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The Pillars of the Earth [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by Ken Follett
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 "Follett risks all and comes out a clear winner," extolled Publishers Weekly on the release of The Pillars of the Earth. A departure for the bestselling thriller writer, the historical epic stunned readers and critics alike with its ambitious scope and gripping humanity. Today, it is a beloved favorite of countless readers, standing as a testament to Follett's unassailable command of the written word and to his universal appeal. A spellbinding epic set in twelfth-century England, The Pillars of ... more info>>
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Angel of Windword [MultiFormat]
by Maggie Dove
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Evil forces are at play surrounding Angelique Beauvisage, but she has no clue. Sensuous and suspense-filled, ANGEL OF WINDWORD, begins with a murder that takes place four years before and turns into a perilous cat and mouse game played by two reluctant lovers, who spin a web of deception that only their love can unravel. (Published: 2009)
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The Fiery Cross [Secure Mobipocket/eReader (recommended)]
by Diana Gabaldon
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The year is 1771. The American War of Independence is fast approaching. And it seems that Jamie Fraser and his wife, Claire, and their beloved family are fated to be in the thick of things once again.
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The Last Kingdom [Saxon Series Book 1] [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by Bernard Cornwell
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 From Bernard Cornwell, the New York Times bestselling author whom the Washington Post calls "perhaps the greatest writer of historical adventure novels today," comes a saga of blood, rage, fidelity, and betrayal that brings to center stage King Alfred the Great, one of the most crucial (but oft-forgotten) figures in English history. It is King Alfred and his heirs who, in the ninth and tenth centuries, with their backs against the wall, fought to secure the survival of the last outpost of Anglo-... more info>>
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Victory of Eagles [Temeraire Series Book 5] [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by Naomi Novik
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Naomi Novik's triumphant debut, His Majesty's Dragon, introduced a dynamic new pair of heroes to the annals of fantasy fiction: the noble fighting dragon Temeraire and his master and commander, Capt. Will Laurence, who serves Britain's peerless Aerial Corps in the thick of the raging Napoleonic Wars. Now, in the latest novel of this dazzling series, they soar to new heights of breathtaking action and brilliant imagination. It is a grim time for the dragon Temeraire. On the heels of his mission t... more info>>
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A Breath of Snow and Ashes [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by Diana Gabaldon
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Eagerly anticipated by her legions of fans, this sixth novel in Diana Gabaldon's bestselling Outlander saga is a masterpiece of historical fiction from one of the most popular authors of our time. Since the initial publication of Outlander fifteen years ago, Diana Gabaldon's New York Times bestselling saga has won the hearts of readers the world over--and sold more than twelve million books. Now, A Breath of Snow and Ashes continues the extraordinary story of 18th-century Scotsman Jamie Fraser a... more info>> Quill Book Award Winner
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The Given Day [Secure Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by Dennis Lehane
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 In his long-awaited eighth novel, filled with the same suspenseful storytelling that shot Mystic River and Shutter Island to the top of the charts, award-winning author Dennis Lehane again puts all of his literary talents on display. The Great War is ending; the Bolsheviks are overthrowing the Tsar, the Kaiser is running roughshod over Europe, and the Spanish influenza is beginning its deadly rampage. On American shores, communist and socialist movements are swelling in numbers and anarchists ar... more info>>
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The Jester [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe]
by James Patterson
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Arriving home disillusioned from the Crusades, Hugh discovers his village has been ransacked and his wife abducted by knights in search of a relic worth more than any throne in Europe. Only by taking on the role of a jester is he able to infiltrate his enemy's castle where he thinks his wife is captive. With the unstoppable pace and plot of a page turning Alex Cross novel, The Jester is a breathtakingly romantic, pulse-pounding adventure--one that could only be conjured by the mind of James Patt... more info>>
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The Archer's Tale [The Grail Quest Series Book 1] [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe]
by Bernard Cornwell
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At dawn on Easter morning 1343, a marauding band of French raiders arrives by boat to ambush the coastal English village of Hookton. To brave young Thomas, the only survivor, the horror of the attack is epitomized in the casual savagery of a particular black-clad knight, whose flag--three yellow hawks on a blue field--presides over the bloody affair. As the killers sail away, Thomas vows to avenge the murder of his townspeople and to recapture a holy treasure that the black knight stole from the... more info>> (Published: 2006)
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The Last Free Men: IX Legion [MultiFormat]
by David Coles, Jack Everett
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During the reign of Emperor Marcus Aurelius in the 2nd Century AD, Rome's Ninth Legion was sent to Hadrian's Wall in northwest Britain to quell an insurrection that threatened the Empire's hold on the region. They were never heard from again. Historians have speculated for centuries about what might have happened to the mighty Ninth Legion--here is one intriguing possibility. THE LAST FREE MEN is the story of Marcus Gettorix, son of a Roman general and a British woman living in the northwest fro... more info>> (Published: 2008)
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The Other Queen [Tudor Series Book 6] [Secure Mobipocket/eReader (recommended)]
by Philippa Gregory
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This dazzling novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author Philippa Gregory presents a new and unique view of one of history's most intriguing, romantic, and maddening heroines. Biographers often neglect the captive years of Mary, Queen of Scots, who trusted Queen Elizabeth's promise of sanctuary when she fled from rebels in Scotland and then found herself imprisoned as the "guest" of George Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury, and his indomitable wife, Bess of Hardwick. The newly married couple w... more info>>
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World Without End [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by Ken Follett
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 Ken Follett has 90 million readers worldwide. The Pillars of the Earth is his bestselling book of all time. Now, eighteen years after the publication of The Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett has written the most-anticipated sequel of the year--World Without End. In 1989 Ken Follett astonished the literary world with The Pillars of the Earth, a sweeping epic novel set in twelfth-century England centered on the building of a cathedral and many of the hundreds of lives it affected. Critics were ove... more info>>
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Final Justice [Badge of Honor Series Book 8] [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by W.E.B. Griffin
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Newly promoted to sergeant, Philadelphia detective Matt Payne finds himself in the middle of three assignments at once: trying to nail down a cop killer, a serial rapist, and a murderer who fled to France 20 years ago. It's enough to burn out any cop. But Payne's not just any cop. And he's about to show the bad guys that there's no place they can hide from him--or from justice...
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Gai-Jin [Secure Mobipocket/eReader (recommended)]
by James Clavell
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The heir to the magnificent English trading company, the Noble House--the directdescendant of the first Toranaga Shogun battling to usher his country into the modern age--a beautiful young French woman forever torn between ambition and desire. Their lives intertwine in an exotic land newly open to foreigners, gai-jin, torn apart by greed, idealism, and terrorism. Their passions mingle with monarchs and diplomats, assassins, courtesans and spies. Their fates collide in James Clavell's latest mast... more info>>
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Lando [Sackett Series Book 7] [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe]
by Louis L'Amour
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One of the great sagas of our time, the chronicle of the Sackett family is perhaps the crowning achievement of one of our greatest storytellers. In Lando, Louis L'Amour has created an unforgettable portrait of a unique hero. A man never to count out.... For six long years Orlando Sackett survived the horrors of a brutal Mexican prison. He survived by using his skills as a boxer and by making three vows. The first was to exact revenge on the hired killers who framed him. The second was to return ... more info>> (Published: 2003)
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Lord John and the Brotherhood of the Blade [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by Diana Gabaldon
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In her much-anticipated new novel, the New York Times bestselling author of the Outlander saga brings back one of her most compelling characters: Lord John Grey--soldier, gentleman, and no mean hand with a blade. Here Diana Gabaldon brilliantly weaves together the strands of Lord John's secret and public lives---a shattering family mystery, a love affair with potentially disastrous consequences, and a war that stretches from the Old World to the New....
In 1758, in the heart of the Seven Years'... more info>>
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Lord John and the Hand of Devils [Secure Mobipocket/eReader (recommended)]
by Diana Gabaldon
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Diana Gabaldon, the New York Times bestselling author of Lord John and the Brotherhood of the Blade and the wildly popular Outlander novels, delivers three tales of war, intrigue, and espionage that feature one of her most popular characters: Lord John Grey. In the heart of the eighteenth century, here are haunted soldiers ... lusty princesses ... ghostly apparitions ... dark family secrets. And here Lord John will face enemies who come in the guise of friends, memories in the shape of a fiery-h... more info>>
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Lord John and the Private Matter [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe]
by Diana Gabaldon
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Adored bestselling author Diana Gabaldon brings us the first book in a new trilogy featuring many of the characters from her wildly popular Outlander series. In her New York Times bestselling Outlander novels, Diana Gabaldon introduced millions of readers to a dazzling world of history and adventure--a world of vibrant settings and utterly unforgettable characters. Now one of these characters, Major Lord John Grey, opens the door to his own part of this world--eighteenth-century London, a seethi... more info>> (Published: 2003)
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Lords of the North [Saxon Series Book 3] [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe]
by Bernard Cornwell
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From Bernard Cornwell, the undisputed master of historical fiction, hailed as "the direct heir to Patrick O'Brien,"* comes the third volume in the exhilarating Saxon Chronicles: the story of the birth of England as the Saxons struggle to repel the Danish invaders. The year is 878, and as Lords of the North begins, the Saxons of Wessex, under King Alfred, have defeated the Danes to keep their kingdom free. Uhtred, the dispossessed son of a Northumbrian lord, helped Alfred win that victory, but no... more info>> (Published: 2007)
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Quicksilver [The Baroque Cycle Volume 1] [Secure Mobipocket/eReader (recommended)]
by Neal Stephenson
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Set against the backdrop of the late 17th and early 18th centuries, Quicksilver tells the intertwining tales of 3 unforgettable main characters (descendants of characters from Cryptonomicon) as they traverse a landscape populated by mad alchemists, Barbary pirates, and bawdy courtiers, as well as historical figures including Ben Franklin, William of Orange, Louis XIV, and many others. This breathtaking story ranges from the American colonies to the Tower of London to the glittering palace at Ver... more info>> (Published: 2004) Arthur C. Clarke Award Winner
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The Pale Horseman [Saxon Series Book 2] [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe]
by Bernard Cornwell
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Uhtred is a Saxon, cheated of his inheritance and adrift in a world of fire, sword, and treachery. He has to make a choice: whether to fight for the Vikings, who raised him, or for King Alfred the Great of Wessex, who dislikes him. In the late ninth century, Wessex is the last English kingdom. The rest have fallen to the Danish Vikings, a story told in The Last Kingdom, the New York Times bestselling novel in which Uhtred's tale began. Now the Vikings want to finish England. They assemble the Gr... more info>> (Published: 2007)
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Believe [PRE-ORDER ONLY: Available: Nov 24, 2009] [Secure Mobipocket/eReader (recommended)]
by Victoria Alexander
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   All she had to do was believe. . .Tessa St. James thinks that true love is nothing more than a fairy tale, and she is absolutely certain she will never encounter someone worthy of her attention ... until she meets her knight in shining armor. His eyes are blue, the set of his chin is defiant, and he carries himself with unquestioned confidence. And when he kisses her, he sends a wicked desire through her body. Tessa, the beautiful skeptic, has no choice but to join forces with this man. Together... more info>>
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Blue Diablo [Secure Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by Ann Aguirre
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Corine Solomon is a handler--when she touches an object she instantly knows its history and its future. Using her ability, she can find the missing--which is why people never stop trying to find her. Like her ex-boyfriend Chance, who needs Corine's gift to find someone dear to them both. But the search proves dangerous as it leads them into a strange world of demons and sorcerers, ghosts and witchcraft, zombies--and black magic...
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Cade's Quest: The Beginning [MultiFormat]
by Ed Howdershelt
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Surviving the War Between the States had made young Sergeant Ed Cade superbly adept at killing. Returning to the ruins of his family's farm, Cade discovered that his parents hadn't survived the war years. He also discovered that he no longer had any interest in farming. After leasing his land to others, Cade set forth to find or make some kind of a future for himself amid the bitter aftermath of the American Civil War. (Published: 2005)
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Jackdaws [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by Ken Follett
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D day is approaching. They don't know where or when, but the Germans know it'll be soon, and for Felicity "Flick" Clairet, the stakes have never been higher. A senior agent in the ranks of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) responsible for sabotage, Flick has survived to become one of Britain's most effective operatives in northern France. She knows that the Germans' ability to thwart the Allied attack depends upon their lines of communication, and in the days before the invasion, no target ... more info>> (Published: 2004)
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