Richard Sharpe and the Peace of 1814. It is 1814. After a long and exhausting series of battles the British and Spanish armies are pushing into south-western France from Spain. Rumours abound that Napoleon has surrendered, been murder...

Fresh from his heroic adventures in India (in 'Sharpe's Fortress'), Richard Sharpe faces a new enemy when the ship carrying him home is attacked by a formidable French warship. With the help of a Royal Navy captain, Sharpe learns the ...

From IThe New York Times bestselling author ofI Sarah's Key and IA Secret Kept comes an absorbing new novel about one woman's resistance during an epoque that shook Paris to its very coreDIV DIV Paris, France: 1860s. Hundreds of hou...

The bestselling author of The Hidden Diary of Marie Antoinette and The Last Wife of Henry VIII returns with an enchanting novel about the ambitious, amoral, vulnerable woman who became the first wife of Napoleon Bonaparte.Fashion icon...

Unfit for Love? Pregnant - by a man who will never know or care. Gloria, born into a life of prostitution, sees only one solution: get rid of the child. But then she meets John William MacGregan, a miner, left with a newborn daughter ...

From New York Times bestselling author Lauren Willig comes The Ashford Affair, a page-turning novel about two women in different eras, and on different continents, who are connected by one deeply buried secret.As a lawyer in a large M...

The next adventure of the Darcy family from the author of Mr. Darcy's Daughters -- the story of a reluctant heiress who has been left a widow by Darcy's cousin Christopher. It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single woman in...

The year is 1811. With the British army penned into a small part of Portugal, and all of Spain except for the coastal city of Cádiz fallen to the invader, the French appear to have won their war. Raised in the gutters of London and ...

An impoverished young knight living in rural Burgundy, Willem of Dole greets with surprise—and apprehension—his summons to the magnificent court of Konrad, Holy Roman Emperor, whose realm spans half of Europe. Immediately...

In 1610 Europe, Valentin Rochefort, a notorious duellist, impoverished aristocrat, and spy for the Duc de Sully, France's powerful finance minister, is drawn into a treacherous plot to kill King James I of England. Reader's Guide avai...

Former minister-turned-reporter Jephtha Kent, the son of a mountain man and a Shoshoni Indian who lost his congregation, fortune, and family, finds himself and his sons on opposite sides of the Civil War when they take up the Confeder...

A tale based on the five-hundred-year-old unsolved disappearances of lost princes Edward and Richard of York finds English printer's daughter Nell Caxton growing up alongside the royal children and witnessing the schemes of ambitious ...

A beautiful scarf, passed down through the generations, connects two women who learn that the weight of the world is made bearable by the love we give away.... September 1911. On Ellis Island in New York Harbor, nurse Clara Wood canno...

At Britain's most notorious prison, Lord Charles Sheridan, his clever American wife Kate, and his acquaintance Arthur Conan Doyle, must determine why one of its most infamous inmates confessed to a crime he clearly didn't commit.

To keep her children safe, Kimbra Charleton is forced by her late husband's thieving clan to scavenge the dead bodies on the battlefield where she stumbles upon a wounded Scottish warrior and, hiding him in her cabin, nurses him back ...

In 1356, Margaret of Ashbury marries the scholarly Gregory de Vilers, and when he is taken prisoner by the French and held for ransom, she and two friends--an herbalist and an alchemist--embark on a dangerous quest to rescue him, desp...

The 1947 Partition of India is the backdrop for this powerful novel, narrated by a precocious child who describes the brutal transition with chilling veracity. Young Lenny Sethi is kept out of school because she suffers from polio. Sh...

This thrilling story of the California gold rush is not about the forty-niners, the prospectors who came rushing to the San Francisco area in 1849, but about the men and women who were there when it all began with the first discovery ...

The recently widowed septuagenarian Sir Edward "Filth" Feathers seemingly lived a dutiful and dull life as a judge in British Hong Kong. (His nickname "Filth" is an acronym for Failed In London, Try Hong Kong.) But...

A family without men, the Birches live gloriously offbeat lives in the lush, green backwoods of North Carolina. Radiant, headstrong Sophia and her shy, brilliant daughter, Margaret, possess powerful charms to ward off loneliness, desp...

When her father is assigned the task of spying on the French Court, the charming and sweetly innocent Anne Boleyn is delighted by the thought of a new adventure. And she is not to be disappointed, for her beautiful sister, Mary, has b...

A daughter of privilege in the most powerful empire the world has ever known, Claudia has a unique and disturbing 'gift': her dreams have an uncanny way of coming true. As a rebellious child seated beside the tyrannical Roman Emperor...

Jason's young grandson asks him who he remembers best of all the famous men he has known in his life--including his friend Socrates. His answer lies in the tale of Polemides, who, over the course of several days, told Jason his story....

"TAUT, ALMOST UNBEARABLE SUSPENSE . . . This galvanizing historical portrait of courage, determination, and abiding love mesmerizes and shocks." —Booklist (starred review)"All I had known for certain when I came aroun...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER With the war in Europe winding down in the spring of 1945, the United States turns its vast military resources toward a furious assault on the last great stepping-stone to Japan—the heavily fortified islan...

Louis Belk is a bomb disposal specialist for the US during World War II. Stationed in Alaska, he is charged with defusing Japanese balloon germ-bombs. Through inexperience, he makes an error that costs the lives of several of his frie...

Bernard Cornwell's best-selling series continues in this installment of his saga of Richard Sharpe, a rifleman in the British Navy in the early 19th century. This time, Sharpe is off to India to join in the siege of the Mahattra fortr...

Bold, professional and determined, Richard Sharpe embarks on a desperate mission. He must recover the treasure, vital to the success of the war, now hidden behind enemy lines. The gold is in the possession of a powerful guerrilla lead...

Brilliant and talented, young Joan rebels against the medieval social strictures forbidding women to learn to read and write. When her brother is killed during a Viking attack, Joan takes up his cloak and identity and goes to the mona...

A INew York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceBRA IWashington Post Notable Fiction Book of Year/BDIV n ISea of Poppies, the Ibis began its treacherous journey across the Indian Ocean, bound for the cane fields of Mauritius with a carg...