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Troy: Lord of the Silver Bow (Troy Tr...

David Gemmell

A retelling of the legend of the Trojan War chronicles the exploits of Aeneas, the Lord of the Silver Bow, a powerful warrior known as Helikaon to his friends, including Odysseus, as he engages Argurious, a warrior of Agamemnon, in a ...

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Published: Oct 2006

Not Yet Drown'd

Peg Kingman

'Mysterious, intriguing, and just downright absorbing...smart and full of atmosphere.'—Boston GlobeCatherine MacDonald is astonished to receive from her twin brother—who had apparently drowned a year earlier in the monsoon floods ...

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Published: Sep 2008

Acceptable Loss: A William Monk Novel...

Anne Perry

Anne Perry's seventeenth William Monk novel, now in paperback, is a mesmerizing masterpiece of innocence and evil on London's docks, a welcome addition to this successful and beloved series. NATIONAL BESTSELLER  On a London riverban...

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Published: Aug 2012

War and Remembrance

Herman Wouk

These two classic works capture the tide of world events even as they unfold the compelling tale of a single North American family drawn into the very center of the wars maelstrom. These two multimillion-copy bestsellers capture all t...

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Published: Feb 2002

The Fortune Hunter: A Novel

Daisy Goodwin

The Fortune Hunter, the New York Times bestselling novel by Daisy Goodwin, is a lush, irresistible story of the public lives and private longings of grand historical figures. Empress Elizabeth of Austria, known as Sisi, is the Princes...

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Published: Apr 2015

Schindler's List

Thomas Keneally

Winner of the Booker Prize Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Award for Fiction Schindler's List is a remarkable work of fiction based on the true story of German industrialist and war profiteer, Oskar Schindler, wh...

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Published: Apr 1995

The Violin Maker's Daughter: Absolute...

Sharon Maas

When the Nazis march onto the cobbled streets of Colmar on November 1st 1940, Josef, a Jewish violin maker, gathers his wife and daughters closely to him and tells them everything will be all right. But one year later, three sharp kno...

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Published: Jul 2019

Sisi: Empress on Her Own: A Novel

Allison Pataki

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • For readers of Philippa Gregory, Paula McLain, and Daisy Goodwin comes a sweeping and powerful novel by Allison Pataki. Sisi tells the little-known story of Empress Elisabeth of Austria-Hungary, the Pri...

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Published: Feb 2017

Joan of Arc

Mark Twain

Very few people know that Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) wrote a major work on Joan of Arc. Still fewer know that he considered it not only his most important but also his best work. He spent twelve years in research and many months in F...

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Published: Jun 1990

The Dressmaker's Gift

Fiona Valpy

A Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and Amazon Charts bestseller.From the bestselling author of The Beekeeper's Promise comes a gripping story of three young women faced with impossible choices. How will history – and their fami...

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Published: Oct 2019

The Lady of the Rivers

Philippa Gregory

Passion.Danger.Witchcraft . . .The Lady of the Rivers is #1 New York Times bestselling author Philippa Gregory's remarkable story of Jacquetta, Duchess of Bedford, a woman who navigated a treacherous path through the battle lines in t...

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Published: Apr 2012

Silence for the Dead

Simone St James

"Portis House emerged from the fog as we approached, showing itself slowly as a long, low shadow...." In 1919, Kitty Weekes, pretty, resourceful, and on the run, falsifies her background to obtain a nursing position at Porti...

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Published: Apr 2014

The Summer Queen: A Novel of Eleanor ...

Elizabeth Chadwick

New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Chadwick brings Eleanor of Aquitaine to life in a stunning new trilogy Young Eleanor has everything to look forward to as the heiress to the wealthy Aquitaine. But when her beloved father di...

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Published: Jul 2014

Where the Sky Begins: A Novel

Rhys Bowen

A woman’s future is determined by fate and choice in a gripping WWII novel about danger, triumph, and second chances by the New York Times bestselling author of The Venice Sketchbook and The Tuscan Child. London, 1940. Bombs fa...

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Published: Aug 2022

Mistress of the Art of Death

Ariana Franklin

The national bestselling hit hailed by the New York Times as a 'vibrant medieval mystery...[it] outdoes the competition.' In medieval Cambridge, England, Adelia, a female forensics expert, is summoned by King Henry II to investigate ...

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Published: Feb 2008

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Swe...

Jamie Ford

Sentimental, heartfelt... the exploration of Henry's changing relationship with his family and with Keiko will keep most readers turning pages...A timely debut that not only reminds readers of a shameful episode in American history, b...

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Published: Oct 2009

The House at Riverton

Kate Morton

The House at Riverton is a gorgeous debut novel set in England between the wars. It is the story of an aristocratic family, a house, a mysterious death and a way of life that vanished forever, told in flashback by a woman who witnesse...

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Published: Mar 2009

The Kitchen House

Kathleen Grissom

Gone with the Wind is turned inside out in this tragic, page-turning novel in which a white indentured servant girl lives and works with black slaves.

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Published: Feb 2010

The Many Lives & Secret Sorrows of Jo...

Sandra Gulland

Since completing high school history, few of us have managed to keep straight the details of the French Revolution. Beyond suggestions of eating cake and the effectiveness of the guillotine, this sordid time period has remained--for m...

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Published: Aug 1999

World Without End

Ken Follett

The #1 New York Times bestselling sequel to The Pillars of the Earth. Ken Follett astonished the literary world with The Pillars of the Earth, a sweeping epic novel set in twelfth-century England that centered on the building of a cat...

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Published: Jul 2010

Stella Bain

Anita Shreve

"Shreve's 17th novel is a tragic yet hopeful story of love, memory, loss, and rebuilding....The novel is both tender and harsh....Shreve's thoughtful, provocative historical tale has modern resonance." ---Publishers WeeklyS...

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Published: May 2014

Prayers for Sale

Sandra Dallas

From the critically acclaimed author of Tallgrass comes a powerful novel about an unlikely friendship between two women and the secrets they've kept in order to survive life in a rugged Colorado mining town. It's 1936 and the Great De...

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Published: Feb 2010

A Fall of Marigolds

Susan Meissner

A beautiful scarf, passed down through the generations, connects two women who learn that the weight of the world is made bearable by the love we give away.... September 1911. On Ellis Island in New York Harbor, nurse Clara Wood canno...

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Published: Feb 2014

The Unknown Beloved: A Novel

Amy Harmon

From the bestselling author of Where the Lost Wander and What the Wind Knows comes the evocative story of two people whose paths collide against the backdrop of mystery, murder, and the Great Depression. Chicago, 1923: Ten-year-o...

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Published: Apr 2022

The Winds of War

Herman Wouk

These two classic works capture the tide of world events even as they unfold the compelling tale of a single North American family drawn into the very center of the wars maelstrom. These two multimillion-copy bestsellers capture all t...

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Published: Feb 2002

Copperhead

Bernard Cornwell

The beloved Confederate Captain Nate Starbuck returns to the front lines of the Civil War in this second installment of Bernard Cornwell's acclaimed Nathaniel Starbuck Chronicles. It is the summer of 1862, and Nate has been bloodied b...

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Published: Sep 2001

The Seventh Scroll

Wilbur Smith

For 4,000 years, the lavish crypt of the Pharaoh Mamose has never been found...until the Seventh Scroll, a cryptic message written by he slave Taita, gives beautiful Egyptologist Royan Al Simma a tantalizing clue to its location.But t...

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Published: Feb 2008

How to Stop Time: A Novel

Matt Haig

"A quirky romcom dusted with philosophical observations….A delightfully witty…poignant novel." —The Washington Post  "She smiled a soft, troubled smile and I felt the whole world slipping away, and I wanted to s...

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Published: Jun 2019

Lost Among the Living

Simone St James

England, 1921. Three years after her husband, Alex, disappeared, shot down over Germany, Jo Manders still mourns his loss. Working as a paid companion to Alex's wealthy, condescending aunt, Dottie Forsyth, Jo travels to the family's e...

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Published: Apr 2016

March

Geraldine Brooks

Geraldine Brooks takes a very minor character from Louisa May Alcott’s LITTLE WOMEN--Mr. March, the girls’ preacher father--and makes him the main character in this Civil War novel, winner of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for fi...

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Published: Feb 2006
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