The new Pharaoh, Ramses, aspires to greatness of a magnitude undreamed of by mortal men. But to thwart his dreams, a gaggle of fiends, including a sorcerer, invaders, and his own brother, awaits him.
Biographical fiction
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Author:Jacq, ChristianSummary: - Author:Leslie, DorisSummary:
Sophia Dorothea is the unhappy young wife of Prince George of Hanover. When she falls in love with a Swedish adventurer, her downfall is inevitable .
- Author:Kinsella, WarrenSummary:
How a group of Portland, Maine, punks defeated a murderous gang of neo-Nazis. The X Gang is a group of punks led by the scarred, silent, and mostly unreadable Christopher X. His best friend, Kurt Blank, is a hulking and talented punk...
- Author:Lefevre, EdwinSummary:
First published in 1923, this fictional biography of Jesse Livermore, one of the greatest market speculators ever, is widely regarded as one of best investment books of all time. Reminiscences of a Stock Operator is the resource that...
- Author:Ryan, Pam MuñozSummary:
Charlotte Parkhurst was raised in an orphanage for boys, which suited her just fine. She didn't like playing with dolls, she could hold her own in a fight, and she loved to work in the stable. Charlotte had a special way with horses and...
- Author:Haley, AlexSummary:
Roots begins with a birth in an African village in 1750 and ends two centuries later at a funeral in Arkansas. And in that time span, an unforgettable cast of men, women, and children come to life, many of them based on the people from...
- Author:Estleman, Loren D.Summary:
Judge Roy Bean is an infamous arbiter of Old West justice. For years, he writes admiring letters to British stage actress Lillie Langtry, and she occasionally responds. But just as they are about to meet face-to-face, fate intervenes...
- Author:Keneally, ThomasSummary:
Recreates the remarkable activities and courage of Oskar Schindler, a Catholic German industrialist who gambled everything to save as many Jews as possible from the Nazi death camps.
- Author:Wiebe, Catherine M.A.Summary:
People cannot readily be categorized, nor some books. Second Rising is one of them. In her publishing debut, Canadian fiction writer Catherine Wiebe is as refreshing as she is startling with this fictional memoir of birthing and memory...
- Author:O'Connor, JosephSummary:
From Irish PEN award-winning author Joseph O'Connor, Shadowplay explores the characters whose loves and lives inspired Dracula. 1878. The Lyceum Theatre, London. Three extraordinary people begin their life together. Henry Irving,...
- Author:Bowering, GeorgeSummary:
A fictionalized account of the McLean Gang, halfbreeds who terrorized the Canadian West in the 1870s. The novel traces their idealistic beginning--stealing cattle and guns with the intention of starting an Indian rebellion--to their...
- Author:Fatima, CatherineSummary:
In a kind of 'Catherine Millet meets Roland Barthes baring of life with hints of the work of Chris Kraus', Sludge Utopia by Catherine Fatima is an auto-fictional novel about sex, depression, family, shaky ethics, ideal forms of life,...
- Author:Labozzetta, MarisaSummary:
Born into Somali royalty and Saudi Arabian wealth, Fatma is given away in infancy and, at age 12, forced into an arranged marriage with a young Peace Corps worker. Prejudice and cultural demands lead to a number of painful promises that...
- Author:Austin, Lynn N.Summary:
Although his father had allowed widespread idolatry, King Hezekiah is restoring God's law to Judah. The temple is cleansed and proper offerings are made to Yahweh. The Assyrians, however, rule the adjoining lands and demand tribute from...
- Author:Butler, PaulSummary:
Stoker’s Shadow tells the story of the late Bram Stoker’s surviving family members in 1922 as they struggle to come to grips with the dark undercurrents in the novel Dracula. Florence, Bram’s widow, is shocked when a German...
- Author:Barbeau-Lavalette, AnaïsSummary:
Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette never knew her mother's mother. Curious to understand why her grandmother, Suzanne, a sometime painter and poet associated with Les Automatistes, a movement of dissident artists that included Paul-Émile...
- Author:Thomas, AudreySummary:
Caricatured by Charles Dickens in Little Dorrit as the cantankerous maid of Mr. and Mrs. Meagles, “Tattycoram” tells her own life story in this utterly compelling metafiction by the celebrated author of Isobel Gunn. Throughout her...
- Author:Missen, BrendaSummary:
Based on a true story, Tell Anna She’s Safe is the tale of two women, one missing, the other searching for her. Driving home alongside West Quebec’s Gatineau River one April afternoon, researcher Ellen McGinn spots a parked car...
- Author:Roitman, GinaSummary:
In Tell Me a Story, Tell Me the Truth, author Gina Roitman has captured her own experience as the daughter of Holocaust survivors in the character of Leah Smilovitz. An outsider, she belongs neither to her parents’ painful generation...
- Author:Scharer, WhitneySummary:
A sweeping debut novel set in Paris in the 1930's about the love story between Vogue model turned photographer Lee Miller and the artist Man Ray. Their romance unfolds against the backdrop of bohemian Paris, with nights spent at smoky...
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