"An extraordinary novel ... a triumph of insight and storytelling." - Associated Press " A true masterpiece. " -Glennon Doyle, author of Untamed An extraordinary story set in the first century about a woman who...
Historical Fiction
-
Author:Kidd, Sue MonkSummary: - Author:COOKSON, CatherineSummary:
Only after returning from his funeral did Fiona Bailey realize how much she would miss Davey. Towards the end of his life she had discovered qualities about him she had previously overlooked. Now Fiona and her husband must look after...
-
Author:HEYER, GeorgetteSummary:Jack Carstares returns to England but refuses to claim his title, instead he turns highwayman, crossing swords with the libertine Duke of Andover, alias the Black Moth.
- Author:Hammonds Reed, ChristinaSummary:
A New York Times bestseller "Should be required reading in every classroom." —Nic Stone, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dear Martin "A true love letter to Los Angeles." —Brandy Colbert, award-winning...
- Author:Carr, RobynSummary:
The heiress to the Bellerose estate has gone missing and what a waste of a dowry it is! Charlotte Bellamy’s future husband, Lord Geoffrey Seavers, is in desperate need to finance his royal fleet, yet somehow Charlotte disappeared and...
- Author:STUART, VivianSummary:
Early Australian history written as a narrative and factual. Interesting, lively and essential reading. Book 5 of the series "The Australians".
- Author:CARTLAND, BarbaraSummary:
Frank Swinton is an adventurer, a man determined to raise himself above the drudgery of a nine-to-five job. So when he hears of the death of a wealthy financier's son, he goes along to the man's home to offer his condolences...
- Author:HAWKINS, AlisSummary:
It is 1385 and master mason Simon of Kineton is building his magnum opus : a great college to rival any in England. Six hundred years later, in the same city, Damia Miller has been employed to promote penniless Kineton and Dacre...
- Author:GOWER, IrisSummary:
Rosie, sixteen, beautiful and vivacious, is in love with Watt Bevan, the manager of the famous Mainwaring Pottery. But Watt, unaware of her feelings, is becoming increasingly drawn into the problems facing pottery owner Llinos...
- Author:MCKINLEY, TamaraSummary:
Miriam Strong had been looking forward to her family arriving at Bellbird Station to help her celebrate her seventy-fifth birthday. Yet with the discovery of the first tangible clue to her stolen inheritance, has come the knowledge...
- Author:Hill, PamelaSummary:
The story of Charlotte, illegitimate daughter of Bonnie Prince Charlie, and her own illegitimate son. Set in 18th and 19th centuries.
- Author:Jacobs, AnnaSummary:
Frederick Hallam is dying, yet he is sure to make secret plans to smooth the future for his beloved wife Annie. Her sister, Joanie, finds that life brightens up when a dashing new suitor crosses her path, but a spurned lover is...
- Author:Dennis, DellaSummary:
One would hardly think an outlying college town on the prairies would be the place a woman from the 15th century would choose to reveal her story, but when janine begins to discover the story of madeleine of beauvais interpolated in the...
-
Author:C. S. ForesterSummary:His Majesty's Ship Sutherland - of two decks and seventy-four guns - is a humdrum ship of the line. But in command is none other than the heroic Captain Horatio Hornblower and, with his crew from the Lydia, look set to take on...
- Author:CORNWELL, BernardSummary:
Sharpe has lost his command but is determined to win it back in an assault on the fortress town of Badajoz. Heroism and action in the Napolenoic wars by a masterful storyteller.
- Author:CORNWELL, BernardSummary:
It is 1811 and the intrepid Richard Sharpe and his riflemen find themselves in one of the bitterest battles of the Peninsular War.
- Author:THOMPSON, E. VSummary:
When the copper mines of Cornwall began to close down at the end of the 1870's many men left for the golden land of Australia, intending to earn enough money to bring their families out. Sam Hooper was one such emigrant.
- Author:JACOBS, AnnaSummary:
There is no joy in Helen Merlin's household, no love. Her mother cowers to her severe and controlling father and Helen tries to follow suit. But she yearns to be loved and made to feel special. When she meets an actor - whose...
-
Author:SHREVE, AnitaSummary:It is a house on the beach. Honora doesn't mind renting-despite its age and all its flaws, the old house is the perfect place for a new marriage. She and Sexton throw themselves into fixing it up, just as they throw themselves into...
- Author:Hawthorne, NathanielSummary:
The story begins in seventeenth-century Salem, Massachusetts, then a Puritan settlement. A young woman, Hester Prynne, is led from the town prison with her infant daughter, Pearl, in her arms and the scarlet letter
Pages
