Historical

Playing for Pancho Villa

by Sterling Bennett

With prose as stripped down and unforgiving as the Chihuahua Desert itself, this novel is at once a gritty historical adventure, a haunting story of relationships and love, and a story that dares to confront...

A Spear of Summer Grass

by Deanna Raybourn

Paris, 1923

The daughter of a scandalous mother, Delilah Drummond is already notorious, even among Paris society. But her latest scandal is big enough to make even her oft-married mother blanch. Delilah is exiled...

At Your Service

by Aliysha Ellis & Nan Comargue

The Gardener's Sin' by Alysha Ellis The gardener's sin is my lord and lady's pleasure. The daughter of an earl, Lady Mary Linden never noticed the servants who toiled on her father's estate. But her aristocratic...

The Fox

by Isabelle Drake & DH Lawrence

The Classics Exposed... A young man returns from war to find two women living on the isolated farm he'd called home. Needing to dominate, he sets out to put his life in order. The bitter, dark night a rugged...

The Patriot Game

by Ron Culley

The Irish Republican Army's Chief of Staff, Charlie Kerins, is executed by de Valera's Free State government following a tip-off. Sinéad O'Grady, a young and inexperienced Volunteer serving in the IRA during...

Paris: The Novel

by Edward Rutherfurd

From the grand master of the historical novel comes a dazzling, epic portrait of the City of Light

Internationally bestselling author Edward Rutherfurd has enchanted millions of readers with his sweeping, multigenerational...

Unexpected Gifts

by S.R. Mallery

Can we learn from our ancestral past? Do our relatives behaviors help mold our own? In Unexpected Gifts, that is precisely what happens to Sonia, a confused college student, forever choosing the wrong man. Searching...

Flashman in the Great Game: A Novel

Flashman Papers #5

by GeorgeMacDonald Fraser

One of literature's most delightful rakes is back in another tale of rollicking adventure and tantalizing seduction. The plucky Flashman's latest escapades are sure to entertain devotees as well as attract new...

Dewey Defeats Truman

by Thomas Mallon

From a writer whose last book, Henry and Clara, prompted John Updike to declare Thomas Mallon one of the most interesting American novelists at work, comes a story that perfectly captures the delightful romance...

Henry and Clara

by Thomas Mallon

On the evening of Good Friday, 1865, Henry Rathbone and Clara Harris joined the Lincolns in the Presidential box at Ford’s Theater, becoming eyewitnesses to one of the great tragedies of American history.

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The Enchanted Life of Adam Hope

by Rhonda Riley

In the waning months of World War II, young Evelyn Roe's life is transformed when she finds what she takes to be a badly burned soldier, all but completely buried in the heavy red-clay soil on her family's farm...

River of Dust: A Novel

by Virginia Pye

On the windswept plains of northwestern China, Mongol bandits swoop down upon an American missionary couple and steal their small child. The Reverend sets out in search of the boy and becomes lost in the rugged,...

The Hanging of Margaret Dickson

by Alison Butler

In an age when women are expected to know their place, be submissive, dutiful and chaste, Maggie Dickson, a Musselburgh fishwife, is often in trouble. She’s outspoken, promiscuous and vituperative. While her...

The Movement of Stars: A Novel

by Amy Brill

A love story set in 1845 Nantucket, between a female astronomer and the unusual man who understands her dreams.

It is 1845, and Hannah Gardner Price has lived all twenty-four years of her life according to...

The Dark Forest

by Hugh Walpole

A beautifully atmospheric novel, set in the dense forests of central Europe.

It Happened at the Fair: A Novel

by Deeanne Gist

Gambling everything—including the family farm—Cullen McNamara travels to the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair with his most recent invention. But the noise in the fair’s Machinery Hall makes it impossible to...

God's Favorite: A Novel

by Lawrence Wright

In this fascinating work of historical fiction, award-winning author Lawrence Wright captures all the gripping drama and black humor of Panama during the final, nerve-racking days of its legendary dictator,...

A Bond Broken: A Tale of Love, Loyalty, and Loss

by Nicole Bradshaw

The prequel to Unsinkable, this gripping novella tells the story of two sisters who become mortal enemies in their struggle for love and independence—until they are the only black family on the Titanic.

Corinne’s...

Blood Between Queens

Thornleigh #5

by Barbara Kyle

Following her perilous fall from a throne she'd scarcely owned to begin with, Mary, Queen of Scots, has fled to England, hoping her cousin, Queen Elizabeth, will grant her asylum. But now Mary has her sights...

Silas Marner

by George Eliot

Silas Marner, a weaver in the slum of Lantern Yard, stands falsely accused of stealing funds from his small Calvinist congregation. His life in tatters, Silas flees south and settles near the village of Ravenloe,...