Category: Historical Fiction

Internationally acclaimed and profoundly moving, Richard Flanagan's Wanting is a stunning tale of colonialism, ambition, and the lusts and longings that make us human. Now in paperback, it links two icons of Western civilization through a legendarily disastrous arctic exploration, and one of the most infamous episodes in human history: the colonization of Tasmania.
In 1841, Sir John Franklin and his wife, Lady Jane, move to the remote penal colony of Van Diemen's Land, now Tasmania. There Lady Jane falls in love with a lively aboriginal girl, Mathinna, whom she adopts and makes the s...
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The Pillars of the Earth (Deluxe Edition) (Oprah's Book Club)

By: Follett, Ken

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Penguin Books: November 2007

Seller ID: 42360

ISBN: 0451225244

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

If you liked the Century Trilogy, you ll love the extraordinary . . . monumental masterpiece (Booklist) that changed the course of Ken Follett s already phenomenal career.
Follett risks all and comes out a clear winner, extolledPublishers Weeklyon the release ofThe 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 stands as a testament to Follett s unassailable command of the written word and to his universal appeal.
The Pi...
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Pillars of the Earth

By: Follett, Ken

Price: $5.00

Publisher: November 2014

Seller ID: 122328

ISBN: 0451207149

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

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World Without End

By: Follett, Ken

Price: $8.00

Publisher: October 2014

Seller ID: 48907

ISBN: 045122499X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

#1 New York Times Bestseller
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 overwhelmed--"it will hold you, fascinate you, surround you" (Chicago Tribune)--and readers everywhere hoped for a sequel. Look out for the next book in this series, A Column of Fire, available now.

World Without End takes place in the same town of Kingsbridge, two centuri...
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The Pillars of the Earth: A Novel (Kingsbridge)

By: Follett, Ken

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Penguin Books: July 1990

Seller ID: 48909

ISBN: 0451166892

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read
#1 New York Times Bestseller
Oprah's Book Club Selection
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Column of Fire, the "monumental masterpiece" (Booklist) that changed the course of Ken Follett's already phenomenal career.

"Follett is a master," extolled the Washington Post 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 ...
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Column of Fire: A Novel (Kingsbridge)

By: Follett, Ken

Price: $4.00

Seller ID: 434220

ISBN: 0451478002

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
"Absorbing . . . impossible to resist." --The Washingt
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1 Fall of Giants (The Century Trilogy)

By: Follett, Ken

Price: $6.50

Seller ID: 132158

ISBN: 0525951652

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Ken Follett's magnificent new historical epic begins as five interrelated families move through the momentous dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women's suffrage.
A thirteen-year-old Welsh boy enters a man's world in the mining pits. . . . An American law student rejected in love finds a surprising new career in Woodrow Wilson's White House. . . . A housekeeper for the aristocratic Fitzherberts takes a fateful step above her station, while Lady Maud Fitzherbert herself crosses deep into forbidden territory when she falls in love with a Germa...
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Fall of Giants: Book One of the Century Trilogy

By: Follett, Ken

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Penguin Books: September 2012

Seller ID: 217489

ISBN: 0451232852

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Ken Follett's magnificent new historical epic begins as five interrelated families move through the momentous dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women's suffrage.
A thirteen-year-old Welsh boy enters a man's world in the mining pits. . . . An American law student rejected in love finds a surprising new career in Woodrow Wilson's White House. . . . A housekeeper for the aristocratic Fitzherberts takes a fateful step above her station, while Lady Maud Fitzherbert herself crosses deep into forbidden territory when she falls in love with a Germa...
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Winter of the World: Book 2 of the Century Trilogy

By: Follett, Ken

Price: $6.00

Publisher: July 2014

Seller ID: 278396

ISBN: 0451419243

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

"This book is truly epic. . . . The reader will probably wish there was a thousand more pages." --The Huffington Post

Picking up where Fall of Giants, the first novel in the extraordinary Century Trilogy, left off, Winter of the World follows its five interrelated families--American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh--through a time of enormous social, political, and economic turmoil, beginning with the rise of the Third Reich, through the great dramas of World War II, and into the beginning of the long Cold War.
Carla von Ulrich, born of German and En...
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Triple

By: Follett, Ken

Price: $6.50

Seller ID: 409335

ISBN: 0143133373

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A New York Times bestselling novel of international suspense and terror from the author of The Pillars of the Earth, World Without End, and A Column of Fire

As Egypt comes closer and closer to developing a nuclear bomb, the Mossad's number one Israeli agent is given an impossible mission: to beat the Arabs in the nuclear arms race by finding and stealing two hundred tons of uranium. The world's balance of power will shift. And the Mossad, the KGB, the Egyptians, and Fedayeen terrorists will play out the final, violent moves in this devastating game wh...
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Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet

By: Ford, Jamie

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Ballantine Books: October 2009

Seller ID: 96991

ISBN: 0345505344

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "An impressive, bitter, and sweet debut that explores the age-old conflicts between father and son, the beauty and sadness of what happened to Japanese Americans in the Seattle era during World War II, and the depths and longing of deep-heart love."--Lisa See

Special anniversary edition with bonus material including a new short story, "Only Keiko," an interview, and a map of 1940s Seattle
In 1986, Henry Lee joins a crowd outside the Panama Hotel, once the gateway to Seattle's Japantown. It has been boarded up for decades, but now the ...
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Love and Other Consolation Prizes: A Novel

By: Ford, Jamie

Price: $6.50

Seller ID: 393044

ISBN: 0804176752

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

From the bestselling author of Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet comes a powerful novel, inspired by a true story, about a boy whose life is transformed at Seattle's epic 1909 World's Fair.
"An evocative, heartfelt, beautifully crafted story that shines a light on a fascinating, tragic bit of forgotten history."--Kristin Hannah, author of The Nightingale
For twelve-year-old Ernest Young, a charity student at a boarding school, the chance to go to the World's Fair feels like a gift. But only once he's there, amid the exotic exhibits, fireworks, and Fer...
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Hornblower and the Atropos (Hornblower Saga (Paperback))

By: Forester, C. S.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Little, Brown and Co.: April 1999

Seller ID: 446890

ISBN: 0316289299

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Hornblower leads a ship into the Mediterranean in this "intense and exciting" installment (New
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Hornblower During the Crisis (Hornblower Saga (Paperback))

By: Forester, C. S.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Back Bay Books: April 1990

Seller ID: 202301

ISBN: 0316289442

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Although unfinished at the time of C. S. Forester's death, Hornblower During the Crisis delivers a full measure of action at sea-the hallmark of this incomparably exciting series of historical adventures. On the threshold of securing his first post as captain, Hornblower finds himself forced by the exigencies of war to fight alongside a man whom he has unintentionally helped to court-martial. And for the first time Hornblower assents to engaging in espionage in his efforts to bring victory and glory to England in the Napoleonic Wars. This extant fragment of Forester's final Hornblower novel is...
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Flying Colours (Hornblower Saga (Paperback))

By: Forester, C. S.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Back Bay Books: April 1989

Seller ID: 202303

ISBN: 0316289396

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Forced to surrender his ship, the Sutherland, after a long and bloody battle, Captain Horatio Hornblower now bides his time as a prisoner in a French fortress. Within days he and his first lieutenant, Bush, who was crippled in the last fight, are to be taken to Paris to be tried on trumped-up charges of violating the laws of war, and most probably executed as part of Napoleon's attempt to rally the warweary empire behind him. Even if Hornblower escapes this fate and somehow finds his way back to England, he will face court-martial for his surrender of a British ship. As fears for his life and ...
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Hornblower and the 'Hotspur' (Hornblower Series)

By: Forester, C. S.

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Back Bay Books: November 1998

Seller ID: 202308

ISBN: 0316290467

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

April 1803. The Peace of Amiens is breaking down. Napoleon is building ships and amassing an army just across the Channel. Horatio Hornblower-who, at age twenty-seven, has already distinguished himself as one of the most daring and resourceful officers in the Royal Navy-commands the three-masted Hotspur on a dangerous reconnaissance mission that evolves, as war breaks out, into a series of spectacular confrontations. All the while, the introspective young commander struggles to understand his new bride and mother-in-law, his officers and crew, and his own "accursed unhappy temperament"-matters...
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Ship of the Line (Hornblower Saga (Paperback))

By: Forester, C. S.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Back Bay Books: September 1985

Seller ID: 238423

ISBN: 0316289361

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

May 1810, seventeen years deep into the Napoleonic Wars. Captain Horatio Hornblower is newly in command of his first ship of the line, the seventy-four-gun HMS Sutherland, which he deems "the ugliest and least desirable two-decker in the Navy List." Moreover, she is 250 men short of a full crew, so Hornblower must enlist and train "poachers, bigamists, sheepstealers," and other landlubbers. By the time the Sutherland reaches the blockaded Catalonian coast of Spain, the crew is capable of staging five astonishing solo raids against the French. But the grisly prospect of defeat and capture looms...
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Admiral Hornblower in the West Indies

By: Forester, C.S.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: August 2013

Seller ID: 105141

ISBN: 0316289418

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

These thrilling tales of high-seas adventure in the Napoleonic era, which Winston Churchill found "vastly entertaining" and Ernest Hemingway recommended to "every literate I know," are being eagerly embraced by a new generation of readers. Back Bay takes pleasure in reissuing these classic tales in handsome new trade paperback editions.
-- The Hornblower renaissance is in full sail with a nearly tenfold increase in sales: more than I5O, OOO Hornblower books sold in the first six months of 1999.
-- The A&E television network's series of original movies based on Hornblower's adventures hav...
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Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald

By: Fowler, Therese Anne

Price: $5.00

Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin: March 2014

Seller ID: 397344

ISBN: 1250028663

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

THE INSPIRATION FOR THE TELEVISION DRAMA Z: THE BEGINNING OF EVERYTHING
I wish I could tell everyone who thinks we're ruined, Look closer...and you'll see something extraordinary, mystifying, something real and true. We have never been what we seemed.

When beautiful, reckless Southern belle Zelda Sayre meets F. Scott Fitzgerald at a country club dance in 1918, she is seventeen years old and he is a young army lieutenant stationed in Alabama. Before long, the "ungettable" Zelda has fallen for him despite his unsuitability: Scott isn't wealthy or promi...
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Category: Historical Fiction