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  1. Long live the king
    Author: Weldon, Fay
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  Head of Zeus, London

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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9781781850602; 9781781850619
    Series: Love and inheritance / Fay Weldon ; book 2
    Subjects: London (England)--History--1800-1950--Fiction.; Historical fiction.
    Scope: 344 Seiten, 21 cm
  2. The prairie
    a tale
    Published: 1985
    Publisher:  State Univ. of New York Press, Albany

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    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 0873953630; 0873956729
    RVK Categories: HT 4790 ; HT 4793
    Series: The writings of James Fenimore Cooper ; 10
    Subjects: Geschichte; Indianer; Adventure fiction.; Bumppo, Natty (Fictitious character); Historical fiction.; Indians of North America; Western stories.
    Scope: XXXIII, 566 S., Ill.
  3. New World avenue and vicinity
    Published: 1991
    Publisher:  Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York

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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 0374221820
    Edition: 1. ed.
    Subjects: Historical fiction.; Alltag
    Other subjects: Konwicki, Tadeusz; Konwicki, Tadeusz (1926-2015)
    Scope: 212 S., Ill.
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    Aus d. Poln. übers.

  4. King hereafter
    Published: 1998
    Publisher:  Vintage Books, New York

    A novel of the historical figure of Macbeth. more

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    A novel of the historical figure of Macbeth.

     

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    ISBN: 0375704035
    RVK Categories: HN 9990
    Edition: 1. Vintage Books ed.
    Subjects: Historical fiction.
    Other subjects: Macbeth <King of Scotland, 11th cent>
    Scope: 721 S., Kt.
  5. Dolley
    a novel of Dolley Madison in love and war
    Published: 1994
    Publisher:  Bantam Books, New York [u.a.]

    A fictionalized biography of Dolley Madison, wife of the president, one of the most influential first ladies in history. In narrative form, interspersed with imagined diary entries, the novel describes life in Washington during the War of 1812. By... more

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    A fictionalized biography of Dolley Madison, wife of the president, one of the most influential first ladies in history. In narrative form, interspersed with imagined diary entries, the novel describes life in Washington during the War of 1812. By the author of Venus Envy.

     

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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 0553088904
    RVK Categories: HU 9800
    Series: A Bantam book
    Subjects: Geschichte; Historical fiction.
    Other subjects: Madison, Dolley <1768-1849>
    Scope: XIV, 382 S.
  6. A café on the Nile
    Author: Bull, Bartle
    Published: 1998
    Publisher:  Carroll & Graf, New York

    A cast of adventurers take part in the Abyssinian War. They include an Italian flying ace seeking glory, an English safari hunter who wants to recuperate his wife from the flying ace, a German who stole Italian war booty, two American lady twins and... more

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    A cast of adventurers take part in the Abyssinian War. They include an Italian flying ace seeking glory, an English safari hunter who wants to recuperate his wife from the flying ace, a German who stole Italian war booty, two American lady twins and a dwarf. By the author of The White Rhino Hotel.

     

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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 0786705566
    Edition: 1. ed.
    Subjects: Adventure fiction.; City and town life; Historical fiction.
    Scope: 466 S., Ill.
  7. The forest house
    Published: 1995
    Publisher:  Roc, New York, NY [u.a.]

    In a tale set in Druidic England, Eilan feels torn between her love for a young Roman soldier and her inner need to become a priestess for her Goddess. more

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    In a tale set in Druidic England, Eilan feels torn between her love for a young Roman soldier and her inner need to become a priestess for her Goddess.

     

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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 0451454243
    RVK Categories: HN 9990
    Edition: 1. Roc print.
    Series: Roc fantasy
    Subjects: Geschichte; Druids and Druidism; Historical fiction.; Love stories.; Man-woman relationships
    Scope: XI, 416 S., Kt.
  8. Hope Leslie, or, Early times in the Massachusetts
    Published: 1987
    Publisher:  Rutgers Univ. Pr., New Brunswick u.a.

    Set in seventeenth-century New England, Hope Leslie (1827) portrays early American life and celebrates the role of women in building the republic. A counterpoint to the novels of James Fenimore Cooper, it challenges the conventional view of Indians,... more

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    Set in seventeenth-century New England, Hope Leslie (1827) portrays early American life and celebrates the role of women in building the republic. A counterpoint to the novels of James Fenimore Cooper, it challenges the conventional view of Indians, tackles interracial marriage and cross-cultural friendship, and claims for women their rightful place in history.

     

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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 0813512212; 0813512220
    RVK Categories: HT 7000
    Series: American women writers series
    Subjects: Fiction in English - American writers, 1776-1830 - Texts; Frau; Geschichte; Indianer; Historical fiction.; Indians of North America; Women
    Scope: XLIV, 365 S.
  9. Earthdivers
    tribal narratives on mixed descent
    Published: 1981
    Publisher:  Univ. of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis

    "In traditional tribal creation myths, the earthdiver brings up dirt form the primal water to form the earth.... Now they dive in unknown urban areas connecting dreams to earth in the same way that these stories connect metaphor to... more

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    "In traditional tribal creation myths, the earthdiver brings up dirt form the primal water to form the earth.... Now they dive in unknown urban areas connecting dreams to earth in the same way that these stories connect metaphor to realities."--Jacket.

     

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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 0816610487
    RVK Categories: HU 9056
    Subjects: Indianer; Historical fiction.; Indians of North America
    Scope: XXII, 191 S., Ill.
  10. Rules of encounter
    Published: 1992
    Publisher:  St. Martin's Press, New York

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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 031206182X
    Edition: 1. ed.
    Subjects: Weltkrieg (1914-1918); Historical fiction.; World War, 1914-1918
    Scope: 357 S., Ill., Kt.
  11. The house of mirth
    complete, authoritative text with biographical and historical contexts, critical history, and essays from five contemporary critical perspectives
    Published: 1994
    Publisher:  Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press, Boston [u.a.]

    The tragic story of a beautiful young woman caught up in the shallow and corrupt world of New York society at the turn of the century, where wealth and social status are everything. more

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    The tragic story of a beautiful young woman caught up in the shallow and corrupt world of New York society at the turn of the century, where wealth and social status are everything.

     

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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 0312062346; 0312106335
    RVK Categories: HU 9273
    Series: Case studies in contemporary criticism
    Subjects: Critique; The house of mirth (Wharton); Fables.; Historical fiction.; Single women
    Other subjects: Wharton, Edith <1862-1937> / House of mirth; Wharton, Edith <1862-1937>: House of mirth; Wharton, Edith (1862-1937): The house of mirth
    Scope: XII, 498 S.
  12. The Scarlett letter
    complete, authoritative text with biographical background and critical history plus essays from five contemporary critical perspectives with introductions and bibliographies
    Published: 1991
    Publisher:  Bedford Books of St. Martin?s Press, Boston

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  13. Rebel
    Published: 1993
    Publisher:  HarperCollins, New York, NY

    Story of the First Bull Run/Manassas battle and how Nate Starbuck, a renegade from Boston, came to play a crucial part in it. more

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    Story of the First Bull Run/Manassas battle and how Nate Starbuck, a renegade from Boston, came to play a crucial part in it.

     

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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 0060177136
    Edition: 1. ed.
    Series: The Starbuck chronicles ; 1
    Subjects: English fiction; Geschichte; Sezessionskrieg (1861-1865); Bull Run, 1st Battle of, Va., 1861; Historical fiction.; Starbuck, Nathaniel (Fictitious character); War stories.
    Scope: 308 S.
  14. The wanderer; or, female difficulties
    Published: 1991
    Publisher:  Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford [u.a.]

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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 0192821334
    RVK Categories: HL 2173
    Edition: 1. publ. as a World's Classics paperback
    Series: The World's Classics
    Subjects: English fiction; Émigrés (Histoire de France) - Romans, nouvelles, etc; Geschichte; Historical fiction.; Refugees; War stories.
    Scope: XLVI, 957 S.
  15. Martin Dressler
    the tale of an American dreamer
    Published: 1996
    Publisher:  Crown, New York

    The rise and fall of a man of imagination. From a helper in his grandfather's cigar store in 19th Century New York, he rises to become an entrepreneur of fabulous creations, culminating in a hotel with moonlight, waterfalls and a Grecian temple where... more

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    The rise and fall of a man of imagination. From a helper in his grandfather's cigar store in 19th Century New York, he rises to become an entrepreneur of fabulous creations, culminating in a hotel with moonlight, waterfalls and a Grecian temple where maidens recite poetry around the clock. Facing ruin, he comes to the conclusion he dreamed the wrong dream. By the author of Edwin Mullhouse.

     

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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 051770319X
    RVK Categories: HU 9800
    Edition: 1. ed.
    Subjects: Businesspeople; Historical fiction.
    Scope: VIII, 294 S.
  16. The prairie
    Published: 1992
    Publisher:  Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford [u.a.]

    Story finds Natty going West and opposing the destruction of the land of the animals. more

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    Story finds Natty going West and opposing the destruction of the land of the animals.

     

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    ISBN: 019282824X
    RVK Categories: HT 4793
    Series: Oxford world's classics
    Subjects: English fiction; United States; Geschichte; Indianer; Adventure fiction.; Bumppo, Natty (Fictitious character); Frontier and pioneer life; Historical fiction.; Indians of North America; Western stories.
    Scope: XXV, 393 S.
  17. Pushing the bear
    a novel of the Trail of Tears
    Published: 1996
    Publisher:  Harcourt Brace, New York [u.a.]

    The 900-mile march of Indians deported from their homes to resettlement territory in Oklahoma in 1838. It is told from many view points, including a woman who develops a relationship with a white soldier. Of the 13,000 marchers, a quarter died. A... more

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    The 900-mile march of Indians deported from their homes to resettlement territory in Oklahoma in 1838. It is told from many view points, including a woman who develops a relationship with a white soldier. Of the 13,000 marchers, a quarter died. A first novel by a writer of Cherokee and European ancestry.

     

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    ISBN: 0151002258; 0156005441
    RVK Categories: HU 9800
    Edition: 1. ed.
    Subjects: Cherokee Indians; Cherokee Indians; Historical fiction.; Trail of Tears, 1838-1839
    Scope: 241 S., Kt.
  18. Bruised hibiscus
    a novel
    Published: 2000
    Publisher:  Seal Press, Seattle, WA

    Friends since childhood, Rosa and Zuela are drawn back together from their very different lives when a white woman is murdered, and they're suddenly reminded of one summer on the island of Trinidad when they were both twelve years old and witnessed... more

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    Friends since childhood, Rosa and Zuela are drawn back together from their very different lives when a white woman is murdered, and they're suddenly reminded of one summer on the island of Trinidad when they were both twelve years old and witnessed "an unspeakable act through the leaves of a hibiscus bush."--Jacket.

     

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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 1580050360
    RVK Categories: HU 9800
    Edition: 1. printing
    Subjects: Frau; Friendship; Historical fiction.; Women
    Scope: 286 S.
  19. Dark end of the street
    Author: Atkins, Ace
    Published: 2002
    Publisher:  William Morrow, New York

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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 0060004606
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Subjects: African American singers; Historical fiction.; Missing persons; Mystery fiction.; Private investigators; Soul musicians; Travers, Nick (Fictitious character)
    Scope: 323 p., 24 cm
  20. The colour
    Published: 2003
    Publisher:  Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York

    An epic of life in New Zealand during the nineteenth century explores the relationship between two newlyweds as they encounter the harsh realities of their chosen home in the South Pacific. more

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    An epic of life in New Zealand during the nineteenth century explores the relationship between two newlyweds as they encounter the harsh realities of their chosen home in the South Pacific.

     

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    ISBN: 0374126054
    RVK Categories: HN 9990
    Edition: 1st American ed.
    Subjects: Einwanderer; Gold mines and mining; Historical fiction.; Immigrants; Married people
    Scope: 382 p., maps : 24 cm
  21. The Jekyl Island Club
    a novel
    Published: 2000
    Publisher:  St. Martin's Minotaur, New York, NY

    Many are wondering if the "richest of the rich can literally get away with murder" as local sheriff John Le Brun investigates the shooting death of one of the members of the exclusive club which includies the Vanderbilts, Goulds, Rockefellers,... more

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    Many are wondering if the "richest of the rich can literally get away with murder" as local sheriff John Le Brun investigates the shooting death of one of the members of the exclusive club which includies the Vanderbilts, Goulds, Rockefellers, Morgans, and Pulitzers.

     

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    ISBN: 0312261837; 0312276982; 9780312276980
    RVK Categories: HU 9800
    Subjects: Historical fiction.; Le Brun, John (Fictitious character); Men; Mystery fiction.; Sheriffs
    Other subjects: Morgan, J. Pierpont <1837-1913>; Pulitzer, Joseph <1847-1911>
    Scope: XI, 286 S., Kt.
  22. Pasiḍimuvvalu-pārāṇi
    Published: Ēpril 2019
    Publisher:  Telaṅgāṇa Sāhitya Akāḍami, Haidarābādu

    Novel based Bharatanatyam and music. more

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    Novel based Bharatanatyam and music.

     

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    Language: Telugu
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9788194098348
    Series: Pracuraṇa ; 49
    Subjects: Bharata natyam ; Fiction.; Historical fiction.; Telugu fiction.
    Scope: 245 Seiten, 22 cm.
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    Nachdruck: Toli mudraṇa : Ādarśa Granthamaṇḍali, 1967

  23. The man who rode Ampersand
    Published: 2002
    Publisher:  Carroll & Graf, New York

    Aldous "Gus" Cotton struggles to deal with his notorious father, Harry, who had achieved success as the jockey who rode the legendary Gold Cup winner Ampersand to victory but who now is more interested in carousing, brothels, gambling houses,... more

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    Aldous "Gus" Cotton struggles to deal with his notorious father, Harry, who had achieved success as the jockey who rode the legendary Gold Cup winner Ampersand to victory but who now is more interested in carousing, brothels, gambling houses, alcohol, and all other forms of excess.

     

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    ISBN: 0786710071
    Edition: 1. Carroll & Graf ed.
    Subjects: Weltkrieg (1939-1945); Fathers and sons; Gamblers; Historical fiction.; Horse racing; Jockeys; Parent and adult child; World War, 1939-1945
    Scope: 245 S.
  24. The final solution
    a story of detection
    Published: 2004
    Publisher:  Fourth Estate, New York, NY

    An eighty-nine-year-old former detective in rural England becomes involved with a young refugee from Nazi Germany whose sole companion, an African grey parrot, spews out a series of numbers that could hold the key to a dangerous secret. more

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    An eighty-nine-year-old former detective in rural England becomes involved with a young refugee from Nazi Germany whose sole companion, an African grey parrot, spews out a series of numbers that could hold the key to a dangerous secret.

     

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    ISBN: 006076340X
    RVK Categories: HU 9800
    Edition: 1. U.S. ed.
    Subjects: Weltkrieg (1939-1945); Beekeepers; Boys; Historical fiction.; Holmes, Sherlock (Fictitious character); Older men; Private investigators; Refugees; World War, 1939-1945
    Other subjects: aMystery fiction
    Scope: 131 S., Ill.
  25. Sons of heaven
    a novel
    Published: 2002
    Publisher:  HarperCollins, New York

    A novel set in China in 1989 follows three characters--a dissident, his ideologically opposed brother who has been sent to apprehend him, and Deng Ziaoping, the Chinese leader behind the events at Tiananmen Square. more

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    A novel set in China in 1989 follows three characters--a dissident, his ideologically opposed brother who has been sent to apprehend him, and Deng Ziaoping, the Chinese leader behind the events at Tiananmen Square.

     

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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 0060002433
    Edition: 1. ed.
    Subjects: Geschichte; Bildungsromans.; Historical fiction.
    Scope: 312 S.