Category: *Historical Fiction

The Shelters of Stone opens as Ayla and Jondalar, along with their animal friends, Wolf, Whinney, and Racer, complete their epic journey across Europe and are greeted by Jondalar's people: the Zelandonii. The people of the Ninth Cave of the Zelandonii fascinate Ayla. Their clothes, customs, artifacts, even their homes--formed in great cliffs of vertical limestone--are a source of wonder to her. And in the woman Zelandoni, the spiritual leader of the Ninth Cave (and the one who initiated Jondalar into the Gift of Pleasure), she meets a fellow healer with whom to share her knowledge and skills. ...
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The Mammoth Hunters (Earth's Children, Book Three)

By: Auel, Jean M.

Price: $4.50

Publisher: Bantam: June 1991

Seller ID: 134698

ISBN: 0553280945

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The Clan of the Cave Bear (Earth's Children, Book One)

By: Auel, Jean M.

Price: $4.50

Publisher: Bantam Books: July 1997

Seller ID: 134700

ISBN: 0553250426

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The Alienist

By: Carr, Caleb

Price: $3.50

Publisher: Bantam: August 1996

Seller ID: 133924

ISBN: 0553572997

Condition: Used - Good

The year is 1896, the place, New York City. On a cold March night "New York Times" reporter John Schuyler Moore is summoned to the East River by his friend and former Harvard classmate Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, a psychologist, or "alienist." On the unfinished Williamsburg Bridge, they view the horribly mutilated body of an adolescent boy, a prostitute from one of Manhattan's infamous brothels. The newly appointed police commissioner, Theodore Roosevelt, in a highly unorthodox move, enlists the two men in the murder investigation, counting on the reserved Kreizler's intellect and Moore's knowle...
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The Angel of Darkness

By: Carr, Caleb

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Ballantine Books: July 1998

Seller ID: 133925

ISBN: 0345427637

Condition: Used - Good

The Greatest Knight: The Unsung Story of the Queen's Champion

By: Chadwick, Elizabeth

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Sourcebooks Landmark: September 2009

Seller ID: 124506

ISBN: 1402225180

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Includes a special Blog Post from the author of The Greatest Knight, Elizabeth Chadwick. Royal protector. Loyal servant. Forgotten hero. A penniless young knight with few prospects, William Marshal is plucked from obscurity when he saves the life of Henry II's formidable queen, Eleanor of Aquitaine. In gratitude, she appoints him tutor to the heir to the throne, the volatile and fickle Prince Henry. But being a royal favorite brings its share of danger and jealousy as well as fame and reward. A writer of uncommon historical integrity and accuracy, Elizabeth Chadwick resurrects the tru...
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Mount Vernon Love Story: A Novel of George and Martha Washington

By: Clark, Mary Higgins

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Pocket Books: June 2003

Seller ID: 133049

ISBN: 0743448944

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

In "Mount Vernon Love Story" -- famed suspense writer Mary Higgins Clark's long-out-of-print first novel -- the bestselling author reveals the flesh-and-blood man who became the "father of our country" in a story that is charming, insightful, and immensely entertaining. Always a lover of history, Mary Higgins Clark wrote this extensively researched biographical novel and titled it "Aspire to the Heavens," after the motto of George Washington's mother. Published in 1969, the book was more recently discovered by a Washington family descendant and reissued as "Mount Vernon Love Story." Dispe...
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The Zahir: A Novel Of Obsession (P.S.)

By: Coelho, Paulo

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Harper Perennial: July 2006

Seller ID: 133903

ISBN: 0060832819

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The narrator of The Zahir is a bestselling novelist who lives in Paris and enjoys all the privileges money and celebrity bring. His wife of ten years, Esther, is a war correspondent who has disappeared along with a friend, Mikhail, who may or may not be her lover.Was Esther kidnapped, murdered, or did she simply escape a marriage that left her unfulfilled? The narrator doesn't have any answers, but he has plenty of questions of his own. Then one day Mikhail finds the narrator and promises to reunite him with his wife. In his attempt to recapture a lost love, the narrator discovers someth...
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Mirabilis

By: Cokal, Susann

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Blue Hen Trade: May 2002

Seller ID: 38714

ISBN: 042518532X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

In a French village beset by plague and under siege, something incredible is about to happen. Her name is Bonne Mirabilis, the illegitimate daughter of a saint burned at the stake. And she will provide deliverance in ways that will spark dread, awe, scandal, and secret delight...
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Sharpe's Eagle: Richard Sharpe and the Talavera Campaign, July 1809

By: Cornwell, Bernard

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Penguin Books: February 1987

Seller ID: 132022

ISBN: 0140099212

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Sharpe's Rifles: Richard Sharpe & the French Invasion of Galicia, January 1809 (Richard Sharpe's Adventure Series #6)

By: Cornwell, Bernard

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Penguin Books: September 1989

Seller ID: 132023

ISBN: 0140110143

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The Four Seasons: A Novel of Vivaldi's Venice

By: Corona, Laurel

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Hachette Books: November 2008

Seller ID: 103497

ISBN: 1401309267

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

In glittering 18th-century Venice, music and love are prized above all else--and for two sisters coming of age, the city's passions blend in intoxicating ways. Chiaretta and Maddalena are as different as night and day. The two sisters were abandoned as babies on the steps of the Ospedale della Pietss, Venice's world-famous foundling hospital and musical academy. High-spirited and rebellious, Chiaretta marries into a great aristocratic Venetian family and eventually becomes one of the most powerful women in Venice. Maddalena becomes a violin virtuoso and Antonio Vivaldi's muse. The Four Seasons...
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Incas: Book One: The Puma's Shadow

By: Daniel, A.B.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Touchstone: August 2002

Seller ID: 73007

ISBN: 0743432746

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A sweeping tale of splendor and savagery unfolds as an ancient Incan civilization is haunted by omens, shaken by civil war, shattered by European conquest...and transformed through the power of destined love. Since childhood Anamaya has lived as a captive, waiting to learn how and when she will be offered as a sacrifice. But when the dying emperor, Huayna Capec, summons her, she is granted destiny, not death. Her eyes, as blue as the sacred waters of Lake Titicaca, are a powerful sign that she was sent by Quilla, the Moon Goddess, to ensure the emperor's passage to the Other World -- and ...
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Incas: Book Two: The Gold of Cuzco

By: Daniel, A.B.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Touchstone: December 2002

Seller ID: 73008

ISBN: 0743432754

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

In this haunting second book of the internationally bestselling "Incas" trilogy, the Incan empire is threatened by the Conquistadors, whose insatiable hunger for gold will destroy a glorious, ancient civilization -- unless they can be thwarted by a mystic force greater than any army.... Princess Anamaya's hypnotic blue eyes have seen too much. Having guarded the passage of the dying Emperor, she is now chosen by the gods to stand beside the new Emperor and divine the future of the Incan Empire -- a future shadowed by brutal warriors who worship foreign gods. The Conquistadors and their ar...
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Hornblower: Beat to Quarters (Hornblower Saga (Paperback))

By: Forester, C.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Back Bay Books: September 1985

Seller ID: 129602

ISBN: 0316289329

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

June 1808, somewhere west of Nicaragua-a site suitable for spectacular sea battles. The Admiralty has ordered Captain Horatio Hornblower, now in command of the thirty-six-gun HMS Lydia, to form an alliance against the Spanish colonial government with an insane Spanish landowner; to find a water route across the Central American isthmus; and "to take, sink, burn or destroy" the fifty-gun Spanish ship of the line Natividad or face court-martial. A daunting enough set of orders-even if the happily married captain were not woefully distracted by the passenger he is obliged to take on in Panama: La...
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Hornblower and the Atropos

By: Forester, C. S

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Bantam: January 1962

Seller ID: 131982

ISBN: B0007FCMLS

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Admiral Hornblower in the West Indies

By: Forester, C. S.

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Bantam Books: January 1965

Seller ID: 45978

ISBN: 0523003900

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Hornblower During the Crisis (Hornblower Saga)

By: Forester, C. S.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Back Bay Books: April 1990

Seller ID: 94995

ISBN: 0316289442

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Although unfinished at the time of C. S. Forester's death, Hornblower During the Crisis delivers a full measure of action at sea-the hallmark of this incomparably exciting series of historical adventures. On the threshold of securing his first post as captain, Hornblower finds himself forced by the exigencies of war to fight alongside a man whom he has unintentionally helped to court-martial. And for the first time Hornblower assents to engaging in espionage in his efforts to bring victory and glory to England in the Napoleonic Wars. This extant fragment of Forester's final Hornblower novel is...
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Lord Hornblower (Hornblower Saga)

By: Forester, C. S.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Back Bay Books: November 1989

Seller ID: 94998

ISBN: 0316289434

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The Hornblower Novels of C. S. Forester Mr. Midshipman Hornblower Lieutenant Hornblower Hornblower and the Hotspur Hornblower During the Crisis Hornblower and the Atropos Beat to Quarters Ship of the Line Flying Colours Commodore Hornblower Lord Hornblower Admiral Hornblower in the West Indies Weary of the war that he has waged nearly his entire life, Hornblower finds himself assigned an especially dangerous and dubious new task: to rescue a man he knows to be a tyrant from the mutiny of his crew in the Bay of the Seine. This risky adventure, coinciding with reports that the tide of war may be...
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Mr. Midshipman Hornblower (Hornblower Saga)

By: Forester, C. S.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Back Bay Books: August 1984

Seller ID: 129597

ISBN: 0316289124

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The year is 1793, the eve of the Napoleonic Wars, and Horatio Hornblower, a seventeen-year-old boy unschooled in seafaring and the ways of seamen, is ordered to board a French merchant ship and take command of crew and cargo for the glory of England. Though not an unqualified success, this first naval adventure teaches the young midshipman enough to launch him on a series of increasingly glorious exploits. This novel-in which young Horatio gets his sea legs, proves his mettle, and shows the makings of the legend he will become-is the first of the eleven swashbuckling Hornblower tales that are ...
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Hornblower and the 'Hotspur' (Hornblower Series)

By: Forester, C. S.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Back Bay Books: November 1998

Seller ID: 129599

ISBN: 0316290467

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

April 1803. The Peace of Amiens is breaking down. Napoleon is building ships and amassing an army just across the Channel. Horatio Hornblower-who, at age twenty-seven, has already distinguished himself as one of the most daring and resourceful officers in the Royal Navy-commands the three-masted Hotspur on a dangerous reconnaissance mission that evolves, as war breaks out, into a series of spectacular confrontations. All the while, the introspective young commander struggles to understand his new bride and mother-in-law, his officers and crew, and his own "accursed unhappy temperament"-matters...
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Hornblower During the Crisis (Hornblower Saga)

By: Forester, C. S.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Back Bay Books: April 1990

Seller ID: 129600

ISBN: 0316289442

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Hornblower and the Atropos (Hornblower Saga)

By: Forester, C. S.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Little, Brown and Co.: May 1985

Seller ID: 129601

ISBN: 0316289299

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Ship of the Line (Hornblower Saga (Paperback))

By: Forester, C. S.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Back Bay Books: September 1985

Seller ID: 129603

ISBN: 0316289361

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

May 1810, seventeen years deep into the Napoleonic Wars. Captain Horatio Hornblower is newly in command of his first ship of the line, the seventy-four-gun HMS Sutherland, which he deems "the ugliest and least desirable two-decker in the Navy List." Moreover, she is 250 men short of a full crew, so Hornblower must enlist and train "poachers, bigamists, sheepstealers," and other landlubbers. By the time the Sutherland reaches the blockaded Catalonian coast of Spain, the crew is capable of staging five astonishing solo raids against the French. But the grisly prospect of defeat and capture looms...
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Flying Colours (Hornblower Saga (Paperback))

By: Forester, C. S.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Back Bay Books: April 1989

Seller ID: 129604

ISBN: 0316289396

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Forced to surrender his ship, the Sutherland, after a long and bloody battle, Captain Horatio Hornblower now bides his time as a prisoner in a French fortress. Within days he and his first lieutenant, Bush, who was crippled in the last fight, are to be taken to Paris to be tried on trumped-up charges of violating the laws of war, and most probably executed as part of Napoleon's attempt to rally the warweary empire behind him. Even if Hornblower escapes this fate and somehow finds his way back to England, he will face court-martial for his surrender of a British ship. As fears for his life and ...
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Commodore Hornblower (Hornblower, 9)

By: Forester, C. S.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Back Bay Books: March 1989

Seller ID: 129605

ISBN: 0316289388

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

These thrilling tales of high-seas adventure in the Napoleonic era, which Winston Churchill found "vastly entertaining" and Ernest Hemingway recommended to "every literate I know," are being eagerly embraced by a new generation of readers. Back Bay takes pleasure in reissuing these classic tales in handsome new trade paperback editions.-- The Hornblower renaissance is in full sail with a nearly tenfold increase in sales: more than I5O, OOO Hornblower books sold in the first six months of 1999.-- The A&E television network's series of original movies based on Hornblower's adventures hav...
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