Historical - General

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All Other Nights

Dara Horn

"Slam-bang... superb... masterful... gripping... marvelous."—Washington PostHow is tonight different from all other nights? For Jacob Rappaport, a Jewish soldier in the Union Army, it is a question his commanders have answ...

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Published: Mar 2010

The Kaiser's Last Kiss

Alan Judd

Soon to be a movie titled The Exception starring Christopher Plummer, Lily James, and Jai Courtney, this "wonderfully satisfying, sophisticated novel" (Daily Telegraph) follows the exiled Kaiser Wilhelm, the young Nazi offic...

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Published: Jan 2017

The Mapmaker's Children

Sarah McCoy

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Baker's Daughter, a story of family, love, and courageWhen Sarah Brown, daughter of abolitionist John Brown, realizes that her artistic talents may be able to help save the lives of sl...

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Published: Feb 2016

Buffalo Girls

Larry McMurtry

This novel represents McMurtry's version of the Calamity Jane story. The framework of this novel is a series of letters from Calamity to Janey, her daughter by Wild Bill Hickok. Buffalo Bill Cody is trying to put together Western oldt...

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Published: Nov 2001

Recessional

James A. Michener

In this remarkable novel, Pulitzer Prize–winning author James A. Michener draws on his unparalleled gift for storytelling, his deep understanding of American society, and his own life experiences to illuminate the challenges of agin...

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Published: Sep 2015

A King's Ransom: A Novel

Sharon Kay Penman

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER  Sharon Kay Penman follows up her acclaimed novel Lionheart with the vivid and heart-wrenching story of the last event-filled years in the life of Richard I of England, Coeur de Lion.  November 1192. After ...

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Published: Feb 2015

Lionheart

Sharon Kay Penman

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "The great Crusader king Richard the Lionheart comes alive in all his complex splendor in this masterpiece of medieval tapestry."—Margaret George   A.D. 1189. After the death of his father, Henr...

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Published: Dec 2012

Jane Seymour, the Haunted Queen

Alison Weir

"A sumptuous historical novel anchored by its excellent depiction of Jane Seymour, Henry the VIII's third queen . . . This is a must for all fans of Tudor fiction and history."—Publishers Weekly              ...

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Published: Jan 2016

Habits of the House

Fay Weldon

From the award-winning novelist and writer of Upstairs Downstairs, the launch of a brilliant new trilogy about what life was really like for masters and servants before the world of Downton AbbeyAs the Season of 1899 comes to an end, ...

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Published: Oct 2013

Her Last Flight: A Novel

Beatriz Williams

One of Summer’s Most Anticipated Reads, according to Goodreads, SheReads, and Bookish “I think Beatriz Williams is writing the best historical fiction out there. It’s lush with period detail but feels immediate.R...

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Published: May 2021

The Crazyladies of Pearl Street

Trevanian

In this highly autobiographical saga of life in the ’30s, the LaPointe family--Jean-Luc, Anne-Marie, and their mother--settle in Albany, NY, on Pearl Street, an Irish-American enclave. It’s been years since they’ve s...

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Published: Jun 2006

Clara and Mr. Tiffany

Susan Vreeland

NATIONAL BESTSELLERIt's 1893, and at the Chicago World's Fair, Louis Comfort Tiffany makes his debut with a luminous exhibition of innovative stained-glass windows that he hopes will earn him a place on the international artistic stag...

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Published: Jan 2012

The Jane Austen Project

Kathleen Flynn

Perfect for fans of Jane Austen, this engrossing debut novel offers an unusual twist on the legacy of one of the world's most celebrated and beloved authors: two researchers from the future are sent back in time to meet Jane and recov...

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Published: May 2017

Bitter Greens: A Novel

Kate Forsyth

A Library Journal Best Book of 2014: Historical FictionThe amazing power and truth of the Rapunzel fairy tale comes alive for the first time in this breathtaking tale of desire, black magic and the redemptive power of loveFrench novel...

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Published: May 2015

HHhH: A Novel

Laurent Binet

"HHhH blew me away... It's one of the best historical novels I've ever come across."—Bret Easton Ellis, author of American Psycho and Less Than ZeroA Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for FictionA Financ...

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Published: Jun 2013

The Fifth Avenue Artists Society

Joy Callaway

The Bronx, 1891. Virginia Loftin, the boldest of four artistic sisters in a family living in genteel poverty, knows what she wants most: to become a celebrated novelist despite her gender, and to marry Charlie, the boy next door and h...

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Published: May 2016

The Phantom Tree

Nicola Cornick

Browsing an antiques shop in Wiltshire, Alison Bannister stumbles across a delicate old portrait—identified as the doomed Tudor queen, Anne Boleyn. Except Alison knows better. The subject is Mary Seymour, the daughter of Katherine P...

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Published: Aug 2018

An Undisturbed Peace

Mary Glickman

This sweeping historical novel tells the story of the Trail of Tears as it has never been told before Abrahan Bento Sassaporta Naggar has traveled to America from the filthy streets of East London in search of a better life. But Abe's...

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Published: Jan 2016

The Vatican Princess: A Novel of Lucr...

C. W. Gortner

For fans of Philippa Gregory and Alison Weir, bestselling author C. W. Gortner effortlessly weaves history and drama in this captivating novel about one of the world's most notorious families. Glamorous and predatory, the Borgias fasc...

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Published: Aug 2017

Hild

Nicola Griffith

WINNER OF THE WASHINGTON STATE BOOK AWARD FOR FICTIONIn seventh-century Britain, a new religion is coming ashore and small kingdoms are merging, frequently and violently. Hild is the king's youngest niece, with a glittering mind and a...

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Published: Oct 2014

The Dressmaker

Rosalie Ham

A darkly satirical novel of love, revenge, and 1950s haute couture—soon to be a major motion picture starring Kate Winslet and Liam Hemsworth After twenty years spent mastering the art of dressmaking at couture houses in Paris, Til...

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Published: Aug 2015

The Queen's Secret: A Novel of Englan...

Karen Harper

If you love Jennifer Robson or The Crown you will love New York Times bestselling author Karen Harper's novel about Elizabeth, The Queen Mother. 1939. As the wife of the King George VI and the mother of the future queen, Elizabeth—&...

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Published: Apr 2020

The Girl from the Train

Irma Joubert

Six-year-old Gretl Schmidt is on a train bound for Aushwitz. Jakób Kowalski is planting a bomb on the tracks.As World War II draws to a close, Jakób fights with the Polish resistance against the crushing forces of Germany and Russia...

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Published: Sep 2015

Mrs. Houdini

Victoria Kelly

"Richly lyrical and thought-provoking" (Publishers Weekly, starred review), this "stellar debut from a novelist to watch" (Geraldine Brooks, Pulitzer Prize winning author) explores the passionate marriage of Harry ...

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Published: Mar 2017

The Heart Remembers (Frontier Doctor ...

Al Lacy

This final book in the Frontier Doctor trilogy continues the story of Dane and Tharyn Logan, husband and wife medical team serving a mining community west of Denver. While caring for the physical ailments of the residents of this fron...

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Published: Sep 2004

Pastel Orphans

Gemma Liviero

In 1930s Berlin, young Henrik, the son of a Jewish father and Aryan mother, watches the world around him crumbling: people are rioting in the streets, a strange yellow star begins appearing in shop windows, and friends are forced to m...

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Published: Jun 2015

The Witch's Trinity

Erika Mailman

The year is 1507, and a friar has arrived in Tierkinddorf, a remote German village nestled deeply in the woods. The village has been suffering a famine, and the villagers are desperately hungry. The friar's arrival is a miracle, and w...

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Published: Oct 2008

My Heart Laid Bare

Joyce Carol Oates

New York Times Bestselling Author\n\nFinally returned to print in a beautiful trade paperback edition, a haunting gothic tale that illuminates the fortunes and misfortunes of a 19th-century immigrant family of confidence artists—...

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Published: Apr 2015

A Favorite of the Queen: The Story of...

Jean Plaidy

Torn between her heart's passion and duty to her kingdom, a young queen makes a dark choice…   Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester was the most powerful man in England during the reign of Elizabeth I. Handsome and clever, he drew the ...

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Published: Mar 2010

The Loves of Charles II: The Stuart S...

Jean Plaidy

The three volumes of the Stuart Saga come together in an omnibus edition that chronicles the story of England's King Charles II, from his rise to the throne following the execution of his father, Charles I, through his political marri...

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Published: Oct 2005
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