From afar, Cimarron Creek seems like an idyllic town tucked in the Texas Hill Country. But when former schoolteacher Lydia Crawford steps onto its dusty streets in 1880, she finds a town with a deep-seated resentment of Northerners--...
Historical fiction
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Author:Cabot, AmandaSummary: - Author:Doran, GerardSummary:
John Whelan, champion oarsman, has all but given up on competitive rowing. On the cusp of forty, the Outer Cove fisherman is trying to accept that his time as a rower has passed. His wife agrees, telling him, “Breaking your back down on...
- Author:Hay, ElizabethSummary:
From some accidents of love and weather we never quite recover. At the worst of the Prairie dust bowl of the 1930s, a young man appears out of a blizzard and forever alters the lives of two sisters. There is the beautiful, fastidious...
- Author:Thomas, SherrySummary:
With her inquisitive mind, Charlotte Holmes has never felt comfortable with the demureness expected of the fairer sex in upper-class society. But even she never thought that she would become a social pariah, an outcast fending for...
- Author:Waddell, PatriciaSummary:
Life was quiet for the strong-willed and beautiful Regina until Jonathan came along. Looking for a marriage of convenience, Jonathan, an alluring millionaire, thought Regina would be a good wife -- but she is much more than he expects....
- Author:Morgan-Cole, TrudySummary:
When a devastating fire sweeps through St. John's, Newfoundland, in the summer of 1892, nineteen-year-old Lily Hunt hopes it's the beginning of a new life that will transform her from a dutiful daughter to a crusader, a suffragist, and...
- Author:Perry, AnneSummary:
In a London hospital, a talented nurse is found strangled to death. As Inspector Monk searches for the killer, he uncovers a tragic evil that darkens every level of the city's society.
- Author:Wiggs, SusanSummary:
Gifted physician Blue Calhoun runs a medical practice in San Francisco while raising his son alone. Then a female fugitive with a gunshot wound shows up. Soon he is drawn to her fragile beauty, her nerves of steel, and the mystery...
- Author:Yee, PaulSummary:
For more than thirty years, Paul Yee has written about his Chinese-Canadian heritage in award-winning books for young readers as well as adult non-fiction. Here, in his first work of fiction for adults, he takes us on a harrowing...
- Author:Chisholm, P. F.Summary:
Sir Robert Carey took up his northern post as Warden of the West March in order to escape the complications of creditors and court life. However the dashing Carey, possibly a cousin of the Queen, merely trades one set of troubles for...
- Author:van Rijckeghem, Jean-Claude van, van Beirs, Pat vanSummary:
As the murmur of prayers fills the icy room, mother and baby seem doomed. When the newborn finally struggles into the world, the Count of Flanders flees in a rage. The child is not the expected male heir — but a girl. Growing up under...
- Author:Dickens, CharlesSummary:
A richly-woven and moving tale set against the bloody and fearsome events of the French Revolution. Aristocrats run over children in carriages, old women knit hit lists and peasants drink wine straight off the cobblestones. Supposedly,...
- Author:Montgomery, L.M., Lefebvre, BenjaminSummary:
No amount of drama between the Dark and Penhallow families can prepare them for what follows when Aunt Becky bequeaths her prized heirloom jug - the owner to be revealed in one year's time. The intermarriages, and resulting...
- Author:Peterson, Tracie, Miller, JudithSummary:
Jasmine Wainwright never expected her father to include her in a deal to sell off the plantation. Moving to Massachusetts as a new wife, she must look to God's grace for help to withstand an unloving husband.
- Author:Rowland, AlexandraSummary:
A place in your home. A place at your hearth. Kadou, the shy prince of Arast, finds himself at odds with one of the most powerful ambassadors at court - the body-father of the queen's new child - in an altercation that results in his...
- Author:Todd, CharlesSummary:
Ian Rutledge returns to his career at Scotland Yard after years fighting in the First World War. Unknown to his colleagues he is still suffering from shell shock, and is burdened with the guilt of having had executed a young soldier on...
- Author:Barry, SebastianSummary:
When Winona Cole, an orphaned child of the Lakota Indians, is violently attacked, she takes matters into her own hands and embarks on a quest for justice that will uncover the dark secrets of her past.
- Author:Haynes, NatalieSummary:
From the Trojan women whose fates now lie in the hands of the Greeks, to the Amazon princess who fought Achilles on their behalf, to Penelope awaiting the return of Odysseus, to the three goddesses whose feud started it allthis novel...
- Author:Hosseini, KhaledSummary:
After more than two years on the bestseller lists, Khaled Hosseini returns with a beautiful, riveting, and haunting novel of enormous contemporary relevance. A Thousand Splendid Suns is a breathtaking story set against the volatile...
- Author:Parker, T. JeffersonSummary:
A Thousand Steps is a gripping thriller, an incisive coming-of-age story, and a vivid portrait of turbulent time and place by three-time Edgar Award winner and New York Times bestselling author T. Jefferson Parker. Laguna Beach,...
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