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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

An ACTUAL LIFE

Abigail Thomas

In this delightful novel, Abigail Thomas takes readers back to the summer of 1960 and into the heart of a young woman embarking on a marriage not exactly made in heaven.

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Published: Nov 1997

The Oceans Between Us

Gill Thompson

Inspired by heartrending real events, a mother fights to find her son and a child battles for survival in this riveting debut novel.For readers of Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate, Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly, The Letter by K...

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Published: Jan 2020

American Princess: A Novel of First D...

Stephanie Marie Thornton

"As juicy and enlightening as a page in Meghan Markle's diary."—InStyle"Presidential darling, America's sweetheart, national rebel: Teddy Roosevelt's swashbuckling daughter Alice springs to life in this raucous anthem...

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Published: Mar 2019

The Scent of Secrets

Jane Thynne

Set in Europe, in 1938, during the tense run-up to war, and perfect for fans of Jacqueline Winspear, Charles Todd, Robert Harris, and Susan Elia MacNeal, this gripping historical novel features the half-British, half-German actress (a...

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Published: Sep 2015

Beloved Woman (Appalachian Journey) (...

CC Tillery

In the second decade of the 20th century, major world events resonate even on secluded Stone Mountain where Bessie Elliott lives with her husband Fletcher. There's a great war, one that takes away many young men, including Bessie's ki...

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Published: Jan 2015

Moonfixer

CC Tillery

In the dawning years of the 20th century, Bessie Daniels leaves her home town of Hot Springs and travels east over the mountains to live with her new husband Fletcher Elliott in the Broad River section of North Carolina. Bess and Fle...

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Published: Feb 2014

Merivel: A Man of His Time

Rose Tremain

Get ready to laugh, prepare to weep—Robert Merivel is back in Rose Tremain's magical sequel to Restoration. The gaudy years of the Restoration are long gone. Robert Merivel, physician and courtier to Charles II, loved for his gift f...

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Published: Jul 2014

A Hundred Flowers: A Novel

Gail Tsukiyama

A powerful new novel about an ordinary family facing extraordinary times at the start of the Chinese Cultural Revolution  China, 1957. Chairman Mao has declared a new openness in society: "Let a hundred flowers bloom; let a hun...

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Published: Aug 2013

The Dream of the Celt: A Novel

Mario Vargas Llosa

A painstakingly researched and lively novel about a neglected human rights pioneer by the Nobel Laureate Mario Vargas Llosa In 1916, the Irish nationalist Roger Casement was hanged by the British government for treason. Casement had ...

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Published: Jun 2013

Beneath the Apple Leaves

Harmony Verna

From the author of Daughter of Australia comes a sweeping, heartfelt historical novel that follows a family of German immigrants who trade city living for the harsh realities of Pennsylvania farm life.In 1914, Andrew Houghton's fam...

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Published: Jun 2017

Daughter of Australia

Harmony Verna

In a stunning debut novel that evokes the epic scope of Colleen McCullough's classic The Thorn Birds, Harmony Verna creates a poignant, beautifully told story of love and courage, set in Australia and America in the early decades of t...

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Published: Mar 2016

The Promise

Ann Weisgarber

"This second engaging novel from Weisgarber . . . has shades of Willa Cather, Sinclair Lewis, and Conrad Richter."- Publishers Weekly, starred review Young pianist Catherine Wainwright flees the fashionable town of Dayton, O...

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Published: Apr 2015

Long Live the King

Fay Weldon

From the award-winning writer of the original Upstairs Downstairs—the second novel in an irresistible trilogy about an Earl's family and his servants at the turn of the twentieth century. As 1901 comes to an end, there is much to...

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Published: May 2014

Order in Chaos (A Templar Novel)

Jack Whyte

The new Templar novel from the USA Today bestselling author On the morning of October 13, 1307, every Templar knight in France is arrested by the order of King Philip IV, who then seizes all the Order's assets and set the Inquisition...

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Published: Jul 2010

The Forest Laird: A Tale of William W...

Jack Whyte

In the predawn hours of August 24th, 1305, in London's Smithfield Prison, the outlaw William Wallace—hero of all the Scots and deadly enemy of King Edward of England—sits awaiting the dawn, when he is to be hanged and then drawn a...

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Published: Nov 2012

Ashenden: A Novel

Elizabeth Wilhide

THE HOUSE CONTAINS TIME. ITS WALLS HOLD STORIES. . . . When brother and sister Charlie and Ros discover that they have inherited Ashenden, the beautiful eighteenth-century English country house steeped in their family history, they fa...

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Published: Nov 2013

Our Woman in Moscow: A Novel

Beatriz Williams

"A captivating Cold War page-turner." — Real Simple The New York Times bestselling author of The Summer Wives returns with a gripping and profoundly human story of Cold War espionage and family devotion. In the ...

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Published: May 2022

The Glass Ocean: A Novel

Beatriz Williams

The lives and loves of three remarkable women—two in the past, one in the present—and the tragic final voyage of the HMS Lusitania.From the New York Times bestselling authors of The Forgotten Room comes a captivating historical my...

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Published: Sep 2019

The Wicked City: A Novel

Beatriz Williams

In the first book of a breathtaking new trilogy by bestselling author Beatriz Williams, two generations of women are brought together inside a Greenwich Village apartment —a flapper hiding an extraordinary past, and a modern-day Man...

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Published: Dec 2017

Augustus

John Williams

Winner of the 1973 National Book AwardIn Augustus, the third of his great novels, John Williams took on an entirely new challenge, a historical novel set in classical Rome, exploring the life of the founder of the Roman Empire, whose ...

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Published: Aug 2014

1805 (Mariner's Library Fiction Class...

Richard Woodman

In the tradition of C.S. Forester, ex-sailor Richard Woodman brings history to life in a rousing tale of daring deeds and clashing cutlasses. It is the summer of 1804 and Napoleon is massing his vast army for the invasion of England....

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Published: Oct 2001
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