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1035 Bjarne Sigvatson's expedition lands at what is now New York, USA.

• Valhalla Rising (Dirk Pitt) by Clive Cussler

1046

• The Book without Words: A Fable of Medieval Magic by Avi

1069

• Bold Angel by Kat Martin

11th century

• Macbeth : modern English version side-by-side with full original text by William Shakespeare (1000s)

1227

• Dreams of stardust by Lynn Kurland

1360

• Almost Innocent by Jane Feather
• Charming the Prince by Teresa Medeiros

13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

• Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin

The 144,000 with the Lamb

• The Catholic Youth Bible: New Revised Standard Version: Catholic Edition by Brian Singer-Towns (Revelation 14:1-5)

1745

• Rebellion (The Macgregors) by Nora Roberts

17th century

• Macbeth : modern English version side-by-side with full original text by William Shakespeare (1600s)
• The tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare (1600s)

18-yr-old Rowan traumatized by Siglen on 'lifting to Callisto Tower

• The Rowan by Anne McCaffrey

1804

• Heartless by Kat Martin

1805

• Perfect Sin by Kat Martin

1806

• Dark Rider by Iris Johansen
• Yours Until Dawn (Avon Historical Romance) by Teresa Medeiros

1811-04

• Captain Jack's woman by Stephanie Laurens

1812

• Splendor by Brenda Joyce

1813

• Irresistible (Banning Sisters Trilogy) by Karen Robards
• Moonspun Magic (Magic Trilogy Book 3) by Catherine Coulter
• Seducing the spy by Celeste Bradley
• White Horses by Joan Wolf

1820s

• A season of seduction by Jennifer Haymore

1830

• The Sherbrooke Twins: Bride Series by Catherine Coulter
• Where Dreams Begin by Lisa Kleypas

1830s American Fur Trade Rendezvous

• Borderlords by Terry C. Johnston

1832

• Again The Magic by Lisa Kleypas

1838

• Dark Torment by Karen Robards

1841

• Loving Julia by Karen Robards

1843

• Texas Wildflower (Zebra Historical Romance) by Susan Wiggs

1844

• Texas Woman (Sisters of the Lone Star) by Joan Johnston

1848

• The Ninefold key by Rebecca Brandewyne

1854

• The Horsemaster's Daughter (Calhoun Chronicles, Book 2) by Susan Wiggs
• Secrets of a Proper Lady (Last Man Standing, Book 3) by Victoria Alexander

1875

• Miranda (Springwater Seasons) by Linda Lael Miller

1876

• The Lightkeeper by Susan Wiggs

1883

• Sizzle All Day (Sonnet Books) by Geralyn Dawson

1893 Chicago World's Fair

• The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America by Erik Larson

18th century

• The Serpent Prince by Elizabeth Hoyt

1907

• The Rustler (A Stone Creek Novel) by Linda Lael Miller

1911|1925

• Little house in the Ozarks : the rediscovered writings by Laura Ingalls Wilder

1928

• East of the sun by Julia Gregson

1972 presidential race

• Changing Habits by Debbie Macomber

1983 Anti-Tamil Riots

• Funny Boy : A Novel in Six Stories by Shyam Selvadurai

1996 Mount Everest Disaster

• Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer

1998 Assassination of PLO commando leader Abu Jihad

• The Kill Artist by Daniel Silva

19th century

• A season of seduction by Jennifer Haymore
• Second Sight (The Arcane Society, Book 1) by Amanda Quick

1st Beetle Attack on Deneb

• The Rowan by Anne McCaffrey

2003 Emerald Dolphin is on fire in the South Pacific Ocean.

• Valhalla Rising (Dirk Pitt) by Clive Cussler

2003 Mongol Invader and Coral Wanderer meet off New York City, USA.

• Valhalla Rising (Dirk Pitt) by Clive Cussler

2005

• Dreams of stardust by Lynn Kurland

2008 Republican National Convention

• Wicked Prey by John Sandford

2009

• Dying for Mercy (Key News Thrillers) by Mary Clark

2010 Copiapó mining accident

• Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle That Set Them Free by Hector Tobar

2012-09-11 Benghazi attack

• 13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened In Benghazi by Mitchell Zuckoff

2058

• Holiday in Death by J. D. Robb

2059

• Big Jack (In Death) by J. D. Robb
• Imitation in Death by J. D. Robb
• Origin in Death by J. D. Robb
• Survivor in death by J. D. Robb
• Visions in Death by J. D. Robb

2060

• Promises in death by J. D. Robb
• Strangers in death by J. D. Robb

4-yr-old Jeran Gwyn-Raven melds with in-utero Cera Gwyn-Raven to calm her after battle that she joined in

• The Rowan by Anne McCaffrey

4-yr-old Rowan's Terror at entering spacecraft

• The Rowan by Anne McCaffrey

50th Holbourne Abbey Christmas Ball

• The Last Chance Christmas Ball by Mary Jo Putney

74th Annual Hunger Games

• The Hunger games by Suzanne Collins

75th Annual Hunger Games

• Catching fire by Suzanne Collins

9-11

• 12 Strong: The Declassified True Story of the Horse Soldiers by Doug Stanton
• Let's roll! : ordinary people, extraordinary courage by Lisa Beamer

9-11 Memorial Service

• The Camel Club by David Baldacci

9/11 Attacks

• The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (Authorized Edition) by National Commission on Terrorist Attacks
• The day the world came to town : 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland by Jim DeFede
• Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously by Julie Powell

9/11 Terrorist Attacks, Twin Towers and Pentagon

• Doctor Sleep by Stephen King
• Why America Slept: The Failure to Prevent 9/11 by Gerald Posner

Abduction of Cheyenne Wilder

• Girl, Stolen by April Henry

Abolitionist Movement

• Cloudsplitter : a novel by Russell Banks

Abraham justified by faith

• The Catholic Youth Bible: New Revised Standard Version: Catholic Edition by Brian Singer-Towns (Romans 4:1-5)

Accession of Elizabeth I

• The Virgin's Lover by Philippa Gregory (1558-11-17)
• Firedrake's Eye by Patricia Finney (1583)

Aemilius Scaurus leads Pompey's armies into Judea

• The Dead Sea Scrolls: A New Translation by Michael O Wise (63)

Afghan Civil War

• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
• A thousand splendid suns by Khaled Hosseini
• And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini (1996)

Afghan Siege of the Sherpur Cantonment

• The great game : the struggle for empire in central Asia by Peter Hopkirk (1879)

Afghanistan War

• Crossfire by Dick Francis

African-American Civil Rights Movement

• The Help by Kathryn Stockett

Age of Sail

• The Far Side of the World by Patrick O'Brian
• The Frigates: An Account of the Lighter Warships of the Napoleonic Wars 1793-1815 by James Henderson

Age of the Dreamers

• The Elder Gods: Book One of the Dreamers by David Eddings

Ages of Chaos

• The Ages of Chaos (Hardcover) (Darkover) by Marion Zimmer Bradley

Allied Invasion of Sicily

• A bell for Adano by John Hersey

Allied occupation of Japan

• Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by John W. Dower (1952)

American Civil War

• Civil War memoirs by Philip Henry Sheridan
• From Manassas to Appomatox : memoirs of the civil war in America by James Longstreet
• Grant by Jean Edward Smith
• O'Hara's choice : a novel by Leon Uris
• Rebel by Bernard Cornwell
• Rhett Butler's People by Donald McCaig
• War letters : extraordinary correspondence from American wars by Andrew Carroll
• Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith (1865)
• The American Civil War : a military history by John Keegan (1865)
• The Blue and the Gray by John Leekley (1865)
• The Civil War (American Heritage Books) by Bruce Catton (1865)
• Civil War on Sunday by Mary Pope Osborne (1865)
• Conspiracy of Knaves by Dee Brown (1865)
• Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune by Bill Dedman (1865)
• Ghost riders : a novel by Sharyn McCrumb (1865)
• Gods and Generals: A Novel of the Civil War (Civil War Trilogy) by Jeff Shaara (1865)
• High tide at Gettysburg : the campaign in Pennsylvania by Glenn Tucker (1865)
• Intelligence in war: knowledge of the enemy from Napoleon to Al-Qaeda by John Keegan (1865)
• John Ransom's Andersonville Diary by John Ransom (1865)
• Joshua Chamberlain : the soldier and the man by Edward G. Longacre (1865)
• Killer angels by Michael Shaara (1865)
• The longest night : a military history of the Civil War by David J. Eicher (1865)
• Look Away by Harold Coyle (1865)
• The Man Who Saved the Union: Ulysses Grant in War and Peace by H. W. Brands (1865)
• March by Geraldine Brooks (1865)
• More Civil War Curiosities. by Webb B. Garrison (1865)
• The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of The Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester (1865)
• Raising the Hunley: The Remarkable History and Recovery of the Lost Confederate Submarine by Brian Hicks (1865)
• Sahara by Clive Cussler (1865)
• Savannah: Or a Gift for Mr. Lincoln by John Jakes (1865)
• I survived the Battle of Gettysburg, 1863 by Lauren Tarshis (1865)
• Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin (1865)
• A tour guide to the Civil War by Alice Cromie (1865)
• True Women by Janice Woods Windle (1865)
• Uniforms of the Civil War: In Color by Philip J. Haythornthwaite (1865)
• 2,000 Questions and Answers About the Civil War by Webb Garrison (1861-1865)
• Cane River (Oprah's Book Club) by Lalita Tademy (1861-1865)
• Faded Coat of Blue (Abel Jones Mysteries) by Owen Parry (1861-1865)
• When will this cruel war be over? : the Civil War diary of Emma Simpson by Barry Denenberg (1861-1865)
• Cold mountain : a novel by Charles Frazier (1861–1865)

American Declaration of Independence

• 1776 by David McCullough (1776)

American Revolution

• Burr by Gore Vidal
• Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation by Joseph J. Ellis
• Great Upheaval
• I, eliza hamilton by Susan Holloway Scott
• 1776 by David McCullough (1783)
• The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin by Gordon S. Wood (1783)
• Deceptive Promises (Delaware Brides Series #3) (Heartsong Presents #823) by Amber Stockton (1783)
• Holt McDougal Library, High School with Connections: Individual Reader Johnny Tremain 1996 by Mcdougal Littel (1783)
• Infamous Scribblers: The Founding Fathers and the Rowdy Beginnings of American Journalism by Eric Burns (1783)
• Just Jane: A Daughter of England Caught in the Struggle of the American Revolution (Great Episodes) by William Lavender (1783)
• A narrative of a Revolutionary soldier : some of the adventures, dangers, and sufferings of Joseph Plumb Martin by Joseph Plumb Martin (1783)
• Revolutionary war on Wednesday by Mary Pope Osborne (1783)
• Rise to Rebellion by Jeff Shaara (1783)
• Ross Poldark by Winston Graham (1783)
• Through a Howling Wilderness: Benedict Arnold's March to Quebec, 1775 by Thomas A. Desjardin (1783)
• Washington's Secret War: The Hidden History of Valley Forge by Thomas Fleming (1783)
• The Way of Duty: A Woman and Her Family in Revolutionary America by Joy D. Buel (1783)
• Woods Runner by Gary Paulsen (1783)
• John Adams by David G. McCullough (1775 ∙ 1783)

American Revolution 1775-1783

• Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow

Ananias and Sapphira

• The Catholic Youth Bible: New Revised Standard Version: Catholic Edition by Brian Singer-Towns (Acts 5:1-11)

The Anarchy

• The Pillars of the Earth: A Novel (Kingsbridge) by Ken Follett ( 1153)

The angels with the seven last plagues

• The Catholic Youth Bible: New Revised Standard Version: Catholic Edition by Brian Singer-Towns (Revelation 15:1-8)

The anti-Christ revealed

• The Catholic Youth Bible: New Revised Standard Version: Catholic Edition by Brian Singer-Towns (2 Thessalonians 2:1-12)

Antiochus IV desecrates the Temple

• The Dead Sea Scrolls: A New Translation by Michael O Wise (167)

Apocalypse

• Apocalypse wow! : a memoir for the end of time by James Finn Garner

Apollo program

• Moon shot : The Inside story of America's race to the moon by Alan B. Shepard (1975)

Appin murder

• Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson (1752)

Arab-Israeli Conflict

• Journalism by Joe Sacco

Ark of the Covenant

• The Catholic Youth Bible: New Revised Standard Version: Catholic Edition by Brian Singer-Towns (Exodus 25:10-22)

Armageddon

• The Catholic Youth Bible: New Revised Standard Version: Catholic Edition by Brian Singer-Towns (Revelation 16:12-16)

Armenian Genocide

• A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide by Samantha Power

The army from the Euphrates

• The Catholic Youth Bible: New Revised Standard Version: Catholic Edition by Brian Singer-Towns (Revelation 9:12-19)

Arrival of Hell-Bent Wade.

• The Mysterious Rider by Zane Grey

Ascension

• The Catholic Youth Bible: New Revised Standard Version: Catholic Edition by Brian Singer-Towns (Mark 16:19-20, Luke 24:44-53, Acts 1:3-11)

Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

• The Lincoln deception by David O. Stewart
• Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer (P.S.) by James Swanson
• The Blue and the Gray by John Leekley (1865-04)
• Chasing Lincoln's Killer by James L Swanson (1865-04)
• Sahara by Clive Cussler (1865-04)

Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

• No Graves As Yet (World War One Novels) by Anne Perry (1914-06-28)

Assassination of John F. Kennedy

• 11/22/63: A Novel by Stephen King
• Appointment in Dallas: The Final Solution to the Assassination of JFK by H. McDonald
• The Help by Kathryn Stockett
• High Treason 2 (No. 2) by Harrison Edward Livingstone
• The Kennedy Curse: Why Tragedy Has Haunted America's First Family for 150 Years by Edward Klein
• Case closed : Lee Harvey Oswald and the assassination of JFK by Gerald L. Posner (1963-11-22)
• The Irresistible Henry House: A Novel by Lisa Grunwald (1963-11-22)
• Killing Kennedy : the end of Camelot by Bill O'Reilly (1963-11-22)
• A Prayer for Owen Meany : a novel by John Irving (1963-11-22)
• President Kennedy Has Been Shot by Newseum (1963-11-22)

Assassination of Leon Trotsky

• The lacuna : a novel by Barbara Kingsolver (1940)

Assassination of Medgar Evers

• The Help by Kathryn Stockett

Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich

• As Time Goes By: A Novel of Casablanca by Michael Walsh

Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy

• The Kennedy Curse: Why Tragedy Has Haunted America's First Family for 150 Years by Edward Klein

Athens/Sparta War 431 BC

• Hope of Earth (Geodyssey) by Piers Anthony

atomic bomb

• Killing the Rising Sun: How America Vanquished World War II Japan (Bill O'Reilly's Killing Series) by Bill O'Reilly

Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

• The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
• The greatest generation speaks : letters and reflections by Tom Brokaw (1945)
• Pacific War: From Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima (General Military) by Daniel Marston (1945)

Attack on Pearl Harbor

• Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
• We band of angels : the untold story of American nurses trapped on Bataan by the Japanese by Elizabeth M. Norman
• December 6: A Novel by Martin Cruz Smith (1941-12-07)
• Pacific War: From Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima (General Military) by Daniel Marston (1941-12-07)
• Winter of the World: Book Two of the Century Trilogy by Ken Follett (1941-12-07)

The attempted assassination of Pope John Paul II

• Red rabbit by Tom Clancy (1981-05-13)

Autumn Feast

• The Silver Chair (Narnia) by C. S. Lewis

Avianca aircrash

• Outliers : the story of success by Malcolm Gladwell

An axhead floats

• The Catholic Youth Bible: New Revised Standard Version: Catholic Edition by Brian Singer-Towns (2 Kings 6:1-7)

B'Wa Kell Rebellion

• Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident (Artemis Fowl, Book 2) by Eoin Colfer

Balaam’s Donkey

• The Catholic Youth Bible: New Revised Standard Version: Catholic Edition by Brian Singer-Towns (Numbers 22:21-41)

Balkan Wars

• The Autobiography: The Kindness of Strangers by Kate Adie

Bangladesh War of Independence

• Interpreter of maladies : stories by Jhumpa Lahiri (1971)

Bank Robberies

• Prince of thieves : a novel by Chuck Hogan

Baptism of Jesus of Nazareth

• Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore
• The Catholic Youth Bible: New Revised Standard Version: Catholic Edition by Brian Singer-Towns (Matthew 3:13-17, Mark 1:9-11, Luke 3:21-22, John 1:31-34)

The barren fig tree

• The Catholic Youth Bible: New Revised Standard Version: Catholic Edition by Brian Singer-Towns (Luke 13:6-9)

Bataan Death March

• The poisonwood Bible : a novel by Barbara Kingsolver
• We band of angels : the untold story of American nurses trapped on Bataan by the Japanese by Elizabeth M. Norman

Battle at Burning plains

• Eldest (Inheritance Cycle, Book 2) (The Inheritance Cycle) by Christopher Paolini

Battle for Athens

• Miracles and Massacres: True and Untold Stories of the Making of America by Glenn Beck

Battle of Agincourt

• Agincourt by Bernard Cornwell (1415-10-25)

Battle of Alexandria

• The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo by Tom Reiss ([1801])

Battle of Anzio

• The day of battle : the war in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944 by Rick Atkinson

Battle of Argaon

• Sharpe's fortress : Richard Sharpe and the Siege of Gawilghur, December 1803 by Bernard Cornwell (1803-11-28)

Battle of Artemisium

• Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae by Steven Pressfield (480 BCE August or September)

Battle of Ball's Bluff

• March by Geraldine Brooks (1861-10-21)

Battle of Bosworth Field

• Bosworth 1485: The Battle that Transformed England by Michael Jones (1485-08-22)

Battle of Britain

• Atonement by Ian McEwan (1940)
• Winter of the World: Book Two of the Century Trilogy by Ken Follett (1940)

Battle of Bussaco

• Sharpe's Escape Richard Sharpe and the Bussaco Campaign 1811 by Bernard Cornwell (1810-09-27)

Battle of Chancellorsville

• The American Civil War : a military history by John Keegan
• Gods and Generals: A Novel of the Civil War (Civil War Trilogy) by Jeff Shaara

Battle of Chosin Reservoir

• Colder Than Hell: A Marine Rifle Company at Chosin Reservoir by Joseph R. Owen (1950-12-13)

Battle of Crete

• Intelligence in war: knowledge of the enemy from Napoleon to Al-Qaeda by John Keegan

Battle of Culloden

• Dragonfly in amber by Diana Gabaldon
• Midnight honor by Marsha Canham

Battle of El Alamein

• An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943, Volume One of the Liberation Trilogy by Rick Atkinson

Battle of Five Armies

• The hobbit, or, There and back again by J. R. R. Tolkien
• Walking with Bilbo : a devotional adventure through the Hobbit by Sarah Arthur

Battle of Fredericksburg

• Gods and Generals: A Novel of the Civil War (Civil War Trilogy) by Jeff Shaara

Battle of Fuentes de Oñoro

• Sharpe's Battle (Richard Sharpe's Adventure Series #12) by Bernard Cornwell (1811-05)

Battle of Gandamak

• The great game : the struggle for empire in central Asia by Peter Hopkirk (1842)

Battle of Geok Tepe

• The great game : the struggle for empire in central Asia by Peter Hopkirk (1881)

Battle of Gettysburg

• The American Civil War : a military history by John Keegan (1863-07-03)
• The Blue and the Gray by John Leekley (1863-07-03)
• High tide at Gettysburg : the campaign in Pennsylvania by Glenn Tucker (1863-07-03)
• Joshua Chamberlain : the soldier and the man by Edward G. Longacre (1863-07-03)
• Killer angels by Michael Shaara (1863-07-03)
• I survived the Battle of Gettysburg, 1863 by Lauren Tarshis (1863-07-03)

Battle of Ghazni

• The great game : the struggle for empire in central Asia by Peter Hopkirk (1839)

Battle of Hogwarts

• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Book 7) by J. K. Rowling

Battle of Iwo Jima

• Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two by Joseph Bruchac (1945)
• Flags of Our Fathers by James / Powers Bradley, Ron / French, Michael (Adp) (1945)

Battle of Jericho

• The Catholic Youth Bible: New Revised Standard Version: Catholic Edition by Brian Singer-Towns (Joshua 5:13 - 6:27)

Battle of Kandahar

• The great game : the struggle for empire in central Asia by Peter Hopkirk (1880)

Battle of Kasserine Pass

• An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943, Volume One of the Liberation Trilogy by Rick Atkinson
• The Rising Tide: A Novel of World War II by Jeff Shaara (1943-02-24)

Battle of Lansdown Hill

• Skeleton Hill (A Detective Peter Diamond Mystery) by Peter Lovesey (1643-07-05)

Battle of Long Island

• 1776 by David McCullough (1776-08-27)

Battle of Maiwand

• The great game : the struggle for empire in central Asia by Peter Hopkirk (1880)

Battle of Manhattan

• The Last Olympian (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 5) by Rick Riordan

Battle of Midway

• Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
• Intelligence in war: knowledge of the enemy from Napoleon to Al-Qaeda by John Keegan (1942-06-07)

Battle of Mogadishu

• Black Hawk Down:: A Story of Modern War by Mark Bowden (1993)

Battle of Monica

• The shadow of Saganami by David Weber

Battle of Mont Cenis

• The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo by Tom Reiss (1794)

Battle of Mycale

• Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae by Steven Pressfield (479 BCE-06)

Battle of New Orleans

• The Battle of New Orleans: Andrew Jackson and America's First Military Victory by Robert V. Remini (1815-01-08)

Battle of Okinawa

• Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two by Joseph Bruchac (1945)

Battle of Peleliu

• Brotherhood of heroes : the Marines at Peleliu, 1944 : the bloodiest battle of the Pacific War by Bill Sloan (1944-09-21)

Battle of Plataea

• Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae by Steven Pressfield (479 BCE-06)

Battle of Rivoli

• The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo by Tom Reiss

Battle of Salamanca

• Sharpe's sword : Richard Sharpe and the Salamanca Campaign, June and July, 1812 by Bernard Cornwell (1812-07-22)

Battle of Salamis

• Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae by Steven Pressfield (480 BCE-09)

Battle of San Jacinto

• True Women by Janice Woods Windle (1836-04-21)

Battle of Shiloh

• The American Civil War : a military history by John Keegan (1862-04-07)

Battle of Talavera

• Sharpe's Eagle: The Talavera Campaign, July 1809 (The Sharpe Series) by Bernard Cornwell (1809-07)

Battle of the Alamo

• The gates of the Alamo : a novel by Stephen Harrigan (1836-03-06)

Battle of the Atlantic

• Intelligence in war: knowledge of the enemy from Napoleon to Al-Qaeda by John Keegan (1945)
• Pursuit: The Chase and Sinking of the Bismarck by Ludovic Kennedy (1945)
• Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II by Robert Kurson (1945)

Battle of the Bulge

• No Less Than Victory: A Novel of World War II by Jeff Shaara
• Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest by Stephen E. Ambrose (1945)
• Citizen Soldiers by Stephen E. Ambrose (1945)
• Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 (Oxford History of the United States) by David M. Kennedy (1945)
• The greatest generation speaks : letters and reflections by Tom Brokaw (1945)

Battle of the Caribbean

• Travels with myself and another by Martha Gellhorn (1941-1945)

Battle of the Coral Sea

• We band of angels : the untold story of American nurses trapped on Bataan by the Japanese by Elizabeth M. Norman

Battle of the Glein

• Black Horses for the King by Anne McCaffrey

Battle of the Hornburg

• The lord of the rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
• The Return of the King (Lord of the Rings ) by J. R. R. Tolkien

Battle of the Labyrinth

• The Battle of the Labyrinth (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 4) by Rick Riordan

Battle of the Little Bighorn

• Soldier Boy by Brian Burks (1876-06-26)

Battle of the Nile

• The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo by Tom Reiss ( [1798])

Battle of the Pyramids

• The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo by Tom Reiss ([1798])

Battle of Thermopylae

• Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae by Steven Pressfield (480 BCE August or September)

Battle of Trafalgar

• Ramage at Trafalgar (The Lord Ramage Novels) (No. 16) by Dudley Pope

Battle of Trenton

• 1776 by David McCullough (1776-12-26)

Battle of Vitoria

• Sharpe's Honour by Bernard Cornwell (1813-06-21)

Battle of Wake Island

• Given up for dead : America's heroic stand at Wake Island by Bill Sloan (1941-12-23)

Battle of Wakefield

• Bosworth 1485: The Battle that Transformed England by Michael Jones (1460-12-30)

Battle of Waterloo

• Les Miserables by Victor Hugo (1815)

Bay of Pigs Invasion

• The Dark Side of Camelot by Seymour M. Hersh

The beast from the Earth

• The Catholic Youth Bible: New Revised Standard Version: Catholic Edition by Brian Singer-Towns (Revelation 13:11-18)

The beast from the sea

• The Catholic Youth Bible: New Revised Standard Version: Catholic Edition by Brian Singer-Towns (Revelation 13:1-10)

Beetles return for second attack on Altair

• The Rowan by Anne McCaffrey

Beheading of John the Baptist

• The Catholic Youth Bible: New Revised Standard Version: Catholic Edition by Brian Singer-Towns (Matthew 14:6-12, Mark 6:21-29)

Berlin Airlift

• Leaving Berlin: A Novel by Joseph Kanon

Berlin Crisis of 1961

• The Dark Side of Camelot by Seymour M. Hersh

Big Bang

• The grand design by Stephen Hawking

Birth of Jesus

• The Dead Sea Scrolls: A New Translation by Michael O Wise (6) (Luke 2:4-7)
• The Catholic Youth Bible: New Revised Standard Version: Catholic Edition by Brian Singer-Towns (Luke 2:1-21)

Birth of Jesus foretold

• The Catholic Youth Bible: New Revised Standard Version: Catholic Edition by Brian Singer-Towns (Luke 1:26-38)

Birth of John the Baptist

• The Catholic Youth Bible: New Revised Standard Version: Catholic Edition by Brian Singer-Towns (Luke 1:57-80)

Birth of John the Baptist promised

• The Catholic Youth Bible: New Revised Standard Version: Catholic Edition by Brian Singer-Towns (Luke 1:5-25)

Birth of Margaret Norman

• Shadow of night by Deborah E. Harkness

Birth of Moses

• The Catholic Youth Bible: New Revised Standard Version: Catholic Edition by Brian Singer-Towns (Exodus 2)

Birth of twins Alastair and Conn of Hammerfell

• The Heirs of Hammerfell (Darkover) by Marion Zimmer Bradley

Black Dahlia Murder

• The Cases That Haunt Us by John E. Douglas (1947)

Black Death

• World Without End: A Novel (Kingsbridge) by Ken Follett
• Doomsday Book by Connie Willis (1350)

The Blitz

• The night watch by Sarah Waters
• The postmistress by Sarah Blake
• The secret keeper : a novel by Kate Morton
• Atonement by Ian McEwan (1941)
• Winter of the World: Book Two of the Century Trilogy by Ken Follett (1940)

bloodlines

• After dark : a Vamps novel by Nancy A. Collins

Bloody Sunday

• Fall of Giants: Book One of the Century Trilogy by Ken Follett (1905)

Bolshevik Revolution

• The Red Scarf by Kate Furnivall (1917)

Bombing of Hiroshima

• Killing the Rising Sun: How America Vanquished World War II Japan (Bill O'Reilly's Killing Series) by Bill O'Reilly

Bombing of Nagasaki

• Killing the Rising Sun: How America Vanquished World War II Japan (Bill O'Reilly's Killing Series) by Bill O'Reilly

Bombing of Pearl Harbor

• Killing the Rising Sun: How America Vanquished World War II Japan (Bill O'Reilly's Killing Series) by Bill O'Reilly

Bonfire of Vanities

• Birth of Venus, The by Sarah Sunant (the original)

Bonus Army Riots, Washington D.C.

• The lacuna : a novel by Barbara Kingsolver (1932)

Borden Murders

• The Cases That Haunt Us by John E. Douglas (1892)

Bosnian War

• Journalism by Joe Sacco
• People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks (1992-1995)
• A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide by Samantha Power (1992-1995)
• Zlata's Diary by Zlata Filipović (1992-1995)

Boston Massacre

• Rise to Rebellion by Jeff Shaara (1770)

Boston Police Strike

• The given day : a novel by Dennis Lehane

Boston Strangler Murders

• The Cases That Haunt Us by John E. Douglas (1962/1963/1964)

Bourbon Restoration

• The Count of Monte Cristo (Bantam Classics) by Alexandre Dumas

breast cancer

• Seaview Inn (A Seaview Key Novel) by Sherryl Woods

British Conquest of Sindh

• The great game : the struggle for empire in central Asia by Peter Hopkirk (1843)

Bronze Snake

• The Catholic Youth Bible: New Revised Standard Version: Catholic Edition by Brian Singer-Towns (Numbers 21:4-9)

Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka Kansas

• Go Set a Watchman: A Novel by Harper Lee

Building of the Brooklyn Bridge

• The great bridge by David G. McCullough

Building of the Panama Canal

• The path between the seas : the creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914 by David G. McCullough

Building the First Transcontinental Railroad

• Nothing like it in the world : the men who built the transcontinental railroad, 1863-1869 by Stephen E. Ambrose

Burning of the bamboo books

• Day of the Dragon King by Mary Pope Osborne

Burr-Hamilton Duel

• Burr by Gore Vidal
• Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation by Joseph J. Ellis

Butlerian Jihad

• Dune. The machine crusade by Brian Herbert
• House Atreides (Dune: House Trilogy, Book 1) by Brian Herbert (mentioned)

Caen Bombardment

• D-Day: The Battle for Normandy by Antony Beevor

California Gold Rush

• Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune by Bill Dedman (1855)
• Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende (1848–1855)

Cambodian genocide

• A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide by Samantha Power

Capture of Adolf Eichmann

• The Nazi Hunters: How a Team of Spies and Survivors Captured the World's Most Notorious Nazi by Neil Bascomb

Castro's revolutionary war

• 90 Miles to Havana by Enrique Flores-Galbis

The catch of 153 fish

• The Catholic Youth Bible: New Revised Standard Version: Catholic Edition by Brian Singer-Towns (John 21:1-17)

Chattanooga Campaign

• The American Civil War : a military history by John Keegan

Chechen conflict

• Journalism by Joe Sacco

Chicago Conspiracy

• Conspiracy of Knaves by Dee Brown (1865)

Chicago Open Housing Marches

• Hardball (V.I. Warshawski Novel) by Sara Paretsky (1967)

Chicago World's Fair

• The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America by Erik Larson (1893)

Chilean War of Independence

• Sharpe's Devil: Richard Sharpe and the Emperor, 1820-21 (The Sharpe Series) by Bernard Cornwell

Chitral Expedition

• The great game : the struggle for empire in central Asia by Peter Hopkirk (1895)

Cholera Epidemic

• The Secret Garden (HarperClassics) by Frances Hodgson Burnett (1900)

Christ and Antichrist

• The Catholic Youth Bible: New Revised Standard Version: Catholic Edition by Brian Singer-Towns (Revelation 17:1-19:21)

Christ and Satan

• The Catholic Youth Bible: New Revised Standard Version: Catholic Edition by Brian Singer-Towns (Revelation 20:1-3)

Christ rebukes Pharisees and Scribes

• The Catholic Youth Bible: New Revised Standard Version: Catholic Edition by Brian Singer-Towns (Luke 11:37-54)

Christmas

• I Am Half-Sick of Shadows (Flavia de Luce Mystery, Book 4) by Alan Bradley
• Angels at Christmas by Debbie Macomber
• Basic Christianity: Fiftieth Anniversary Edition by John Stott
• Christmas At Timberwoods by Fern Michaels
• The Christmas Cookie Killer (Fresh-Baked Mystery) by Livia J. Washburn
• Fatal Burn (West Coast Series) by Lisa Jackson
• Gabriel's Angel (Silhouette Intimate Moments No. 300) by Nora Roberts
• Little house in the big woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder
• Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time: The Historical Jesus and the Heart of Contemporary Faith by Marcus J. Borg
• The Men of Bitter Creek by Joan Johnston
• My Kind of Christmas (A Virgin River Novel) by Robyn Carr
• A Prayer for Owen Meany : a novel by John Irving
• Santa cruise : a holiday mystery at sea by Mary Higgins Clark
• Skipping Christmas: A Novel by John Grisham
• Snow Angels by Fern Michaels
• Snowy Night with a Stranger by Jane / Jeffries Feather, Sabrina / London, Julia
• A Virgin River Christmas (A Virgin River Novel) by Robyn Carr
• Winter Street: A Novel by Elin Hilderbrand
• Wish List by Lisa Kleypas
• The Catholic Youth Bible: New Revised Standard Version: Catholic Edition by Brian Singer-Towns (Luke 2:1-21)
• Shepherds abiding : a Mitford Christmas story by Jan Karon (Luke 2:4-7)

Christmas Party

• Junie B., first grader : jingle bells, Batman smells! (P.S. so does May) by Barbara Park

Christopher Columbus' discovery of the New World

• Columbus: The Four Voyages, 1492-1504 by Laurence Bergreen

Christ’s sacrifice once for all

• The Catholic Youth Bible: New Revised Standard Version: Catholic Edition by Brian Singer-Towns (Hebrews 10:1-18)

The Church’s final victory

• The Catholic Youth Bible: New Revised Standard Version: Catholic Edition by Brian Singer-Towns (Revelation 20:1–22:5)

The Church’s victory

• The Catholic Youth Bible: New Revised Standard Version: Catholic Edition by Brian Singer-Towns (Revelation 19:1-21)

Civil Rights Act of 1964

• The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

Civil Rights Movement, USA

• Go Set a Watchman: A Novel by Harper Lee
• Hidden figures : the American dream and the untold story of the Black women mathematicians who helped win the space race by Margot Lee Shetterly

civil war between Aristobulus II and Hyrcanus II

• The Dead Sea Scrolls: A New Translation by Michael O Wise (67)

Civil war in Afghanistan

• Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 by Steve Coll