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Search results: The best new books - Book reviews, excerpts, reading guides and more of exceptional historical fiction.
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The Valley of Unknowing
by Philip Sington
Hardcover: 3 Dec 2012
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| A subtle, brilliantly plotted story set the twilight years of Communist East Germany. |
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The Technologists: A Novel
by Matthew Pearl
Hardcover: Feb 2012
Paperback: 27 Nov 2012
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| The acclaimed author of The Dante Club reinvigorates the historical thriller. Matthew Pearl's spellbinding new novel transports readers to tumultuous nineteenth-century Boston, where the word "technology" represents a bold and frightening new concept. |
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The Healing: A Novel
by Jonathan Odell
Hardcover: Feb 2012
Paperback: 13 Nov 2012
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| The pre-Civil War South comes brilliantly to life in this masterfully written novel about a mysterious and charismatic healer readers won't soon forget. |
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The Maid: A Novel of Joan of Arc
by Kimberly Cutter
Hardcover: Oct 2011
Paperback: 16 Oct 2012
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| The girl who led an army, the peasant who crowned a king, the maid who became a legend. |
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Illuminations: A Novel of Hildegard von Bingen
by Mary Sharratt
Hardcover: Oct 2012
Paperback: 15 Oct 2013
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| Skillfully interweaving historical fact with psychological insight and vivid imagination, Sharratt's redemptive novel, Illuminations, brings to life one of the most extraordinary women of the Middle Ages: Hildegard von Bingen, Benedictine abbess, visionary, and polymath. |
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Something Red
by Douglas Nicholas
Hardcover: Sep 2012
Paperback: 18 Jun 2013
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| An intoxicating and spirited blend of fantasy, mythology, and history, Something Red features the most fascinating of characters, as well as an epic snowstorm that an early reader described as "one of the coldest scenes since Snow Falling on Cedars." |
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The Malice of Fortune
by Michael Ennis
Hardcover: Sep 2012
Paperback: 4 Jun 2013
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| Against a teeming canvas of Borgia politics, Niccolò Machiavelli and Leonardo da Vinci come together to unmask an enigmatic serial killer, as we learn the secret history behind one of the most controversial works in the western canon, The Prince. |
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The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared
by Jonas Jonasson
Paperback: 11 Sep 2012
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| A reluctant centenarian much like Forrest Gump (if Gump were an explosives expert with a fondness for vodka) decides it’s not too late to start over... |
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