by James Alexander Thom

Two centuries ago, with the support of the young Revolutionary government, George Robers Clark led a small but fierce army west from Virigina to conquer all the territory between the...Read More

Publication Date: Jun 1994

by Michael Shaara

Publication Date: May 1996

by Philippa Gregory

Intrigued by the ruined splendor of the Wideacre estate, Julia Lacey proceeds with her plans for its restoration and a romance with her cousin Richard, a course threatened by dark...Read More

Publication Date: Jul 2003

by Alison Weir

Following the tremendous success of her first novel, Innocent Traitor, which recounted the riveting tale of the doomed Lady Jane Grey, acclaimed historian and New York Times bestselling author Alison...Read More

Publication Date: Nov 2008

by Janis Cooke Newman

**DEBUT FICTION** Mary Todd Lincoln is one of history’s most misunderstood and enigmatic women. The first president’s wife to be called First Lady, she was a political strategist, a supporter of...Read More

Publication Date: Oct 2007

by Tasha Alexander

Accepting a dashing viscount's marriage proposal as part of a plan to escape her overbearing mother, Emily finds herself widowed early after her marriage and subsequently learns that her husband...Read More

Publication Date: Oct 2006

by Alexandra Ripley

In the sequel to Margaret Mitchell's classic novel, the reader returns to Tara, and to the legendary love affair of Scarlett and Rhett. Reprint.

Publication Date: Oct 1992

by Sarah Waters

Historical novelist Sarah Waters sets her fourth book in World War II-era London, which serves as a backdrop to the poignant intertwined stories of men and women looking for love,...Read More

Publication Date: Sep 2006

by Umberto Eco

Baudolino is an 11th-century adventurer who is relating his story to a historian. The events of his extravagant life include his early precocity, his adoption by the emperor Frederick Barbarossa,...Read More

Publication Date: Oct 2003

by Jeffery Deaver

This standalone historical thriller by the author of the Lincoln Rhyme series pits a mobster against the Third Reich. The government sets a trap for Paul Schumann, a German-American hitman...Read More

Publication Date: Feb 2005

by Robin Maxwell

...a riveting portrait of Elizabeth I as a romantic and vulnerable teenager, dangerously awakening to a perilous liaison with the wrong man. England, 1547: King Henry is dead. Elizabeth's half-brother,...Read More

Publication Date: Jul 2002

by Kathleen O'Neal Gear

Michael and Kathleen Gear, bestselling authors and award winning archaeologists are famous for writing novels about prehistoric America that are fast-paced, steeped in cultural detail, and smart. Here, in their...Read More

Publication Date: Jun 2004

by Anita Shreve

[P]leasantly atmospheric....Olympia leaps out in sharp focus from the first page, but the conscientiously tangled plodding and the muddle it provokes in her show the strain of transplanting a millennial...Read More

Publication Date: Jan 2001

by Maggie Anton

Rashi, one of the greatest Jewish scholars who ever lived, had no sons, only three daughters. Much has been written about Rashi and his grandsons, the Tosafot, but almost nothing...Read More

Publication Date: Jul 2007

by Margaret George

The New York Times bestseller-from Margaret George, author of Mary, Called Magdalene With her amazing ability to summon the voices of historical characters, Margaret George in Helen of Troy tells...Read More

Publication Date: Jun 2007

by Robert Hicks

A story based on the true experiences of a Civil War heroine finds Carrie McGavock witnessing the bloodshed of the Battle of Franklin, falling in love with a wounded man...Read More

Publication Date: Sep 2006

by Robert Alexander

Drawing from decades of work, travel, and research in Russia, Robert Alexander re-creates the tragic, perennially fascinating story of the final days of Nicholas and Alexandra as seen through the...Read More

Publication Date: Jan 2004

by Isabel Allende

In the early years of the conquest of the Americas, Inés Suárez, a seamstress condemned to a life of toil, flees Spain to seek adventure in the New World....Read More

Publication Date: Sep 2007

by Christina Schwarz

[A]n absorbing tale in which, remarkably, the suspense comes from the unfolding of its characters--people as complex and surprising as anyone you might actually know. Schwarz keeps her reader guessing...Read More

Publication Date: Jul 2001

by Sara Donati

In the American colonies in 1802, a half-Indian, half-European young woman named Hannah comes upon an injured runaway slave. She hides him and begins to nurse him back to health,...Read More

Publication Date: Apr 2003

by Michelle Moran

In ancient Egypt, a forgotten princess must overcome her family's past and remake history.The winds of change are blowing through Thebes. A devastating palace fire has killed the Eighteenth Dynasty's...Read More

Publication Date: Sep 2009

by Michel Faber

The panoramic novel takes place in the 1870s, and focuses on a writer named William Rackham who is married to the sickly, depressed Agnes but is so enamored of a...Read More

Publication Date: Sep 2003

by Emma Donoghue

An 18th-century young woman named Mary Saunders--apparently an actual person--yearns to be a prostitute because she likes their clothes and their independence. Steeped in period detail, the story explores the...Read More

Publication Date: May 2002

by Philippa Gregory

Whether he is nurturing a single rare seedling into a blossoming tree or planning acres of exquisitely conceived royal gardens, John Tradescant's fame and skill as a gardener are unsurpassed...Read More

Publication Date: May 2005

by Jack Whyte

The Eagles’ Brood continues the saga of the Colony known as Camulod, and the tale of the descendants of those brave Romans who forged a new way of life for...Read More

Publication Date: Jun 1998

by Philippa Gregory

The National BestsellerIn the autumn of 1558, church bells across England ring out the joyous news that Elizabeth I is the new queen. One woman hears the tidings with utter...Read More

Publication Date: Aug 2005

by Susan Holloway Scott

The acclaimed author of Duchess and Royal Harlot returns with the unforgettable story of a king's last love and London's darlingGǪBR>Nell Gwyn has never been a lady, nor does she...Read More

Publication Date: Jul 2008

by Colleen McCullough

Colleen McCullough sets this novel in Australia--the locale for her immensely popular THE THORN BIRDS--to tell the story of a happily married family man, a tavern-keeper in England, whose life...Read More

Publication Date: Jan 2002

by Philippa Gregory

In this book, originally published after her bestselling debut with the Wideacre trilogy, New York Times bestselling author Philippa Gregory takes readers to Henry VIII's England, on a journey to...Read More

Publication Date: May 2008

by Anne Perry

Anne Perry’s magnificent Victorian mysteries established her as one of the world’s best known and loved historical novelists. Now, in her vividly imagined World War I novels, Perry’s talents “have...Read More

Publication Date: Mar 2008