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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

Sacrilege

S. J. Parris

London, summer of 1584: Radical philosopher, ex-monk, and spy Giordano Bruno suspects he is being followed by an old enemy. Instead, he is shocked to discover that his pursuer is in fact Sophia Underhill, a young woman with whom he wa...

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Published: Feb 2013

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

Yellow Wife: A Novel

Sadeqa Johnson

A Best Book of 2021 by NPR and Christian Science Monitor Called “wholly engrossing” by New York Times bestselling author Kathleen Grissom, this “fully immersive” (Lisa Wingate, #1 bestselling author of Befo...

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Published: Jan 2022

Beyond the Wild River

Sarah Maine

For fans of Kate Morton and Beatriz Williams, a highly atmospheric and suspenseful historical novel, set in the 1890s about a Scottish heiress who unexpectedly encounters her childhood friend in North America, five years after he disa...

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Published: Apr 2017

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

The Boleyn Inheritance

Philippa Gregory

ANNE OF CLEVES: She runs from her tiny country, her hateful mother, and her abusive brother to a court ruled by the terror of a vengeful king who despises her. Her Boleyn Inheritance: accusations and false witness. KATHERINE HOWARD...

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Published: Aug 2007

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 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

The Seekers (The Kent Family Chronicl...

John Jakes

Returning to Boston, Abraham Kent, who had helped pacify the Indian threat on the frontier, finds himself unable to follow the path chosen for him by his controlling father and sets out on a perilous journey to the West, along with hi...

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Published: Jul 2004

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

The Final Storm of the War in the Pac...

Jeff Shaara

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER With the war in Europe winding down in the spring of 1945, the United States turns its vast military resources toward a furious assault on the last great stepping-stone to Japan—the heavily fortified islan...

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Published: Jan 2012

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

Restoration

Rose Tremain

The Booker shortlisted novel that "restored the historical novel to its rightful place of honor" (New York Times).Robert Merivel, son of a glove maker and an aspiring physician, finds his fortunes transformed when he is give...

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Published: Apr 2013

Voyager (Starz Tie-in Edition): A Nov...

Diana Gabaldon

NOW THE STARZ ORIGINAL SERIES OUTLANDERIn this rich, vibrant tale, Diana Gabaldon continues the story of Claire Randall and Jamie Fraser that began with the now-classic novel Outlander and continued in Dragonfly in Amber. Sweepin...

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Published: Aug 2017

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

Paris: The Novel

Edward Rutherfurd

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom Edward Rutherfurd, the grand master of the historical novel, comes a dazzling epic about the magnificent city of Paris. Moving back and forth in time, the story unfolds through intimate and thrilling tale...

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Published: Apr 2014

The Bastard of Istanbul

Elif Shafak

When The Bastard of Istanbul was published in Turkey, Elif Shafak was accused by nationalist lawyers of insulting Turkish identity. The charges were later dropped, and now readers in America can discover for themselves this bold and p...

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Published: Feb 2008

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

Cold Mountain

Charles Frazier

One of the most acclaimed novels in recent memory, Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain is a masterpiece that is at once an enthralling adventure, a stirring love story, and a luminous evocation of a vanished American in all its savagery, ...

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Published: Sep 1998

The Orchardist: A Novel (P.S.)

Amanda Coplin

A Best Book of the Year Washington Post • Seattle Times • The Oregonian National Public Radio • Amazon • Kirkus Reviews Publishers Weekly • The Daily Beast An Indie Next Pick A Barnes & Noble Discover Pick At the turn of ...

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Published: Apr 2013
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