Historical

The Observations

by Jane Harris

The Observations is a hugely assured and darkly funny debut set in nineteenth-century Scotland. Bessy Buckley, the novel's heroine, is a cynical, wide-eyed, and tender fifteen-year-old Irish girl who takes a...

No Less Than Victory: A Novel of World War II

by Jeff Shaara

After the success at Normandy, the Allied commanders are confident that the war in Europe will soon be over. But in December 1944, in the Ardennes Forest, the Germans launch a ruthless counteroffensive that...

The Sign

by Raymond Khoury

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Last Templar

New York Times bestselling author Raymond Khoury returns with a provocative thriller set at the intersection of science, religion, and history...

Dracula, My Love: The Secret Journals of Mina Harker

by Syrie James

Acclaimed author Syrie James approaches Bram Stoker's classic Dracula with a breathtaking new perspective—as, for the first time, Mina Harker records the shocking story of her scandalous seduction and sexual...

The Guardship

by James L. Nelson

Shortly after Thomas Marlowe's arrival in Williamsburg, Virginia, all in that newfound capital city are speaking his name. With the bounty from his years as a pirate--a life he intends to renounce and keep forever...

Sharpe's Fortress

The Sharpe Stories #3

by Bernard Cornwell

Be prepared for scenes of great action & heroic.The sword hissed an inch behind the boy's neck.

"I said to leave him alone!"

Sharpe said. "Or do you want to fight me instead?"

"None of us," a calm voice said behind...

The Widow's War

by Sally Gunning

Married for twenty years to Edward Berry, Lyddie is used to the trials of being a whaler's wife in the Cape Cod village of Satucket, Massachusetts—running their house herself during her husband's long absences...

The Silver Sword

by Angela Elwell Hunt

The auburned-haired O'Connor women share a bond far deeper than their striking physical appearance. These courageous, high-spirited women all push against societal limits in this exciting historical, romantic...

Ama: A Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade

Commonwealth Best First Book Prize 2002

by Manu Herbstein

In the ashes of the apocalypse, Ben Raines and his Rebels face a new obstacle: the anarchists and barbarians who seek to destroy what's left of the Red, White and Blue. But their depraved ideology isn't restricted...

Pax Cathaga

Carthaginian Empire #25

by David Bowman

Now, one hundred and thirty years after the bloody massacres that heralded the birth of Pax Carthaga there are mutterings of discontent within the vast empire. One man rules form Carthage, his deputy from Mai...

Macedonean Rebellion

Carthaginian Empire #12

by David Bowman

Phillip would be king of Macedonia if the Carthaginians hadn't arrived. Now he must lead a last desperate rebellion against the overlords from across the sea. Is it still his destiny to rule or has Carthage...

Euphoria

by Connie Gault

A bond between a young girl and an abandoned baby encompasses eastern and western Canada, from 1890s Toronto to the Regina Cyclone.

The Wonderful Adventures of Nils

by Selma Lagerlof

Considered a masterpiece since it was first published in 1907, this enchanting, remarkably original work by a Nobel Prize-winning author records the adventures of a mischievous 14-year-old who is changed into...

Chojun: A Novel

by Goran Powell

When Kenichi Ota retires he is the same age as his karate teacher Chojun Miyagi was when he died. Ota decides to honor his teacher by writing his memoirs. As a young man Ota accompanied Miyagi to China searching...

Nine Days

by Toni Jordan

It is 1939 and although Australia is about to go to war, it doesn't quite realise yet that the situation is serious. Deep in the working-class Melbourne suburb of Richmond it is business-your own and everyone...

The Imposter Bride

by Nancy Richler

The Imposter Bride by Nancy Richler is an unforgettable novel about a mysterious mail-order bride in the wake of WWII, whose sudden decision ripples through time to deeply impact the daughter she never knew...

Heading Out to Wonderful

by Robert Goolrick

It is the summer of 1948 when a handsome, charismatic stranger, Charlie Beale, recently back from the war in Europe, shows up in the town of Brownsburg, a sleepy village nestled in the Valley of Virginia. All...

Place Called Freedom

by Ken Follett

Sentenced to a life of misery in the Scottish coal mines, twenty-one-year-old Mack McAsh hungers for escape. His only ally: beautiful high-born Lizzie Hallim, who is trapped in her own kind of hell.

In 1766,...

Cry to Heaven

by Anne Rice

In this mesmerizing novel, the acclaimed author of THE VAMPIRE CHRONICLES and the LIVES OF THE MAYFAIR WITCHES makes real for us the exquisite and otherworldly society of the eighteenth-century castrati, the...

The Disorderly Knights

The Lymond Chronicles #3

by Dorothy Dunnett

The third volume in The Lymond Chronicles, the highly renowned series of historical novels by Dorothy Dunnett, Disorderly Knights takes place in 1551, when Francis Crawford of Lymond is dispatched to embattled...