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...
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 ...
"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...
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 ...
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...
The Big Money completes John Dos Passos's three-volume "fable of America's materialistic success and moral decline" (American Heritage) and marks the end of "one of the most ambitious projects that an American novelist ...
She is called Nurdane, the famed weaver of Mavisu. From her remote mountain village in southwestern Turkey, she creates dowries for young brides: dazzling rugs that are marvels of shape and color, texture and light. Her unique rugs po...
Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the B...
Steven PressfieldGates of Fire puts you at the side of valiant Spartan warriors in 480 BC for the bloody, climactic battle at Thermopylae. There, a few hundred of Sparta's finest sacrificed their lives to hold back the invading Persian millions. The t...
The Library of Light and Shadow: A No...
M. J. RoseIn the wake of a dark and brutal war, the glitz and glamour of 1925 Manhattan shine like a beacon for the high-society set who are desperate to keep their gaze firmly fixed toward the future. But Delphine Duplessi sees more than most....
The Tiger's Prey: A Novel of Adventur...
Wilbur SmithThe New York Times bestselling author of Desert God and Pharaoh adds another chapter to his popular historical saga featuring the seafaring Tom Courtney, the hero of Monsoon and Blue Horizon, with this magnificent swashbuckli...
It's 1975, and the North Vietnamese army is poised to roll into Saigon. As the city falls into chaos, two lovers make their way across the city to escape to a new life. Helen Adams, an American photojournalist, must take leave of a de...
This witty historical novel follows 17-year-old Fanny's journey to London for the six weeks of coronation festivities in the summer of 1838, when young Victoria assumes the throne in England. Happily the pomp and pageantry of London d...
Twain himself said, "I like Joan of Arc best among all my books." A deeply serious work celebrating the life of Joan and portraying, in the Maid, Twain's ideal of the True Woman.
A must-read for generations of book lovers, this remarkable prequel to the classic Anne of Green Gables was specially authorized by L. M. Montgomery's heirs to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the publication of the original novel. ...