Historical

The Tudors: King Takes Queen

by Elizabeth Massie & Michael Hirst

Dissent rises in the kingdom of King Henry VIII of England. The king's ongoing dispute with the papacy over a desire for annulment is about to incite the Reformation, and his next step is to appoint a new archbishop...

The Boleyn Inheritance

by Philippa Gregory

THREE WOMEN WHO SHARE ONE FATE: THE BOLEYN INHERITANCE

ANNE OF CLEVES

She runs from her tiny country, her hateful mother, and her abusive brother to a throne whose last three occupants are dead. King Henry...

Coming of the Storm: Book One of Contact: The Battle for America

by Kathleen O'Neal Gear & Michael Gear

From New York Times bestselling novelists W. Michael and Kathleen O’Neal Gear comes the first book in a landmark new series that paints a vivid portrait of the devastating clash of cultures during the blood-drenched...

The Blue Orchard: A Novel

by Jackson Taylor

On the eve of the Great Depression, Verna Krone, the child of Irish immigrants, must leave the eighth grade and begin working as a maid to help support her family. Her employer takes inappropriate liberties,...

Twilight of Avalon: A Novel of Trystan & Isolde

by Anna Elliott

Book One in the Twilight of Avalon Trilogy

She is a healer, a storyteller, a warrior, and a queen without a throne. In the shadow of King Arthur's Britain, one woman knows the truth that could save a kingdom...

The Double Life of Pocahontas

by Jean Fritz

In a story that is as gripping as it is historical, Jean Fritz reveals the true life of Pocahontas. Though at first permitted to move freely between the Indian and the white worlds, Pocahontas was eventually...

The Joy Luck Club

by Amy Tan

Four mothers, four daughters, four families whose histories shift with the four winds depending on who's "saying" the stories. In 1949 four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, begin meeting to...

A Murderous Procession

by Ariana Franklin

Tess Garritsen calls this one "my favorite book of the year!"

In 1176, King Henry II sends his daughter Joanna to Palermo to marry his cousin, the king of Sicily. Henry chooses Adelia Aguilar to travel with...

March

by Geraldine Brooks

From Louisa May Alcott’s beloved classic Little Women, Geraldine Brooks has animated the character of the absent father, March, and crafted a story "filled with the ache of love and marriage and with the power...

Dragonswan

by Sherrilyn Kenyon

New York Times bestselling author Sherrilyn Kenyon delivers a special collector's-edition tale of unexpected passion woven from the mysteries of a celebrated ancient tapestry. Beautiful scholar Channon MacRea...

Plain Jane: A Novel of Jane Seymour

by Laurien Gardner

Continuing the story of Henry VIII's wives-from the author of The Spanish Bride and A Lady Raised High.

With a face better suited to a nun's habit than a wedding dress, Jane Seymour has no suitors and few hopes....

Lady of the Light

by Donna Gillespie

Auriane, warrior maiden of the Chattian tribe, was sworn to remove the cursed Romans from the lands of the Rhine. Then fate intervened: she was captured, brought to Rome in chains, and trained to fight in the...

Devil's Brood

Henry II & Eleanor of Aquitaine #3

by Sharon Kay Penman

The long-awaited and highly anticipated final volume in Penman's trilogy of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine-a tumultuous conclusion to this timeless story of love, power, ambition, and betrayal.

Where the second...

The Sanctuary: A Novel

by Raymond Khoury

After centuries of destruction, one unsuspecting woman stands at the center of a conspiracy that could change the world forever.

The Spanish Bride: A Novel of Catherine of Aragon

by Laurien Gardner

The queen who married a Tudor and a tyrant. Her name was Catherine. For over two decades, she was Queen of England, until her failure to bear the king a son, her advancing age, and King Henry VIII's obsession...

Waterloo

The Sharpe Stories #20

by Bernard Cornwell

June 1815: The Duke of Wellington, the Prince of Orange, and Napoleon will meet on the battlefield--and decide the fate of Europe

With the emperor Napoleon at its head, an enormous French army is marching toward...

Sharpe's Revenge

The Sharpe Stories #19

by Bernard Cornwell

When his honor and reputation are at stake, Sharpe seeks revenge--at any cost

It is 1814, and the defeat of Napoleon seems imminent--if the well-protected city of Toulouse can be conquered. For Richard Sharpe,...

Sharpe's Siege

The Sharpe Stories #18

by Bernard Cornwell

Trapped with his back to the sea, Major Richard Sharpe and a handful of men must stand against a battalion of French troops

Sharpe's mission seemed simple: capture a small unguarded French coastal fort, cripple...

Sharpe's Regiment

The Sharpe Stories #17

by Bernard Cornwell

A corrupt political enemy is determined to disband the South Essex Regiment--and to destroy Major Richard Sharpe

Sharpe returns to England and discovers an illegal recruiting ring that sells soldiers like cattle...

Sharpe's Honor

The Sharpe Stories #16

by Bernard Cornwell

An unfinished duel, a midnight murder, and the treachery of a beautiful prostitute lead to the imprisonment of Sharpe. Caught in a web of political intrigue for which his military experience has left him fatally...