Jun 2009

Vivaldi's Virgins

Barbara Quick

Abandoned as an infant, fourteen-year-old Anna Maria dal Violin is one of the elite musicians living in the foundling home where the 'Red Priest,' Antonio Vivaldi, is maestro and composer. Fiercely determined to find out where she ca...

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Published: Aug 2008

The Empress of Bright Moon

Weina Dai Randel

The time for taking hold of her destiny is nowAt the moment of the Emperor's death, everything changes in the palace. Mei, his former concubine, is free, and Pheasant, the heir and Mei's lover, is proclaimed as the new Emperor, herald...

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Published: Apr 2016

Netherwood

Jane Sanderson

Two remarkably different worlds—one of wealth and privilege, the other of poverty and desperation—are about to collide in one shattering moment in this mesmerizing tale of high drama, forbidden love, and families fighting to hold ...

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Published: Dec 2013

The Smoke at Dawn: A Novel of the Civ...

Jeff Shaara

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Jeff Shaara returns to the Civil War terrain he knows so well, with the latest novel in the series that started with A Blaze of Glory and A Chain of Thunder. In The Smoke at Dawn, the last great push of the ...

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Published: May 2015

The Young Clementina

D. E. Stevenson

Love, Loss, and Love Again...Charlotte Dean enjoys nothing more than the solitude of her London flat and the monotonous days of her work at a travel bookshop. But when her younger sister unceremoniously bursts into her quiet life one ...

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Published: Jul 2013

City of Glory of War and Desire in Ol...

Beverly Swerling

Set against the dramatic backdrop of America's second war for independence, Beverly Swerling's gripping and intricately plotted sequel to the much-loved City of Dreams plunges deep into the crowded streets of old New York. Poised betw...

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Published: Jan 2008

The Sound of Things Falling

Juan Gabriel Vasquez

* National Bestseller* Hailed by Edmund White as "a brilliant new novel" on the cover of the New York Times Book Review * One of NPR's 6 Best Books of the Summer * Esquire recommends The Sound of Things Falling"if y...

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Published: Jun 2014

The Golden Age

Gore Vidal

A vivid, kaleidoscopic fictional narrative of American history from 1939 to 1954 follows the seminal events--World War II and the Cold War--and personalities that transformed America from a republic to an empire, as seen through the e...

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Published: Sep 2001

Stonehenge

Bernard Cornwell

Whatever the period, count on Cornwell to serve up the details on which verisimilitude thrives. Lots of that here, maybe more than required, but it's a sturdy story, too--an ancient sibling rivalry full of enough blood and thunder to ...

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Published: May 2001
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