Historical - General

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The Murder in the Tower: The Story of...

Jean Plaidy

The dashing Robert Carr is a well-known favorite of King James I. After attracting his attention by falling from a horse in the tiltyard, Robert rises quickly through the ranks. But when the cunning and beautiful Frances Howard comes ...

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Published: Jul 2010

Radio Girls

Sarah-Jane Stratford

The Great War is over, and change is in the air, in this novel that brings to life the exciting days of early British radio…and one woman who finds her voice while working alongside the brilliant women and men of the BBC.   London,...

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Published: Jun 2016

Tony's Wife: A Novel

Adriana Trigiani

Set in the lush Big Band era of the 1940s and World War II, this spellbinding saga from beloved New York Times bestselling author Adriana Trigiani tells the story of two talented working class kids who marry and become a successful si...

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Published: Aug 2019

The Blonde Geisha

Jina Bacarr

In Japan in 1892, after a threat to her father's life places her in great danger, Kathleen Mallory is sent to the Teahouse of the Look-Back Tree where she, immersed in the sensual and forbidden world of the geisha, is trained in the a...

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Published: Aug 2006

The Borgias: Two Novels in One Volume...

Jean Plaidy

For the first time in one volume, Jean Plaidy's duet of Borgia novels brings to life the infamous, reckless, and passionate family in an unforgettable historical saga.Madonna of the Seven Hills:  Fifteenth-century Rome: the Borgia fa...

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Published: Jul 2011

The Color of Lightning

Paulette Jiles

In 1863, as the War Between the States creeps slowly yet inevitably toward its bloody conclusion, former Kentucky slave Britt Johnson ventures west into unknown territory with his wife, Mary, and their three children. Settling on the ...

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Published: Jun 2010

Becoming Jane Eyre

Sheila Kohler

A beautifully imagined tale of the Bronte sisters and the writing of Jane Eyre The year is 1846. In a cold parsonage on the gloomy Yorkshire moors, a family seems cursed with disaster. A mother and two children dead. A father sick, w...

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Published: Dec 2009

Night of a Thousand Stars

Deanna Raybourn

New York Times bestselling author Deanna Raybourn returns with a Jazz Age tale of grand adventure On the verge of a stilted life as an aristocrat's wife, Poppy Hammond does the only sensible thing—she flees the chapel in her weddin...

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Published: Sep 2014

Golden Hill: A Novel of Old New York

Francis Spufford

A Wall Street Journal Top Ten Fiction Book of 2017 * A Washington Post Notable Fiction Book of the Year * A Seattle Times Favorite Book of 2017 * An NPR Best Book of 2017 * A Kirkus Reviews Best Historical Fiction Book of the Year * A...

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Published: Feb 2018

Dog Soldiers

Robert Stone

In Saigon during the waning days of the Vietnam War, a small-time journalist named John Converse thinks he'll find action - and profit - by getting involved in a big-time drug deal. But back in the States, things go horribly wrong for...

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Published: Apr 1997

The Temple Dancer of India

John Speed

India, 1657.When Maya, a graceful, young temple dancer with a mysterious past, is sold into slavery, she enters a world of intrigue, violence, and forbidden love. Bought by a Portuguese trader and sold as a concubine to the dissolute ...

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Published: Jul 2007

The Lions of Fifth Avenue: A Novel

Fiona Davis

A Good Morning America Book Club Pick and a New York Times bestseller!   “A page-turner for booklovers everywhere! . . . A story of family ties, their lost dreams, and the redemption that comes from discovering t...

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Published: May 2021

The Sealed Letter

Emma Donoghue

Miss Emily 'Fido' Faithfull is a 'woman of business' and a spinster pioneer in the British women's movement, independent of mind but naively trusting of heart. Distracted from her cause by the sudden return of a once-dear friend, the ...

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Published: Sep 2009

The Twelve Tribes of Hattie (Vintage)...

Ayana Mathis

In 1923, against the backdrop of the Great Migration, fifteen-year-old Hattie Shepherd flees Georgia and heads north. Full of hope, she settles in Philadelphia to build a better life. Instead she marries a man who will bring her nothi...

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Published: Oct 2013

Daughters of Rome

Kate Quinn

A.D. 69. The Roman Empire is up for the taking. The Year of Four Emperors will change everything-especially the lives of two sisters with a very personal stake in the outcome. Elegant and ambitious, Cornelia embodies the essence of th...

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Published: Apr 2011

Fire from Heaven

Mary Renault

During his first twenty years of life, Alexander the Great is torn between admiration, hatred, and love for his father, asserts his independence from his mother's jealous love, is tutored by Aristotle, and becomes king of Macedon. Rep...

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Published: Jun 2002

Golden Lion: A Novel of Heroes in a T...

Wilbur Smith

For readers of Game of Thrones, Ken Follett, and Clive Cussler:an epic adventure spanning land and sea...time and distance...courage, revenge, and everything in between.GOLDEN LIONHe saw his father executed in battle. He spent his you...

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Published: Apr 2016

Standard of Honor

Jack Whyte

The season's most eagerly awaited thriller has arrived. FIRST TIME IN PAPERBACKKnights Templar order member Sir Henry St. Clair is asked by Richard the Lionheart to join his army and free the Holy Land in a war. Sir Henry reluctantly ...

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Published: Aug 2008

The Indigo Girl: A Novel

Natasha Boyd

The year is 1739. Eliza Lucas is sixteen years old when her father leaves her in charge of their family's three plantations in rural South Carolina and then proceeds to bleed the estates dry in pursuit of his military ambitions. Tensi...

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Published: Aug 2018

Darcy and Anne: It is a truth univers...

Judith Brocklehurst

It is a truth universally acknowledged that Lady Catherine will never find a husband or Anne… When a fortuitous accident draws Anne away from Rosings and her overbearing mother's direct influence, she is able to think and act for h...

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Published: Sep 2009

The Sisterhood

Helen Bryan

Menina Walker was a child of fortune. Rescued after a hurricane in South America, doomed to a life of poverty with a swallow medal as her only legacy, the orphaned toddler was adopted by an American family and taken to a new life. As ...

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Published: Apr 2013

The Strangler Vine (A Blake and Avery...

M. J. Carter

A FINALIST FOR THE EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST NOVELA WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK OF 2015LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2014 Set in the untamed wilds of nineteenth-century colonial India, a dazzling historical thriller...

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Published: Feb 2016

At the Edge of the Orchard: A Novel

Tracy Chevalier

"With impeccable research and flawless prose, Chevalier perfectly conjures the grandeur of the pristine Wild West . . . and the everyday adventurers—male and female—who were bold enough or foolish enough to be drawn to the un...

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Published: Jan 2017

Enchantress of Numbers: A Novel of Ad...

Jennifer Chiaverini

"Cherished Reader, Should you come upon Enchantress of Numbers by Jennifer Chiaverini . . . consider yourself quite fortunate indeed. . . . Chiaverini makes a convincing case that Ada Byron King is a woman worth celebrating.&qu...

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Published: Nov 2018

The Chelsea Girls: A Novel

Fiona Davis

The bright lights of the theater district, the glamour and danger of 1950s New York, and the wild scene at the iconic Chelsea Hotel come together in a dazzling new novel about a twenty-year friendship that will irrevocably change two ...

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Published: Jul 2020

The Beginning of Spring

Penelope Fitzgerald

Short-listed for the Booker Prize Fitzgerald was the author of several slim perfect novels The Blue Flower and The Beginning of Spring both had me abuzz for days the first time I read them She was curiously perfect - Teju Cole author ...

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Published: Apr 2015

The Girl Who Came Home: A Novel of th...

Hazel Gaynor

Inspired by true events, The Girl Who Came Home is the poignant story of a group of Irish emigrants aboard RMS Titanic—a seamless blend of fact and fiction that explores the tragedy's impact and its lasting repercussions on survivor...

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Published: Apr 2014

Tidelands: A Novel (1) (The Fairmile ...

Philippa Gregory

This New York Times bestseller from "one of the great storytellers of our time" (SanFrancisco Book Review) turns from the glamour of the royal courts to tell the story of an ordinary woman, Alinor, living in a dangerous time...

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Published: Feb 2020

The Ragged Edge of Night

Olivia Hawker

For fans of All the Light We Cannot See, Beneath a Scarlet Sky, and The Nightingale comes an emotionally gripping, beautifully written historical novel about extraordinary hope, redemption, and one man's search for light during the da...

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Published: Oct 2018

Fast Girls: A Novel of the 1936 Women...

Elise Hooper

ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF THE SUMMER BY POPSUGAR, FROLIC, PARADE, TRAVEL & LEISURE, SHE KNOWS, and SHE READS NAMED A REAL SIMPLE BEST BOOK OF 2020 (SO FAR). "Fast Girls is a compelling, thrilling look at what it take...

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Published: Jul 2020
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