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Waverley: or 'Tis Sixty Years Since (...

Walter Scott

Set during the Jacobite rising in Scotland in 1745, this novel springs from Scott's childhood recollections and his desire to preserve in writing the features of life in the Highlands and Lowlands of Scotland. Waverley was first publ...

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Published: Mar 2009

Austerlitz (Modern Library Paperbacks...

W. G. Sebald

This tenth anniversary edition of W. G. Sebald's celebrated masterpiece includes a new Introduction by acclaimed critic James Wood. Austerlitz is the story of a man's search for the answer to his life's central riddle. A small child w...

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Published: Dec 2011

Sworn Brother (Viking Trilogy)

Tim Severin

London, 1019: a few months have passed since Thorgils has escaped the clutches of the Irish Church only to find himself at the centre of a capricious love affair with Aelfgifu, wife of Knut the Great, ruler of England and one of the m...

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Published: Aug 2006

The Architect's Apprentice: A Novel

Elif Shafak

From the acclaimed author of The Bastard of Istanbul, a colorful, magical tale set during the height of the Ottoman EmpireIn her latest novel, Turkey's preeminent female writer spins an epic tale spanning nearly a century in the life ...

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Published: May 2016

The Collector's Apprentice

B. A. Shapiro

"A clever and complex tale of art fraud, theft, scandal, murder, and revenge." --Publishers Weekly In this surprising, noirish page-turner, B. A. Shapiro once again takes readers into the world of art, glamour, and myste...

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Published: Jun 2019

Illuminations: A Novel of Hildegard v...

Mary Sharratt

One of the most extraordinary women of the Middle Ages, Hildegard von Bingen—Benedictine abbess, healer, composer, saint—experienced mystic visions from a very young age. Offered by her noble family to the Church at the age of ...

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Published: Oct 2013

The Last Time I Saw Paris

Lynn Sheene

A stunning debut novel of a young American woman who becomes a spy in Paris during World War II. May 1940. Fleeing a glamorous Manhattan life built on lies, Claire Harris arrives in Paris with a romantic vision of starting anew. But ...

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Published: May 2011

Beneath a Marble Sky

John Shors

In 1632, the Emperor of Hindustan, Shah Jahan, overwhelmed with grief over the death of his beloved wife, Mumatz Mahal, commissioned the building of a grand mausoleum to symbolize the greatness of their love. The story surrounding the...

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Published: Jun 2006

Bellagrand

Paullina Simons

From internationally bestselling author Paullina Simons comes another compelling saga of heartbreak and redemption, and the devastating love story that led to The Bronze HorsemanLove was just the beginning of their journeyGina and Har...

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Published: Mar 2014

Between Earth and Sky

Amanda Skenandore

In Amanda Skenandore’s provocative and profoundly moving debut, set in the tragic intersection between white and Native American culture, a young girl learns about friendship, betrayal, and the sacrifices made in the name of belongi...

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Published: Apr 2018

The Nurse's Secret: A Thrilling Histo...

Amanda Skenandore

From acclaimed author and registered nurse Amanda Skenandore, The Alienist meets The Light of Luna Park in a fascinating historical novel based on the little-known story of America’s first nursing school, as a young female grift...

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Published: Jun 2022

The Undertaker's Assistant

Amanda Skenandore

Set during Reconstruction-era New Orleans, and with an extraordinary and unforgettable heroine at its heart, The Undertaker’s Assistant is a powerful story of human resilience—and of the unlikely bonds that hold fast even in our d...

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Published: Jul 2019

The Women of Great Heron Lake

Deanna Lynn Sletten

From the author of the bestselling historical novel, Miss Etta.Two strong women, generations apart, living parallel lives.When Marla Madison's husband dies, she realizes her life has become very small. Her daughter is grown and Marla ...

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Published: Sep 2019

The Beginning

Patrick D. Smith

Just as the blacks and whites of a small Southern town think they're moving toward racial equality, civil rights workers arrive and violence erupts. Patrick D. Smith, award-winning author, wrote The Beginning in the 1960s at the heigh...

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Published: May 2009

A Pledge of Silence

Flora Solomon

2014 Winner — Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award — General Fiction When Margie Bauer joins the Army Nurse Corps in 1941, she is delighted to be sent to Manila, the Pearl of the Orient. Though rumors of war circulate, she feels safe, ...

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Published: Feb 2015

Where the Desert Meets the Sea

Werner Sonne

An illuminating and heart-stirring historical novel set in post-WWII Palestine, where the boundaries of love and friendship are challenged by the intractable conflicts of war.Jerusalem, 1947: Judith, a young Jewish survivor of the Dac...

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Published: May 2019

The Winter Palace: A Novel of Catheri...

Eva Stachniak

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYThe Wall Street Journal • The Washington Post  From award-winning author Eva Stachniak comes this passionate novel that illuminates, as only fiction can, the early life of one of history's ...

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Published: Oct 2012

Spy

Danielle Steel

NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLER • A young woman is caught up in a dangerous double life on behalf of her country during World War II in Danielle Steel’s thrilling new novel.\r\n  \r\n At eighteen, Alexandra Wickham is present...

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Published: Oct 2020

Lady Cop Makes Trouble (A Kopp Sister...

Amy Stewart

"A colorful and inventive adventure tale."—Washington Post"It's True Grit, New York style."—New York Post "One of the best mystery novels of the year: wonderful and very entertaining."—New York Jou...

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Published: May 2017

Miss Kopp Just Won't Quit

Amy Stewart

Trailblazing Constance's hard-won job as deputy sheriff is on the line in Miss Kopp Just Won't Quit, the fourth installment of Amy Stewart's Kopp Sisters series.After a year on the job, New Jersey's first female deputy sheriff has col...

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Published: May 2019

Miss Kopp's Midnight Confessions (A K...

Amy Stewart

The best-selling author of Girl Waits with Gun and Lady Cop Makes Trouble continues her extraordinary journey into the lives of the fabulous Kopp sisters. “Perfect for book groups.”—Booklist “Stewart has another winner on he...

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Published: May 2018

Nine Coaches Waiting

Mary Stewart

A governess in a French château encounters an apparent plot against her young charge's life in this unforgettably haunting and beautifully written suspense novel. When lovely Linda Martin first arrives at Château Valmy as an English...

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Published: May 2006

Artemis: A Kydd Sea Adventure (Kydd S...

Julian Stockwin

In this latest installment of the thrilling naval adventure series, Thomas Payne Kydd and sea-mate Nicholas Renzi are set to sail all the way to the fabled Far East aboard the 18th-century crack frigate Artemis. In this great age of...

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Published: Jul 2008

Kydd: A Kydd Sea Adventure (Kydd Sea ...

Julian Stockwin

When Thomas Paine Kydd, a young wig-maker from Guildford, is seized and taken across the country to be part of the crew of the 98-gun line-of-battle ship Duke William, he must learn the harsh realities of shioard life quickly. Despite...

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Published: Jun 2008

Mutiny: A Kydd Sea Adventure # 4

Julian Stockwin

The fourth book in Stockwin's series recreates one of history's most notorious naval insurrections, as Kydd crosses the Mediterranean to a rendezvous with danger and returns to England-only to find himself caught up in the Nore Mutiny...

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Published: Oct 2005

Seaflower: A Kydd Sea Adventure (Kydd...

Julian Stockwin

The third installment in a rousing naval-adventure series, this historical saga follows the shipwrecked Thomas Kydd and the rest of the crew from the ill-fated HMS Artemis. Returning to England for the court-martial of the sole-survi...

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Published: Aug 2008

Sword at Sunset

Rosemary Sutcliff

This brilliant Arthurian epic cuts through the mists of pagan, early Christian, and medieval splendors that have gathered about the subject and tells the authentic story of the man who may well have been the real King Arthur—Art...

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Published: May 2008

Sweet Mercy

Ann Tatlock

Stunning New Novel from Award-Winning AuthorWhen Eve Marryat's father is laid off from the Ford Motor Company in 1931, he is forced to support his family by leaving St. Paul, Minnesota, and moving back to his Ohio roots. Eve's uncle C...

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Published: May 2013

The Blue Orchard

Jackson Taylor

The Blue Orchard is a portrait of an indomitable woman, determined to build a better life for herself and her son in the face of crushing losses.

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Published: Jan 2010

Fifth Seal (A. D. Chronicles)

Bodie Thoene

The little town of Nazareth is a long way from Jerusalem and King Herod's evil clutches. Yet is anywhere in Judea far enough? In their most dramatic, ambitious, and significant historical series to date, Bodie and Brock Thoene once ag...

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Published: Mar 2007
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