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America's First Daughter: A Novel
- ASIN: 0062347268
- ISBN: 0062347268
- Brand: William Morrow Co
- Manufacturer: William Morrow Paperbacks
THE NEW YORK TIMES & USA TODAY BESTSELLERIn a compelling, richly researched novel that draws from thousands of letters and original sources, bestselling authors Stephanie Dray and Laura Kamoie tell the fascinating, untold story of Thomas Jefferson's eldest daughter, Martha "Patsy" Jefferson Randolph--a woman who kept the secrets of our most enigm... [Read More]
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The King's Mercy: A Novel
- ASIN: 1601429967
- ISBN: 1601429967
- Brand: WaterBrook Press
- Manufacturer: WaterBrook
For readers of Sara Donati and Diana Gabaldon, this epic historical romance tells of fateful love between an indentured Scotsman and a daughter of the 18th century colonial south.When captured rebel Scotsman Alex MacKinnon is granted the king's mercy--exile to the Colony of North Carolina--he's indentured to Englishman Edmund Carey as a blacksmith.... [Read More]
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Outlander
- ASIN: 0440212561
- ISBN: 0440212561
- Manufacturer: Dell
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The Book of Night Women
- ASIN: 1594484368
- ISBN: 1594484368
- Brand: Brand: Riverhead
- Manufacturer: Riverhead Books
From the author of Black Leopard, Red Wolf and the WINNER of the 2015 Man Booker Prize for A Brief History of Seven Killings "An undeniable success.” — The New York Times Book Review A true triumph of voice and storytelling, The Book of Night Women rings with both profound authenticity and a distinctly contemporary energy. It is the story of L... [Read More]
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Voyager (Outlander, Book 3)
- ASIN: B000FC2L1E
- Manufacturer: Dell
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The Rise of the Novel: Studies in Defoe, Richardson and Fielding
- ASIN: 0520230698
- ISBN: 0520230698
- Manufacturer: University of California Press
The Rise of the Novel is Ian Watt's classic description of the interworkings of social conditions, changing attitudes, and literary practices during the period when the novel emerged as the dominant literary form of the individualist era.In a new foreword, W. B. Carnochan accounts for the increasing interest in the English novel, including the cont... [Read More]
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The Book of Speculation: A Novel
- ASIN: B00QQ450BI
- Manufacturer: St. Martin's Press
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The Many Deaths of Jew Süss: The Notorious Trial and Execution of an Eighteenth-Century Court Jew
- ASIN: 0691172323
- ISBN: 0691172323
- Brand: Princeton University Press
- Manufacturer: Princeton University Press
A groundbreaking historical reexamination of one of the most infamous episodes in the history of anti-SemitismJoseph Süss Oppenheimer―"Jew Süss"―is one of the most iconic figures in the history of anti-Semitism. In 1733, Oppenheimer became the "court Jew" of Carl Alexander, the duke of the small German state of Württemberg. When Carl Alexand... [Read More]
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The Ragged Edge of Night
- ASIN: B078JG8M8P
- Manufacturer: Lake Union Publishing
For fans of All the Light We Cannot See, Beneath a Scarlet Sky, and The Nightingale comes an emotionally gripping, beautifully written historical novel about extraordinary hope, redemption, and one man’s search for light during the darkest times of World War II.Germany, 1942. Franciscan friar Anton Starzmann is stripped of his place in the world ... [Read More]
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Place Called Freedom
- ASIN: 0449225151
- ISBN: 9780449225158
- Brand: Follett, Ken
- Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
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Henry James : Novels 1886-1890: The Princess Casamassima, The Reverberator, The Tragic Muse (Library of America)
- ASIN: 0940450569
- ISBN: 0940450569
- Manufacturer: Library of America
The three novels in this Library of America volume from Henry James’s middle period explore some historical and social dilemmas that belong as much to our time as to his own. The Princess Casamassima was published in 1886, a year that saw riots of the unemployed in London. It is a political novel in which anarchists and terrorists conspire with... [Read More]
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Master and Commander (Vol. Book 1) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels)
- ASIN: B006C3Q6GG
- Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company
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The Floating Brothel: The Extraordinary True Story of an Eighteenth-Century Ship and Its Cargo of Female Convicts
- ASIN: 0786886749
- ISBN: 0786886749
- Brand: Brand: Hyperion
- Manufacturer: Hachette Books
Now in paperback, the incredible true story of a shipload of "disorderly girls" and the men who transported them, fell for them, and sold them.This riveting work of rediscovered history tells for the first time the plight of the female convicts aboard the Lady Julian, which set sail from England in 1789 and arrived in Australia's Sydney Cove a year... [Read More]
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The Way of All Flesh (Modern Library 100 Best Novels)
- ASIN: 0375752498
- ISBN: 0375752498
- Brand: Butler, Samuel
- Manufacturer: Modern Library
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all timeThe Way of All Flesh is one of the time-bombs of literature," said V. S. Pritchett. "One thinks of it lying in Samuel Butler's desk for thirty years, waiting to blow up the Victorian family and with it the whole great pillared and balustraded edifice of the Victorian novel." �... [Read More]
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The Anatomist's Apprentice (Dr. Thomas Silkstone Mystery)
- ASIN: 0758266987
- ISBN: 9780758266989
- Manufacturer: Kensington
In the first in a stunning new mystery series set in eighteenth-century England, Tessa Harris introduces Dr. Thomas Silkstone, anatomist and pioneering forensic detective. . .The death of Sir Edward Crick has unleashed a torrent of gossip through the seedy taverns and elegant ballrooms of Oxfordshire. Few mourn the dissolute young man--except his s... [Read More]
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The Signature of All Things: A Novel
- ASIN: B00BPDR3F6
- Manufacturer: Riverhead Books
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Written in My Own Heart's Blood: A Novel (Outlander)
- ASIN: 110188424X
- ISBN: 110188424X
- Brand: Ingramcontent
- Manufacturer: Dell
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY BOOKLISTIn her now classic novel Outlander, Diana Gabaldon told the story of Claire Randall, an English ex-combat nurse who walks through a stone circle in the Scottish Highlands in 1946, and disappears . . . into 1743. The story unfolded from there in seven bestselling no... [Read More]
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The Rose Without a Thorn: The Wives of Henry VIII
- ASIN: 0609810170
- ISBN: 0609810170
- Manufacturer: Broadway Books
From the pen of legendary historical novelist Jean Plaidy comes an unforgettable true story of royalty, passion, and innocence lost. Born into an impoverished branch of the noble Howard family, young Katherine is plucked from her home to live with her grandmother, the Duchess of Norfolk. The innocent girl quickly learns that her grandmother’s p... [Read More]
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The Midwife's Revolt
- ASIN: 1477828001
- ISBN: 9781477828007
- Brand: Lake Union Publishing
- Manufacturer: Lake Union Publishing
On a dark night in 1775, Lizzie Boylston is awakened by the sound of cannons. From a hill south of Boston, she watches as fires burn in Charlestown, in a battle that she soon discovers has claimed her husband’s life.Alone in a new town, Lizzie grieves privately but takes comfort in her deepening friendship with Abigail Adams. Soon, word spreads o... [Read More]
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These Truths: A History of the United States
- ASIN: B07BLKWBYT
- Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company
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