Historical

The Giant, O'Brien

by Hilary Mantel

New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year

Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year

London, 1782: center of science and commerce, home to the newly rich and the desperately poor. In the midst of it all...

The Death Drum

by A. Hyatt Verrill

An expedition into the jungles of Venezuela results in disaster and an encounter with the mysterious Death Drum...

Bandit of Hells Bend

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Elias Henders is the prosperous owner of a ranch and a gold mine. Competing for his daughter Diana, ranch hand Colby sabotages recovering alcoholic foreman Bull, and takes his job. The local stage is repeatedly...

The Man-Eater

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

The tale of a lion who was named "The Man-Eater"

Swords for Florence

by Victor Rousseau

More than cunning and planning and courage would be necessary to restore my people, the Medicis, to their rightful throne. We would need superb weapons-and special skill to use them in such a glorious cause!...

The Girl from Hollywood

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Life at the Pennington's Rancho del Granado was hard, but it was a good life, far removed from the unnatural pressures and dangers of the big city. It was, that is, until the desperate and evil ambitions of...

The Girl From Farris

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

A one-time resident of Chicago's notorious Red light district, Maggie Lynch sets out determinedly to end her life of sin and find a decent job. But on entering the respectable world Maggie finds that deceit...

The Lad and the Lion

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Against the backdrop of royalty in Europe comes this adventure about a lost boy and a lion in this historical adventure by Edgar Rice Burroughs.

The Oakdale Affair

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Bridge from The Mucker Returns in this adventure in a tale of kidnapping, jewel thievery, and other nefarious acts in the devastated social and economic landscape of post-World War I America.

The Eighth Circle of Hell

by Gary Dolman

The Victorian age is often held up as a shining era of British history, a time of wealth and power, of civilisation and philanthropy. It was all of these. Yet it was also a time of cruelty and depravity, where...

The Undone Years

by Shamini Flint

Against a backdrop of the fall of Singapore, the communist insurgency and the eventual Japanese surrender, THE UNDONE YEARS is a very human story of love and betrayal in a time of war.

The Secret History of the Nevada Navy

by e.West Smith

You've probably never known that submarines have been traveling through a underground cavern from Nevada to the Pacific since the late 1880's. Or that Napoleon III started an Indian war in Nevada. Or that there...

The Four Feathers

by A. W. E. Mason

British guardsman Harry Feversham stuns his friends when, just before he is scheduled to ship off to the Sudan, he quits his regiment. In shocked retaliation for this dastardly act of cowardice, Harry is presented...

Betty Zane

by Zane Grey

Inspired by the life and adventures of his own great-great grandmother, Betty Zane was Zane Grey's first novel and launched his career as a master writer of rousing frontier and Western adventures.

Betty Zane...

The Manumission of Ezra McIntosh

by James Herd

The Manumission of Ezra McIntosh is a historical novel depicting the evolution of the relationship of a Missouri slave (who would have his freedom) and his indulgent master (who would hold him to his services)....

The River is Home

by Patrick D. Smith

Smith's first novel, The River Is Home revolves around a Mississippi family's struggle to cope with changes in their rural environment. Poor in material possessions, Skeeter's kinfolk are rich in their appreciation...

The Proxy Assassin: Book Three of the American Spy Trilogy

by John Knoerle

October, 1948. Former OSS agent Hal Schroeder gets an invitation to Washington D.C. from Frank Wisner, who heads the CIA's new covert opps division. Hal is whisked off to Wisner's Maryland shore retreat and...

Ladies of the Shire

by Peter Webb

Spanning three centuries and two countries, Ladies of the Shire weaves together the lives of eight individuals on their unforgettable, epic journey from the hay-meadows of Leicestershire, England to the mud...

Angels at Mons

by Carl Leckey

Book three of The Angel Trilogy.  A work of fact-based fiction?

This is a story of some of the unsung heroes of the Great War - the stretcher-bearers, ambulance drivers and others who risked their lives supporting...

England's Dreaming

by Justine Elyot

On the day of Queen Elizabeth's Silver Jubilee, worlds collide, and so do bodies. A pearl-wearing girl and a punk boy-can it ever work? Everybody in Camberwick Square is thrilled to be celebrating the Queen's...