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List view record 1: Fall of giantsList view anchor tag for record 1: Fall of giants
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Fall of giants

Follett, Ken2024
A world in chaos: 1911, a thirteen-year-old boy, Billy Williams, begins working down the mines as George V is crowned king. The escalating arms race between the empire nations will put not only the king but this young boy in grave danger. Billy's family is inextricably linked with the Fitzherbert...
List view record 2: A serpent in the gardenList view anchor tag for record 2: A serpent in the garden
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A serpent in the garden

Linskey, Howard2025
London, 1592. 28-year-old William Shakespeare is the rising man of English theatre. But plague has hit the capital, and the playhouses are to be shut. Livelihoods, and lives, are at stake. Lady Celia Vernon is one of the first to perish but did she really die of plague? Her cousin, the Earl of So...
List view record 3: The case of the missing maidList view anchor tag for record 3: The case of the missing maid
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The case of the missing maid

Osler, Rob2025
Harriet Morrow has long been drawn to the idea of whizzing around the city on her bicycle as a professional detective, solving crimes for a living without having to take a husband. Just twenty-one with a younger brother to support, she seizes the chance when the prestigious Prescott Agency hires ...
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A Worthington wedding

Quinn, Ella2024
Charlie, Earl of Stanwood, is at his gentleman's club when he overhears from a nearby card game that the Viscount Ognon plans to gamble away a property in which some of his family live. Charlie takes a dim view of those who mistreat their dependents, and though he rarely gambles, he always wins. ...
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Bloodguard

Robson, Cecy2024
Everything in the Kingdom of Arrow is a lie. Leith of Grey has nothing left, except his dying sister and his battle-scarred human body, fuelled by rage and hardened by years of fighting. So when the chance comes to fight as a gladiator in a vicious, bloodthirsty tournament, he seizes it with both...
List view record 6: Among the GreatList view anchor tag for record 6: Among the Great
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Among the Great

Ullrich, Amy2023
HISTORICAL ADVENTURE. A blind bard, a lame blacksmith, and an ambitious warrior all have their role in this tale of courage and true heroism set during the reign of Alfred the Great. The year is AD 877, and King Alfred has succeeded in driving the marauding Danes from his kingdom - for the time b...
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Nero

Iggulden, Conn2025
Emperor Tiberius first dispatches a traitor. Then his whole family. Next all his friends. It is as if he never existed. Into this fevered forum, a child is born. His mother is Agrippina, granddaughter of Emperor Augustus. But their imperial blood is no protection. The closer you are to the heart ...
List view record 8: Act like a lady, think like a lordList view anchor tag for record 8: Act like a lady, think like a lord
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Act like a lady, think like a lord

Connally, Celeste2024
London, 1815: Lady Petra Forsyth, daughter of the Earl of Holbrook, has made a shocking proclamation. After losing her beloved fiancé in an accident three years earlier, Petra sees no reason to cede her wealth and freedom to any man now that the love of her life is gone. Instead, she plans to con...
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Tyrant

Iggulden, Conn2025
The boy Nero lives. His mother Agrippina has married her way to power, tangling the Emperor Claudius in her skirts. The emperor may have a son and heir of his own, but Agrippina sees no obstacles to her ambition. Rome is a path through a marsh, lit by torches. Those who walk it are always one ste...
List view record 10: The midwife of BerlinList view anchor tag for record 10: The midwife of Berlin
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The midwife of Berlin

Stuart, Anna2023
An incredible story of one woman's courage and determination to reunite her family in the aftermath of surviving Auschwitz. 1945, Ester Pasternak walked out of the gates of Auschwitz barely alive. She survived against devastating odds, but her heartbreaking journey is only just beginning. In the ...
List view record 11: The railway conspiracyList view anchor tag for record 11: The railway conspiracy
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The railway conspiracy

Nee, John Shen Yen2025
London, 1924. Following several months abroad, Judge Dee Ren Jie has returned to the city to intercept a transaction between a Russian diplomat and a Japanese mercenary. Aided by Lao She - the Watson to his Holmes - along with several other colorful characters, Dee stops the illicit sale of an ex...
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A shipwreck in Fiji

Rao, Nilima2025
Sergeant Akal Singh, an unwilling transplant to Fiji, is just starting to settle into his life in the capital city of Suva when he is sent to the neighboring island of Ovalau on a series of fool's errands. First: investigate strange reports of Germans, thousands of miles from the front of World W...
List view record 13: Black silk & buried secretsList view anchor tag for record 13: Black silk & buried secrets
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Black silk & buried secrets

Challinor, Deborah2025
Sydney, 1871. Twenty-five-year-old widow Tatty Crowe is the owner of busy undertaking firm Crowe Funerals. Life and business are good until Tatty notices how many women are dying after unlawful abortions, and after a terrible tragedy strikes close to home, she vows to expose the culprit. And then...
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Skull river

Fioretti, Pip2025
In Autumn of 1912, mounted trooper Augustus Hawkins arrives at his new post in the fading gold town of Colley, NSW. On his first day, he is ambushed by a hidden gunman, his junior officer is killed before his eyes, and he escapes back to town to find the police station burning to the ground. Some...
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The ghosts of Rome

O'Connor, Joseph, 1963-2025
February 1944. Six months since Nazi forces occupied Rome. Inside the beleaguered city, the Contessa Giovanna Landini is a member of the band of Escape Line activists known as 'The Choir'. Their mission is to smuggle refugees to safety and help Allied soldiers, all under the nose of Gestapo boss ...
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Daughters of Rome

Quinn, Kate2011
Mystery. This sweeping, powerful epic tells the story of one of the bloodiest years in Rome's history through the eyes of two remarkable women fighting for survival A.D. 69. The Roman Empire is up for the taking. The Year of the Four Emperors will change everything - especially the lives of two s...
List view record 17: The stolen heartList view anchor tag for record 17: The stolen heart
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The stolen heart

Kurkov, Andreĭ2025
Samson Kolechko has been assigned a most perplexing case, though it is mostly perplexing because it's hard to understand why selling the meat of one's own pig constitutes a crime. But apparently it does, and at the insistence of the Chekist secret police officer assigned to "reinforce" the Lybid ...
List view record 18: All's fair in love and treacheryList view anchor tag for record 18: All's fair in love and treachery
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All's fair in love and treachery

Connally, Celeste2024
21 June, 1815. London may be cheering the news of Napoleon's surrender at Waterloo, but Lady Petra Forsyth has little to celebrate after discovering that the death of her viscount fiancé three years earlier was no accident. Instead, it was murder, and the man responsible is her handsome, half-Sco...
List view record 19: Our dear DaisyList view anchor tag for record 19: Our dear Daisy
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Our dear Daisy

Goodwin, Rosie2024
Nuneaton, 1880. Twenty year old Daisy Armstrong lives a happy life with her loving father, Jed. They have a special bond, particularly after losing her beloved Irish mother and younger brother. But when Jed falls in love with a local widow, everything is set to change for them both. With expensiv...
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The Berlin agent

Ronson, Stephen2024
England 1940: Paris has fallen to the Third Reich. Farmer John Cook and society heiress Lady Margaret are waiting for the day when German tanks roll across the green fields of their homes. Both are ready for the moment they will disappear into the woods and the fields to carry out their top-secre...
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Mortal radiance

Lasky, Kathryn2025
New Mexico, 1935. Painter Georgia O'Keeffe is at her friend Mabel Dodge Luhan's home, Los Gallos, a house inhabited by a colorful range of artists, authors and society figures, to attend the memorial service of the renowned writer D.H. Lawrence. Georgia has been commissioned to design the stained...
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Winter of the world

Follett, Ken2024
1933: At Cambridge, Lloyd Williams is drawn to irresistible socialite Daisy Peshkov, who represents everything that his left-wing family despise, but Daisy is more interested in aristocratic Boy Fitzherbert, a leading light of the British Union of Fascists. Berlin is in turmoil. Eleven-year-old C...
List view record 23: Library for the war-woundedList view anchor tag for record 23: Library for the war-wounded
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Library for the war-wounded

Helfer, Monika, 1947-2024
We called him Vati, Dad. Not Papa. He thought it sounded modern. He wanted to present himself to us, and through us, as a man in tune with the modern age. A man who could be read as having a different past. Inspired by the author's family history, Library for the War-Wounded transports readers to...
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Among the Outcast

Ullrich, Amy2024
HISTORICAL ADVENTURE. Journey back in time with this fast-paced, soul-stirring adventure that immerses you once again in the fascinating and complex world of Alfred the Great. As thunder crashes overhead, condemnation throbbing in its ominous tones, Edwin flees from the kingdom he has betrayed. W...
List view record 25: The war orphanList view anchor tag for record 25: The war orphan
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The war orphan

Stuart, Anna2024
Sixteen-year-old Tasha Ancel turns to take one last look at the imposing place that stole her freedom and her childhood. She has no idea how she continued to live when so many others did not. For the first time in months, her heart beats with hope for her future and that of the smaller children w...
List view record 26: The land of the living and the deadList view anchor tag for record 26: The land of the living and the dead
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The land of the living and the dead

Lawless, Shauna2024
Ireland, AD 1011: The mortal kingdoms rise up against High King Brian Boru as they seek to wrest his crown from him. Yet the real struggle is between the two magical races of Ireland, the Fomorians and the Descendants: eternal enemies who both now seek dominion over the mortal world. Gormflaith, ...
List view record 27: My inconvenient dukeList view anchor tag for record 27: My inconvenient duke
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My inconvenient duke

Chase, Loretta Lynda, 1949-2025
Lady Alice Ancaster must find a husband quickly to protect her family's dukedom from their cousin, but she finds herself irresistibly drawn to the Duke of Blackwood, a childhood friend whose reckless lifestyle complicates her choice and challenges her ability to trust him as a hero in her time of...
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The worst duke in London

Howard, Amalie2024
Lady Evangeline Raine, eldest daughter of the Earl of Oberton, has no interest in marriage. Stubborn and unconventional, Effie is a committed spinster who prefers animals to people, much to the dismay of her flirty younger sister Viola. Because their father has one rule: Viola may be courted, onl...
List view record 29: Edge of eternityList view anchor tag for record 29: Edge of eternity
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Edge of eternity

Follett, Ken2024
1961, and in the United States George Jakes, a bright young lawyer in the Kennedy administration and fierce supporter of the civil rights movement, boards a Greyhound bus in Washington with Verena, an employee of Martin Luther King whom he is in love with, to protest against segregation. In East ...
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I died for beauty

Flower, Amanda2025
Amherst, 1857. The Dickinson family braves one of the worst winters in New England's history. Trains are snowbound and boats are frozen in the harbor. Emily Dickinson and her maid, Willa Noble, have never witnessed anything like it. As Amherst families attempt to keep their homes warm, fears of f...
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