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1812: a Novel
From the Publisher: The war of 1812 would either make America a global power sweeping all the way to the Pacific or break it into small pieces bound to mighty England. It was a second revolution of sorts to prove to the British that America had to be taken seriously. The principal players in this drama were James and Dolley Madison and Andrew and Rachel Jackson. Their courage and determination would shape America’s destiny.... Show More
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1906: A Novel
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19Th Wife: a Novel
From the Publisher: "Faith, I tell them, is a mystery, elusive to many, and never easy to explain.Sweeping and lyrical, spellbinding and unforgettable, David Ebershoff’s THE 19TH WIFE combines epic historical fiction with a modern murder mystery to create a brilliant novel of literary suspense. It is 1875, and Ann Eliza Young has recently separated from her powerful husband, Brigham Young, prophet and leader of the Mormon Church. Expelled and an outcast, Ann Eliza embarks on a crusade to end polygamy in the United States. A rich account of a family’s polygamous history is revealed, including how a young woman became a plural wife.Soon after Ann Eliza’s story begins, a second exquisite narrative unfolds—a tale of murder involving a polygamist family in present day Utah. Jordan Scott, a young man who was thrown out of his fundamentalist sect years earlier, must reenter the world that cast him aside in order to discover the truth behind his father’s death.And as Ann Eliza’s narrative intertwines with that of Jordan’s search, readers are pulled deeper into the mysteries of love and faith."... Show More
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21: the Final Unfinished Voyage of Jack Aubrey
From the Publisher: "In response to the interest of millions of Patrick O'Brian fans, here is the final, partial installment of the Aubrey-Maturin series.<p>Blue at the Mizzen ended with Jack Aubrey getting the news of his elevation to flag rank: Rear Admiral of the Blue Squadron, with orders to sail to South Africa. The next novel, never completed, would have been the chronicle of that mission and much else besides. The three chapters left on O'Brian's desk at the time of his death are presented here. Though tantalizingly incomplete, these pages prove that O'Brian's humor, powers of observation, and understanding of his characters were undiminished to the end."... Show More
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Absalom, Absalom
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Abyssinian Proof
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Ace
From the Publisher: "Four Americans—a twenty-year-old social outcast, a breezily iconoclastic Army officer, a ruthless U.S. senator, and a guilt-ridden heiress—are inexorably drawn together in their struggles to deal with America's chaotic involvement in World War I. Their interwoven destinies lead from poverty-stricken slums through the opulence of 1917–1918 Washington, London, and Paris and, climactically, into the Western Front's vicious aerial combat, which establishes the matrix for all air warfare to come."... Show More
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Adam Resurrected
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Addie
From the Publisher: "The time is the mid-1880s when much of Florida is a virtual wilderness. Addie ekes out a living from her canteen at the convergence of two primitive railroads. When Addie meets Burke, the owner-operator of the railroad that links the seaside docks, an attraction blossoms. But social persecution forces Addie to flee into the subtropical wilderness. Burke launches a search for her, not knowing that she has become a pawn in a plot to usurp him of his empire."... Show More
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Additional Dialogue: the Letters of Dalton Trumbo
Audio Theatre Series
From the Publisher: "In 1947, witty, outspoken, irascible Dalton Trumbo (Academy Award - winning screenwriter of Roman Holiday and Spartacus) went to prison for defying the House Committee on Un -American Activities and became one of the famed Hollywood Ten. Through his wildly funny and thought provoking correspondence, Trumbo's son has created a touching portrait of an extraordinary man."... Show More
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Adventures of Augie March
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Afghan Campaign: A Novel
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All My Sons
From the Publisher: "World War II is over and a family, mourning a son missing in action, plants a memorial tree and tries to go with their lives. A storm blows down the tree and a devastating family secret is uprooted, setting the characters on a terrifying journey towards truth. "... Show More
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Amigo Fritz
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Angels & Insects: Two Novellas
From the Publisher: "In two breathtakingly accomplished novellas, A.S. Byatt explores the landscape of Victorian England, where science and spiritualism are both popular manias, and domestic decorum coexists with brutality and perversion.<P>In “Morpho Eugenia”, a shipwrecked naturalist is rescued by a family whose clandestine passions come to seem as inscrutable as the behavior of insects. In “The Conjugial Angel,” a circle of fictional mediums finds itself haunted by the ghost of a very real historical personage.<P>Angels & Insects offers further proof of Byatt’s prodigious powers and magical sympathy for characters who might be our great-great-grandparents."... Show More
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Anna in the Tropics
Audio Theatre Series
From the Publisher: "This poignant and poetic 2003 Pulitzer Prize winning play captures 1929 Florida at a time when cigars are still rolled by hand and ""lectors"" are employed to educate and entertain the workers. The arrival of a new lector is a cause for celebration. But when he reads aloud from ""Anna Karenina"", he unwittingly becomes a catalyst in the lives of his avid listeners, for whom Tolstoy, the tropics, and The American Dream prove a volatile combination."... Show More
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Antietam: a Novel
The Civil War Battle Series ;Bk. 3
From the Publisher: "Antietam is the third in a series of novels spanning the Civil War and describing its effects on one southern family, the Brannons. Mac, a Brannon son and a gifted horseman, joins Jeb Stuart’s cavalry and soon finds himself on one of the great adventures of the war."... Show More
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Appomattox: a Novel
The Civil War Battle Series ;Bk. 10
From the Publisher: "With the conclusion of the ten-volume saga, the multiple strands of the story are woven toward their resolution. Members of the Brannon family are involved in battles across the country, from the Deep South to the Dakota Territory. In the spring of 1865 the war reaches its climax at a crossroads in Virginia known as Appomattox. Subsequently, the war in brought home to the Brannon farm when carpetbaggers move into the South and they must decide whether to fight or flee. "... Show More
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April in Paris
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Arms and the Man
Audio Theatre Series
From the Publisher: "The beautiful and headstrong Raina eagerly awaits her fiance's victorious return from battle - but instead meets an enemy soldier who seeks asylum in her bedroom. This is one soldier who definitely prefers romance and chocolate to the heat of battle. War may be raging on the battlefield, but it's the battle of the sexes that heats up this extraordinary comedy and offers very different notions of love and war"... Show More
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Assassination of Jesse James By the Coward Robert Ford
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At the Foot of the Rainbow
From the Publisher: "Scotch-Irish immigrants Jimmy Malone and Dannie MacNous are partners in an earlier Indiana trapping and fishing enterprise. A picture of life and relationships in conflict, with each partner in love with the same woman."... Show More
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Back to Wando Passo
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Battle Flag
The Starbuck Chronicles ;V. 3
From the Publisher: "Distinguishing himself at the Battle of Cedar Mountain, Confederate Captain Nate Starbuck sees his career jeopardized through the suspicion and hostility of his brigade commander, the grandiose General Washington Faulconer. Their simmering enmity flares to life at Dead Mary’s Ford, where Nate Starbuck has to fight the enemy as well as his own commanding officer."... Show More
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Becket, Or, the Honor of God
Audio Theatre Series
From the Publisher: "After helping to murder Becket, King Henry II is haunted by memories of their passionate friendship. Appointing Becket as Archbishop was the King's greatest mistake - for Becket finds his allegiance shifting from king and country to God and Church."... Show More
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The Better Angels of Our Nature: A Novel
From the Publisher: The first in a trilogy about the Civil War. On the eve of the Battle of Shiloh, General Sherman discovers what he believes to be a young boy dressed in an infantryman’s uniform hiding in the woods. The soldier calls himself Jesse Davis, and claims he has come to serve the general. Sherman takes the boy under his wing, and begins to train him in the art of war. A quick learner, Jesse soon endears himself to Sherman and to others in the camp. But who really is this intriguing young person who has appeared from nowhere? It is not until others in Sherman’s division begin to suspect that Jesse is not who he says he is that his identity is revealed. And the truth is more startling than anyone can imagine. ... Show More
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Birds Without Wings
From the Publisher: In his first novel since Corelli’s Mandolin, Louis de Bernières creates a world, populates it with characters as real as our best friends, and launches it into the maelstrom of twentieth-century history. The setting is a small village in southwestern Anatolia in the waning years of the Ottoman Empire. Everyone there speaks Turkish, though they write it in Greek letters. It’s a place that has room for a professional blasphemer; where a brokenhearted aga finds solace in the arms of a Circassian courtesan who isn’t Circassian at all; where a beautiful Christian girl named Philothei is engaged to a Muslim boy named Ibrahim. But all of this will change when Turkey enters the modern world. Epic in sweep, intoxicating in its sensual detail, BIRDS WITHOUT WINGS is an enchantment.A Notable Book for Adults (American Library Association)Winner of AUDIOFILE Earphones Award“A remarkable narrative paired with a stellar performance. This is a recording to savor.” ?AudioFile... Show More
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Birth of Venus: A Novel
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The Black Flower: A Novel of the Civil War
From the Publisher: " In the madness and violence of a great battle and its aftermath, Bushrod Carter tries to act his part as well as he can. He must confront his soul and learn from his comrades and from a young girl struggling with her own harsh past. The Black Flower is a story not only of war but of men and women seeking redemption."... Show More
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Black Tulip
From the Publisher: "Alexandre Dumas’s novels are notable for their suspense and excitement, their foul deeds, hairsbreadth escapes, and glorious victories. In The Black Tulip, the real hero is no musketeer but a flower. The novel, a deceptively simple story, is set in Holland in 1672 during the amazing tulipmania of the seventeenth century that brought wealth to some and ruin to many. The story weaves the historical events surrounding the brutal murder of John de Witte and his brother Cornelius into a tale of romantic love. The novel is also a timeless political allegory in which Dumas, drawing on the violence and crimes of history, makes his case against tyranny and puts all his energies into creating a symbol of justice and tolerance: the fateful tulipa negra."... Show More
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Blindspot: a Novel By a Gentleman in Exile and a Lady in Disguise
From the Publisher: "Set in boisterous, rebellious Boston on the eve of the American Revolution, Blindspot ingeniously weaves together the fictional stories of Stewart Jameson, a Scottish portrait painter and notorious libertine, and Fanny Easton, a fallen woman from one of Boston’s most powerful families who disguises herself as a boy to become Jameson’s defiant and seductive apprentice. Together with an African-born doctor, they investigate the death of the famous revolutionary leader Samuel Bradstreet."... Show More
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Bloody Ground
The Starbuck Chronicles ;V. 4
From the Publisher: "It is only weeks after the Second Manassas in September 1862, and in General Lee’s army the Northern renegade Nathaniel Starbuck must prove his loyalty once again. As Robert E. Lee takes the war north, he will be met by “Little Mac,” General George McClellan, whose Northern army far outnumbers and outguns the invading Confederates."... Show More
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Blue At the Mizzen
From the Publisher: "Napoleon is defeated at Waterloo, but the ensuing peace brings Captain Jack Aubrey the desertion of half his crew. Jack and Stephen’s South American expedition becomes a desperate affair, until Jack, again the daring frigate commander of old, stakes all on a desperate solo night raid against the might of the Spanish viceroy in Peru."... Show More
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Bride of the Wilderness
From the Publisher: "The acclaimed author of such suspense classics as The Tears of Autumn and The Miernik Dossier brings us a unique period romance, set in early 18th century Europe and New England and featuring the ancestors of his recurring master-spy Paul Christopher.<p>Young, high-spirited Fanny has been fortunate in her civilized upbringing, but the London she has grown up in is riddled with danger and brutality. When a sinister stranger traps her family into debt in order to advance on Fanny, she is forced to take refuge in France, where she meets a young French soldier called Philippe de Saint-Christophe. Their paths will cross again in the New World, where the war between the English and the French is fought with the help of savage Indians on both sides. Together, Fanny and Philippe will carve out a fierce, adventurous life in the vigorous, untamed wilderness."... Show More
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Brighton Beach Memoirs
Audio Theatre Series
From the Publisher: "In Neil Simon’s darkly funny memoir of his family in 1930’s Brooklyn, fourteen-year-old Eugene is pre o occupied by his passion for the Yankees and his lust for his beautiful cousin, Nora. Eugene’s comic growing pains contrast with the darker issues troubling his family: poverty, illness and the growing Nazi threat to relatives in Europe. Simon creates a Brooklyn universe full of memorable characters, humor and truth. A BBC co-production."... Show More
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Broken Glass
Audio Theatre Series
From the Publisher: "Set in 1938 Brooklyn, this gripping psychological mystery begins when attractive, level headed Sylvia Gellburg suddenly loses her ability to walk. The only clue lies in Sylvia's obsession with news accounts from Germany. Though safe in Brooklyn, Sylvia is terrified by Nazi violence - or is it something closer to home?"... Show More
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Buffalo Medicine
Spanish Bit Saga
From the Publisher: "When they mastered the ways of the ""Elk Dog,"" the horse, the band prospered. Yet they knew the old traditional ways must not die. Owl's father had changed the lives of The People bringing the horse from his native Spain. "... Show More
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By the Grand Canal
From the Publisher: "In the aftermath of the First World War, Hugh Thurne, a British diplomat involved in the peace negotiations, finds solace in his rented palazzo in Venice rather than returning to his wife and the charade of his marriage in London. Although profoundly disturbed about the long-term prospects for peace, he has faith in the city’s power to raise his spirits. Hugh eagerly looks forward to visits with his old friends Giocomo and Valentina Venier in their dilapidated palazzo on the Grand Canal to dallying with a young opera singer, Emanuela; and to the arrival of violet Mancroft, the widow of his best friend lost in the war. What he does not anticipate is the shadow lying over the Venier family’s future. Nor has he reckoned with the vagaries of his own heart. Evoking the beauty of Venice, this is a novel about premonition for the future and the war it portends, about death and memory, and also about an unexpected love between two old friends."... Show More
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Byzantium
From the Publisher: "Although born to rule, Aidan lives as a scribe in a remote Irish monastery on the far, wild edge of Christendom. Secure in work, contemplation, and dreams of the wider world, a miracle bursts into Aidan’s quiet life. He is chosen to accompany a small band of monks on a quest to the fabled city of Byzantium, where they are to present the beautiful and costly hand-illuminated Book of Kells to the emperor of all Christendom.<p>During this expedition by sea and over land, Aidan becomes, by turns, a warrior and a sailor, a slave and a spy, a Viking and a Saracen, and finally, a man. He sees more of the world than most men of his time, becoming an ambassador to kings and an intimate of Byzantium’s fabled Golden Court. And finally, this valiant Irish monk faces the greatest trial confronting any man in any age: the command of his own destiny."... Show More
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Café on the Nile: a Novel
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Capitán Fracaso
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Captain Blood
From the Publisher: "Doctor Peter Blood’s quiet life is shattered when he is convicted of treason for helping a wounded nobleman. He’s swept into a slave ship but escapes from slavery during a pirate attack. He becomes a pirate and soon is the greatest of them all. Raids, sea battles, sword fights, acts of gallantry and low cunning follow, recounted with zest and skill. "... Show More
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Cathedral of the Sea
From the Publisher: "A #1 international bestseller, this highly anticipated novel is an unforgettable fresco of the Middle Ages in Catalonia.During a time where feudal lords ruled lowly serfs, a father and son struggle to escape the oppression of medieval Spain in this vivid and heart wrenching audiobook. Favorably compared to Ken Follett’s bestselling Pillars of the Earth, CATHEDRAL OF THE SEA is the story of the building of the Santa Maria del Mar church, and a young man’s journey through intrigue, revenge, war, conspiracy, and love. The birth of the guilds, class warfare among builders, peasants and feudal lords, racism against Jews and the frightening force of the Inquisition are brought together in this fascinating and fully realized historical novel."... Show More
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Catiline Conspiracy
SPQR (Blackstone Audio)
From the Publisher: "It was a summer of glorious triumph for the mighty Roman Republic. Her invincible legions had brought all foreign enemies to their knees. But in Rome there was no peace. The streets were flooded with the blood of murdered citizens, and there were rumors of more atrocities to come. Decius Caecilius Metellus the Younger was convinced a conspiracy existed to overthrow the government, a sinister cabal that could only be destroyed from within. But admission into the traitorous society of evil carried a grim price: the life of Decius's closest friend and maybe his own."... Show More
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Chancellorsville: a Novel
The Civil War Battles Series ;4
From the Publisher: "Chancellorsville is the fourth in a series of novels spanning the Civil War and describing its effects on one southern family. After Will and Mac Brannon return to their units, the Confederate cause claims another Brannon son, this one a gifted rifleman."... Show More
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Chariots in the Smoke
Appomattox Saga
From the Publisher: "It's a hot summer along the Mississippi River, and the Civil War still rages on, bringing devastation to countless lives. "... Show More
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Chayatocha
From the Publisher: "When their wagon train is led into a treacherous mountain detour and horrifying attacks begin to pick apart the small group, Daniel Paradine must confront the beast responsible for the nightmare. "... Show More
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Cheerfulness Breaks in
From the Publisher: "Tears mingle with domestic upheavals in this delightful reunion of Thirkell’s Barsetshire characters as they cavort through the early days of World War II. Highlights include Rose Birkett's wedding, Geraldine Birkett's infatuation with Fritz Gissing, and a romance between Octavia Crawley and Tommy Needham. Noel Merton's marriage to Lydia Keith takes place just before he leaves for the war, and at the end he may be missing after Dunkirk. When it is learned that a London school is to be evacuated, the villagers rally round to offer their support, and the local characters are seen in their true colors. Meanwhile, East European refugees bring a new spirit and energy to the peaceful countryside."... Show More
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Chickamauga: a Novel
The Civil War Battle Series ;Bk. 7
From the Publisher: "This is the seventh book in a series of historical novels spanning the Civil War and describing its effects on one southern family. While two Brannon sons were with Lee at Gettysburg and Cory was at Vicksburg, they still mourn the loss of another, Titus, presumed dead but actually interned in a Yankee prison camp. Titus is determined to escape and make his way home, while Cory Brannon joins the cavalry just in time for the action at Chickamauga."... Show More
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Cleopatra
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