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The Forest Laird: A Tale of William Wallace

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Insurrection

Robyn Young · 586 pages

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The Last Kingdom

Bernard Cornwell · 474 pages

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Outlander

Diana Gabaldon · 761 pages

Unrivaled storytelling. Unforgettable characters. Rich historical detail. These are the hallmarks of Diana Gabaldon’s work. Her New York Times bestselling Outlander novels have earned the praise of critics and captured the hearts of millions of fans. Here is the story that started it all, introducing two remarkable characters, Claire Beauchamp Randall and Jamie Fraser, in a spellbinding novel of p

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Blood Song

Anthony Ryan · 592 pages

Raised by the brothers of the Sixth Order, Vaelin Al Sorna, a Warrior of the Faith, must battle the Empire and even his own father in the first book of a new fantasy trilogy.

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The Crown in the Heather

N. Gemini Sasson · 302 pages

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Ash: A Secret History

Mary Gentle · 1,113 pages

Probably the biggest fantasy novel ever published in a single volume, Mary Gentle's magnificent tale of the gutsy and beautiful mercenary leader Ash will take you on an unforgettable ride through medieval Europe as it never quite was: For Ash, life has always been arquebuses and artillery, swords and armor, and the true horrors of hand-to-hand combat. War is her job. But she doesn't realize tha

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Of Darkness and Light

Ryan Cahill · 662 pages

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Braveheart

Randall Wallace · 277 pages

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A Star Called Henry

Roddy Doyle · 352 pages

Doyle at his best- his portrait of turn-of-the-century Dublin's dark side is masterful. There is a Dickensian richness to language and character' The TimesBorn in the Dublin slums of 1901, his father a one-legged whorehouse bouncer and settler of scores, Henry Smart has to grow up fast. By the time he can walk he's out robbing and begging, often cold and always hungry, but a prince of the streets.

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The Grace of Kings

Ken Liu · 640 pages

"Wily, charming Kuni Garu--a bandit--and stern, fearless Mata Zyndu--the son of a deposed duke--seem like polar opposites. Yet, in the uprising against the emperor, the two quickly become the best of friends after a series of adventures fighting against vast conscripted armies, silk-draped airships, soaring battle kites, underwater boats, magical books, shapeshifting gods, and scaled whales who se

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The Warded Man

Peter V. Brett · 416 pages

The time has come to stand against the night.As darkness falls each night, the corelings rise--demons who well up from the ground like hellish steam, taking on fearsome form and substance. Sand demons. Wood demons. Wind demons. Flame demons. And gigantic rock demons, the deadliest of all. They possess supernatural strength and powers and burn with a consuming hatred of humanity. For hundreds of ye

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Furies of Calderon

Jim Butcher · 512 pages

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Soul of the World

David Mealing · 656 pages

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The Shadowed Land

Signe Pike · 400 pages

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The Scottish Chiefs

Jane Porter · 520 pages

William Wallace encounters secret passageways, disguises, and a quintet of horrible villains as he fights for Scotland at the turn of the fourteenth century.

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Sherwood

Parke Godwin · 526 pages

“In the dark time, with Saxon freedom crushed beneath the iron fist of King William the Conqueror, the cry for a champion resounds throughout the land—and Edward Aelredson, Thane of Denby, answers the call. Forced from his home..., young Edward takes refuge in the ancient forest Sherwood—there to foment rebellion amid its green and silent bowers.”

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Falls the Shadow

Sharon Kay Penman · 580 pages

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I Am the Chosen King

Helen Hollick · 592 pages

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The Chief

Monica McCarty · 427 pages

AN ELITE FIGHTING FORCE UNLIKE THE WORLD HAS EVER SEEN . . . Scouring the darkest corners of the Highlands and Western Isles, Robert the Bruce handpicks ten warriors to help him in his quest to free Scotland from English rule. They are the best of the best, chosen for their superior skills in each discipline of warfare. And to lead his secret Highland Guard, Bruce chooses the greatest warrior of a

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I, Claudius/Claudius the God

Robert Graves · 848 pages

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Waverley

Walter Scott · 455 pages

"The well-chosen additional materials in this new edition of Waverley will prove illuminating to readers of Scott in numerous ways. Contemporaneous reviews reveal a wide range of perspectives on this historical novel; selections by Defoe and Swift express conflicting attitudes toward the Union of 1707. In addition, sections on the Rebellion of 1745 and on the customs of the Highlanders make availa

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White Rose Rebel

Janet Paisley · 400 pages

Anne Farquharson is a Highland girl - tempestuous, bold, determined to be her own woman. Yet the clan Farquharson is threatened. The Highlands suffer at the domineering hand of English King George, while there are rumours that Bonnie Prince Charlie, exiled to France, is raising an army in a bid for the throne.When Anne marries a clan chief and creates a shaky alliance, she is doing more than takin

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Magician: Master

Raymond E. Feist · 499 pages

He held the fate of two worlds in his hands... Once he was an orphan called Pug, apprenticed to a sorcerer of the enchanted land of Midkemia.. Then he was captured and enslaved by the Tsurani, a strange, warlike race of invaders from another world. There, in the exotic Empire of Kelewan, he earned a new name--Milamber. He learned to tame the unnimagined powers that lay withing him. And he to

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