The Women in the Castle: A Novel
Jessica ShattuckINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • FEATURING AN EXCLUSIVE NEW CHAPTERGoodReads Choice Awards Semifinalist "Moving . . . a plot that surprises and devastates."—New York Times Book Review"A masterful epic.&quo...
The Underground Railroad: A Novel
Colson WhiteheadWinner of the Pulitzer PrizeWinner of the National Book AwardWinner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in FictionLonglisted for the Man Booker PrizeWinner of the Arthur C. Clarke AwardFinalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Pr...
Interrogated by the provisional government of revolutionary Russia on the details of her father's death, Maria, the daughter of Rasputin, remembers her father's powerful influence over the throne, her struggles over the discovery of h...
What Alice Knew: A Most Curious Tale ...
Paula Marantz CohenA fun and clever literary reinterpretation, with Henry James hot on the trail of Jack the RipperHenry James is suffering through boring drunken dinner parties in London, but when his brother William-renowned for his groundbreaking wor...
Friends since childhood, Anais Darnby and Lindsay Markham have long harbored a secret passion for one another. When they finally confess their love, their future together seems assured, sealed with their searing embrace.But when a deb...
Edge of Eternity: Book Three of the C...
Ken FollettThe final book in Ken Follett's #1 New York Times bestselling Century Trilogy—following Winter of the World and Fall of Giants—now in mass market paperback. Five international families—American, German, Russian, English, and W...
After his brother is murdered by Bulgarian fascists in 1934, Khristo Stoianev is recruited by the Soviet intelligence service, the NKVD, trained in Moscow, and sent to Spain to serve Russian interests in the Spanish Civil War. Reader'...
My Dearest Cecelia of the Southern Be...
Diane HaegerA historical saga based on the legendary romance between General William T. Sherman and Georgia belle Cecelia Stovallo follows their chance meeting, desperate love and separation on opposing sides during the Civil War, and Sherman's b...
In fourteenth-century England, young Eleanor de Clare, favorite niece of King Edward II, is delighted with her marriage to Hugh le Despenser and her appointment to Queen IsabellaÂ's household as a lady-in-waiting. It soon becomes app...
Death at Glamis Castle (Robin Paige V...
Robin PaigeAt the request of King Edward, Lord Charles Sheridan and his American wife, Kate, become embroiled in a sensitive mystery surrounding the murder of a servant at historic Glamis Castle, where they discover that the king's elder brother...
The Passion of the Purple Plumeria: A...
Lauren WilligNEVER BEFORE PUBLISHED!Lauren Willig's Pink Carnation novels have been hailed as "sheer fun"* and "charming."** Now she takes readers on an adventure filled with hidden treasure and a devilishly handsome English co...
This Edwardian-era historical novel is a fictional account of murderer Hawley Crippen and his mistress Ethel Le Neve's real-life attempted escape from England via an ocean liner bound for North America. When Crippen's marriage to an e...
Their mother commits suicide, and two traumatized sisters in 1930s China--Junan and Yinan--swear that they will remain together forever. But Junan is claimed by an arranged marriage and, surprisingly, falls in love with her husband. T...
A New York Times Bestseller Told with Jennifer Chiaverini's trademark historical suspense, The Sugar Camp Quilt blends danger, moral courage, romance, and hope into a novel of antebellum America whose lessons resonate with timeless h...
Excalibur (The Arthur Books #3)
Bernard CornwellIn The Winter King and Enemy of God Bernard Cornwell demonstrated his astonishing ability to make the oft-told legend of King Arthur fresh and new for our time. Now, in this riveting final volume of The Warlord Chronicles, Cornwell te...
The Dress Lodger, a cunning historical thriller charged with a distinctly modern voice, is the book that launched Sheri Holman into bestsellerdom. With over 300,000 copies sold and a consistent top "Reader's Circle" performe...
Katherine Howe, author of the phenomenal New York Times bestseller The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane, returns with an entrancing historical novel set in Boston in 1915, where a young woman stands on the cusp of a new century, torn ...
In 1758, when Mary Jemison is about sixteen, a Shawnee raiding party captures her Irish family near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Mary is the only one not killed and scalped. She is instead given to two Seneca sisters to replace their bro...
Peony (Oriental Novels of Pearl S. Bu...
Pearl S. BuckYoung Peony is sold into a rich Chinese household as a bondmaid -- an awkward role in which she is more a servant, but less a daughter. As she grows into a lovely, provocative young woman, Peony falls in love with the family's only...
"AS ENTERTAINING AS SARUM AND RUTHERFURD'S OTHER SWEEPING NOVEL OF BRITISH HISTORY, LONDON."–The Boston Globe"Engaging . . . A sprawling tome that combines fact with fiction and covers 900 years in the history of New ...
From "a master storyteller"* and author of Beneath a Marble Sky comes a new novel that follows a man and a woman from separate worlds, as the barbarity of war looms in the distance.One moment, the World War II hospital ship ...
When Cane River was published in 2001, Lalita Tademy established herself as the chronicler of her own family's life, since their arrival here as slaves in the 1800s. Mixing family history, fiction, and fact made the story rich and un...
A novel based on the real-life incident of the Mier Expedition, one of the most tragic events in Texas history, follows two young men on an expedition to the Mexican border, during which they are captured in a raid on the Mexcian vill...
In the year 1527, the great portraitist Hans Holbein, fleeing the Protestant Reformation, comes to England under commission to Sir Thomas More. Over the course of the next six years, Holbein paints two nearly identical portraits of t...
A gritty, gripping tale of brotherhood, greed, and murder, this "engrossing" (Entertainment Weekly) novel is now a major motion picture starring Jessica Chastain, Tom Hardy, Shia Labeouf, Gary Oldman, Guy Pearce, and Mia Was...
The weddings are over.The guests (including millions of readers and viewers) wish the two happy couples health and happiness. As the music swells and the credits roll, only two things are certain: Elizabeth and Darcy are to be the hap...
Nothing could keep Christopher and Rebecca apart: not her abusive parents, or even the fiance she brought home after running away to England. But when World War II finally strikes the island of Jersey, the Nazi invaders ship Rebecca t...
Amid the intrigue and danger of 18th-century Italy, a young woman becomes embroiled in romance and treachery with a rider in the Palio, the breathtaking horse race set in Siena....It's 1729, and the Palio, a white-knuckle horse race, ...
Take Me Home (Voice of America's Hear...
Dorothy Garlock"There is nothing better than Dorothy Garlock at her best" --Sandra Brown, New York Times bestselling authorMiller's Creek, Wisconsin, 1945. As a war rages on, a new era of hope takes root . . . and one young woman faces a d...
The latest New York Times bestseller from the author of the beloved book club favorite The Kitchen House is a heart racing story about a man’s treacherous journey through the twists and turns of the Underground Railroad on a mission...