The next novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Philippa Gregory.
Tidelands (The Fairmile Series)
Philippa GregoryThe #1 New York Times bestselling author and "one of the great storytellers of our time" (SanFrancisco Book Review) turns from the glamour of the royal courts to tell the story of an ordinary woman, Alinor, who cannot bear t...
Inspired by an astonishing true story from World War II, a young woman with a talent for forgery helps hundreds of Jewish children flee the Nazis in this unforgettable historical novel from the international bestselling author of the ...
From New York Times bestselling author Karen Harper comes a novel based on the lives of two amazing sisters One sailed the Titanic and started a fashion empire The other overtook Hollywood and scandalized the world Together, they were...
Based on a seldom-told true story, this novel is perfect for everyone who is fascinated by Britain's royal family--a behind the scenes look into the nurseries of little princes and the foibles of big princes. April, 1897: A young nan...
This National Book Award-winning novel focuses on Paco Sullivan, the traumatized lone survivor of a massacre by the Viet Cong in Vietnam, who travels back to the United States, becomes a dishwasher in a short-order restaurant, and is ...
On the eve of battle, passions are running high.…"A brilliant achievement…vivid, accurate, dramatic…the description of Waterloo is magnificent." —Daily Mail"My favorite historical novelist." —Margaret Dra...
"Cinematographic with escapes, kidnapping, galloping sword play, and a breathless elopement." —The Times Literary SupplementThe most daring, dashing hero of all"Mad Nicholas" to his friends, "Scourge of Spai...
"Fascinating reading…authentic atmosphere in a delightful English tale." —Chicago Sunday TribuneLess than a hero's welcome…Returning to his family seat from Waterloo, Gervase Frant, seventh Earl of St Erth, could have ...
"A story in the manner of Jane Austen, of domestic comedy and love affairs." —Times Literary SupplementAn impetuous young lady and a fugitive nobleman…When spirited Eustacie stumbles into a band of smugglers, she is deli...
At the end of the American Civil War, Confederate Colonel Clay Fitzgerald escapes to Ireland, where his uncle has left him an estate, only to find that Ireland is caught up in a civil war of its own. The struggle between the wealthy l...
On the eve of the Second World War, as German armies gather to invade Poland, Hitler has hit upon a master plan to distract the British while the blitzkrieg takes place. A German archeologist from Dahrein, Otto Muller, who has just ma...
The Book of Magic: A Novel (4) (The P...
Alice HoffmanMaster storyteller Alice Hoffman brings us the conclusion of the Practical Magic series in a spellbinding and enchanting final Owens novel brimming with lyric beauty and vivid characters. The Owens family has been cursed in matters...
Amazon Significant Seven, August 2007: IIt's a rare treasure to find a historically imagined novel that is at once fully versed in the facts and unafraid of weaving those truths into a story that dares to explore the unanswered questi...
Love and War (North and South)
John JakesThe Main and Hazard families clash on and off the Civil War's battlefields as they grapple with the violent realities of a divided nationAmerica's master storyteller continues his reign with Love and War, a story steeped in passion an...
Young widow Katherine Osborne returns to her family's rustic camp on Raquette Lake in the Adirondack Mountains. She's determined to live a quiet life, but her socialite mother is equally determined to push her into a new marriage whil...
An Elegant Story of Love Given, Love Returned, and Love Remembered When Foster Lanier and Ben Phelps are released from a professional baseball team in 1904, it is the only experience they have in common until they meet a runaway - a ...
A taut, thrilling adventure story about buried treasure, a manhunt, and a woman determined to make a new life for herself in the old west. It's the 19th century on the GulfCoast, a time of opportunity and lawlessness. After escaping t...
"I am a granddaughter to a king and daughter to a prince, a wife twice over, a queen as well. I have fought with sword and bow, and struggled fierce to bear my babes into this world. I have loved deeply and hated deeply, too. I know e...
[Read by Kate Reading] From Paris in the 1920s to London after the Blitz, two women find that a secret from their past reverberates through years of joy and sorrow.As recovery from World War II begins, expatriate American Nora Tours t...
[Read by Joe Barrett] From one of our most esteemed historical novelists comes a remarkable retelling of the Watergate scandal, as seen through a kaleidoscope of its colorful perpetrators and investigators. For all the monumental docu...
In early 18th-century America, London-born Fanny and the French soldier Philippe (ancestors of McCarrys famous recurring spy Paul Christopher) brave savage Indians and other adventures.
The Devil Amongst the Lawyers: A Ball...
Sharyn McCrumbIn 1934 all the national publications sent their star reporters to remote Virginia to cover the trial of Erma Morton: a beautiful twenty-one-year-old mountain girl with a teaching degree, accused of murdering her father – a drunken ...
In the spirit of Sarah Waters and Geraldine Brooks, the bestselling author of The Rose of Sebastopol presents a dramatic mystery about love, secrets, and discovery in post–World War I London.
The number-one U.K. bestseller comes to America---a sweeping historical novel about love, war, betrayal, and discovery.
Nineteen-year-old Aldine McKenna lives with her sister and aunt in small-town Scotland in 1929. The girls are mostly stuck at home completing their aunt’s chores, utterly bored. When Aldine’s sister meets an American Mormon missio...
Stumbling through Petrovsky Park one cold morning in search of firewood, an elderly woman makes a horrifying discovery. A burly peasant twirls in the wind, hanging from a bowed tree by a rope about his neck, a bloody axe tucked into ...
The Hundred Days the Hundred Days
Patrick O'BrianWhen Napoleon escapes from Elba, the fate of Europe hinges on a desperate mission: Stephen Maturin must ferret out the French dictator's secret link to the powers of Islam, and Jack Aubrey must destroy it. Napoleon, like a vengeful ph...
Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin are ordered home by despatch vessel to bring the news of their latest victory to the government. But Maturin is a marked man for the havoc he has wrought in the French intelligence network in the New Wo...
When eighteen-year-old Grace Camell arrives in London in 1914, she's unable to fulfill her family's ambitions and find a position as an office secretary. Lying to her parents and her brother, Michael, she takes a job as a housemaid at...