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By: Peter Ackroyd

ISBN: 9780099492757
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2007
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Sophia Chrysanthis is initially dazzled when the celebrated German archaeologist, Herr Obermann, comes in search of a Greek bride who can read the works of Homer and assist in his excavations of the city he believes is Ancient Troy.


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By: Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

ISBN: 9780751537710
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2011
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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Continuing the addictive saga of the Morland family, now with its many branches spread across the Empire and the new world.


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By: Anne Rice

ISBN: 9780099269472
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 1998
UK Publication Date: 4th December 1997
Publisher: Cornerstone
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Amongst the waterfronts, the slave markets and the gilded ballrooms lived a unique people, descended from African Slavves and from the French and Spanish who had enslaved them. They were the gens de coleur libre - the Free People of Colour - fierce and proud, neither black nor white, but caught between the two, free yet not free.


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By: Jennifer McVeigh

ISBN: 9780670920907
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2013
UK Publication Date: 3rd January 2013
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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South Africa - a land torn apart by greed... Frances Irvine, left penniless after her father's sudden death, is forced to emigrate to the Cape. In this barren country, she meets two very different men - one driven by ambition, the other by ideals.


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By: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

ISBN: 9781860460906
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2002
UK Publication Date: 4th August 1988
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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At the height of Stalin's postwar terror, Innokenty, a young diplomat and scion of a corrupt ruling class, discovers an earlier and more spiritual tradition than that adopted by the October Revolution, the beginning of a process which is Solzhenitsyn's basic theme: the individual's experience of acquiring an immortal soul.


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By: Lloyd Jones

ISBN: 9780143776895
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2022
Publisher: Penguin Group (NZ)
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By: Karen Roberts

ISBN: 9780375706813
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2001
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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By: Elizabeth Loupas

ISBN: 9780099571520
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2013
Publisher: Cornerstone
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With her dying breath, Mary of Guise entrusts a silver casket containing explosive secret papers to the young Scottish heiress, Rinette Leslie. She makes Rinette promise to keep the casket hidden and only to give it to Mary, Queen of Scots, on her way home from France to ascend the throne.


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By: Susan Crandall

ISBN: 9781476772165
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2016
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
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By: Jean Plaidy

ISBN: 9780099510291
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2008
UK Publication Date: 7th February 2008
Publisher: Cornerstone
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Edward the Second's first act on coming to the throne is to recall Piers Gaveston from exile, and the new king's devotion to the shrewd and avaricious young man soon becomes a scandal.


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By: Susan Vreeland

ISBN: 9780143034308
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2004
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
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Vreeland's third novel focuses on the courageous Canadian painter Emily Carr, who blazed a path for modern women by overcoming the confines of Victorian culture. Carr traveled through native villages and wilderness of British Columbia in the early 1900s, often alone, on a quest to paint totem poles and other artifacts before the indigenous traditions died out and the poles were destroyed or sold.


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By: Ben DeSantis

ISBN: 9781483598116
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2017
Publisher: BookBaby
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By: Barbara Ewing

ISBN: 9780751540949
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2010
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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A captivating, rich historical novel set in eighteenth-century London


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By: Tricia Wastvedt

ISBN: 9780670919437
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2012
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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In 1947, Elisabeth Mander's German nephew comes to stay: Stefan Landau, her dead sister's teenage son, whom she hates and loves before she's even set eyes on him. Orphaned by the war and traumatised by the last, vicious battles of the Hitler Youth, Stefan brings with him to England only a few meagre possessions.


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By: Daryl J. Lukas

ISBN: 9781098381233
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2022
Publisher: BookBaby
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In its truest sense, The Ghost of Put-In-Bay is a story of redemption. "Old Joe" Stachowiak, an alcoholic dying of cancer, returns to his favorite place on earth to live out his final days. As the summer goes by, he meets and gradually befriends some workers on the island who help him to rediscover the meaning in his life.


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By: Irma Joubert

ISBN: 9780529102379
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2015
Publisher: Thomas Nelson Publishers
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Six-year-old Gretl Schmidt is on a train bound for Auschwitz. Jakb Kowalski is planting a bomb on the tracks.


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By: Sarah Gristwood

ISBN: 9780007379057
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2012
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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Entrancing, compelling, and beautifully writtena fabulous novel, bursting with integrity and authenticity, vividly eboking the court of Elizabeth II feel I know the characters and was mesmerised by their story. This is the historical novel as literary fiction and damned good literary fiction at that. Alison Weir


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By: Gore Vidal

ISBN: 9780375724817
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2001
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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The final volume in Vidal's celebrated and bestselling series of "American Chronicle" novels is a unique pageant of the American experience from the U.S. entry in World War II to the end of the Korean War. A "New York Times" Notable Book.


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By: Ursula Werner

ISBN: 9781501147586
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2018
Publisher: Atria Books
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By: William Palmer

ISBN: 9780099584322
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2013
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Opening in 1939, this novel spans 50 years and depicts the central character's life as a political emigre in a run down part of London. He is invited to return to his home city by the renascent nationalist movement where he learns the price of remaining an "innocent" in history.


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By: Nodira Najmiddinova

ISBN: 9798350938654
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2024
Publisher: BookBaby
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By: Jean Plaidy

ISBN: 9780099510284
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2008
UK Publication Date: 7th February 2008
Publisher: Cornerstone
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The news of Henry III's death reached his son Edward on the long road home from the Holy Land.

Through all the years of his reign, through stark personal tragedy and chill forebodings as his son grew into a weak, corrupted price, Edward I strove to weld a nation united from England, Scotland and Wales.


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By: Roberta Rich

ISBN: 9780091944919
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2015
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
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If there ever was a time when the Empire required a male heir it was now.

In the opulent royal palace of Murat III, on the shores of Constantinople, midwife Hannah Levi is charged with ensuring the Sultans harem provides him with a male heir.


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By: Boyd Anderson

ISBN: 9780857981608
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2014
Publisher: Random House Australia
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