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Known and loved around the world for her sweeping Big Stone Gap trilogy and the instant New York Times bestseller Lucia, Lucia, Adriana Trigiani returns to the charm and drama...Read More
Publication Date: May 2005

Genre: Historical
ISBN13: 9780812967807
ISBN10: 0812967801
Pages: 304



Known and loved around the world for her sweeping Big Stone Gap trilogy and the instant New York Times bestseller Lucia, Lucia, Adriana Trigiani returns to the charm and drama...Read More
Publication Date: May 2005





[A] delicately perceptive little novel....Chevalier draws the reader into the world of the painting, into the mood of the masterpiece she explores: moving, mysterious, at times almost unbearably poignant. Sometimes...Read More
Publication Date: Jan 2001

Genre: Historical
ISBN13: 9780452282155
ISBN10: 0452282152
Pages: 240



[A] delicately perceptive little novel....Chevalier draws the reader into the world of the painting, into the mood of the masterpiece she explores: moving, mysterious, at times almost unbearably poignant. Sometimes...Read More
Publication Date: Jan 2001





Fabulous historical novel set in the court of King Henry VIII. Mary Boleyn attracts the attention of the young king and becomes his mistress; when he tires of her, she...Read More
Publication Date: Sep 2007

Genre: Historical
ISBN13: 9781416556534
ISBN10: 1416556532
Pages: 735



Fabulous historical novel set in the court of King Henry VIII. Mary Boleyn attracts the attention of the young king and becomes his mistress; when he tires of her, she...Read More
Publication Date: Sep 2007





Three women who share one fate: the Boleyn InheritanceANNE OF CLEVES: She runs from her tiny country, her hateful mother, and her abusive brother to a court ruled by the...Read More
Publication Date: Aug 2007

Genre: Historical
ISBN13: 9780743272513
ISBN10: 074327251X
Pages: 518



Three women who share one fate: the Boleyn InheritanceANNE OF CLEVES: She runs from her tiny country, her hateful mother, and her abusive brother to a court ruled by the...Read More
Publication Date: Aug 2007





The 'memoirs' of one of Japan's most celebrated geishas describes how, in 1929, as a little girl, she is sold into slavery, her efforts to learn the arts of the...Read More
Publication Date: Nov 2005

Genre: Historical
ISBN13: 9781400096893
ISBN10: 1400096898
Pages: 503



The 'memoirs' of one of Japan's most celebrated geishas describes how, in 1929, as a little girl, she is sold into slavery, her efforts to learn the arts of the...Read More
Publication Date: Nov 2005





In September 1943, fourteen-year-old Claudette Blum and her father flee across the Alps into Italy with thousands of other Jewish refugees seeking safety, only to find an open battleground among...Read More
Publication Date: Dec 2005

Genre: Historical
ISBN13: 9780449004135
ISBN10: 0449004139
Pages: 442



In September 1943, fourteen-year-old Claudette Blum and her father flee across the Alps into Italy with thousands of other Jewish refugees seeking safety, only to find an open battleground among...Read More
Publication Date: Dec 2005





Claire Randall is leading a double life. She has a husband in one century, and a lover in another...In 1945, Claire Randall, a former combat nurse, is back from the war...Read More
Publication Date: Jul 2005

Genre: Historical
ISBN13: 9780440242949
ISBN10: 0440242940
Pages: 850



Claire Randall is leading a double life. She has a husband in one century, and a lover in another...In 1945, Claire Randall, a former combat nurse, is back from the war...Read More
Publication Date: Jul 2005





by Pamela Aidan
A concluding installment to the best-selling trilogy follows Darcy's journey of self-discovery after Elizabeth Bennet's rejection of his marriage proposal, a period during which he hopes to renew his suit...Read More
Publication Date: Jan 2007

Genre: Historical
ISBN13: 9780743291378
ISBN10: 0743291379
Pages: 437



by Pamela Aidan
A concluding installment to the best-selling trilogy follows Darcy's journey of self-discovery after Elizabeth Bennet's rejection of his marriage proposal, a period during which he hopes to renew his suit...Read More
Publication Date: Jan 2007





by Pamela Aidan
A first installment of a trilogy based on Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice is told from the perspective of Darcy, begins with his observations of the Bennet family during a...Read More
Publication Date: May 2006

Genre: Historical
ISBN13: 9780743291347
ISBN10: 0743291344
Pages: 246



by Pamela Aidan
A first installment of a trilogy based on Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice is told from the perspective of Darcy, begins with his observations of the Bennet family during a...Read More
Publication Date: May 2006





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...Read More
Publication Date: Sep 1998

Genre: Historical
ISBN13: 9780375700750
ISBN10: 0375700757
Pages: 449



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...Read More
Publication Date: Sep 1998





Two sisters competing for the greatest prize: the love of a kingWhen Mary Boleyn comes to court as an innocent girl of fourteen, she catches the eye of Henry VIII....Read More
Publication Date: Jun 2002

Genre: Historical
ISBN13: 9780743227445
ISBN10: 0743227441
Pages: 672



Two sisters competing for the greatest prize: the love of a kingWhen Mary Boleyn comes to court as an innocent girl of fourteen, she catches the eye of Henry VIII....Read More
Publication Date: Jun 2002





by Sarah Dunant
In 15th-century Florence, a young woman named Alessandra welcomes an arranged marriage to a cultured man over 30 years her senior because he promises her the freedom to pursue her...Read More
Publication Date: Nov 2004

Genre: Historical
ISBN13: 9780812968972
ISBN10: 0812968972
Pages: 448



by Sarah Dunant
In 15th-century Florence, a young woman named Alessandra welcomes an arranged marriage to a cultured man over 30 years her senior because he promises her the freedom to pursue her...Read More
Publication Date: Nov 2004





New York Times bestselling author of OutlanderDiana Gabaldon mesmerized readers with her award-winning Outlander novels, four dazzling New York Times bestsellers featuring 18th-century Scotsman James Fraser and his 20th-...Read More
Publication Date: Aug 2005

Genre: Historical
ISBN13: 9780440221661
ISBN10: 0440221668
Pages: 1443



New York Times bestselling author of OutlanderDiana Gabaldon mesmerized readers with her award-winning Outlander novels, four dazzling New York Times bestsellers featuring 18th-century Scotsman James Fraser and his 20th-...Read More
Publication Date: Aug 2005





During the rise of Nazism, Joe Kavalier escapes from Prague and immigrates to America, where he hopes to make enough money to bring the rest of his family with him....Read More
Publication Date: Aug 2001

Genre: Historical
ISBN13: 9780312282998
ISBN10: 0312282990
Pages: 656



During the rise of Nazism, Joe Kavalier escapes from Prague and immigrates to America, where he hopes to make enough money to bring the rest of his family with him....Read More
Publication Date: Aug 2001





by Ursula Hegi
Stones from the River' is a daring, dramatic and complex novel of life in Germany. It is set in Burgdorf, a small fictional German town, between 1915 and 1951. The...Read More
Publication Date: Mar 1997

Genre: Historical
ISBN13: 9780684844770
ISBN10: 068484477X
Pages: 528



by Ursula Hegi
Stones from the River' is a daring, dramatic and complex novel of life in Germany. It is set in Burgdorf, a small fictional German town, between 1915 and 1951. The...Read More
Publication Date: Mar 1997





by Ken Follett
On the release of The Pillars of the Earth Publishers Weekly extolled, 'Follett risks all and comes out a clear winner.' A departure for the bestselling thriller writer, the historical...Read More
Publication Date: Sep 2007

Genre: Historical
ISBN13: 9780451166890
ISBN10: 0451166892
Pages: 983



by Ken Follett
On the release of The Pillars of the Earth Publishers Weekly extolled, 'Follett risks all and comes out a clear winner.' A departure for the bestselling thriller writer, the historical...Read More
Publication Date: Sep 2007





by Jean M. Auel
Prehistoric couple Ayla and Jondalar, along with their animal entourage, abandon their isolated life and rejoin Jondalar's tribe, the Zelandonii. Ayla has trouble adjusting to Zelandonii ways, and some of...Read More
Publication Date: Jul 2003

Genre: Historical
ISBN13: 9780553289428
ISBN10: 055328942X
Pages: 895



by Jean M. Auel
Prehistoric couple Ayla and Jondalar, along with their animal entourage, abandon their isolated life and rejoin Jondalar's tribe, the Zelandonii. Ayla has trouble adjusting to Zelandonii ways, and some of...Read More
Publication Date: Jul 2003





by Jean M. Auel
Auel manages to make all her characters fascinating and for the most part convincing, no easy feat, since unlike the foundling Ayla they speak with hand gestures, make abstractions rarely,...Read More
Publication Date: Nov 1984

Genre: Historical
ISBN13: 9780553250428
ISBN10: 0553250426
Pages: 528



by Jean M. Auel
Auel manages to make all her characters fascinating and for the most part convincing, no easy feat, since unlike the foundling Ayla they speak with hand gestures, make abstractions rarely,...Read More
Publication Date: Nov 1984





by Ellis Peters
When Shrewsbury Castle falls during a war between King Stephen and the Empress Maud, Brother Caedfael makes another grim discovery--a strangled corpse lying among the dead--and vows to find the...Read More
Publication Date: Mar 1994

Genre: Historical
ISBN13: 9780446400510
ISBN10: 0446400513
Pages: 224



by Ellis Peters
When Shrewsbury Castle falls during a war between King Stephen and the Empress Maud, Brother Caedfael makes another grim discovery--a strangled corpse lying among the dead--and vows to find the...Read More
Publication Date: Mar 1994





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...Read More
Publication Date: Feb 2008

Genre: Historical
ISBN13: 9780425219256
ISBN10: 0425219259
Pages: 420



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...Read More
Publication Date: Feb 2008





by Karen Harper
Assigned as a lady in waiting to the queen of France, the sister Henry VIII, beautiful but sheltered Mary Boleyn is drawn into the treacherous secrets and illicit love affairs...Read More
Publication Date: Feb 2006

Genre: Historical
ISBN13: 9780307237903
ISBN10: 0307237907
Pages: 585



by Karen Harper
Assigned as a lady in waiting to the queen of France, the sister Henry VIII, beautiful but sheltered Mary Boleyn is drawn into the treacherous secrets and illicit love affairs...Read More
Publication Date: Feb 2006





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,...Read More
Publication Date: Aug 1999

Genre: Historical
ISBN13: 9780684856063
ISBN10: 0684856069
Pages: 448



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,...Read More
Publication Date: Aug 1999





by Alison Weir
I am now a condemned traitor . . . I am to die when I have hardly begun to live.Historical expertise marries page-turning fiction in Alison Weir’s enthralling debut novel,...Read More
Publication Date: Nov 2007

Genre: Historical
ISBN13: 9780345495341
ISBN10: 0345495349
Pages: 419



by Alison Weir
I am now a condemned traitor . . . I am to die when I have hardly begun to live.Historical expertise marries page-turning fiction in Alison Weir’s enthralling debut novel,...Read More
Publication Date: Nov 2007





Gregory Maguire's chilling, wonderful retelling of Cinderella is a study in contrasts. Love and hate, beauty and ugliness, cruelty and charity--each idea is stripped of its ethical trappings, smashed up...Read More
Publication Date: Oct 2000

Genre: Historical
ISBN13: 9780060987527
ISBN10: 0060987529
Co-Author: Bill Sanderson
Pages: 400



Gregory Maguire's chilling, wonderful retelling of Cinderella is a study in contrasts. Love and hate, beauty and ugliness, cruelty and charity--each idea is stripped of its ethical trappings, smashed up...Read More
Publication Date: Oct 2000





Hugh De Luc, an innkeeper barely able to keep his inn from the nobles who rule France, joins the Crusades in an attempt to get out from under the royal...Read More
Publication Date: Feb 2004

Genre: Historical
ISBN13: 9780446613842
ISBN10: 0446613843
Co-Author: Andrew Gross
Pages: 485



Hugh De Luc, an innkeeper barely able to keep his inn from the nobles who rule France, joins the Crusades in an attempt to get out from under the royal...Read More
Publication Date: Feb 2004





An Orphan raised in Valparaiso, Chile, by a Victorian spinster and her rigid brother, young, vivacious Eliza Sommers follows her lover to California during the Gold Rush of 1849. She...Read More
Publication Date: Sep 2000

Genre: Historical
ISBN13: 9780060932756
ISBN10: 0060932759
Co-Author: Margaret Sayers Peden
Pages: 399



An Orphan raised in Valparaiso, Chile, by a Victorian spinster and her rigid brother, young, vivacious Eliza Sommers follows her lover to California during the Gold Rush of 1849. She...Read More
Publication Date: Sep 2000





by Jean M. Auel
This novel of awesome beauty and power is a moving saga about people, relationships, and the boundaries of love. Through Jean M. Auel's magnificent storytelling we are taken back to...Read More
Publication Date: Jun 2002

Genre: Historical
ISBN13: 9780553381672
ISBN10: 0553381679
Pages: 480



by Jean M. Auel
This novel of awesome beauty and power is a moving saga about people, relationships, and the boundaries of love. Through Jean M. Auel's magnificent storytelling we are taken back to...Read More
Publication Date: Jun 2002





by John Shors
In seventeenth-century Hindustan, the reigning emperor, grieving over the death of his beloved wife, commissions the construction of the Taj Mahal as a monument to their lasting relationship, in an...Read More
Publication Date: Jun 2006

Genre: Historical
ISBN13: 9780451218469
ISBN10: 0451218469
Pages: 344



by John Shors
In seventeenth-century Hindustan, the reigning emperor, grieving over the death of his beloved wife, commissions the construction of the Taj Mahal as a monument to their lasting relationship, in an...Read More
Publication Date: Jun 2006





by Jean M. Auel
Ayla and Jondalar set forth into the land of the Mamutoi. Although Ayla finds warmth andfriendship, she must choose between Jondalarand Ranec as her mate.
Publication Date: Nov 1986

Genre: Historical
ISBN13: 9780553280944
ISBN10: 0553280945
Pages: 723



by Jean M. Auel
Ayla and Jondalar set forth into the land of the Mamutoi. Although Ayla finds warmth andfriendship, she must choose between Jondalarand Ranec as her mate.
Publication Date: Nov 1986





In 'Alias Grace, ' bestselling author Margaret Atwood has written her most captivating, disturbing, and ultimately satisfying work since 'The Handmaid's Tale.' She takes us back in time and into...Read More
Publication Date: Oct 1997

Genre: Historical
ISBN13: 9780385490443
ISBN10: 0385490445
Pages: 480



In 'Alias Grace, ' bestselling author Margaret Atwood has written her most captivating, disturbing, and ultimately satisfying work since 'The Handmaid's Tale.' She takes us back in time and into...Read More
Publication Date: Oct 1997

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