Historical

The Crown

The Crown #1

by Nancy Bilyeau

JOANNA STAFFORD, a Dominican nun, learns that her favorite cousin has been condemned by Henry VIII to be burned at the stake. Defying the rule of enclosure, Joanna leaves the priory to stand at her cousin’s...

The Monsters of Templeton

by Katherine Howe

"A fresh present-day story infused with an original take on popular history. Forget broomsticks and pointy hats; here are witches that could well be walking among us today. This debut novel flows with poetic...

Quanah Parker

by Bill Dugan

After winning the Mexican War, white Texans turned their attention to expanding control over the vast lands of west Texas. To dominate this huge and forbidding land, they had to subdue everything, man and beast,...

Figures in Silk: A Novel

by Vanora Bennett

Two sisters discover passion during the War of the Roses—one in the arms of the king, the other in the world of silk

From the author of the acclaimed novel Portrait of an Unknown Woman comes an epic tale of...

Baker Towers

by Jennifer Haigh

Bakerton is a community of company houses and church festivals, of union squabbles and firemen's parades. Its neighborhoods include Little Italy, Swedetown, and Polish Hill. For its tight-knit citizens -- and...

Jesus and Ventress: Best Friends

by Edward Kendrex

Jesus is a mild-mannered Jew and a lawyer learning his ministry. Mary Magdalene, the daughter of an innkeeper, is his childhood friend. But in this story, occurring at the height of Roman power in 26 A.D., the...

The Exile of Sara Stevenson: A Historical Novel

by Darci Hannah

In 1814, Sara Stevenson, the well-bred but high-spirited daughter of celebrated Scottish lighthouse designer Robert Stevenson, falls in love with a common sailor, Thomas Crichton. On the day of their clandestine...

Poredevil's Beaver Tales

by Edward Louis Henry

A collection of 24 humorous mountain man tall stories narrated in a loose sort of verse in the voice of a tough, experienced, early-19th Century Rocky Mountain Fur Trapper. These stories are mainly addressed...

Mountains of the Sea

by Gunter Swoboda

Book Synopsis: "Rarely does a historical novel capture the vernacular, imagery and excitement of an entire era like Gunter Swoboda's Mountains Of The Sea. As a surfer, historian and working professional Gunter...

A Cold Day in Hell: The Plainsmen

The Plainsmen #11

by Terry C. Johnston

Veteran Indian fighter Seamus Donegan joins the hunt for Crazy Horse, the elusive Cheyenne warrior chief who's putting the cavalry to shame in this continuing saga of the Great Indian Wars.

Johnston brilliantly...

Reap the Whirlwind: The Plainsmen

The Plainsmen #9

by Terry C. Johnston

As the Sioux and the Cheyenne amass along the northern frontier, army scout Seamus Donegan heads north to Fort Fetterman and Brigadier General George C. Crook prepares to face off against Crazy Horse.

Seize the Sky: Son of the Plains

by Terry C. Johnston

Never one to proceed cautiously when an impetuous move could win him glory, Custer marched his famed Seventh Calvary against the Sioux in June, 1876. He was thirty-six, already a mythic hero to some, with the...

Captive Queen: A Novel of Eleanor of Aquitaine

by Alison Weir

BONUS: This edition contains a Captive Queen discussion guide and an excerpt from The Lady Elizabeth.

Nearing her thirtieth birthday, Eleanor of Aquitaine has spent the past dozen frustrating years as wife to...

Bed of Roses, Bed of Thorns

by Uta Christensen

Germany, WWI and WWII: War devastates the lives of ordinary citizens. While the country's face was changing and men died in battle by the millions, the women's psyche and role was also changing. Ursula Meister,...

Mozart's Blood

by Louise Marley

Award winning author Louise Marley's compelling, intricately layered story of a beautiful soprano who shares an everlasting bond with the world's most notorious musical genius. . .

Mozart's Blood

Octavia Voss...

Summer of the Redeemers

by Carolyn Haines

Along with the sweltering heat of the Mississippi pine barrens, the summer of 1963 brings intruders to Kali Oka Road: The Blood of the Redeemer churchers, members of a secretive religious sect, and Nadine Andrews,...

The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Web Weaver

by Sam Siciliano

When a mysterious gypsy places a cruel curse on the guests at a ball and a series of terrible misfortunes begin to affect those who attended that night, Mr. Donald Wheelwight engages Sherlock Holmes to find...

Death of Virgil

by Hermann Broch

It is the reign of the Emperor Augustus, and Publius Vergilius Maro, the poet of the Aeneid and Caesar's enchanter, has been summoned to the palace, where he will shortly die. Out of the last hours of Virgil's...

Wings of Riches

by Al Lacy & Joanna Lacy

Introducing a new trilogy called Dreams of Gold, master narrators Al and JoAnna Lacy tell the stories of three major gold strikes that took place in North America in the nineteenth century. Craig Turley, the...

The Red Heart

by James Alexander Thom

The Slocum family of Northeastern Pennsylvania are the best of the white settlers, peace-loving Quakers who believe that the Indians hold the Light of God inside. It is from this good-hearted family that Frances...