Historical

Pride

by William Wharton

During the Depression, a 10-year-old boy befriends a carnival stuntman and his lion cub and learns about the meaning of family, loyalty, love, and survival.

Children of Liberty

by Paullina Simons

Before Tatiana and Alexander . . . before Leningrad and Lazarevo . . . before everything, there was Gina Attaviano, who came from Belpasso to Boston's Freedom Docks seeking a new and better life. There she meets...

The Galliard

by Margaret Irwin

Queen of Scotland at six days old. Queen of France at seventeen years old. A widow at eighteen. The young and trusting Mary, Queen of Scots, is sailing home to her kingdom after years in exile. The danger from...

The English Concubine: Passion and Power in 1860s Singapore

by Dawn Farnham

In the fourth and final volume of The Straits Quartet, Charlotte Macleod is the English concubine. Her love affair with Zhen, wealthy Chinese merchant, is an open scandal to both the English and the Chinese...

Simple Living Handbook: Discover the Joy of a De-Cluttered Life

by Lorilee Lippincott

"A glowing light of modern Italian literature. . . . As direct and clean as if it were carved in stone, it yet speaks thoughts of the heart."-The New York Times Book Review Set in ducal Italy and post-revolutionary...

An Ill Wind

by David Donachie

1793. John Pearce and his Pelicans are homeward bound, determined to put the treacherous Captain Ralph Barclay in the dock. But first they must evacuate Toulon where the Republican Army and the threat of the...

Hoodwinked - the spy who didn't die

by Lowell Green & Tina Renard-Offner &

The voice on the tape recordings is that of an old man we all believe is dead. His incredible story whips us along on a fascinating, engrossing speedboat ride so entirely believable that readers are left wondering...

The Wooden Chair

by Rayne E. Golay

Winner of the Royal Palm Award! As a child, Leini stands ready to do anything to win her mother Mira's love. This effort costs her the sight in one eye and as a result, causes her to endure bullying from kids...

A Journal of the Plague Year

by Daniel Defoe

Classic 1722 account of the epidemic that ravaged England nearly 60 years earlier. Defoe used his considerable talents as a journalist and novelist to reconstruct — historically and fictionally — the Great...

The Ten Incarnations of Adam Avatar

by Kevin Baldeosingh

This postmodern historical novel addresses power, sex, and the role of the imagination in constructing social realities. Adam Avatar has been, among other incarnations, a Spanish priest, a slave trader, a white...

Baree, Son of Kazan

by James Oliver Curwood

This book was originally published prior to 1923, and represents a reproduction of an important historical work, maintaining the same format as the original work. While some publishers have opted to apply OCR...

Traitor's Gate

by Mary FitzGerald

An exciting romp through the English Civil War, Traitor's Gate, takes the hero Harry Tyrell on a hunt for both gold and spies in the besieged city of Chester. There he finds deadly intrigue, desperate adventure...

Mist

by Mary FitzGerald

When Matthew Williams, a young Canadian, inherits a hill farm in North Wales he leaves his college course and flies to the UK take up his inheritance. But the farm he has inherited is run down, and with no knowledge...

Knight on the Potomac

by Mary FitzGerald

Rupert Knight is struggling to adjust to his new life as an hotelier in rural West Virginia. It's a far cry from his previous vocation as a London art expert. There is the culture shock, the accents, the job...

When I Was Young

by Mary FitzGerald

'When I was young the war started. When I was young my father was a soldier. When I was young I moved to the country. When I was young I went to France and fell in love'

1950

Eleanor is sixteen when she goes...

The Fishing Pool

by Mary FitzGerald

Isolda Newport moves to the west of Ireland where she has inherited a house in a small village. In the months following her move she tries to forget the tragedy of her life as the wife of Charlie, a vicious...

Arthur Mervyn

by Charles Brockden Brown

Set during the epic Philadelphia yellow fever epidemic of 1793, Charles Brockden Brown's classic gothic novel Arthur Mervyn; or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 connects the outbreak with the upheavals of the revolutionary...

Lady of Ashes

by Christine Trent

Only a woman with an iron backbone could succeed as an undertaker in Victorian London, but Violet Morgan takes great pride in her trade. While her husband, Graham, is preoccupied with elevating their station...

The Admirals' Game

by David Donachie

1794. Lieutenant John Pearce, recently returned from the Atlantic, is caught between the constant feuding of two senior admirals. One puts him in a position of maximum danger while another asks him to undertake...

Temple of a Thousand Faces

by John Shors

In his international bestseller Beneath a Marble Sky, John Shors wrote about the ancient passion, beauty, and brilliance that inspired the building of the Taj Mahal. Now with Temple of a Thousand Faces, he...