Historical

The Lute Player: A Novel of Richard the Lionhearted

by Norah Lofts

Beloved author Norah Lofts brings to life the romance and adventure of the crusading king Richard the Lionhearted through the eyes of his most humble and trusted companion -- his lute player.

One of the most...

The Fruit of Her Hands: The Story of Shira of Ashkenaz

by Michelle Cameron

Based on the life of the author’s thirteenth-century ancestor, Meir ben Baruch of Rothenberg, a renowed Jewish scholar of medieval Europe, this is the richly dramatic fictional story of Rabbi Meir’s wife,...

Emilie's Voice: A Novel

by Susanne Dunlap

Set against the backdrop of Paris and the court of Versailles, émilie's Voice introduces a young heroine of modest upbringing who possesses a special gift: the voice of an angel. When distinguished composer...

Chasing Cool: Standing Out in Today's Cluttered Marketplace

by Noah Kerner & Gene Pressman

Cool isn't just a state of mind, a celebrity fad, or an American obsession -- it's a business. In boardrooms across America, product managers are examining vodka bottles and candy bars, tissue boxes and hamburgers,...

The Last Great Dance on Earth: A Novel

by Sandra Gulland

The Last Great Dance on Earth is the triumphant final volume of Sandra Gulland's beloved trilogy based on the life of Josephine Bonaparte. When the novel opens, Josephine and Napoleon have been married for four...

The Jewel Box

by Anna Davis

From the author of The Shoe Queen comes a jazz-age tale of love set in the world of London’s high society.

London, 1927. Diamond Sharp writes a racy newspaper column, using a fake name to conceal her identity....

The Favorites: A Novel

by Mary Yukari Waters

When Mary Yukari Waters's short-story collection, The Laws of Evening, was published, Maureen Corrigan of National Public Radio's Fresh Air said that "Waters's empathic imagination is so vivid she makes her...

The Devlin Diary

by Christi Phillips

From the acclaimed author of The Rossetti Letter comes a dazzling novel of intrigue, passion, and royal secrets that shifts tantalizingly between Restoration-era London and present-day Cambridge.

London,...

Denver: A Novel

by John Dunning

By the 1920s, Denver had outgrown its frontier-town beginnings. But for some, life was still as perilous as the surrounding terrain. The insidious influence of the Ku Klux Klan was reaching its peak, and those...

Europe Central

National Book Award for Fiction 2005

by William Vollmann

In his magnficent new work of fiction —which reviewers have greeted with such words as "profound," "easily his greatest work," "morally significant" — acclaimed author William T. Vollmann turns his trenchant...

Mistress of the Revolution: A Novel

by Catherine Delors

View our feature on Catherine Delors' Mistress of the Revolution.

An impoverished noblewoman, Gabrielle de Montserrat is only fifteen when she meets her first love, a commoner named Pierre-André Coffinhal....

White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century India

by William Dalrymple

White Mughals is the romantic and ultimately tragic tale of a passionate love affair that crossed and transcended all the cultural, religious and political boundaries of its time.

James Achilles Kirkpatrick...

Days of Grace: A Novel

by Catherine Hall

At the beginning of World War II, twelve-year-old Nora Lynch is one of thousands of London children sent away to the safety of the English countryside. Her surrogate family, Reverend and Mrs. Rivers and their...

The Crimson Rooms

by Katharine McMahon

From the author of the #1 international bestseller, The Rose of Sebastopol--an unforgettable historical novel.

Still haunted by the death of her brother James seven years ago in World War I, Evelyn Gifford...

The Queen's Handmaiden

by Jennifer Ashley

A novel of the early years of Elizabeth Tudor-as told by the spirited niece of her real-life governess.

Her name is Eloise Rousell

. Daughter of a well-bred lady and a strolling player, she lived her early...

Thieves of Mercy

by James L. Nelson

Having survived the bloody Battle of New Orleans and the loss of their ironclad Yazoo River, captain Samuel Bowater, engineer Hieronymus Taylor, and the survivors of their crew are given new orders -- take command...

The Barbed Crown

Ethan Gage #6

by William Dietrich

In this latest adventure by New York Times bestselling author William Dietrich, Ethan Gage is out to foil Napoleon's coronation as emperor, play double agent between France and England, and turn the tide of...

Camp Nine: A Novel

by Vivienne Schiffer

Camp Nine is a wonderfully written novel of World War II in southeast Arkansas

Flora: A Novel

by Gail Godwin

The family members Helen depended on are gone. She lost her mother some years before, and her beloved grandmother has just passed away. And now her father has left town to work on a top secret military project...

Flowers for Miss Pengelly

by Rosemary Aitken

Cornwall, 1911: Young lady's maid Effie Pengelly is confused and alarmed when charming Constable Alexander Dawes questions her about an unidentified, now deceased man who came to the town asking for her whereabouts....