Historical

The Spring of the Ram

The House of Niccolò #2

by Dorothy Dunnett

With the bravura storytelling and pungent authenticity of detail she brought to her acclaimed Lymond Chronicles, Dorothy Dunnett, grande dame of the historical novel, presents The House of Niccolò series. The...

Dark Star: A Novel

Night Soldiers #2

by Alan Furst

Paris, Moscow, Berlin, and Prague, 1937. In the back alleys of nighttime Europe, war is already under way. André Szara, survivor of the Polish pogroms and the Russian civil wars and a foreign correspondent...

Pawn in Frankincense

The Lymond Chronicles #4

by Dorothy Dunnett

For the first time Dunnett's Lymond Chronicles are available in the United States in quality paperback editions.

Pawn in Frankincense is the fourth in the legendary Lymond Chronicles. Somewhere within the bejeweled...

Ride the Moon Down: The Plainsmen

Titus Bass #7

by Terry C. Johnston

The time of the mountain man is coming to an end...but some--like Titus Bass will not exit gently. A brilliantly exciting and thoroughly researched novel of the end of the dream that was the unmapped and virgin...

Homeland: A Novel

by Barbara Hambly

Those who loved Cold Mountain or Geraldine Brooks’s March will embrace and long remember this spellbinding novel of two remarkable women torn apart by conflict, sustained by literature and art, united by friendship...

Metropolis: A Novel

by Elizabeth Gaffney

Elizabeth Gaffney’s magnificent, Dickensian Metropolis captures the splendor and violence of America’s greatest city in the years after the Civil War, as young immigrants climb out of urban chaos and into...

King Hereafter

by Dorothy Dunnett

Back in print by popular demand--"A stunning revelation of the historical Macbeth, harsh and brutal and eloquent." --Washington Post Book World.

With the same meticulous scholarship and narrative legerdemain...

The Golden Hour

by Margaret Wurtele

In this stunning debut set in the summer of 1944 in Tuscany, Giovanna Bellini, the daughter of a wealthy aristocrat and vineyard owner, has just turned seventeen and is on the cusp of adulthood. War bears down...

To Lie with Lions

The House of Niccolò #6

by Dorothy Dunnett

The sixth volume in the popular The House of Niccolo series, this vivid novel of the 15th century centers on Nicholas vander Poele who, in 1471, is acclaimed by all the great courts of Europe, but whose personal...

No One is Here Except All of Us

by Ramona Ausubel

In 1939, the families in a remote Jewish village in Romania feel the war close in on them. Their tribe has moved and escaped for thousands of years- across oceans, deserts, and mountains-but now, it seems, there...

Amandine: A Novel

by Marlena De Blasi

Marlena de Blasi, the acclaimed author of such delectable memoirs as A Thousand Days in Venice and That Summer in Sicily, now brings her luminous prose to the world of fiction with this remarkable debut novel....

The Forbidden Hills

by Joanna Lacy & Al Lacy

Gold Glimmers, and the Rush Is On!

An expedition led by George Custer in the 1870s confirms that the rumor of gold is true, and now its glimmer beckons from the Black Hills of Dakota Territory. And the rush...

The Monsoon Bride

by Michelle Aung Thin

Rangoon 1930. Winsome, raised in a convent and just married to a man she barely knows, is full of anticipation as she travels towards the great city. She does not know that it will seduce her, possess her senses...

The Cardboard Crown

by Martin Boyd

In 1949 Guy Langton's house-like his family's fortunes-has seen better days. But in his grandmother Alice's diaries he uncovers more than just a story of a dynasty in decline. He finds a tale of England and...

The Glorious Cause

by Jeff Shaara

In Rise to Rebellion, bestselling author Jeff Shaara captured the origins of the American Revolution as brilliantly as he depicted the Civil War in Gods and Generals and The Last Full Measure. Now he continues...

The Murder in the Tower: The Story of Frances, Countess of Essex

The Stuart Saga #3

by Jean Plaidy

The dashing Robert Carr is a well-known favorite of King James I. After attracting his attention by falling from a horse in the tiltyard, Robert rises quickly through the ranks. But when the cunning and beautiful...

Shadow Valley

by Steven Barnes

In Great Sky Woman, “daringly epic in scope,” (Publishers Weekly), Steven Barnes's Great Sky Woman unveiled the world of a prehistoric people in the shadow of modern-day Mount Kilimanjaro. Now, in Shadow...

Dark Places

by Kate Grenville

Kate Grenville, author of the award-winning The Secret River, explores the mind of one of her most powerful creations: a man who can persuade himself that he has the right, even the duty, to conquer and subdue...

A Favorite of the Queen: The Story of Lord Robert Dudley and Elizabeth I

The Tudor Saga #11

by Jean Plaidy

Torn between her heart’s passion and duty to her kingdom, a young queen makes a dark choice…

Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester was the most powerful man in England during the reign of Elizabeth I. Handsome...

The Ringed Castle

The Lymond Chronicles #5

by Dorothy Dunnett

For the first time Dunnett's Lymond Chronicles are available in the United States in quality paperback editions.

Fifth in the legendary Lymond Chronicles, The Ringed Castle leaps from Mary Tudor's England to...