Historical

The Fountain Pen

by E. Lynn Hooghiemstra

When an inherited fountain pen from the 1940s is filled with ink and used again, it reveals some startling moments of its previous owner's life under the German occupation in WWII in The Netherlands. A short...

The Orange Blossom Special

by Betsy Carter

When we first meet Tessie Lockhart in 1958, she is pinning her hair into a French twist, dabbing Jean Naté on her wrists, and getting ready to change her life. This widowed mother of a thirteen-year-old has...

Cape Cod

by William Martin

Originally brought to America's shores by the Mayflower, two families unearth their family skeletons--which have lain buried in Cape history for more than 200 years.

Memnon

by Scott Oden

Memnon of Rhodes (375-333 BCE) walked in the footsteps of giants. As a soldier, sailor, statesman, and general, he was, in the words of Diodorus of Sicily, “outstanding in courage and strategic grasp.” A...

First, There Is a River

Spirit of the River #1

by Kathy Steffen

An old riverboat and the colorful characters aboard it form the backdrop for this tale of a woman's heartache and self-discovery and her crazed husband's quest for revenge. After her children are sent away,...

Strangely Wonderful

by Karen Mercury

Along with his pirate crew, captain Tomaj Balashazy rules the Madagascar coast from his tropical plantation—a fortress built to defend against the enemies he’s made cruising the Indian Ocean. But when the...

The Four Quarters of the World

by Karen Mercury

Abyssinia, 1866. The crazed (some say) but dynamic Christian King of Kings has taken power as Tewodros II. His vision: to reunite Ethiopia under one crown, one God. To that end he moves his massive, gorgeously...

Watching

by Jeff Edwards

How does a young woman of wealthy parents and high birth become the owner of one of the most famous bordellos in London? We follow the life of Jade Green; the infamous Madam of The Garden of Eros, from her birth...

Emperor: The Gates of Rome: A Novel of Julius Caesar

by Conn Iggulden

Rarely, if ever, does a new writer dazzle us with such a vivid imagination and storytelling, flawlessly capturing the essence of a land, a people, a legend. Conn Iggulden is just such a writer, bringing to vivid...

Oh, Johnny: A Novel

by Jim Lehrer

BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Jim Lehrer's Tension City.

A talented athlete, Johnny Wrigley believes that someday he will play major league baseball. But his life unexpectedly takes a detour. In...

The Jerilderie Letter: Text Classics

by Ned Kelly

Outlaw, murderer, self-proclaimed victim, Ned Kelly is an Australian icon. But who was he? Kelly's extraordinary achievement is to have provided his own answer to that question. The Jerilderie Letter is his...

The Mystery Of A Hansom Cab: Text Classics

by Fergus Hume & Simon Caterson

The Mystery of a Hansom Cab is the original blockbuster crime novel. Set in the marvellous Melbourne of the late nineteenth century it tells a devilishly tricky tale.

The Fortunes Of Richard Mahony: Text Classics

by Henry Handel Richardson & Peter Craven

Richard Mahony is a restless man. Ballarat, England, Melbourne, Europe, the bush: elsewhere is always better. Searching for a place, a meaning, a life, Mahony and his wife Mary journey from wealth to poverty,...

My Brilliant Career: Text Classics

by Miles Franklin & Jennifer Byrne

Written with all the high spirits of youth, My Brilliant Career is the unforgettable tale of Sybylla Melvin, a headstrong country girl-passionate, endearing, stubborn, honest-and her fraught journey from rags...

The Boy I Love

by Marion Husband

A compelling debut novel set in the aftermath of World War One.

White Heart

by Sherry Jones

A historical eBook about Blanche, the White Queen of France, the manipulative mother-in-law of Marguerite in Sherry Jones’s Four Sisters, All Queens.

A woman's power lies in her beauty. For years, Blanche de...

Diamonds in the Dust

by Kate Furnivall

A short story from the national bestselling author of The Russian Concubine . . .

It is 1942, and the war has come to Darwin, Australia. Japanese planes bring fear to the streets as air raids spit death from...

A Moment of Truth: The Life of Zola

by Hugh McLeave

A Moment of Truth is a biographical novel of the life and times of Zola. It is also a cultural fresco of late nineteenth-century France.

A Moment of Truth tells of Zola's early struggle against poverty and...

The Devil's Scribe

by Alma Katsu

Fans of the Taker trilogy will love this original eBook novella featuring the series’ immortal heroine, Lanny...and Edgar Allen Poe!

In this eShort story, Lanore McIlvrae returns to America for the first time...

Dangerous Sanctuary

by Michelle Diener

Available as an eBook, Dangerous Sanctuary is a short story set between In a Treacherous Court, the first novel featuring Susanna Horenbout and John Parker, the “King’s Blade,” and Keeper of the King’s...