Category: *Hardback - Historical Fiction

For readers of The Paris Wife and The Swans of Fifth Avenue comes a "sensuous, captivating account of a forbidden affair between two women" (People)--Eleanor Roosevelt and "first friend" Lorena Hickok.

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Financial Times - San Francisco Chronicle - New York Public Library - Refinery29 - Real Simple

Lorena Hickok meets Eleanor Roosevelt in 1932 while reporting on Franklin Roosevelt's first presidential campaign. Having grown up worse than poor in South Dakota and reinvented herself as...
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Three Day Road

By: Boyden, Joseph

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Viking Adult: May 2005

Seller ID: 111119

ISBN: 0670034312

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Set in Canada and the battlefields of France and Belgium, Three-Day Road is a mesmerizing novel told through the eyes of Niskaaa Canadian Oji-Cree woman living off the land who is the last of a line of healers and divinersaand her nephew Xavier.

At the urging of his friend Elijah, a Cree boy raised in reserve schools, Xavier joins the war effort. Shipped off to Europe when they are nineteen, the boys are marginalized from the Canadian soldiers not only by their native appearance but also by the fine marksmanship that years of hunting in the bush has taught them. Both become snipers renowne...
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The House of Dreams: A Novel

By: Brown, Kate Lord

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books: May 2016

Seller ID: 104722

ISBN: 1250084539

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

In 2000, Sophie Cass, an ambitious journalist, may have finally found her big break. Convinced a celebrated painter in the Hamptons is hiding a dark secret, she sets off to unravel the truth about his past. Her research takes her back decades to 1940, as an international group of artists and intellectuals gather at The House of Dreams, a beautiful villa just outside Marseilles where American journalist Varian Fry and his remarkable team are working to help them escape France. Despite the incredible danger they all face, The House of Dreams is a place of true camaraderie and creativity--and ...
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The Pirate's Daughter

By: Cezair-Thompson, Margaret

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Unbridled Books: October 2007

Seller ID: 135202

ISBN: 1932961402

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

"Back in America, little was known of my life in Jamaica," wrote Errol Flynn.

In 1946, a storm-wrecked boat carrying Hollywood's most famous swashbuckler shored up on the coast of Jamaica, and the glamorous world of 1940's Hollywood converged with that of a small West Indian society. After a long and storied career on the silver screen, Errol Flynn spent much of the last years of his life on a small island off of Jamaica, throwing parties and sleeping with increasingly younger teenaged girls. Based on those years, The Pirate's Daughter is the story of Ida, a local girl who has an affair wi...
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The Lady and the Unicorn

By: Chevalier, Tracy

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Dutton Adult: January 2004

Seller ID: 120588

ISBN: 0525947671

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Bewitching art experts and enthusiasts alike for centuries, the Lady and the Unicorn tapestries hang today in the Cluny Museum in Paris.

In each, an elegant lady and a unicorn stand or sit on an island of grass surrounded by a rich background of animals and flowers. Little is known about them except that they were woven toward the end of the fifteenth century and bear the coat of arms of a wealthy family from Lyons.

Tracy Chevalier takes readers back to the tapestriesa creation, giving life to the men who designed and made them, as well as the wives, daughters, and servants who exercis...
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Whirlwind

By: Clavell, James

Price: $5.00

Publisher: William Morrow & Co: November 1986

Seller ID: 126902

ISBN: 0688066631

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The Spy: A novel

By: Coelho, Paulo

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Knopf: November 2016

Seller ID: 119565

ISBN: 1524732060

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

In his new novel, Paulo Coelho, bestselling author of The Alchemist and Adultery, brings to life one of history's most enigmatic women: Mata Hari.

HER ONLY CRIME WAS TO BE AN INDEPENDENT WOMAN

When Mata Hari arrived in Paris she was penniless. Within months she was the most celebrated woman in the city.

As a dancer, she shocked and delighted audiences; as a courtesan, she bewitched the era's richest and most powerful men.

But as paranoia consumed a country at war, Mata Hari's lifestyle brought her under suspicion. In 1917, she was arrested in her hotel ...
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The Flame Bearer (Saxon Tales)

By: Cornwell, Bernard

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Harper: November 2016

Seller ID: 130269

ISBN: 0062250787

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The tenth installment of Bernard Cornwell's New York Times bestselling series chronicling the epic saga of the making of England, "like Game of Thrones, but real" (The Observer, London)--the basis for The Last Kingdom, the hit television series.

Britain is in a state of uneasy peace. Northumbria's Viking ruler, Sigtryggr, and Mercia's Saxon Queen Aethelflaed have agreed a truce. And so England's greatest warrior, Uhtred of Bebbanburg, at last has the chance to take back the home his traitorous uncle stole from him so many ye...
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Rebel (The Starbuck Chronicles, Vol. 1)

By: Cornwell, Bernard

Price: $5.00

Publisher: HarperCollins: February 1993

Seller ID: 137497

ISBN: 0060177136

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The Bloody Ground (The Starbuck Chronicles, Book 4)

By: Cornwell, Bernard

Price: $5.00

Publisher: HarperCollins: January 1996

Seller ID: 137498

ISBN: 0060175001

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The fourth volume in the popular and acclaimed Civil War series continues the adventures of the renegade Northerner Nate Starbuck. When Nate is given command of a Confederate punishment battalion and ordered to lead its motley collection of cowards, thieves, deserters, and murderers into battle, the badly equipped force becomes part of the Confederacy's first invasion of the Northern states at Antietam.
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Copperhead (Starbuck Chronicles)

By: Cornwell, Bernard

Price: $5.00

Publisher: HarperCollins: January 1994

Seller ID: 137499

ISBN: 0060177667

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

It is the summer of 1862 and the Northern army has invaded Virginia. The South's leading general has been wounded and replaced by Robert E. Lee, who leads his men into a series of desperate engagements in an effort to turn back the Yankee forces. Nate Starbuck is accused of espionage.
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Battle Flag (The Starbuck Chronicles, Book 3)

By: Cornwell, Bernard

Price: $5.00

Publisher: HarperCollins: February 1995

Seller ID: 137500

ISBN: 0060176342

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

In this third book of the bestselling Starbuck Chronicles, Nate Starbuck faces a supreme test of courage and leadership on the battlefield of Second Manassas. Bernard Cornwell uses true life characters and battles to make his fiction amazingly entertaining and realistic.
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Tomorrow: The spellbinding historical tale for readers who love The Night Circus and The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock

By: Damian Dibben (author)

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Michael Joseph Ltd: May 2018

Seller ID: 109882

ISBN: 0718183894

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

By: Gonzalez, Bea

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books: August 2007

Seller ID: 92936

ISBN: 0312364660

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

IN A TOWN IN THE HEART OF LA MANCHA, home to Don Quijote and his windmills, the Clemente family lived for centuries, their fortunes tied to those of a plant... So begins the grand tale that is The Mapmaker's Opera. Born in Seville, Spain to a dishonored governess, a young Diego Clemente finds solace in the world of books, in particular John James Audubon's Birds of America. Mesmerized by the wondrous images in Audobon's magnificent volume, he longs to travel to the New World to find his destiny and see these amazing creatures for himself. When renowned American naturalist Edward Nelson enlists...
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The Chandler Heritage

By: Haas, Ben

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Simon and Schuster: January 1971

Seller ID: 132408

ISBN: 0671210068

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Baker Towers

By: Haigh, Jennifer

Price: $5.00

Publisher: William Morrow: January 2005

Seller ID: 111786

ISBN: 0060509414

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

A stunning follow-up to her bestselling debut,
Mrs. Kimble, Jennifer Haigh returns with
Baker Towers, a compelling story of love and loss
in a western Pennsylvania mining town in
the years after World War II

Bakerton is a company town built on coal, a town of church festivals and ethnic neighborhoods, hunters' breakfasts and firemen's parades. Its children are raised in company houses -- three rooms upstairs, three rooms downstairs. Its ball club leads the coal company league. The twelve Baker mines offer good union jobs, and the looming black piles...
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When the Elephants Dance: A Novel

By: Holthe, Tess Uriza

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Crown: January 2002

Seller ID: 72950

ISBN: 0609609521

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The Fatal Shore

By: Hughes, Robert

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Knopf: December 1986

Seller ID: 129280

ISBN: 0394506685

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Genghis: Bones of the Hills (The Conqueror Series)

By: Iggulden, Conn

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Delacorte Press: March 2009

Seller ID: 118704

ISBN: 0385339534

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

From the author of the bestselling "The Dangerous Book for Boys"
From Conn Iggulden, #1 bestselling author of six historical epics and coauthor of the international sensation" The Dangerous Book for Boys, "comes a magnificent new work of fiction. Here, the Mongol conqueror Genghis Khan, stalked by enemies seen and unseen and plagued by a divided family, leads a sprawling force of horsemen beyond the realm of their known world. He will bring a storm to Arab lands and face the armies of the shah in all their strength.
From the fierce cold plains of Mongolia to the Korean Peninsula, Gen...
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The Road Taken

By: Jaffe, Rona

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Dutton Adult: July 2000

Seller ID: 115003

ISBN: 0525944745

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

In this latest sweeping woman's saga from Rona Jaffe, the focus of the story is on Rose Smith and her family. Born in 1900, Rose is the witness to all the dramatic changes that occur in 20th century America. After she loses her ailing mother at the age of ten, Rose is raised primarily by her father, her older sister and brother, and her new stepmother. The reader is caught up in the history of the era, as the book vividly describes what is going on politically as well as economically and socially throughout this century. We hear the music that is playing, see men go off to war, and see women g...
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Tall One

By: jefferis, barbara

Price: $5.00

Publisher: William Morrow: January 1977

Seller ID: 132409

ISBN: 0575023090

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

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Category: *Hardback - Historical Fiction