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  Cotton Malone: Book 5

  The Paris Vendetta

  by Steve Berry

  The only thing rarer than the vintage editions Cotton Malone sells in his Copenhagen bookshop is the time he actually gets to spend there. Retirement has been anything but relaxing for the onetime U.S. government operative, who’s been drawn into one perilous adventure after another, crisscrossing the globe from the Sinai Desert to Antarctica, while racing to uncover some of the most precious secrets in recorded... (more)
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  Ethan Gage: Book 1

  Napoleon's Pyramids

  by William Dietrich

  What mystical secrets lie beneath the Great Pyramids? Traveling with Napoleon's ambitious expedition, American adventurer Ethan Gage solves a five-thousand-year-old riddle with the help of a mysterious medallion. William Dietrich's books have been hailed for their vivid imagery, evocative atmospheres, impeccable historical accuracy, and ambitious plots. Now, in the breakout novel of his career, he delivers... (more)
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  Sharpe's Adventures: Book 20

  Sharpe's Waterloo

  The Waterloo Campaign, 15 June to 18 June 1815

  by Bernard Cornwell

  Featuring the character Richard Sharpe, this book describes his exploits at the Battle of Waterloo. Other books by this author include "Sharpe's Honour", "Sharpe's Regiment", "Sharpe's Siege" and "Sharpe's Rifles".
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  Bloody Jack Adventures: Book 6

  My Bonny Light Horseman

  Being an Account of the Further Adventures of Jacky Faber, in Love and War

  by L. A. Meyer

  The infamous pirate, riverboat seductress, master of disguise, and street-urchin-turned-sailor Jacky Faber has been captured by the French and beheaded in full view of her friends and crew. Inconceivable? Yes! The truth is she’s secretly forced to pose as an American dancer behind enemy lines in Paris, where she entices a French general into revealing military secrets—all to save her dear friends. Then,... (more)
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  Napoleon: Emperor and Conqueror (Wicked History)

  by Kimberly Burton Heuston

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  Dear Napoleon, I Know You're Dead, But...

  by Elvira Woodruff

  Sending a letter to Napoleon through a secret courier service that delivers mail to people in other times, Marty Ballucci and his classmates are amazed when he gets back a reply and that he is able to correspond with several famous dead people. Reprint. SLJ.
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  The Diamond

  by Julie Baumgold

  The Diamond is a brilliant, dazzling historical novel about a famous diamond -- one of the biggest in the world -- that passed from the hands of William Pitt's grandfather to the French kings and Napoleon, linking many of the most famous personalities of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and serving as the centerpiece for a novel in every way as fascinating as Susan Sontag's The Volcano Lover or Umberto... (more)
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  Waterloo

  Day of Battle

  by David Armine Howarth

  Tells the story of the Battle of Waterloo from the vantage point of the soldier.audio cassette edition -Recorded Books Inc.; 4 cassettes - 5 1/2 hrs. narrated by Tony Barbour
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  Napolean

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  Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell

  by Susanna Clarke

  At the dawn of the nineteenth century, two very different magicians emerge to change England’s history. In the year 1806, with the Napoleonic Wars raging on land and sea, most people believe magic to be long dead in England — until the reclusive Mr. Norrell reveals his powers, and becomes a celebrity overnight. Soon, another practicing magician comes forth: the young, handsome and daring Jonathan Strange. He... (more)
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  The Tales of Alvin Maker: Book 2

  Red Prophet

  by Orson Scott Card

  Come here to the magical America that might have been, and marvel as the tale of Alvin Maker unfolds. The seventh son of a seventh son is a boy of mysterious powers, and he is waking to the mysteries of the land and its own chosen people.
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  Seize the Fire

  Heroism, Duty, and the Battle of Trafalgar

  by Adam Nicolson

  In Seize the Fire, Adam Nicolson, author of the widely acclaimed God's Secretaries, takes the great naval battle of Trafalgar, fought between the British and Franco-Spanish fleets in October 1805, and uses it to examine our idea of heroism and the heroic. Is violence a necessary aspect of the hero? And daring? Why did the cult of the hero flower in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in a way it hadn't... (more)
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  Josephine

  A Life of the Empress

  by Carolly Erickson

  In 1804, when Josephine Bonaparte knelt before her husband, Napoleon, to receive the imperial diadem, few in the vast crowd of onlookers were aware of the dark secrets hidden behind the imperial façade. To her subjects, she appeared to vet hew most favored woman in France: alluring, wealthy, and with the devoted love of a remarkable husband who was the conqueror of Europe. In actuality, Josephine's life was far... (more)
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  The Black Sheep

  by Honoré de Balzac

  Philippe and Joseph Bridau are two extremely different brothers. The elder, Philippe, is a superficially heroic soldier and adored by their mother Agathe. He is nonetheless a bitter figure, secretly gambling away her savings after a brief but glorious career in Napoleon's army. His younger brother Joseph, meanwhile, is fundamentally virtuous - but their mother is blinded to his kindness by her disapproval of his... (more)
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  Vienna Waltz

  by Teresa Grant

  Nothing is fair in love and war. . . Europe's elite have gathered at the glittering Congress of Vienna--princes, ambassadors, the Russian tsar--all negotiating the fate of the continent by day and pursuing pleasure by night. Until Princess Tatiana, the most beautiful and talked about woman in Vienna, is found murdered during an ill-timed rendezvous with three of her most powerful conquests. . . Suzanne... (more)
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  Ibis Trilogy: Book 2

  River of Smoke

  by Amitav Ghosh

  The Ibis, loaded to its gunwales with a cargo of indentured servants, is in the grip of a cyclone in the Bay of Bengal; among the dozens flailing for survival are Neel, the pampered raja who has been convicted of embezzlement; Paulette, the French orphan masquerading as a deck hand; and Deeti, the widowed poppy grower fleeing her home­land with her lover, Kalua. The storm also threatens the clipper ship Anahita,... (more)
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  War and Peace (Penguin Classics Deluxe Editions) [ WAR AND PEACE (PENGUIN CLASSICS DELUXE EDITIONS) BY Tolstoy, Leo Nikolayevich ( Author ) Dec-01-2006

  by Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy

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  Roots of Strategy: The 5 Greatest Military Classics of All Time

  This title features writings of Sun Tzu, Vegetius, Marshal Maurice de Saxe, Frederick the Great, and Napoleon.
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  Roger Brook: Book 12

  Desperate Measures

  by Dennis Wheatley

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  War and Peace

  by Leo Tolstoy

  War and Peace (Russian: Война и мир, Pre-reform Russian: «Война и миръ») is a novel by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy, published in 1869. The work is epic in scale and is considered one of the most celebrated works of fiction. It is regarded as Tolstoy's finest literary achievement, along with his other famous work Anna Karenina (1873–1877).War and Peace delineates in graphic detail events leading up to... (more)