Category: *Hardback - Historical Fiction

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

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

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

Tomorrow: The spellbinding historical tale for readers who love The Night Circus and The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock

By: Damian Dibben (author)

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Michael Joseph Ltd: May 2018

Seller ID: 109882

ISBN: 0718183894

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The March: A Novel

By: Doctorow, E.L.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Random House: September 2005

Seller ID: 133961

ISBN: 0375506713

Condition: Used - Good

In 1864, after Union general William Tecumseh Sherman burned Atlanta, he marched his sixty thousand troops east through Georgia to the sea, and then up into the Carolinas. The army fought off Confederate forces and lived off the land, pillaging the Southern plantations, taking cattle and crops for their own, demolishing cities, and accumulating a borne-along population of freed blacks and white refugees until all that remained was the dangerous transient life of the uprooted, the dispossessed, and the triumphant. Only a master novelist could so powerfully and compassionately render the lives o...
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Sacred Hearts: A Novel

By: Dunant, Sarah

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Random House: July 2009

Seller ID: 87817

ISBN: 1400063825

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The year is 1570, and in the convent of Santa Caterina, in the Italian city of Ferrara, noblewomen find space to pursue their lives under God's protection. But any community, however smoothly run, suffers tremors when it takes in someone by force. And the arrival of Santa Caterina's new novice setsin motion a chain of events that will shake the convent to its core. Ripped by her family from an illicit love affair, sixteen-year-old Serafina is willful, emotional, sharp, and defiant-young enough to have a life to look forward to and old enough to know when that life is being cut short. Her f...
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The Birth of Venus

By: Dunant, Sarah

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Random House: February 2004

Seller ID: 108246

ISBN: 1400060737

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

In the Company of the Courtesan: A Novel

By: Dunant, Sarah

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Random House: February 2006

Seller ID: 132181

ISBN: 1400063817

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

My lady, Fiammetta Bianchini, was plucking her eyebrows and biting color into her lips when the unthinkable happened and the Holy Roman Emperor's army blew a hole in the wall of God's eternal city, letting in a flood of half-starved, half-crazed troops bent on pillage and punishment.""Thus begins In the Company of the Courtesan, Sarah Dunant's epic novel of life in Renaissance Italy. Escaping the sack of Rome in 1527, with their stomachs churning on the jewels they have swallowed, the courtesan Fiammetta and her dwarf companion, Bucino, head for Venice, the shimmering city born out of ...
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Baudolino

By: Eco, Umberto

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Harcourt: October 2002

Seller ID: 133891

ISBN: 0151006903

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

It is April 1204, and Constantinople, the splendid capital of the Byzantine Empire, is being sacked and burned by the knights of the Fourth Crusade. Amid the carnage and confusion, one Baudolino saves a historian and high court official from certain death at the hands of the crusading warriors and proceeds to tell his own fantastical story. Born a simple peasant in northern Italy, Baudolino has two major gifts--a talent for learning languages and a skill in telling lies. When still a boy he meets a foreign commander in the woods, charming him with his quick wit and lively mind. The command...
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The Favored Queen: A Novel of Henry VIII's Third Wife

By: Erickson, Carolly

Price: $5.00

Publisher: St. Martin's Press: September 2011

Seller ID: 104593

ISBN: 0312596901

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

"From" The New York Times "bestselling author of" The Last Wife of Henry VIII "comes a powerful and moving novel about Jane Seymour, third wife of Henry VIII, who married him only days after the execution of Anne Boleyn and ultimately lost her own life in giving him the son he badly needed to guarantee the Tudor succession "Born into an ambitious noble family, young Jane Seymour is sent to Court as a Maid of Honor to Catherine of Aragon, Henry VIII's aging queen. She is devoted to her mistress and watches with empathy as the calculating Anne Boleyn contrives to supplant her as queen. Anne'...
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Grant Comes East

By: Gingrich, Newt, R., William Forstchen

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books: June 2004

Seller ID: 128990

ISBN: 0312309376

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

"Grant Comes East," the second book in the bestselling series by Newt Gingrich and William R. Forstchen, continues the story of a Confederate victory at Gettysburg. The first book examined the great "what if" of American history: Could Lee have won the Battle of Gettysburg? A Confederate victory, however, would not necessarily mean that the Southern cause has gained its final triumph and a lasting peace. It is from this departure point that the story continues in "Grant Comes East," as General Robert E. Lee marches on Washington, DC, and launches an assault against one of the largest fortifica...
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The Mapmaker's Opera

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 Americannaturalist Edward N...
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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 withBaker Towers, a compelling story of love and lossin a western Pennsylvania mining town inthe years after World War IIBakerton 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 of mine dirt don't bother anyone. Called Bake...
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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

Aztec

By: Jennings, Gary

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Atheneum: October 1980

Seller ID: 114285

ISBN: 0689110456

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Aztec Fire

By: Jennings, Gary, Gleason, Robert, Podrug, Junius

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Forge Books: August 2008

Seller ID: 51940

ISBN: 0765317036

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The Aztec uprising in 1810 left young Juan Martez orphaned in a savage land. Like many native Aztecs, Juan was sentenced to hang by the Spanish. But his life is spared when a Spanish gunmaker learns of his skills with gunpowder and buys him to make munitions. Keeping his Aztec heritage low key, Juan becomes the finest gunmaker in the colony--and the best shot. But both talents are kept secret--if the Spanish knew of his skills, he would surely be killed. Juan secretly works the Mexican underground, running guns and black powder to guerrilla forces fighting for independence. Along the way he fa...
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The Forgotten Legion (The Forgotten Legion Chronicles)

By: Kane, Ben

Price: $5.00

Publisher: St. Martin's Press: March 2009

Seller ID: 118707

ISBN: 0312536712

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Set in the late Roman Republic, in the first century B.C.E., "The Forgotten Legion" is a tale of the greatest empire of the ancient world from the perspective of those on the lowest rungs of its society. Romulus and Fabiola are twins, born into slavery to a enslaved mother who is much beloved by them, and much abused by their owner. At 13 years old, they and their mother are sold: Romulus to gladiator school, Fabiola into prostitution, where she will catch the eye of one of the most powerful men in Rome, and their mother into obscurity and death in the salt mines. Tarquinius is an Etrus...
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Roscoe

By: Kennedy, William

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Viking Penguin: January 2002

Seller ID: 24833

ISBN: 0670030295

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

You've never met a politician like Roscoe (or have you?): a suave Falstaffian in a double-breasted white Palm Beach suit, unscrupulous, brilliant, exploding with courtly romance. It's V-J Day, the war's over, and Roscoe, after twenty-six years as chief braintruster of Albany's notorious political machine, decides to quit politics forever. But there's no exit, only new political wars, mysterious death, self-destructive party feuds, and scandalous threats to his beloved and her family. Roscoe, the chivalrous warrior, turns his own life, and everybody else's, inside out to cope with the erup...
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Quinn's Book

By: Kennedy, William

Price: $5.00

Publisher: The Viking Press: May 1988

Seller ID: 92088

ISBN: 0670804371

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

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Category: *Hardback - Historical Fiction