by Gore Vidal

Julian the Apostate was the nephew of Emperor Constantine the Great. Julian ascended to the throne in A.D. 361, at the age of twenty-nine, and was murdered four years later...Read More

Publication Date: Jan 1986

by Raymond Khoury

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Publication Date: Oct 2010

by Karen Essex

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Publication Date: Aug 2010

by Louise Marley

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Publication Date: Sep 2012

by Sadie Jones

One late spring evening in 1912, in the kitchens at Sterne, preparations begin for an elegant supper party in honor of Emerald Torrington's twentieth birthday. But only a few...Read More

Publication Date: Mar 2013

by Michael Lowenthal

Charity Girl examines a dark period in our history, when fear and patriotic fervor led to devastating consequences. During World War I, the U.S. government waged a moral and medical...Read More

Publication Date: Jan 2007

by Ken Follett

Ken Follett is known worldwide as the master of split-second suspense, but his most beloved and bestselling book tells the magnificent tale of a twelfth-century monk driven to do...Read More

Publication Date: Dec 2007

by John Shors

Thailand's pristine Ko Phi Phi island attracts tourists from around the world. There, struggling to make ends meet, small-resort owners Lek and Sarai are happy to give an American named...Read More

Publication Date: Sep 2011

by Lynn Shepherd

"Nobody, I believe, has ever found it possible to like the heroine of Mansfield Park." --Lionel TrillingIn this ingenious new twist on Mansfield Park, the famously meek Fanny Price--whom Jane Austen's own mother...Read More

Publication Date: Jul 2010

by Isabel/ Peden, Margaret Sayers Allende

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Publication Date: Oct 1999

by Amanda Quick

Evangeline Ames has rented a country cottage far from the London streets where she was recently attacked. Fascinated by the paranormal energy of nearby Crystal Gardens, she finds pleasure in...Read More

Publication Date: Apr 2012

by Bernard Cornwell

Whatever the period, count on Cornwell to serve up the details on which verisimilitude thrives. Lots of that here, maybe more than required, but it's a sturdy story, too--an ancient...Read More

Publication Date: Dec 2004

by James Alexander Thom

" Thom shows how, in honest, capable hands, fictionalized biography can add verisimilitude to the life and times of this extraordinary America....The dialogue has the ring of reality about it....Thom...Read More

Publication Date: Feb 1990

by James Welch

From the award-winning author of the Native American classic Fools Crow,' 'a richly crafted novel of cultural crossing that is a triumph of storytelling and the historical imagination. Charging Elk,...Read More

Publication Date: Oct 2001

by Katherine Howe

Katherine Howe, author of the phenomenal New York Times bestseller The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane, returns with an entrancing historical novel set in Boston in 1915, where a young...Read More

Publication Date: Jan 2013

by Bernard Cornwell

As Napoleon threatens to crush Britain on the battlefield, Lt. Col. Richard Sharpe leads a ragtag army to exact personal revenge against a French general known for his acts of...Read More

Publication Date: Dec 2003

by Laura Moriarty

Publication Date: Jun 2012

by Catherine Delors

From the author of the critically acclaimed Mistress of the Revolution comes a spellbinding historical thriller set in post- revolutionary Paris. For her first novel, Mistress of the Revolution, which...Read More

Publication Date: Jul 2010

by Adriana Trigiani

Publication Date: Dec 2012

by Jeanne Kalogridis

The year is 1357. The Inquisition rages throughout medieval France, searching ruthlessly for heretics. In an epic tale of passion, mystery, and unspeakable danger, one woman faces the flames...and triumphs.Mother...Read More

Publication Date: Mar 2002

by Lauren Willig

Despite her dear friend Jane Austen's warning against teaching, Arabella Dempsey accepts a position at a girls' school in Bath, just before Christmas. She hardly imagines coming face-to-face with French...Read More

Publication Date: Nov 2011

by Colleen McCullough

His victories were legend -- in battle and bedchamber alike. Love was a political weapon he wielded cunningly and ruthlessly in his private war against enemies in the forum. Genius,...Read More

Publication Date: Feb 1997

by Alan Bradley

From award-winning author Alan Bradley comes the next cozy British mystery starring intrepid young sleuth Flavia de Luce, hailed by USA Today as "one of the most remarkable creations in...Read More

Publication Date: Feb 2013

by Selden Edwards

Thirty years in the writing, Selden Edwards's dazzling first novel is an irresistible triumph of the imagination. Wheeler BurdenG''banking heir, philosopher, student of history, legend's son, rock idol, writer, lover,...Read More

Publication Date: May 2009

by Alan Furst

As in THE WORLD AT NIGHT, Furst proves himself a master at capturing the bleak and mean mood of wartime Paris....Furst tries to boost the story's credibility by having his...Read More

Publication Date: Jan 2002

by Daniel Peters

Publication Date: Aug 1991

by Jennifer Haigh

A stunning follow-up to her bestselling debut,Mrs. Kimble, Jennifer Haigh returns withBaker Towers, a compelling story of love and lossin a western Pennsylvania mining town inthe years after World War...Read More

Publication Date: Feb 2006

by Philippa Gregory

THREE WOMEN WHO SHARE ONE FATE: THE BOLEYN INHERITANCEANNE OF CLEVESShe runs from her tiny country, her hateful mother, and her abusive brother to a throne whose last three occupants...Read More

Publication Date: Dec 2006

by Robin Adair

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Publication Date: Dec 2010

by Anne Perry

Publication Date: Jan 2011