Category: Fiction Historical

"This is a 'people's history' with tongue in cheek, delightfully funny, imaginative, but with a subtle undertone of seriousness. I enjoyed it immensely." --HOWARD ZINN, author of A People's History of the United States Original stories & artwork by: Daniel Alarcon, Amy Bloom, Kate Bornstein, Alexander Chee, T Cooper, Keith Knight, Ron Kovic, Paul La Farge, Felicia Luna Lemus, Adam Mansbach, Valerie Miner, Tommy O'Malley, Neal Pollack, David Rees, Sarah Schulman, Darin Strauss, and Benjamin Weissman. History is distorted the moment it's recorded--and in these politically dishonest times, chal...
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Abundance, A Novel of Marie Antoinette (P.S.)

By: Naslund,Sena Jeter

Price: $7.98

Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks : May 2007

Seller ID: 443540

ISBN-13: 9780060825409

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Marie Antoinette was a child of fourteen when her mother, the Empress of Austria, arranged for her to leave her family and her country to become the wife of the fifteen-year-old Dauphin, the future King of France. Coming of age in the most public of arenas, she warmly embraces her adopted nation and its citizens. She shows her new husband nothing but love and encouragement, though he repeatedly fails to consummate their marriage and in so doing is unable to give her a child and an heir to the throne. Deeply disappointed and isolated in her own intimate circle, and apart from the social life of...
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After Alice Fell: A Novel

By: Taylor Blakemore, Kim

Price: $7.98

Publisher: Lake Union Publishing : March 2021

Seller ID: 475874

ISBN-13: 9781542022705

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Until she discovers the truth of her sister's death, no one will rest in peace.New Hampshire, 1865. Marion Abbott is summoned to Brawders House asylum to collect the body of her sister, Alice. She'd been found dead after falling four stories from a steep-pitched roof. Officially: an accident. Confidentially: suicide. But Marion believes a third option: murder.Returning to her family home to stay with her brother and his second wife, the recently widowed Marion is expected to quiet her feelings of guilt and grief--to let go of the dead and embrace the living. But that's not easy in this house f...
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Battle Flag (Starbuck Chronicles)

By: Cornwell, Bernard

Price: $3.00

Publisher: HarperCollins : September 2001

Seller ID: 459733

ISBN-13: 9780060937188

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

From New York Times bestselling author Bernard Cornwell, the third installment in The Starbuck Chronicles.

The epic battle for control of the Confederate capital continues through the hot summer of 1862.

It's a battle that Captain Nate Starbuck, a Yankee fighting for the Southern cause, has to survive and win. He must lead his ragged company in a bitter struggle, not only against the formidable Northern army, but against his own superiors who would like nothing better than to see Nate Starbuck dead.

Before We Were Yours: A Novel

By: Wingate, Lisa

Price: $7.98

Publisher: Ballantine Books : May 2019

Seller ID: 455551

ISBN-13: 9780425284704

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

THE BLOCKBUSTER HIT--Over two million copies sold A New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and Publishers Weekly Bestseller Look for Lisa Wingate's powerful new historical novel, The Book of Lost Friends, available now "Poignant, engrossing."--People - "Lisa Wingate takes an almost unthinkable chapter in our nation's history and weaves a tale of enduring power."--Paula McLainMemphis, 1939. Twelve-year-old Rill Foss and her four younger siblings live a magical life aboard their family's Mississippi River shantyboat. But when their father must rush their mother to the hospital one s...
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Bittersweet: A Novel

By: McCullough, Colleen

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Simon & Schuster : May 2015

Seller ID: 452964

ISBN-13: 9781476755441

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Colleen McCullough's new, romantic Australian novel about four unforgettable sisters taking their places in life during the tumultuous years after World War I is "just as epic as her ultra-romantic classic, The Thorn Birds" (Marie Claire). Because they are two sets of twins, the four Latimer sisters are as close as can be. Yet each of these vivacious young women has her own dream for herself: Edda wants to be a doctor, Grace wants to marry, Tufts wants never to marry, and Kitty wishes to be known for something other than her beauty. They are famous throughout New South Wales for their beauty, ...
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Casanova in Love (Harvest Book)

By: Miller, Andrew

Price: $6.98

Publisher: Harvest Books : February 2000

Seller ID: 437358

ISBN-13: 9780156007696

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

In 1763, at the age of thirty-eight, Giacomo Casanova arrives in England seeking a respite from his endless travels and liaisons. Before long, though, the lure of a pretty face proves too hard to resist, and Casanova reverts to his old ways as he pursues the dazzlingly beautiful Marie Charpillon. But is he the hunter, or the hunted? Soon we see a different Casanova, a man who may himself be the quarry as Charpillon and her family focus on his fortune. Andrew Miller, whose Ingenious Pain, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, was embraced by readers and reviewers for its marvelous imaginat...
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Cilka's Journey

By: Morris, Heather

Price: $16.99

Publisher: Griffin : September 2020

Seller ID: 379831

ISBN-13: 9781250265692

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

From the author of the multi-million copy bestseller The Tattooist of Auschwitz comes a new novel based on a riveting true story of love and resilience. Her beauty saved her -- and condemned her. Cilka is just sixteen years old when she is taken to Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp in 1942, where the commandant immediately notices how beautiful she is. Forcibly separated from the other women prisoners, Cilka learns quickly that power, even unwillingly taken, equals survival. When the war is over and the camp is liberated, freedom is not granted to Cilka: She is charged as a collaborator...
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Claudius the God: And His Wife Messalina

By: Graves, Robert

Price: $6.98

Publisher: Vintage : October 1989

Seller ID: 276344

ISBN-13: 9780679725732

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister: A Novel

By: Maguire, Gregory

Price: $3.98

Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks : September 2000

Seller ID: 385057

ISBN-13: 9780060987527

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

" An] engrossing story...endearing and memorable."--Boston Herald" An] arresting hybrid of mystery, fairy tale, and historical novel."--Detroit Free Press"A tale so movingly told that you will say at the end of the first reading, 'It's been a long time since I've read a book this good.'" --Nashville Tennessean Gregory Maguire proves himself to be "one of contemporary fiction's most assured myth-makers" (Kirkus Reviews) with Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister, his ingenious and provocative retelling of the timeless Cinderella fairy tale. Perhaps best known for his dark and breathtaking Oz series...
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Conqueror: A Novel of Kublai Khan (The Khan Dynasty)

By: Iggulden, Conn

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Bantam : January 2013

Seller ID: 326816

ISBN-13: 9780385343060

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

For lovers of thrilling adventure and grand history, the bestselling co-author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Dangerous Book for Boys has written a magnificent novel with a hero for the ages: the legendary, visionary conqueror Kublai Khan. A succession of ruthless men have seized power in the wake of Genghis Khan's death--all descendants of the great leader, but none with his indomitable character. One grandson, Guyuk, strains the loyalties of the tribes to the breaking point, and another, Mongke, brutally eliminates the opposition and dispatches his younger brothers Kublai and Huleg...
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Copperhead

By: Cornwell, Bernard

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Harper Perennial : September 2001

Seller ID: 459732

ISBN-13: 9780060934620

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

The beloved Confederate Captain Nate Starbuck returns to the front lines of the Civil War in this second installment of Bernard Cornwell's acclaimed Nathaniel Starbuck Chronicles. It is the summer of 1862, and Nate has been bloodied but victorious at the battles of Ball's Bluff and Seven Pines. But he can't escape his Northern roots, and it is only a matter of time until he's accused of being a Yankee spy, pursued, and brutally interrogated. To clear his name, he must find the real traitor--a search that will require extraordinary courage, endurance, and a perilous odyssey through enemy territ...
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Corn King and the Spring Queen (The Hera Series)

By: Mitchison, Naomi

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Soho Press : July 2003

Seller ID: 398749

ISBN-13: 9780939149995

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Crossings

By: Landragin, Alex

Price: $17.99

Publisher: Griffin : October 2021

Seller ID: 430081

ISBN-13: 9781250796721

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

A sparkling debut. Landragin's seductive literary romp shines as a celebration of the act of storytelling. --Publishers Weekly Romance, mystery, history, and magical invention dance across centuries in an impressive debut novel. --Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review) Deft writing seduces the reader in a complex tale of pursuit, denial, and retribution moving from past to future. Highly recommended. --Library Journal (Starred Review)Alex Landragin's Crossings is an unforgettable and explosive genre-bending debut--a novel in three parts, designed to be read in two different directions, spanning a hu...
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Dream of Scipio

By: Pears, Iain

Price: $6.98

Publisher: Riverhead Trade : June 2003

Seller ID: 386654

ISBN-13: 9781573229869

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

In national bestseller The Dream of Scipio, acclaimed author Iain Pears intertwines three intellectual mysteries, three love stories, and three of the darkest moments in human history. United by a classical text called The Dream of Scipio, three men struggle to find refuge for their hearts and minds from the madness that surrounds them in the final days of the Roman Empire, in the grim years of the Black Death, and in the direst hours of World War II. An ALA Booklist Editors' Choice. Iain Pears's An Instance of the Fingerpost and The Portrait are also available from Riverhead Books....
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Faire Mount: A Novel

By: Breslin, Ed

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Parkside Books : June 2021

Seller ID: 471008

ISBN-13: 9780578237626

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

First Clash: Combat Close-Up In World War Three

By: Macksey, Kenneth

Price: $3.98

Publisher: Berkley Books : April 1988

Seller ID: 373225

ISBN-13: 9780425107560

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Follow the Drum

By: Leasor, James

Price: $2.95

Publisher: DELL : January 1975

Seller ID: 58868

ISBN: B000I8R3OU

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Acceptable

Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone: A Novel (Outlander)

By: Gabaldon, Diana

Price: $22.00

Publisher: Bantam : September 2022

Seller ID: 474140

ISBN-13: 9781101885703

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Gods and Legions: A Novel of the Roman Empire

By: Ford, Michael Curtis

Price: $4.98

Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks : September 2003

Seller ID: 457985

ISBN-13: 9780312989408

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: New

In the year, 354 A.D., Julian, a sheltered scholar and pacifist lives in peace-until a summons from Emperor Constantine the Great changes the young man's life forever. Dispatched to Gaul to help reclaim a beaten Roman territory from German barbarians, Julian displays a surprising and brutal genius for survival against impossible odds. Emerging as an unlikely hero and adored by a legion of zealots, his untapped ambition is ignited-to reign as the new emperor. It's a position of power that'll test the loyalty of his friends, stir the ire of enemies, and cast an ominous shadow over his mad, and m...
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Heyday: A Novel

By: Andersen, Kurt

Price: $7.98

Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks : December 2007

Seller ID: 409359

ISBN-13: 9780812978469

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Heyday is a brilliantly imagined, wildly entertaining tale of America's boisterous coming of age-a sweeping panorama of madcap rebellion and overnight fortunes, palaces and brothels, murder and revenge-as well as the story of a handful of unforgettable characters discovering the nature of freedom, loyalty, friendship, and true love. In the middle of the nineteenth century, modern life is being born: the mind-boggling marvels of photography, the telegraph, and railroads; a flood of show business spectacles and newspapers; rampant sex and drugs and drink (and moral crusades against all three); W...
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Honor in the Dust: A Winslow Breed Novel

By: Morris, Gilbert

Price: $3.98

Publisher: Howard Books : August 2009

Seller ID: 367968

ISBN-13: 9781416587460

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

The grandfather of Christian fiction returns with the story of what happened to the winslow family during an earlier era when the Tudors reigned--tracing the doomed rise of Stuart Winslow within the salacious court of King Henry VIII. The determined Stuart Winslow will go to any lengths to lift himself and his widowed mother out of poverty. After a distant relative manages to secure a place for Stuart in the court of King Henry VIII, Stuart quickly learns that the court is really a wicked cauldron of vices, power plays, and temptation. As Stuart rises at court, he is asked to find and deliver ...
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I Am the Brother of XX

By: Jaeggy, Fleur

Price: $14.95

Publisher: New Directions : July 2017

Seller ID: 459980

ISBN-13: 9780811225984

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Independence Day

By: Ford, Richard

Price: $3.98

Publisher: Knopf : June 1995

Seller ID: 389196

ISBN-13: 9780679492658

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Frank Bascombe is no longer a sportswriter, yet he's still living in Haddam, New Jersey, where he now sells real estate. He's still divorced, though his ex-wife, to his dismay, has remarried and moved along with their children to Connecticut. But Frank is happy enough in his work and pursuing various civic and entrepreneurial sidelines. He has high hopes for this 4th of July weekend: a search for a house for deeply hapless clients relocating to Vermont; a rendezvous on the Jersey shore with his girlfriend; then up to Connecticut to pick up his larcenous and emotionally troubled teenage son and...
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Jane and the Ghosts of Netley

By: Barron, Stephanie

Price: $7.98

Publisher: Bantam : May 2003

Seller ID: 475877

ISBN-13: 9780553802221

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Jane Austen, secret agent, is despatched to Netley Lodge to investigate suspicions about the mysterious Sophia Challoner. Is Mrs Challoner really a Bonapartist agent? As conspiracy gathers around Jane, the young novelist is put to the ulitmate test: is she ready to die for her country?
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Lucy

By: Feldman, Ellen

Price: $5.00

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company : January 2004

Seller ID: 369326

ISBN-13: 9780393325102

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

But Franklin and Lucy do meet again, and again they fall in love. As he prepares to run for an unprecedented third term and lead America into war, Franklin turns to Lucy for the warmth and unconditional approval Eleanor is unable to give.Ellen Feldman brings a novelist's insight to bear on the connection of these three compelling characters. Franklin and Lucy did finally meet, across the divide of his illness and political ascendancy, her marriage and widowhood. They fell in love again. As he prepared to run for an unprecedented third term and lead America into war, Franklin turned to Lucy for...
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Man Alone

By: Mulgan, John

Price: $6.98

Publisher: Longman Paul : January 1984

Seller ID: 432261

ISBN-13: 9780582717244

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Previous owner name on inside cover, with no other markings. Outside cover in good condition for age?fold lines and minimal wear on edges
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Mecca: A Novel

By: Straight, Susan

Price: $28.00

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux : March 2022

Seller ID: 400340

ISBN-13: 9780374604516

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Mr. Darwin's Shooter: A Novel

By: McDonald, Roger

Price: $4.98

Publisher: Grove Press : January 2008

Seller ID: 331497

ISBN-13: 9780802143563

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

From one of Australia's most acclaimed authors, a dazzling and deeply imagined exploration of ambition, natural marvels, and scientific discovery, and one of history's most significant crises of faith. As a boy of thirteen, Syms Covington leaves his home in Bedford and goes to sea, passing into manhood as he sails the world, surveying Patagonia, and losing his virginity in the Pampas. Aboard the HMS Beagle, he enters the service of Charles Darwin as an energetic and precocious fifteen-year-old, and in the course of their voyages together he shoots and collects hundreds of specimens for his "ge...
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Name of the Rose

By: Eco, Umberto

Price: $16.99

Publisher: Mariner Books : April 2014

Seller ID: 330971

ISBN-13: 9780544176560

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

An international sensation and winner of the Premio Strega and the Prix M dicis tranger awards The year is 1327. Benedictines in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Baskerville arrives to investigate. When his delicate mission is suddenly overshadowed by seven bizarre deaths, Brother William turns detective. His tools are the logic of Aristotle, the theology of Aquinas, the empirical insights of Roger Bacon--all sharpened to a glistening edge by wry humor and a ferocious curiosity. He collects evidence, deciphers secret symbols and coded manuscripts, and d...
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O.Henry Hotel/Gift of the Magi

By: Henry, O.

Price: $3.98

Publisher: Dover Publications : December 2004

Seller ID: 364050

ISBN-13: 9780486443348

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Oscar Wilde Discovers America: A Novel

By: Edwards, Louis

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Scribner : January 2003

Seller ID: 407496

ISBN-13: 9780743236898

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

In January 1882, Oscar Wilde arrived in New York to begin a nationwide publicity tour. Mentioned in a few newspaper articles -- but barely a footnote in the history books -- was the black valet who accompanied him. In a daring and richly imaginative work, Louis Edwards rescues this figure from obscurity, blurring the line between fact and fiction as he follows Wilde and his gifted confidant, Traquair, on a whirlwind tour across the country, from high-society Newport to art-conscious San Francisco to the Deep South. Edwards's brilliantly conjured Wilde astounds the New World with his eloquent ...
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Palmares

By: Jones, Gayl

Price: $27.95

Publisher: Beacon Press : September 2021

Seller ID: 365939

ISBN-13: 9780807033494

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

The epic rendering of a Black woman's journey through slavery and liberation, set in 17th-century colonial Brazil; the return of a major voice in American literature. First discovered and edited by Toni Morrison, Gayl Jones has been described as one of the great literary writers of the 20th century. Now, for the first time in over 20 years, Jones is ready to publish again. Palmares is the first of five new works by Gayl Jones to be published in the next two years, rewarding longtime fans and bringing her talent to a new generation of readers. Intricate and compelling, Palmares recounts...
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Pope Joan: A Novel

By: Cross, Donna

Price: $6.98

Publisher: Ballantine Books : September 1997

Seller ID: 341218

ISBN-13: 9780345416261

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Radetzky March

By: ROTH, JOSEPH, GORDIMER, NADINE

Price: $7.98

Publisher: N/A : September 2002

Seller ID: 478031

ISBN-13: 9781585673261

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

The Radetzky March, Joseph Roth's classic saga of the privileged von Trotta family, encompasses the entire social fabric of the Austro-Hungarian Empire just before World War I. The author's greatest achievement, The Radetzky March is an unparalleled portrait of a civilization in decline, and as such a universal story for our times.
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Rebel (The Starbuck Chronicles #1)

By: Cornwell, Bernard

Price: $7.98

Publisher: Perennial/HarperCollins Publishers : September 2001

Seller ID: 427001

ISBN-13: 9780060934613

Binding: School & Library Binding

Condition: Used - Very Good

When Richmond landowner Washington Faulconer snatches young Nate Starbuck from the grip of a Yankee-hating mob, Nate is both grateful and awed by his idealistic rescuer. To repay his generosity, he enlists in the Faulconer legion to fight against his home, the North, and against his abolitionist father. When the regiment joins up, ready to march into the ferocious battle at Buff Run, the men are prepared to start a war . . . but they aren't ready for how they--and the nation--will be forever changed by the oaths they have sworn for their beloved South.

Rebel (The Starbuck Chronicles #1)

By: Cornwell, Bernard

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Perennial/HarperCollins Publishers : September 2001

Seller ID: 459729

ISBN-13: 9780060934613

Binding: School & Library Binding

Condition: Used - Very Good

When Richmond landowner Washington Faulconer snatches young Nate Starbuck from the grip of a Yankee-hating mob, Nate is both grateful and awed by his idealistic rescuer. To repay his generosity, he enlists in the Faulconer legion to fight against his home, the North, and against his abolitionist father. When the regiment joins up, ready to march into the ferocious battle at Buff Run, the men are prepared to start a war . . . but they aren't ready for how they--and the nation--will be forever changed by the oaths they have sworn for their beloved South.

Red Milk: A Novel

By: Sjón,

Price: $25.00

Publisher: MCD : January 2022

Seller ID: 393739

ISBN-13: 9780374603366

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

A timely and provocative novel about a mysterious Icelandic neo-Nazi and the enduring global allure of fascism. In England in 1962, an Icelandic man is found dead on a train bound for Cheltenham Spa. In his possession, policemen find a map on which a swastika has been drawn with a red pen. Who was he, and where was he going? In a novel that reads as both biography and mystery, the internationally celebrated novelist Sj n tells the story of Gunnar Kampen, the founder of Iceland's anti-Semitic nationalist party, with ties to a burgeoning network of neo-Nazi groups across the globe. Told in a ser...
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Russka: The Novel of Russia

By: Rutherfurd, Edward

Price: $7.98

Publisher: Ballantine Books : March 2005

Seller ID: 418318

ISBN-13: 9780345479358

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "Impressive . . . Rutherford has indeed embraced all of Russia."--The Washington Post Book World Here, Edward Rutherfurd turns his remarkable talents to a vast canvas: Russia. Spanning 1,800 years of its history, people, politics, and culture, Rutherford's grand saa is as multifaceted as Russia itself: harsh yet exotic, proud yet fearful of enemeies, steeped in ancient superstitions but always seeking to make its mark on the emerging world. In Russka, Rutherford transforms the epic of a great civilization into a human story of flesh and blood, boldness and action, c...
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