The Toymakers by Robert Dinsdale
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Category: Historical
Do you remember when you believed in magic?The Emporium opens with the first frost of winter. It is the same every year. Across the city, when children wake to see ferns of white stretched across their windows, or walk to school to hear ice crackling underfoot, the whispers begin- the Emporium is open! ...Show more
Jane Seymour, The Haunted Queen (#3 Six Tudor Queens) by Alison Weir
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Category: Historical | Series: Six Tudor Queens Ser. | Reading Level: very good
NEW Acclaimed author and historian Alison Weir continues her epic Six Tudor Queens series with this third captivating novel, which brings to life Jane Seymour, King Henry VIII's most cherished bride and mother of his only legitimate male heir. Ever since she was a child, Jane has longed for a cloi ...Show more
The Encircling Sea (Vindolanda #2) by Adrian Goldsworthy
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Category: Historical | Series: Vindolanda
AD 100: Flavius Ferox, Briton and Roman centurion, is finding it hard to keep the peace. Based at Vindolanda - an army fort on the northern frontier of Britannia and the entire Roman world - he feels the eyes of his enemies on him at all hours. Ambitious leaders sense a chance to carve out empires of t ...Show more
The Glovemaker by Ann Weisgarber
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Category: Historical | Reading Level: 1
For fans of Cold Mountain comes the story of a woman in Mormon country, from the author of The Promise and The Personal History of Rachel DuPree. In the inhospitable lands of the Utah Territory, during the winter of 1888, thirty-seven-year-old Deborah Tyler waits for her husband, Samuel, to return home ...Show more
Dignity by Alys Conran
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Category: Historical
'Beautiful' Claire Fuller, author of Bitter Orange 'Exquisite' Fiona McFarlane, author of The Night Guest 'Beguiling' Guinevere Glasfurd, author of The Words In My Hand 'An Indian household can no more be governed peacefully without dignity and prestige, than an Indian Empire' The Complete Indian House ...Show more
The Barbizon - The New York hotel that set women free by Paulina Bren
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Category: Historical | Reading Level: good-very good
Built in 1927, New York's Barbizon Hotel was first intended as a home for the 'Modern Woman' seeking a career in the arts. It became the place to stay for ambitious, independent women, who were lured by the promise of fame and good fortune. Sylvia Plath fictionalized her time there in The Bell Jar, and ...Show more
The Shadow King by Maaza Mengiste
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Category: Historical
Post-Ethiopia, 1935. With the threat of Mussolini's army looming, recently orphaned Hirut struggles to adapt to her new life as a maid. Her new employer, Kidane, an officer in Emperor Haile Selassie's army, rushes to mobilise his strongest men before the Italians invade. Hirut and the other women long t ...Show more
The Sweetness of Water by Nathan Harris
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Category: Historical | Reading Level: very good
What price do we pay for freedom? In the dying days of the American Civil War, newly freed brothers Landry and Prentiss find themselves cast into the world without a penny to their names. Forced to hide out in the woods near their former Georgia plantation, they're soon discovered by the land's owner, G ...Show more
Photos in the Attic - One War. Two Worlds. Three People in Love by Donna Fiechtner
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Category: Historical
Photos in the attic is an empowering love story set amongst the backdrop of war on the western front in France.Bill a young many from the country, answered the call to fight for his country, he and his best mate Jimmy joined up believing it would be a great adventure in a faraway land. Bill was also dri ...Show more
The Winter King: A Novel of Arthur by Bernard Cornwell
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Category: Historical | Series: Warlord Chronicles
In the dark ages, a legendary warrior struggles to unite Britain . . .
A Long Long Way by Sebastian Barry
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Category: Historical | Reading Level: very good
Praised as a "master storyteller" (The Wall Street Journal) and hailed for his "flawless use of language" (Boston Herald), Irish author and playwright Sebastian Barry has created a powerful new novel about divided loyalties and the realities of war. Sebastian Barry's latest novel, Days Without End, is ...Show more