Historical

The Hive

by Claire Rayner

Early Claire Rayner Nursing Drama comaring life at "The Royal" to that in a bee-hive.

Paying Guests

by Claire Rayner

The sequel to "London Lodgings". Tilly Quentin has successfully turned Quentin's into a thriving guest house. But with the demanding guests, particularly the handsome Silas Geddes, and her beloved son, Duff,...

London Lodgings

by Claire Rayner

Without her husband Frank - the victim of a fatal accident, Tilly Quentin's decision to turn 17 Brompton Grove into lodgings is a brave one, for it is against the rigid Victorian social code for a lady to go...

The Outer Banks House

by Diann Ducharme

As the wounds of the Civil War are just beginning to heal, one fateful summer would forever alter the course of a young girl’s life.

In 1868, on the barren shores of post-war Outer Banks North Carolina, the...

The Devil's Elixir

Templar #3

by Raymond Khoury

Sean Reilly and Tess Chaykin, the heroes of Raymond Khoury's New York Times bestselling Templar novels, return in an edge-of-your-seat thriller that reaches from the present day back to 1700s Mexico—and beyond…...

Postscripts

by Claire Rayner

A novel of discovery, guilt and betrayal by the author of "Maddie" and "Clinical Judgements". A celebrated film-maker is determined to make a film on the survivors of concentration camps. He comes to London...

The Thistle and the Rose: The Story of Margaret, Princess of England, Queen of Scotland

The Tudor Saga #8

by Jean Plaidy

From the pen of the legendary historical novelist Jean Plaidy comes the story of Princess Margaret Tudor, whose life of tragedy, bloodshed, and scandal would rival even that of her younger brother, Henry VIII....

The Ruby in Her Navel: A Novel of Love and Intrigue in the 12th Century

by Barry Unsworth

Set in the Middle Ages during the brief yet glittering rule of the Norman kings, The Ruby in Her Navel is a tale in which the conflicts of the past portend the present. The novel opens in Palermo, in which Latin...

Crack in the Sky

Titus Bass #3

by Terry C. Johnston

Crack in the Sky continues the development of the young Titus Bass as he gradually learns the lore of the mountain man. From a raucous rendezvous of trappers to a searing fight with Comanche, from a frigid winter's...

Cluny Cross: A Mad Medieval Tale

by Mark Blackham

The year is 1089, a time when Muslim armies rule the Mediterranean Sea and dare to threaten the shores of southern France. Anxious Christians, fearing the end of days, plot to join forces in the defense of Christendom....

Free Men

by Edward Louis Henry

Volume II: Free Men, 1824-1826 chronicles the exploits of Temple Buck and his rowdy trapper companions in the American Rocky Mountain fur trade from 1824-1826. In this, the second volume of the Temple Buck Quartet,...

Balto's Nose

by Thomas Matthew Thibeault

A novel of the Monuments Men in World War II. Glenn Carnehan was a driver for the American art experts who tracked down the masterpieces looted by the Nazis. Glenn spends a weekend with his grandson, Michael,...

Backbone of the World

by Edward Louis Henry

Volume I: Backbone of the World, 1822-1824 is a coming-of-age story of the first two years of the Rocky Mountain fur trade, 1822-24. It is told in his own words by Temple Buck, an Ohio-born lad whose rollicking...

Now Silence: A Novel of World War II

by Tori Warner Shepard

In this superbly researched WWII novel, award-winning writer, Tori Warner Shepard, captures the mood of remote Santa Fe, New Mexico as it waits out WWII for the return of her men held in Japanese prison camps....

Sparrowhawk III

by Edward Cline

Third in the popular historical series, Sparrowhawk Book Three follows Jack Frake (Book One) and Hugh Kenrick (Book Two) as they meet in the town of Caxton in Colonial Virginia. Jack is a successful planter...

Lazy Eye

by Donna Daley-Clarke

Racial tensions and the plight of immigrant life in 1970s England create the backdrop for the story of a soccer player's act of violence that will haunt his son for years to come. At nineteen, Geoffhurst is...

Winter Rain: The Plainsmen

by Terry C. Johnston

Jonah Hook was a man who had lost everything a  man could lose--but the iron will to reclaim what  had been taken from him. Now he must confront the  fiery religious heretic who has enslaved his wife  and...

The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War

by Michael Shaara

“My favorite historical novel . . . a superb re-creation of the Battle of Gettysburg, but its real importance is its insight into what the war was about, and what it meant.”—James M. McPherson

In the...

What Once We Loved

by Jane Kirkpatrick

A CIRCLE OF COURAGEOUS WOMEN DISCOVERS THE MEANING OF INDEPENDENCE, FORGIVENESS, AND LOVE Ruth Martin had a dream: to become an independent woman and build a life in southern Oregon for herself and her children....

The View from Delphi

by Jonathan Odell

Set in pre-civil rights Mississippi, The View from Delphi follows two young mothers, Hazel and Vida-one wealthy and white, the other poor and black-who find a common cause in an unfair world. This absorbing...