W. W. Norton & Company, 2007. — 368 p. — ISBN10: 9780393061727; ISBN13: 978-0393061727. The New York Times bestseller soon to be a major motion picture starring Jessica Chastain. A true story in which the keepers of the Warsaw Zoo saved hundreds of people from Nazi hands. When Germany invaded Poland, Stuka bombers devastated Warsaw―and the city's zoo along with it. With most of...
W. W. Norton & Company, 2007. — 368 p. — ISBN10: 9780393061727; ISBN13: 978-0393061727. The New York Times bestseller soon to be a major motion picture starring Jessica Chastain. A true story in which the keepers of the Warsaw Zoo saved hundreds of people from Nazi hands. When Germany invaded Poland, Stuka bombers devastated Warsaw―and the city's zoo along with it. With most of...
London: Richard Bentley, 1839. — vol. 1 c. 392; vol. 2 c. 326; vol. 3 c. 352 p. Life was becoming more tightly controlled for the London Underworld. Hanging was the punishment for even minor thefts regardless of age. In 1700 legislation made it a capital offence knowingly to handle stolen goods . After 1705 it was no longer possible to be pardoned for a first offence ( for any...
The third novel in the compelling Conquest series (1066: The Bloody Aftermath) from the author of Sworn Sword. Perfect for fans of Bernard Cornwall, Simon Scarrow and Ben Kane. AUTUMN, 1071. The struggle for England has been long and brutal. Five years after the fateful Battle of Hastings, only a desperate band of rebels in the Fens stands between King William and absolute...
January 1069. Less than three years have passed since Hastings and the death of the usurper, Harold Godwineson. In the depths of winter, two thousand Normans march to subdue the troublesome province of Northumbria. Tancred a Dinant, an ambitious and oath-sworn knight and a proud leader of men, is among them, hungry for battle, for silver and for land. But at Durham the Normans...
England, 1070. Renowned for his exploits, the knight Tancred has become a lord in his own right, with men to command and a manor to call home on the turbulent Welsh Marches. But his hard-fought gains are soon placed in peril, as the Normans’ newly won kingdom falls under siege on all sides. A coalition of enemies both old and new prepares to march, and King William’s fragile hold...
Translated from the French by Frank Wynne. Harper Via, 2022. — 221 p. — ISBN: 978-0-06-301833-4 A critical sensation in France,The Ghetto Within is its author’s personal attempt to confront his grandfather’s silence. Passed down, from generation to generation, the silence of Amigorena’s grandfather became his own. A gripping study of inheritance,The Ghetto Within re-imagines...
Hodder and Stoughton, 2015. — 415 p. — (Civil War Chronicles 6). 2 July 1644. Five armies converge outside York. It will be a battle for honour, glory, and the fate of three kingdoms. And it will pit two great leaders - Oliver Cromwell and Prince Rupert - directly against one another for the first time. It is a day that will change the course of history. Into the cannon fire...
Phoenix Books, 2023. — 583 р. — ISBN 978 1 3996 0227 3 It is 1940 and twenty-year-old Charlotte Richmond watches from her attic window as enemy planes fly over London. Still grieving her beloved brother, who never returned from France, she is trying to keep herself out of trouble: holding down a typist job at the Ministry of Information, sharing gin and confidences with her...
Simon & Schuster, 2023. — 701 р. — ISBN 978-1-9821-8616-6 Richmond, Virginia 1811. It’s the height of the winter social season, the General Assembly is in session, and many of Virginia’s gentleman planters, along with their wives and children, have made the long and arduous journey to the capital in hopes of whiling away the darkest days of the year. At the city’s only theater,...
Queillerie (RSA), Abacus (UK), 1993. — 443 p. The Smell of Apples is a 1993 debut novel by South African Mark Behr, published in Afrikaans as Die Reuk van Appels then published in 1995 in English. Mark Behr describes the Afrikaner mentality and in apartheid South Africa as seen through the eyes of an 11-year-old boy called Marnus, the son of an Army General.
Little, Brown and Company; 1st Edition, 1st Printing edition, 2015. - 384 c. - ISBN10: 0316292087; ISBN13: 978-0316292085. A masterful account of the assassins who hunted down the perpetrators of the Armenian Genocide In 1921, a tightly knit band of killers set out to avenge the deaths of almost one million victims of the Armenian Genocide. They were a humble bunch: an...
Little, Brown and Company; 1st Edition, 1st Printing edition, 2015. - 384 c. - ISBN10: 0316292087; ISBN13: 978-0316292085. A masterful account of the assassins who hunted down the perpetrators of the Armenian Genocide In 1921, a tightly knit band of killers set out to avenge the deaths of almost one million victims of the Armenian Genocide. They were a humble bunch: an...
Minotaur Books, 2023. — 511 р. — ISBN 9781250808103 New York, Autumn, 1907: Former private detective Molly Murphy Sullivan is happy with her place in the world. She and her policeman husband, Daniel, have built quite a life for themselves in Greenwich Village, in their modest-yet-beautiful-home in Patchin Place, filled with family, friends, and laughter. Molly and Daniel have a...
Crooked Cat Books, 2018. — 218 p. — ISBN: 978-1719536370. An historical mystery set in London 1678. Titus Oates, a rabble rouser whips up public hysteria over a Popish Plot against Charles II. The king has no direct heir, and when he dies, the crown will go to James, his Catholic brother. So many are alarmed. On suspicion several individuals are arrested and sent to Newgate...
St. Martin's Press, 2016. — 416 p. — ISBN10: 1250076986; ISBN13: 978-1250076984. “This volume, by Biblical scholar Yochi Brandes, is a riveting novel based on textual sources about the experiences of David and Solomon. Its lessons are also relevant for our turbulent time.” ―Elie Wiesel, #1 New York Times and internationally bestselling author of Night In the tradition of The...
St. Martin's Press, 2016. — 416 p. — ISBN10: 1250076986; ISBN13: 978-1250076984. “This volume, by Biblical scholar Yochi Brandes, is a riveting novel based on textual sources about the experiences of David and Solomon. Its lessons are also relevant for our turbulent time.” ―Elie Wiesel, #1 New York Times and internationally bestselling author of Night In the tradition of The...
Twenty7, 2016. — ISBN10: 1785770373; ISBN13: 978-1785770371. CJ Sansom meets Shakespeare in Love - a historical thriller with a swashbuckling twist and a hero like you've never seen him before When he's caught out by one ill-advised seduction too many, young William Shakespeare flees Stratford to seek his fortune. Cast adrift in London, Will falls in with a band of players -...
Twenty7, 2016. - 448 c. - ISBN10: 1785770373; ISBN13: 978-1785770371. CJ Sansom meets Shakespeare in Love - a historical thriller with a swashbuckling twist and a hero like you've never seen him before When he's caught out by one ill-advised seduction too many, young William Shakespeare flees Stratford to seek his fortune. Cast adrift in London, Will falls in with a band of...
Twenty7, 2016. - 448 c. - ISBN10: 1785770373; ISBN13: 978-1785770371. CJ Sansom meets Shakespeare in Love - a historical thriller with a swashbuckling twist and a hero like you've never seen him before When he's caught out by one ill-advised seduction too many, young William Shakespeare flees Stratford to seek his fortune. Cast adrift in London, Will falls in with a band of...
Deeds Publishing, 2017. — 290 p. — ISBN10: 1944193863; ISBN13: 978-1944193867. Venice is sinking. As engineers struggle to save the city from its watery fate, a metal chest is discovered beneath the surface of a murky canal. Tossed into the waters in 1355, it contains the long-lost possessions of none other than the famed explorer Marco Polo. When the chest is brought to light,...
Deeds Publishing, 2017. — 290 p. — ISBN10: 1944193863; ISBN13: 978-1944193867. Venice is sinking. As engineers struggle to save the city from its watery fate, a metal chest is discovered beneath the surface of a murky canal. Tossed into the waters in 1355, it contains the long-lost possessions of none other than the famed explorer Marco Polo. When the chest is brought to light,...
One of the most famous true stories from the last war, The GREAT ESCAPE tells how more than six hundred men in a German prisoner-of-war camp worked together to achieve an extraordinary break-out. Every night for a year they dug tunnels, and those who weren't digging forged passports, drew maps, faked weapons and tailored German uniforms and civilian clothes to wear once they had...
William Morrow, 2023. — 477 р. — ISBN: 978-0-06-333578-3 It’s 1942, and London remains under constant threat of enemy attack as the second world war rages on. In the Bethnal Green neighborhood, Nellie Morris counts every day lucky that she emerges from the underground shelters unharmed, her loving family still surrounding her. Three years into the war, she’s grateful to hold...
Berkley, 2017. — 352 p. — ISBN10: 0399583408; ISBN13: 978-0399583407. A poignant and evocative novel of one Greek woman’s story of her own—and her nation’s—epic struggle in the aftermath of World War II. Aliki is one of the last of her kind, a lamenter who mourns and celebrates the passing of life. She is part of an evolving Greece, one moving steadily away from its rural...
Berkley, 2017. — 352 p. — ISBN10: 0399583408; ISBN13: 978-0399583407. A poignant and evocative novel of one Greek woman’s story of her own—and her nation’s—epic struggle in the aftermath of World War II. Aliki is one of the last of her kind, a lamenter who mourns and celebrates the passing of life. She is part of an evolving Greece, one moving steadily away from its rural...
New York: HarperCollins, 2013. – 234 p. – ISBN: 978-0062306814. On a brisk autumn day in 1686, eighteen-year-old Nella Oortman arrives in Amsterdam to begin a new life as the wife of illustrious merchant trader Johannes Brandt. But her new home, while splendorous, is not welcoming. Johannes is kind yet distant, always locked in his study or at his warehouse office—leaving Nella...
Algora Publishing, 2008. — 239 p. The 1960s still loom in the national rearview mirror as a kind of cultural myth. Today, most Americans under the age of 60 regard this volatile era with both ignorant wonder and intuitive awe. What was it really like the activism, the violence, the drugs, the counterculture, the permissiveness, the radical politics? Where did it all come from...
London: Orion, 2012. — 410 p. — ISBN 978-1-40911411-6. Arimnestos of Plataea is a man who has seen and done things that most men only dream about. Sold into slavery as a boy, he fought his way to freedom — and then to everlasting fame at the Battle of Marathon where the Greeks crushed the invading Persians. Sometimes, however, a man's greatest triumph is followed by his...
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016. — 376 p. — ISBN10: 1535240490; ISBN13: 978-1535240499. More than two decades before the events of Helen of Sparta... As a baby, Hippodamia would have died of exposure on the mountain had it not been for Centaurus. The king of the centaurs saved her, raised her as his own, and in exchange asks for only one thing: she must marry...
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016. — 376 p. — ISBN10: 1535240490; ISBN13: 978-1535240499. More than two decades before the events of Helen of Sparta... As a baby, Hippodamia would have died of exposure on the mountain had it not been for Centaurus. The king of the centaurs saved her, raised her as his own, and in exchange asks for only one thing: she must marry...
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016. — 376 p. — ISBN10: 1535240490; ISBN13: 978-1535240499. More than two decades before the events of Helen of Sparta... As a baby, Hippodamia would have died of exposure on the mountain had it not been for Centaurus. The king of the centaurs saved her, raised her as his own, and in exchange asks for only one thing: she must marry...
A gripping, powerful, compulsively readable work of historical fiction: the story of a brilliant English dressmaker caught in Germany during World War II, the choices she must make to stay alive—and the way she confronts those choices in war’s aftermath. For readers of Amy Bloom and Anthony Doerr.
In London, 1939, Ada Vaughan is a young woman with an unusual dressmaking skill,...
Atria Books, 2021. — 368 p. — ISBN-10 1982134194; ISBN-13 978-1982134198. Based on the true World War II story of the heroic librarians at the American Library in Paris, this is an unforgettable story of romance, friendship, family, and the power of literature to bring us together, perfect for fans of The Lilac Girls and The Paris Wife. Paris, 1939: Young and ambitious...
Atria Books, 2021. — 368 p. — ISBN-10 1982134194; ISBN-13 978-1982134198. Based on the true World War II story of the heroic librarians at the American Library in Paris, this is an unforgettable story of romance, friendship, family, and the power of literature to bring us together, perfect for fans of The Lilac Girls and The Paris Wife. Paris, 1939: Young and ambitious Odile...
Johnson Publishing Co., 1967. — 232 p. Winter Count is a historical novel set during the fifteen turbulent years leading up to the infamous Wounded Knee Massacre of 1890. Turtleheart, a Teton Sioux, and his wife, Evensigh, a white woman adopted by the Tetons as an infant, are thrust into this history when they are ambushed by a Santee Sioux working as a scout for white gold...
Penguin Books, 2022. — 658 р. — ISBN: 978-0-241-51741-3 In Bournville, a placid suburb of Birmingham, sits a famous chocolate factory. For eleven-year-old Mary and her family in 1945, it's the centre of the world. The reason their streets smell faintly of chocolate, the place where most of their friends and neighbours have worked for decades. Mary will go on to live through the...
Hachette Books, 2008. — 400 p. In glittering 18th-century Venice, music and love are prized above all else--and for two sisters coming of age, the city's passions blend in intoxicating ways. Chiaretta and Maddalena are as different as night and day. The two sisters were abandoned as babies on the steps of the Ospedale della Pietß, Venice's world-famous foundling hospital and...
Novel. — Obooko Edition, 2013. — 156 p. Although the siege of Numantia in 133 BC marked the end of organized resistance to Rome, the Celtiberian tribes of northern Spain maintained their heritage of warrior elites -- and their hatred of Rome. They accepted the comforts, infrastructure and the benefits of Empire, while remaining independent tribal city-states under the control...
New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1898. — 233 p. The Red Badge of Courage is a war novel by American author Stephen Crane (1871–1900). Taking place during the American Civil War, the story is about a young private of the Union Army, Henry Fleming, who flees from the field of battle. Overcome with shame, he longs for a wound, a "red badge of courage," to counteract his cowardice....
Simon & Schuster, 2016. — 320 p. — ISBN10: 1439140235; ISBN13: 978-1439140239. The highly anticipated new standalone novel from Martin Cruz Smith, whom The Washington Post has declared “that uncommon phenomenon: a popular and well-regarded crime novelist who is also a writer of real distinction,” The Girl from Venice is a suspenseful World War II love story set against the...
Simon & Schuster, 2016. — 320 p. — ISBN10: 1439140235; ISBN13: 978-1439140239. The highly anticipated new standalone novel from Martin Cruz Smith, whom The Washington Post has declared “that uncommon phenomenon: a popular and well-regarded crime novelist who is also a writer of real distinction,” The Girl from Venice is a suspenseful World War II love story set against the...
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin is set in the early days of the second world war, before Benito Mussolini invaded Greece. Dr Iannis practices medicine on the island of Cephalonia, accompanied by his daughter, Pelagia, to whom he imparts much of his healing art. Even when the Italians do invade, life isn’t so bad—at first anyway. The officer in command of the Italian garrison is the...
G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers, 2017. — 368 p. — ISBN10: 1524739626; ISBN13: 978-1524739621. From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Witches of East End and the Descendants series comes the love story of young Alexander Hamilton and Elizabeth Schuyler. 1777. Albany, New York. As battle cries of the American Revolution echo in the distance, servants...
G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers, 2017. — 368 p. — ISBN10: 1524739626; ISBN13: 978-1524739621. From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Witches of East End and the Descendants series comes the love story of young Alexander Hamilton and Elizabeth Schuyler. 1777. Albany, New York. As battle cries of the American Revolution echo in the distance, servants...
G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers, 2017. — 368 p. — ISBN10: 1524739626; ISBN13: 978-1524739621. From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Witches of East End and the Descendants series comes the love story of young Alexander Hamilton and Elizabeth Schuyler. 1777. Albany, New York. As battle cries of the American Revolution echo in the distance, servants...
Thomas & Mercer, 2023. — 702 р. — ISBN-13: 978-1662-510137 Manhattan, 1923. Scandalous flapper Dot King is found dead in her Midtown apartment, a bottle of chloroform beside her and a fortune in jewels missing. Dot’s headline-making murder grips the city. It also draws a clutch of lovers, parasites, and justice seekers into one of the city’s most mesmerizing mysteries. Among...
William Morrow, 2023. — 736 p. — ISBN 978-0-06-328973-4 The middle daughter of struggling California fruit farmers, Alice Bush is accustomed to feeling inferior and destitute. But when her elder sister’s husband strikes a vein of gold in the Yukon Territory, Alice finally seizes control of her destiny by joining a wave of white settlers making the dangerous trek to the...
Scribner, 2014. — 531 p. From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, the stunningly beautiful instant New York Times bestseller about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. Marie-Laure lives in Paris near the Museum of Natural History, where her father works. When...
Scribner; First Edition/First Printing, 2021. — 640 p. — ISBN-10 1982168439; ISBN-13 978-1982168438. Finalist for the 2021 National Book Award, longlisted for the 2022 Andrew Carnegie Medal, and the instant New York Times bestseller! From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of All the Light We Cannot See, perhaps the most bestselling and beloved literary fiction of our time,...
Scribner; First Edition/First Printing, 2021. — 640 p. — ISBN-10 1982168439; ISBN-13 978-1982168438. Finalist for the 2021 National Book Award, longlisted for the 2022 Andrew Carnegie Medal, and the instant New York Times bestseller! From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of All the Light We Cannot See, perhaps the most bestselling and beloved literary fiction of our time,...
Writes Press, 2022. — 523 р. — ISBN: 978-1-64742-097-0 Based on a true story, this is the tale of Adélaïe Labille-Guiard’s fight to take her rightful place in the competitive art world of eighteenth-century Paris. With a beautiful rival who’s better connected and better trained than she is, Adélaïde faces an uphill battle. Her love affair with her young instructor in oil...
Canongate Books, 2023. — 539 р. — ISBN 978 1 83885 829 2 The year is 1921. Lesley Hamlyn and her husband, Robert, a lawyer and war veteran, are living at Cassowary House on the Straits Settlement of Penang. When “Willie” Somerset Maugham, a famed writer and old friend of Robert's, arrives for an extended visit with his secretary Gerald, the pair threatens a rift that could...
Berkley, 2016. - 352 c. - ISBN10: 0425281604; ISBN13: 978-0425281604. First in a dazzling new historical mystery series featuring Ruby Proulx, a psychic with a questionable past who suddenly finds her future most uncertain... Canada, 1898. The only life Ruby Proulx has ever known is that of a nomad, traveling across the country with her snake-oil salesman father. She dreams of...
Berkley, 2016. - 352 c. - ISBN10: 0425281604; ISBN13: 978-0425281604. First in a dazzling new historical mystery series featuring Ruby Proulx, a psychic with a questionable past who suddenly finds her future most uncertain... Canada, 1898. The only life Ruby Proulx has ever known is that of a nomad, traveling across the country with her snake-oil salesman father. She dreams of...
First published 1951. — 273 p.
This is the story of Spartacus, the Greek gladiator whose army of slaves brought ancient Rome near to its knees. Over four years, in battle after bloody battle, he smashed one Roman army after another...
It is the story of Varina, Spartacus's woman - a lovely blonde Amazon who fought naked with the men...
It is the story of the most incredible...
It is one of the great mysteries of life that in atmospheres of the harshest cruelty, a certain few not only survive but emerge as beacons of light and life. Father Arseny, former scholar of church art, became Prisoner No. 18736 in the brutal 'special sector' of the Soviet prison camp system. In the darkness of systematic degradation of body and soul, he shone with the light of...
Flatiron Books, 2023. — 515 р. — ISBN 9781250867889 Venice, 1717. Fifteen-year-old Luisa has only wanted one thing: to be the best at violin. As a student at the Ospedale della Pietà, she hopes to join the highest ranks of its illustrious girls’ orchestra and become a protégé of the great Antonio Vivaldi. Luisa is good at violin, but she is not the best. She has peers, but she...
Schwartz & Wade Books, 2018. — 416 p. — ISBN: 1524716200; ISBN13: 9781524716202. The tragic lives of Henry VIII and his six wives are reimagined by seven acclaimed and bestselling authors in this riveting novel, perfect for fans of Wolf Hall and Netflix's The Crown. He was King Henry VIII, a charismatic and extravagant ruler obsessed with both his power as king and with siring...
Viking, 2017. — 928 p. — ISBN10: 052595497X; ISBN13: 978-0525954972. “Absorbing...impossible to resist.” —The Washington Post (Kingsbridge) International bestselling author Ken Follett has enthralled millions of readers with The Pillars of the Earth and World Without End, two stories of the Middle Ages set in the fictional city of Kingsbridge. The saga now continues with...
Viking, 2017. — 928 p. — ISBN10: 052595497X; ISBN13: 978-0525954972. “Absorbing...impossible to resist.” —The Washington Post (Kingsbridge) International bestselling author Ken Follett has enthralled millions of readers with The Pillars of the Earth and World Without End, two stories of the Middle Ages set in the fictional city of Kingsbridge. The saga now continues with...
Pan Macmillan, 2009. — 976 p. Everything readers expect from Follett is here: intrigue, fast-paced action, and passionate romance. But what makes The Pillars of the Earth extraordinary is the time the twelfth century; the place feudal England; and the subject the building of a glorious cathedral. Follett has re-created the crude, flamboyant England of the Middle Ages in every...
Simon & Schuster, 2023. — 531 р. — ISBN 978-1-3985-1181-1 Germany, 1929. At a festive gathering of young bohemians in Weimar, two young artists, Max, a skilled Jewish architect, and Bettina, a celebrated avant-garde painter, are drawn to each other and begin a whirlwind romance. Their respective talents transport them to the dazzling lights of Berlin, but this bright beginning...
SparkPress, 2023. — 440 р. — ISBN: 978-1-68463-214-5 A passionate advocate of abolition from her earliest years, Ann’s activism was derailed just before her twenty-fourth birthday, when she fell sick with a mysterious illness. In order to protect her fragile health, her husband, the famous abolitionist Wendell Phillips, forbade her from joining any further anti-slavery outings....
Warner Paperback Library, 1973. — 179 p. The U.S. Navy doesn't need a whole fleet in the Mediterranean. All it needs is a 70-foot motorized barge -- LCU-1124 -- commanded by a resourceful Boatswain's Mate First Class like Fatso Gioninni. Fatso is a petty officer in charge of a landing ship in the Mediterranean Ocean running errands foe the US fleet. Along the way he and his...
W. W. Norton & Company, 2023. — 390 р. — ISBN 978-1-324-02037-0 Vienna―June 1804. At the glittering debut of Beethoven’s Third Symphony, a Spanish diplomat meets with Captain Thomas Grey, agent of His Majesty’s Secret Service. In exchange for a gigantic bribe, the Spaniard discloses Spain’s darkest secret the actual terms of the Treaty of San Ildefonso with France. Spain’s...
New York: Viking, 2006. — 672 p. — ISBN 978-0143038993. Acclaimed author Margaret George tells the story of the legendary Greek woman whose face "launched a thousand ships" in this New York Times bestseller. The Trojan War, fought nearly twelve hundred years before the birth of Christ, and recounted in Homer's Iliad, continues to haunt us because of its origins: one woman's...
New York: St. Martin's Press. — 976 p. — ISBN 978-0312187453. Bestselling novelist Margaret George brings to life the glittering kingdom of Cleopatra, Queen of the Nile, in this lush, sweeping, and richly detailed saga, the basis for the Cleopatra TV mini-series. Told in Cleopatra's own voice, The Memoirs of Cleopatra is a mesmerizing tale of ambition, passion, and betrayal in...
Riverhead Books, 2019. — 480 p. — ISBN10: 1594634734; ISBN13: 978-1594634734. "Life is both fleeting and dangerous, and there is no point in denying yourself pleasure, or being anything other than what you are." Beloved author Elizabeth Gilbert returns to fiction with a unique love story set in the New York City theater world during the 1940s. Told from the perspective of an...
River North, 2016. — 368 p. — ISBN: 080240894X; ISBN13: 9780802408945. An ambitious Roman soldier. A stunning crucifixion. An unlikely romance. A long war and a chance reunion—the moving parts that make The Centurion a gripping story of love, duty, and sacrifice. Lucius has always dreamed of military conquest and Roman glory. Little does he know how a routine crucifixion will...
St. Martin’s Press, Headline Book Publishing, 2016. — 287 p. — ISBN: 1250045460. A novel of a young queen by the Creator/Writer of the Masterpiece Presentation on PBS "Victoria is an absolutely captivating novel of youth, love, and the often painful transition from immaturity to adulthood. Daisy Goodwin breathes new life into Victoria's story, and does so with sensitivity,...
244 pages.
Penguin Book.
Made and printed in Great Britain by Richard Clay (The Chaucer Press) Ltd.
I, Claudius (1934) is a novel by English writer Robert Graves, written in the form of an autobiography of the Roman Emperor Claudius. In 1998 the Modern Library ranked I, Claudius fourteenth on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. In 2005, the...
Riverhead Books, 2023. — 375 р. — ISBN 9780593418390 A servant girl escapes from a colonial settlement in the wilderness. She carries nothing with her but her wits, a few possessions, and the spark of god that burns hot within her. What she finds in this terra incognita is beyond the limits of her imagination and will bend her belief in everything that her own civilization has...
Ballantine Books, 2017. — 512 p. — ISBN10: 1101883081; ISBN13: 978-1101883082. New York TIMES BESTSELLER • For readers of The Nightingale and Sarah’s Key, inspired by the life of a real World War II heroine, this remarkable debut novel reveals the power of unsung women to change history in their quest for love, freedom, and second chances. New York socialite Caroline Ferriday...
Ballantine Books, 2017. — 512 p. — ISBN10: 1101883081; ISBN13: 978-1101883082. New York TIMES BESTSELLER • For readers of The Nightingale and Sarah’s Key, inspired by the life of a real World War II heroine, this remarkable debut novel reveals the power of unsung women to change history in their quest for love, freedom, and second chances. New York socialite Caroline Ferriday...
New York : Scholastic, Inc., 1997. — 202 p. Patsy, an orphaned slave with a bad leg and a quiet nature, is considered slow by the Davis family. But Patsy's smart -- smart enough to learn to read and write on the sly. After the Civil War ends and slavery is abolished, Patsy believes Master Davis's promise to pay the former house slaves and to educate the slave children. But when...
Minotaur Books, 2016. — 320 p. — (Li Du Novels 02). — ISBN10: 1250074967; ISBN13: 978-1250074966. In this book, the follow-up to Elsa Hart’s critically acclaimed debut, Jade Dragon Mountain, Li Du, an imperial librarian and former exile in 18th century China, is now an independent traveler. He is journeying with a trade caravan bound for Lhasa when a detour brings them to a...
Minotaur Books, 2016. - 320 c. - (Li Du Novels #2) - ISBN10: 1250074967; ISBN13: 978-1250074966. In this book, the follow-up to Elsa Hart’s critically acclaimed debut, Jade Dragon Mountain, Li Du, an imperial librarian and former exile in 18th century China, is now an independent traveler. He is journeying with a trade caravan bound for Lhasa when a detour brings them to a...
Ecco, 2017. — 965 р. — ISBN: 978-0-06242208-8 Cotton County, Georgia, 1930: in a house full of secrets, two babies-one light-skinned, the other dark-are born to Elma Jesup, a white sharecropper’s daughter. Accused of her rape, field hand Genus Jackson is lynched and dragged behind a truck down the Twelve-Mile Straight, the road to the nearby town. In the aftermath, the farm’s...
Flatiron Books, 2023. — 870 р. — ISBN 9781250856777 Collette LeSange has been hiding a dark truth: She is immortal. In 1834, Collette’s grandfather granted her the gift of eternal life and since then, she has endured centuries of turmoil and heartache. Now, almost 150 years later, Collette is a lonely artist running an elite fine art school for children in upstate New York. But...
Little, Brown and Company, 2017. — 432 p. — ISBN10: 0316383031; ISBN13: 978-0316383035. (A Fall of Egypt Novel) Ancient Egypt, 51 B.C. Sisters Arsinoe and Cleopatra face a devastating choice: to allow Rome's army to siphon power from their ailing father, or to take matters-and the dynasty-into their own hands It's the dawn of a new era for Egypt as Cleopatra and her brother,...
Little, Brown and Company, 2017. — 432 p. — ISBN10: 0316383031; ISBN13: 978-0316383035. (A Fall of Egypt Novel) Ancient Egypt, 51 B.C. Sisters Arsinoe and Cleopatra face a devastating choice: to allow Rome's army to siphon power from their ailing father, or to take matters-and the dynasty-into their own hands It's the dawn of a new era for Egypt as Cleopatra and her brother,...
Pegasus Books, 2022. — 552 p. — ISBN: 978-1-63936-258-5 On January 21, 1804, Anne Sharpe arrives at Godmersham Park in Kent to take up the position of governess. At thirty-one years old, she has no previous experience of either teaching or fine country houses. Her mother has died, and she has nowhere else to go. Anne is left with no choice. For her new charge—twelve-year-old...
The Overlook Press, 2016. — 272 c. — ISBN10: 1468313827; ISBN13: 978-1468313826. The passionate and elegantly dark tale of desire, obsession, and deceit by a talented new author In this beautifully written debut, novelist Kate Howard proves herself to be a talent to watch, spinning a striking historical yarn packed with suspense and period detail worthy of Kate Mosse, Jessie...
The Overlook Press, 2016. - 272 c. - ISBN10: 1468313827; ISBN13: 978-1468313826. The passionate and elegantly dark tale of desire, obsession, and deceit by a talented new author In this beautifully written debut, novelist Kate Howard proves herself to be a talent to watch, spinning a striking historical yarn packed with suspense and period detail worthy of Kate Mosse, Jessie...
The Overlook Press, 2016. - 272 c. - ISBN10: 1468313827; ISBN13: 978-1468313826. The passionate and elegantly dark tale of desire, obsession, and deceit by a talented new author In this beautifully written debut, novelist Kate Howard proves herself to be a talent to watch, spinning a striking historical yarn packed with suspense and period detail worthy of Kate Mosse, Jessie...
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2023. — 514 р. — ISBN 9781250304896 In Boston, as the Golden Age of Piracy comes to a bloody close, Hannah Masury – bound out to service at a waterfront inn since childhood – is ready to take her life into her own hands. When a man is hanged for piracy in the town square and whispers of a treasure in the Caribbean spread, Hannah is forced to...
Adventure novel. — Hodder and Stoughton, 2001. — 280 p. — ISBN 0-340-57907-2. In this book you will find the full and detailed account of the climbing of the highest mountain in the world. You will find more than that, you will find the reasons of trying to climb it and how much success depended of previous expeditions, careful planning, close-knit team-work and all the hundred...
Park Row; Original edition, 2019. — 384 p. — ISBN10: 0778308618; ISBN13: 978-0778308614. A New York Times Bestseller. Cosmopolitan Best Book Club Book of 2019. PopSugar Must-Read Book of 2019. Glamour Best Book of 2019. From the author of the runaway bestseller The Orphan’s Tale comes a remarkable story of friendship and courage centered around three women and a ring of female...
Park Row; Original edition, 2019. — 384 p. — ISBN10: 0778308618; ISBN13: 978-0778308614. From the author of the runaway bestseller The Orphan’s Tale comes a remarkable story of friendship and courage centered around three women and a ring of female secret agents during World War II. 1946, Manhattan. One morning while passing through Grand Central Terminal on her way to work,...
EpubLibre, 2019. — 279 p. Spring 1778... The year marks a complete transformation for Richard Bolitho and his future in the Royal Navy. It is the year that the American War of Independence changes to an all-out struggle against British rule – and the year when he takes command of Sparrow, a fast, well-armed sloop of war. As the pace of war increases, the Sparrow is called from...
An Apollo Book, 2022. — 498 p. — ISBN: 9781801107341 1981: Khalid Quraishi feels like one of the lucky ones. Working in the glitzy West End by night and spending time with his beautiful wife and daughter by day, he's a world away from the life he left behind in Karachi. But Khalid likes to gamble - twenty pounds on the fruit machine here, a thousand on a sure-thing investment...
Canongate Books, 2022. — 465 р. — ISBN 978 1 83885 650 2 1629: A newly orphaned young girl named Mayken is bound for the Dutch East Indies on the Batavia, one of the greatest ships of the Dutch Golden Age. Curious and mischievous, Mayken spends the long journey going on misadventures above and below the deck, searching for a mythical monster. But the true monsters might be...
Atria Books, 2023. — 440 p. — ISBN 978-1-9821-0446-7 In 1941, beautiful Irvel Holland is too focused on her secret to take much notice of the war raging overseas. She’s dating Sam but in love with his younger brother, Hank—her longtime best friend—and Irvel has no idea how to break the news. Then the unthinkable happens—Pearl Harbor is attacked. With their lives turned upside...
A Small Place is a work of creative nonfiction published in 1988 by Jamaica Kincaid. A book-length essay drawing on Kincaid's experiences growing up in Antigua, it can be read as an indictment of the Antiguan government, the tourist industry and Antigua's British colonial legacy. The book, written in four sections, "combines social and cultural critique with autobiography and a...
Historical romance. — Crown, 2011. After the death of his prime minister, Cardinal Mazarin, twenty-two-year-old Louis XIV steps into governing France. He’s still a young man, but one who, as king, willfully takes everything he can get—including his brother’s wife. Every woman wants him. He must face what he is willing to sacrifice for love. But there are other problems lurking...
Penguin Books, 2015. — 505 p. Originally published in France as "Les Centurions" (1960), translated to English by Xan Fielding (1961). This is Jean Larteguy's most famous book that garnered international acclaim and sold millions of copies. It was also the basis for the movie, The Lost Command, starring Anthony Quinn. In his autobiography, Larteguy writes that he got the name...
Penguin Books, 2016. — 435 p. Originally published in France as "Les Prétoriens" (1961), translated to English by Xan Fielding (1963). Jean Lartéguy’s unflinching sequel to The Centurions, a searing novel of modern warfare admired by military experts, with a foreword by General Stanley McChrystal. Based on the events of May 1958 in France and Algeria, The Praetorians picks up...
Nashville: Harper Muse, 2022. — 766 р. — ISBN 978-078-5253341 The Philippines, 1941. When U.S. Navy nurse Eleanor Lindstrom, U.S. Army nurse Penny Franklin, and Filipina nurse Lita Capel forge a friendship at the Army Navy Club in Manila, they believe they’re living a paradise assignment. All three are seeking a way to escape their pasts, but soon the beauty and promise of...
Katherine Tegen Books, 2017. — 528 p. — ISBN10: 0062382802; ISBN13: 978-0062382801. A hilarious and swashbuckling stand-alone teen historical fiction novel, named one of summer's 20 must-read books by Entertainment Weekly! A young bisexual British lord embarks on an unforgettable Grand Tour of Europe with his best friend/secret crush. An 18th-century romantic adventure for the...
Katherine Tegen Books, 2017. — 528 p. — ISBN10: 0062382802; ISBN13: 978-0062382801. A hilarious and swashbuckling stand-alone teen historical fiction novel, named one of summer's 20 must-read books by Entertainment Weekly! A young bisexual British lord embarks on an unforgettable Grand Tour of Europe with his best friend/secret crush. An 18th-century romantic adventure for the...
William Morrow, 2017. — 368 p. — ISBN10: 0062792148; ISBN13: 978-0062792143. New York Times Bestseller The epic true story of Dunkirk—now a major motion picture, written and directed by Christopher Nolan, and starring Kenneth Branagh, Tom Hardy, and Mark Rylance In 1940, the Allies had been beaten back by the Nazis across France to the northern port of Dunkirk. In the ultimate...
William Morrow, 2017. — 368 p. — ISBN10: 0062792148; ISBN13: 978-0062792143. New York Times Bestseller The epic true story of Dunkirk—now a major motion picture, written and directed by Christopher Nolan, and starring Kenneth Branagh, Tom Hardy, and Mark Rylance In 1940, the Allies had been beaten back by the Nazis across France to the northern port of Dunkirk. In the ultimate...
A novel. Translated from the French by Charlotte Mandell. — HarperCollins e-books, 2009. — 992 p. — ISBN: 0061972967. “Simply astounding... The Kindly Ones is unmistakably the work of a profoundly gifted writer.” — Time A literary prize-winner that has been an explosive bestseller all over the world, Jonathan Littell’s The Kindly Ones has been called “a brilliant Holocaust...
Dashing adventurer Penn Bowen is dedicated to preserving Britain’s history and his carefree, bachelor lifestyle. He’s happiest when he’s in pursuit of knowledge and the occasional liaison with the right woman. So he’s more than a little perturbed when the wrong woman inserts herself into his latest quest—proving that a valuable artifact in Oxford’s museum is a fake. Amelia...
Penguin Random House, 2022. — 618 p. — ISBN: 978-1-473-59441-8 Leadenhall Street, London, 1754. Raised amongst the cogs and springs of his father's workshop, Zachary Cloudesley has grown up surrounded by strange and enchanting clockwork automata. He is a happy child, beloved by his father Abel and the workmen who help bring his father's creations to life. He is also the bearer...
William Morrow, 2023. — 503 p. — ISBN: 978-0-06-329619-0 London, 1938: The bookstore just doesn’t feel the same to Gertie Bingham ever since the death of her beloved husband Harry. Bingham Books was a dream they shared together, and without Harry, Gertie wonders if it’s time to take her faithful old lab, Hemingway, and retire to the seaside. But fate has other plans for Gertie....
History › Europe › Germany. Basic Books, New York, 2009, 324 s. ISBN: 978-0-465-00954-1 In this masterful narrative, acclaimed historian Giles MacDonogh chronicles Adolf Hitler’s consolidation of power over the course of one year.The year 1938 was one of cataclysmal change for Germany. On January 1, the Reich was administered by a right-wing coalition led by the chancellor,...
Legionary Books, 2016. — 224 p. It is December 1878, and war looms on the horizon in South Africa. British High Commissioner Sir Henry Bartle-Frere seeks to dismantle the powerful neighbouring kingdom of the Zulus and uses an incursion along the disputed border as his justification for war. He issues an impossible ultimatum to the Zulu king, Cetshwayo, demanding he disband his...
Pan Books, 2001. — 368 p. Who could have been born to conquer the world other than a god? A boy, born to a great king, Philip of Macedon, and his sensuous queen, Olympias. Alexander became a young man of immense unfathomable potential. Under the tutelage of the great Aristotle and with the friendship of Ptolemy and Hephaiston, he became the mightiest and most charismatic...
Simon & Schuster, 2022. — 798 p. — ISBN 978-1-6680-0365-7 An edge-of-your-seat thriller about a group of retired Green Berets who come together to save a former comrade—and 500 other Afghans—being targeted by the Taliban in the chaos of America’s withdrawal from Afghanistan. In April, an urgent call was placed from a Special Forces operator serving overseas. The message: Get...
А Tom Doherty Associates books, 2022. — 763 p. — ISBN 978-0-7653-8424-9 On the day after Pearl Harbor, shocked Americans gather around their radios to hear Franklin Roosevelt declare war. In Los Angeles, a German agent named Martin Browning is planning to kill FDR on the night he lights the National Christmas Tree. Who will stop him? Relentless FBI Agent Frank Carter? Kevin...
Random House, 2023. — 492 р. — ISBN 9780593730621 When two young lovers abscond from a Puritan colony, little do they know that their humble cabin in the woods will become the home of an extraordinary succession of human and nonhuman characters alike. An English soldier, destined for glory, abandons the battlefields of the New World to devote himself to growing apples. A pair...
Sandstone Press, 2022. — 390 p. — ISBN: 978-1-913207-88-5 In London in 1907, a decade before the revolution, young Stalin has yet to achieve the power, nor acted on the ruthlessness, that will define his legacy. Instead Koba, as he is known, arrives in London for the 5th Congress of the Russian Communist Part where he-and many of his fellow Bolsheviks-are only allowed to remain...
Harvest Books, 2003. — 565 p. In the seventeenth century, the English Revolution is under way. The nation, seething with religious and political discontent, has erupted into violence and terror. Jacob Cullen and his fellow soldiers dream of rebuilding their lives when the fighting is over. But the shattering events of war will overtake them. A darkly erotic tale of passion and...
Magna Large Print Books, 2014. — 432 p. Peenemunde: windswept corner of the Third Reich and birthplace of the space age. Otto Fischer, a severely wounded Luftwaffe officer and former criminal investigator, is summoned to solve a seemingly incomprehensible case: the murder of a leading rocket engineer during a devastating air-raid. With only days until the SS assume control of...
Curiosity Quills Press, 2016. — 318 p. — ISBN10: 1620074044; ISBN13: 978-1620074046. In 1812, Elinor Pembroke wakes to find her bedchamber in flames—and extinguishes them with a thought. At 21, she is old to manifest magical talent, but the evidence is unmistakable: she not only has the ability to start fires, but the far more powerful ability to control and extinguish them....
Curiosity Quills Press, 2016. — 318 p. — ISBN10: 1620074044; ISBN13: 978-1620074046. In 1812, Elinor Pembroke wakes to find her bedchamber in flames—and extinguishes them with a thought. At 21, she is old to manifest magical talent, but the evidence is unmistakable: she not only has the ability to start fires, but the far more powerful ability to control and extinguish them....
Curiosity Quills Press, 2016. — 318 p. — ISBN10: 1620074044; ISBN13: 978-1620074046. In 1812, Elinor Pembroke wakes to find her bedchamber in flames—and extinguishes them with a thought. At 21, she is old to manifest magical talent, but the evidence is unmistakable: she not only has the ability to start fires, but the far more powerful ability to control and extinguish them....
Open Road Media Romance, 2014. — 495 p. — ASIN B00J2IK62I. In twelfth century France, two of Europe’s greatest minds met and fell in love. It was a love forbidden by the world around them and eventually they were torn apart from each other. But the spark of it remained smoldering inside the lovers until their death and beyond. Heloise and her tutor, Peter Abelard, share a...
Berkley, 2017. — 384 p. — ISBN10: 045147600X; ISBN13: 978-0451476005. Wartime intrigue spans the lives of three women—past and present—in the latest novel from the acclaimed author of Secrets of a Charmed Life. February, 1946. World War Two is over, but the recovery from the most intimate of its horrors has only just begun for Annaliese Lange, a German ballerina desperate to...
Berkley, 2017. — 384 p. — ISBN10: 045147600X; ISBN13: 978-0451476005. Wartime intrigue spans the lives of three women—past and present—in the latest novel from the acclaimed author of Secrets of a Charmed Life. February, 1946. World War Two is over, but the recovery from the most intimate of its horrors has only just begun for Annaliese Lange, a German ballerina desperate to...
Scribner, 2023. — 459 р. — ISBN 978-1-6680-1138-6 East Anglia, 1645. Martha Hallybread, a midwife, healer, and servant, has lived peacefully for more than four decades in her beloved seaside village of Cleftwater. Having lost her voice as a child, Martha has not spoken a word in years. One autumn morning, a sinister newcomer appears in town. The witchfinder, Silas Makepeace,...
Исторический роман о жизни Цзян Цин - третьей жены Мао Цзедуна, ставшей его правой рукой на долгие годы и оказавшейся в опале после смерти Мао по его же приказу. Портрет сильной женщины, скрывавшейся за "Мадам Мао", очень живо вырисовывается автором, читателю предоставляется право увидеть неофициальную историю коммунистического Китая глазами женщины, которая хотела быть любимой, и...
Grand Central Publishing, 2017. — 489 p. — ISBN: 1455563935 (ISBN13: 9781455563937). Pachinko follows one Korean family through the generations, beginning in early 1900s Korea with Sunja, the prized daughter of a poor yet proud family, whose unplanned pregnancy threatens to shame them all. Deserted by her lover, Sunja is saved when a young tubercular minister offers to marry...
Grand Central Publishing, 2017. — 490 p. — (Koreans in Japan). Pachinko is the second novel by Harlem-based author and journalist Min Jin Lee. Published in 2017, Pachinko is an epic historical fiction novel following a Korean family who immigrates to Japan. The character-driven story features an ensemble of characters who encounter racism, discrimination, stereotyping, and...
Quercus, 2009. — 429 p. At the dawn of the Roman Empire, when tyranny ruled, a daughter of Egypt and a son of Rome found each other... Selene's legendary parents are gone. Her country taken, she has been brought to the city of Rome in chains, with only her twin brother, Alexander, to remind her of home and all she once had. Living under the watchful eyes of the ruling family,...
William Morroy, 2021. — 850 p. — ISBN: 978-0-06-299359-5 Florence, 1479: House servant Bellina Sardi's future seems fixed when she accompanies her newly married mistress, Lisa Gherardini, to her home across the Arno. But when Lisa's husband asks Master Leonardo da Vinci to paint a portrait of Lisa, Bellina finds herself tasked with hiding an impossible secret. France, 1939: As...
December 1348. With the country in the grip of the Black Death, brothers John and William fear that they will shortly die and go to Hell. But as the end draws near, they are given an unexpected choice: either to go home and spend their last six days in their familiar world, or to search for salvation across the forthcoming centuries – living each one of their remaining days...
Blue X Entertainment, 2014. — 354 p. They embarked on the Crusades as strangers. They battled through as more than brothers-in-arms. March 1190. Brimming with the spirit of youth, the idealistic Henry de Grey joins King Richard’s army ready to fight for God’s glory on the battlefield. But after he bloodies his sword and witnesses the slaughter of innocents, he struggles to...
Blue X Entertainment, 2016. — 577 p. England 1193 Civil war threatens as battle-scarred knight Henry de Grey returns from the Crusades. King Richard languishes in captivity, a prisoner of the Holy Roman Emperor. Traitors to the crown pit Henry and his friends against dangerous and unknown enemies. Loyalties will be tested, families torn apart. Friend or foe? It is hard to tell...
Blue X Entertainment, 2018. — 449 p. King Richard has their loyalty. The French would have their lives. And John, the king’s brother, will never forget how they betrayed him. The kidnapping of the king’s former sister-in-law sets off a chain of events that entangle the knights Henry de Grey and Stephan l’Aigle in politics and intrigue, treason...and murder. What begins as...
2015. — 384 p. — ISBN: 978-0802191694. The winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, as well as five other awards, The Sympathizer is the breakthrough novel of the year. With the pace and suspense of a thriller and prose that has been compared to Graham Greene and Saul Bellow, The Sympathizer is a sweeping epic of love and betrayal. The narrator, a communist double agent,...
RedHook, 2022. — 681 p. — ISBN 9780316422963. Seventeen years ago, King Odysseus sailed to war with Troy, taking with him every man of fighting age from the island of Ithaca. None of them has returned, and the women of Ithaca have been left behind to run the kingdom. Penelope was barely into womanhood when she wed Odysseus. While he lived, her position was secure. But now,...
Alfred A. Knopf, 2022. — 727 p. — ISBN 978-059-33-2063-1 Florence, the 1550s. Lucrezia, third daughter of the grand duke, is comfortable with her obscure place in the palazzo: free to wonder at its treasures, observe its clandestine workings, and devote herself to her own artistic pursuits. But when her older sister dies on the eve of her wedding to the ruler of Ferrara, Modena...
Ballantine Books, 2022. — 808 р. — ISBN 9780593355695 Mrs. Post, the President and First Lady are here to see you... So begins another average evening for Marjorie Merriweather Post. Presidents have come and gone, but she has hosted them all. Growing up in the modest farmlands of Battle Creek, Michigan, Marjorie was inspired by a few simple rules: always think for yourself,...
Peake Press, 2013. — 430 p. In the penultimate chapter of the saga of Titus Pullus, Legionary of Rome, Titus has been promoted to the newly formalized post of Camp Prefect, by Gaius Octavianus Caesar, who will become known as Augustus. Sent to the wild province of Pannonia, Titus, Sextus Scribonius, Quintus Balbus and Titus' nephew and heir Gaius Porcinus, take part in a...
Millbrook Press, 2008. — 48 p. More than anything, Rem Goldin wants to fight the British in the American Revolution. His father and the other men of Sites Point, New Jersey, have all left town to join the fighting. But ten-year-old Rem is too young to go with the men. Disappointed, he climbs up Foxborough Hill to look out over the ocean. What is that murky shape he sees through...
Speedy Publishing, 2013. — 177 p. After centuries of being on the defensive, the Roman Empire is on the march once again. Constantinople, 537 AD: after the successful reconquest of North Africa, the Emperor Justinian starts to entertain grand dreams of restoring the shattered Western Empire. He despatches his golden general, Flavius Belisarius, with an army of twelve thousand...
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Experience the medieval entry into knighthood through the eyes of a young squire, Myles Falworth. This novel was the basis of the screenplay for The Black Shield of Falworth (1954).
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Myles Falworth was but eight years of age at that time, and it was only afterwards, and when he grew old...
Henry Holt and Company, 2023. — 669 р. — ISBN 978-125-0822918 In 1851, at a remote village in the Scandinavian tundra, a Lutheran minister known as Mad Lasse tries in vain to convert the native Sámi reindeer herders to his faith. But when one of the most respected herders has a dramatic awakening and dedicates his life to the church, his impetuous son, Ivvár, is left to guard...
Berkley Books, 2010. — 470 p. Thea is a slave girl from Judaea, purchased as a toy for the spiteful heiress Lepida Pollia. Now she has infuriated her mistress by capturing the attention of Rome's newest and most savage gladiator--and though his love brings Thea the first happiness of her life, their affair ends quickly when a jealous Lepida tears them apart. Remaking herself as...
William Morrow Paperbacks , 2017. — 528 p. — ISBN10: 0062654195; ISBN13: 978-0062654199. USA TODAY BESTSELLER Reese Witherspoon Book Club Summer Reading Pick! One of Amazon's Best Books of June! One of Goodreads' Best Books of June! A Summer Book Pick from Good Housekeeping, Library Journal, Goodreads, Liz and Lisa, and BookBub In an enthralling new historical novel from...
William Morrow Paperbacks , 2017. — 528 p. — ISBN10: 0062654195; ISBN13: 978-0062654199. USA TODAY BESTSELLER Reese Witherspoon Book Club Summer Reading Pick! One of Amazon's Best Books of June! One of Goodreads' Best Books of June! A Summer Book Pick from Good Housekeeping, Library Journal, Goodreads, Liz and Lisa, and BookBub In an enthralling new historical novel from...
Thomas Dunne Books, 2011. — 304 p. — ISBN: 9781466807082. The second part of The Venetians Trilogy is set against the backdrop of the continuing war between Venice and the Ottoman Empire. The leading families in the city are in conflict with each other and the survival of the city is in peril.
Jonathan Cape, London. 1939 — 488 p. In Disgrace Abounding he takes up the story of the Hitler menace where he left off at the end of Insanity Fair , brings us through the Munich crisis, and takes us with him from scene to scene through the disastrous Central Europe of today.
McMillan South Africa, 1974 — 248 p. ISBN 0 86954 014 9 Douglas Reed sees Africa today as being in the 1938—39 phase of what he calls a “planned and contrived third war” for purposes far removed from, and indeed the opposite of the professed aims of “Liberation”. The re-enslavement of Africa and the Black man by a capitalist-communist pincer-movement, the handles being operated...
Da Capo Press, 1997. — 235 p. Renowned medieval historian Bernard Reilly turns once again to the novel format to fill in the gaps in our knowledge of medieval Spain in the Dark Ages, in a truly visionary account of one man's faith at the time of the founding of the Shrine of Compostela.
MIRA, 2017. — 400 p. — ISBN10: 0778328554; ISBN13: 978-0778328551. She has nothing to live for in the present, but finds there’s something worth dying for in the past… From Tiffany Reisz, the international bestselling storyteller behind The Bourbon Thief and The Original Sinners series, comes an enthralling new novel about a woman swept away by the tides who awakens to find...
MIRA, 2017. — 400 p. — ISBN10: 0778328554; ISBN13: 978-0778328551. She has nothing to live for in the present, but finds there’s something worth dying for in the past… From Tiffany Reisz, the international bestselling storyteller behind The Bourbon Thief and The Original Sinners series, comes an enthralling new novel about a woman swept away by the tides who awakens to find...
The Battle of the Lost Eagle saved Hadrian's Wall, but the new Roman governor of Britannia must stamp out the rebellion of the northern tribes or risk losing the province. Rampaging south with sword and flame under the command of their murderous chieftain Calgus, they have stretched his forces to the limit. For Marcus - now simply Centurion Corvus of the 1st Tungrian cohort - the...
The Empire series begins a new era—Marcus has fled from Britannia, but the emperor's henchmen are still on his trail
Britannia has been subdued—and the murderous Roman agents who nearly captured Marcus Valerius Aquila, alias Corvus, have been defeated by his friends. But in order to protect those very friends from the wrath of the emperor, Marcus must leave the province which has...
Fresh from their victory in Germania, Marcus Aquila and the Tungrians have been sent to Dacia, on the north-eastern edge of the Roman Empire, with the mission to safeguard a major source of imperial power.
The mines of Alburnus Major contain enough gold to pave the road to Rome. They would make a mighty prize for the marauding Sarmatae tribesmen who threaten the province, and the...
Marcus Valerius Aquila has scarcely landed in Britannia when he has to run for his life - condemned to dishonorable death by power-crazed emperor Commodus. The plan is to take a new name, serve in an obscure regiment on Hadrian's Wall and lie low until he can hope for justice. Then a rebel army sweeps down from the wastes north of the Wall, and Marcus has to prove he's hard enough...
Berkley, 2016. - 384 c. - ISBN10: 0425266265; ISBN13: 978-0425266267. From the international bestselling author of The Lost Wife and The Garden of Letters, comes a story—inspired by true events—of two women pursuing freedom and independence in Paris during WWII. As Paris teeters on the edge of the German occupation, a young French woman closes the door to her late grandmother’s...
Berkley, 2016. - 384 c. - ISBN10: 0425266265; ISBN13: 978-0425266267. From the international bestselling author of The Lost Wife and The Garden of Letters, comes a story—inspired by true events—of two women pursuing freedom and independence in Paris during WWII. As Paris teeters on the edge of the German occupation, a young French woman closes the door to her late grandmother’s...
Berkley, 2016. - 384 c. - ISBN10: 0425266265; ISBN13: 978-0425266267. From the international bestselling author of The Lost Wife and The Garden of Letters, comes a story—inspired by true events—of two women pursuing freedom and independence in Paris during WWII. As Paris teeters on the edge of the German occupation, a young French woman closes the door to her late grandmother’s...
Penguin Group, 2018. — ISBN: 9780525504580. The first novel to feature a Mexican American hero: an adventure tale about Mexicans rising up against U.S. rule in California, based on the real-life bandit who inspired the creation of Zorro, the Lone Ranger, and Batman. With a new foreword by Diana Gabaldon, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Outlander series An...
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts comes the first bewitching novel in the Donovan Legacy series. Their family shares the Donovan Gift. Each cousin has special powers that set them apart from ordinary mortals. But while their gifts bring great responsibilities, they bring even greater rewards... It’s purely business between skeptic screenwriter Nash Kirkland...
William Morroy, 2023. — 587 p. — ISBN: 978-0-06-307414-9 It is Coronation Year, 1953, and a new queen is about to be crowned. The people of London are in a mood to celebrate, none more so than the residents of the Blue Lion hotel. Edie Howard, owner and operator of the floundering Blue Lion, has found the miracle she needs: on Coronation Day, Queen Elizabeth in her gold coach...
Grand Central Publishing, 2013. — 464 p. — ISBN: 1455511803; ISBN13: 9781455511808. Set during a period of revolution and turmoil, Mistress of My Fate is the first book in a trilogy about Henrietta Lightfoot, a young woman who was abandoned as a baby and raised alongside her cousins, noble children of a lord and lady. At just sixteen years old, circumstance and a passionate...
William Morrow, 2023. — 515 p. — ISBN: 978-0-06-324771-0 1870: The Prussians are at the city gates, intent to starve Paris into submission. Lisette Vigneau—headstrong, willful, and often ignored by her wealthy parents—awaits the outcome of the war from her parents’ grand home in the Place Royale in the very heart of the city. When an excursion throws her into the path of a...
Create Space, 2011. — 410 p. Law is always scarce on the frontier. The outlaw gravitates to it so he can do his robbing and murder without having to worry about justice. It doesn't matter which frontier. In the early 1800s the frontier was the Mississippi River, and the river was full of pirates and outlaws from many countries, all coming to the easy pickings of the frontier....
Catilina's Riddle is a historical novel by American author Steven Saylor, first published by St. Martin's Press in 1993. It is the third book in his Roma Sub Rosa series of mystery novels set in the final decades of the Roman Republic. The main character is the Roman sleuth Gordianus the Finder.
The year is 63 BC, and Cicero is consul of Rome. Gordianus, once an associate of...
In the international bestseller Roma, Steven Saylor told the story of the first thousand years of Rome by following the descendants of a single bloodline. Now, in Empire, Saylor charts the destinies of five more generations of the Pinarius family, from the reign of the first emperor, Augustus, to the glorious height of Rome's empire under Hadrian. Through the eyes of the Pinarii,...
Presents the story of the ancient city of Rome, from its mythic beginnings as a campsite along a trade route to its emergence as the centre of the most extensive, powerful empire in the ancient world. From the tragedy of Coriolanus, to the Punic Wars and the invasion by Hannibal this novel aims to bring to life this city of the ancient world.
Harper Perennial, 2007. — 495 p. If you were black in America at the start of the Revolutionary War, which side would you want to win? When the last British governor of Virginia declared that any rebel-owned slave who escaped and served the king would be emancipated, tens of thousands of slaves fled from farms, plantations, and cities to try to reach the British camp. A...
Wheatmark, 2017. — 412 p. In the Introduction and Acknowledgements section of her fascinating novel, The Last Crusader Kingdom: Dawn of a Dynasty in Twelfth-Century Cyprus, Helena P. Schrader notes that " the historical basis for this novel is very thin," and that the book serves as "a fictional depiction of events as I believe they could have happened." Upon finishing the...
The Author of the Waverley Novels had hitherto proceeded in an unabated course of popularity, and might, in his peculiar district of literature, have been termed "L'Enfant Gate" of success. It was plain, however, that frequent publication must finally wear out the public favour, unless some mode could be devised to give an appearance of novelty to subsequent productions.
Indiana University Press, 2008. — 144 p. Leila Sebbar's novel recounts an event in French history that has been hidden for many years. Toward the end of the Algerian war, the FLN, an Algerian nationalist party, organized a demonstration in Paris to oppose a curfew imposed upon Algerians in France. About 30,000 Algerians gathered peacefully, but the protest was brutally...
Philomel books, 2022. — 568 p. — ISBN 978-1984-83605-2 Romania, 1989. Communist regimes are crumbling across Europe. Seventeen-year-old Cristian Florescu dreams of becoming a writer, but Romanians aren’t free to dream; they are bound by rules and force. Amidst the tyrannical dictatorship of Nicolae Ceaușescu in a country governed by isolation and fear, Cristian is blackmailed...
William Morrow, 2017. — 368 p. — ISBN10: 0062563661; ISBN13: 978-0062563668. INSTANT New York TIMES BESTSELLER "Moving...surprises and devastates."—New York Times Book Review "A masterful epic."—People magazine "Mesmerizing...The Women in the Castle stands tall among the literature that reveals new truths about one of history’s most tragic eras."—USA Today Three women, haunted...
William Morrow, 2017. — 368 p. — ISBN10: 0062563661; ISBN13: 978-0062563668. "Moving...surprises and devastates."—New York Times Book Review "A masterful epic."—People magazine "Mesmerizing...The Women in the Castle stands tall among the literature that reveals new truths about one of history’s most tragic eras."—USA Today Three women, haunted by the past and the secrets they...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 1993. — 224 p. A novel based upon the exploits of the SAS in Malaya. It describes how the SAS were used in 1952 as a special counter-insurgency force, and in particular their experiences in the Tek Anson swamp tracking the troops of the notorious Baby Killer Ah Hoi.
Quo Vadis: A Narrative of the Time of Nero, commonly known as Quo Vadis, is a historical novel written by Henryk Sienkiewicz in Polish. "Quo vadis Domine" is Latin for "Where are you going, Lord?" and alludes to the apocryphal Acts of Peter, in which Peter flees Rome but on his way meets Jesus and asks him why he is going to Rome. Jesus says "I am going back to be crucified...
Hippocrene Books, 1991. — 871 p. The Deluge (Polish: Potop) is a historical novel by the Polish author Henryk Sienkiewicz, published in 1886. It is the second volume of a three-volume series known to Poles as "The Trilogy," having been preceded by With Fire and Sword (Ogniem i mieczem, 1884) and followed by Fire in the Steppe (Pan Wołodyjowski, 1888). The novel tells a story of...
Hippocrene Books, 1991. — 935 p. The Deluge (Polish: Potop) is a historical novel by the Polish author Henryk Sienkiewicz, published in 1886. It is the second volume of a three-volume series known to Poles as "The Trilogy," having been preceded by With Fire and Sword (Ogniem i mieczem, 1884) and followed by Fire in the Steppe (Pan Wołodyjowski, 1888). The novel tells a story of...
The Penguin Group, 2013. — 114 с. — E-ISBN: 978-9-351-18352-5; ISBN: 978-0-143-06588-3. It is the summer of 1947. But Partition does not mean much to the Sikhs and Muslims of Mano Majra, a village on the border of India and Pakistan. Then, a local money-lender is murdered, and suspicion falls upon Juggut Singh, the village gangster who is in love with a Muslim girl. When a...
The Penguin Group, 2013. — 114 с. — E-ISBN: 978-9-351-18352-5; ISBN: 978-0-143-06588-3. It is the summer of 1947. But Partition does not mean much to the Sikhs and Muslims of Mano Majra, a village on the border of India and Pakistan. Then, a local money-lender is murdered, and suspicion falls upon Juggut Singh, the village gangster who is in love with a Muslim girl. When a...
St. Martin's Press, 2014. — 400 p. — ISBN: 1466862807; ISBN13: 9781466862807. The Affair of the Poisons, as it became known, was an extraordinary episode that took place in France during the reign of Louis XIV. When poisoning and black magic became widespread, arrests followed. Suspects included those among the highest ranks of society. Many were tortured and numerous...
Harry N. Abrams, 2016. — 384 p. — ISBN10: 1419721925; ISBN13: 978-1419721922. It’s Boston, 1919, and the Cast Iron club is packed. On stage, hemopaths—whose “afflicted” blood gives them the ability to create illusions through art—Corinne and Ada have been best friends ever since infamous gangster Johnny Dervish recruited them into his circle. By night they perform for Johnny’s...
Harry N. Abrams, 2016. — 384 p. — ISBN10: 1419721925; ISBN13: 978-1419721922. It’s Boston, 1919, and the Cast Iron club is packed. On stage, hemopaths—whose “afflicted” blood gives them the ability to create illusions through art—Corinne and Ada have been best friends ever since infamous gangster Johnny Dervish recruited them into his circle. By night they perform for Johnny’s...
Vintage, 2022. — 619 p. — ISBN 978-1-473-59265-0. Steeped in mystery and rich in imagination, an exhilarating historical novel set in Georgian London where the discovery of a mysterious ancient Greek vase sets in motion conspiracies, revelations, and romance. London, 1799. Dora Blake, an aspiring jewelry artist, lives with her odious uncle atop her late parents’ once-famed shop...
Dutton, 2022. — 652 p. — ISBN 9780593329375 On a frigid April night in 1912, the world’s largest—and soon most famous—ocean liner struck an iceberg and slipped beneath the waves. She had scarcely disappeared before her new journey began, a seemingly limitless odyssey through the world’s fixation with her every tragic detail. Plans to find and raise the Titanic began almost...
Canongate Books, 2007. Through Binu’s extraordinary story, Su Tong illuminates one of China’s most magical myths. In Peach village, crying is forbidden. But as a child, Binu never learnt to hide her tears. Shunned by the villagers, she faces a bleak future until she meets the man she will marry, Qiliang. A few years after their marriage, Qiliang disappears. Binu learns that he...
Lake Union Publishing, 2017. — 524 p. — ISBN10: 1503943372; ISBN13: 978-1503943377. Based on the true story of a forgotten hero, book is the triumphant, epic tale of one young man’s incredible courage and resilience during one of history’s darkest hours. Pino Lella wants nothing to do with the war or the Nazis. He’s a normal Italian teenager—obsessed with music, food, and...
Lake Union Publishing, 2017. — 524 p. — ISBN10: 1503943372; ISBN13: 978-1503943377. Based on the true story of a forgotten hero, book is the triumphant, epic tale of one young man’s incredible courage and resilience during one of history’s darkest hours. Pino Lella wants nothing to do with the war or the Nazis. He’s a normal Italian teenager—obsessed with music, food, and...
Lake Union Publishing, 2017. — 524 p. — ISBN10: 1503943372; ISBN13: 978-1503943377. Based on the true story of a forgotten hero, book is the triumphant, epic tale of one young man’s incredible courage and resilience during one of history’s darkest hours. Pino Lella wants nothing to do with the war or the Nazis. He’s a normal Italian teenager—obsessed with music, food, and...
Silvertail books, 2012. — 300 p. Based on a true account, an unforgettable tale of courage and compassion in the worst of times.As the Second World War rages and the Axis powers threaten the whole world, the Japanese Imperial Army enters Burma and the British and Americans prepare to flee.But the human legacy of the British Empire will be left behind in the shape of sixty-two...
Silvertail books, 2012. — 300 p. Based on a true account, an unforgettable tale of courage and compassion in the worst of times.As the Second World War rages and the Axis powers threaten the whole world, the Japanese Imperial Army enters Burma and the British and Americans prepare to flee.But the human legacy of the British Empire will be left behind in the shape of sixty-two...
Jo Fletcher, 2023. — 671 p. — ISBN 978 1 52942 626 7 In this exuberant retelling of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, Lydia Bennet puts pen to paper to relate the real events and aftermath of the classic story. Some facts are well known: Mrs. Bennet suffers from her nerves, Mr. Bennet suffers from Mrs. Bennet, and all five daughters suffer from an estate that is entailed only...
Dancing in Chains, 2020. — 224 p. This is a work of historical fiction, meaning it combines elements of historical fact (such as it is) and fiction. It is not only a history textbook. There is scant information about Quintus Fabius Maximus Rullianus, and about 4th century BCE Italia. The book’s major characters, places, events, battles, and timelines are real, meaning they are...
Knopf Canada, 2016. — 480 p. — ISBN10: 0345810422; ISBN13: 978-0345810427. Madeleine Thien's new novel is breathtaking in scope and ambition even as it is hauntingly intimate. With the ease and skill of a master storyteller, Thien takes us inside an extended family in China, showing us the lives of two successive generations--those who lived through Mao's Cultural Revolution in...
Knopf Canada, 2016. — 480 p. — ISBN10: 0345810422; ISBN13: 978-0345810427. Madeleine Thien's new novel is breathtaking in scope and ambition even as it is hauntingly intimate. With the ease and skill of a master storyteller, Thien takes us inside an extended family in China, showing us the lives of two successive generations--those who lived through Mao's Cultural Revolution in...
A Faraway Island is the first of four novels I have written about Stephie and Nellie. These novels are based on interviews with about a dozen of the real refugees who shared their childhoods, their letters, and their diaries, as well as on the research of Ingrid Lomfors, a Jewish historian in Sweden who explored the destinies of the five hundred refugee children. I have also...
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1903. — 209 p. A wealthy and powerful English Jew, Constantine Schaube, a known adversary of Christian clergy, plots to destroy Christianity by falsely disproving the resurrection of Jesus Christ. He exploits the financial situation of English Biblical expert Sir Robert Llewelyn, and coerces him to plant an inscription upon an ancient tomb entrance. This...
Simon & Schuster, 2023. — 503 р. — ISBN 978-1-6680-0743-3 Born in Beirut in 1922, Marguerite Toutoungi lives a life of loss and sacrifice. She dreams of traveling to Europe and studying music at the Conservatoire de Paris but her family—and her society—hold her back. When she meets the son of a Cuban tobacco farmer at a formal dance, love transforms her life. Together with him,...
Viking, 2016. — 480 c. — ISBN10: 0670026190; ISBN13: 978-0670026197. He can’t leave his hotel. You won’t want to. From the New York Times bestselling author of Rules of Civility—a transporting novel about a man who is ordered to spend the rest of his life inside a luxury hotel “And the intrigue! … [A Gentleman in Moscow] is laced with sparkling threads (they will tie up) and...
Viking, 2016. — 480 c. — ISBN10: 0670026190; ISBN13: 978-0670026197. He can’t leave his hotel. You won’t want to. From the New York Times bestselling author of Rules of Civility—a transporting novel about a man who is ordered to spend the rest of his life inside a luxury hotel “And the intrigue! … [A Gentleman in Moscow] is laced with sparkling threads (they will tie up) and...
Viking; 1st Edition, 2021. — 592 p. — ISBN-10 0735222355; ISBN-13 978-0735222359. #1 New York TIMES BESTSELLER A TODAY Show Read with Jenna Book Club Pick The bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow and Rules of Civility and master of absorbing, sophisticated fiction returns with a stylish and propulsive novel set in 1950s America In June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett...
Viking; 1st Edition, 2021. — 592 p. — ISBN-10 0735222355; ISBN-13 978-0735222359. #1 New York TIMES BESTSELLER A TODAY Show Read with Jenna Book Club Pick The bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow and Rules of Civility and master of absorbing, sophisticated fiction returns with a stylish and propulsive novel set in 1950s America In June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett...
Colorado Springs: Multnomah, 2019. — 747 p. — ISBN 9780525652939 After the tragic loss of their father, the McAlister family is living at the edge of the poorhouse in London in 1908, leaving their mother to scrape by for her three younger children, while oldest daughter, Laura, works on a large estate more than an hour away. When Edna McAlister falls gravely ill and is...
HarperTeen, 2022. — 703 р. — ISBN 978-0-06-323447-5. Each spring, Ithaca condemns twelve maidens to the noose. This is the price vengeful Poseidon demands for the lives of Queen Penelope’s twelve maids, hanged and cast into the depths centuries ago. But when that fate comes for Leto, death is not what she thought it would be. Instead, she wakes on a mysterious island and meets...
The story of the origin of the cold war in strife-torn postwar Germany. It tells of the incredible struggle for Berlin from its capture by the Russians in 1945, through the years of Four Power Occupation, to the airlift - one of the most heroic episodes in American history.
Exodus is an international publishing phenomenon-the towering novel of the twentieth century's most dramatic geopolitical event. Leon Uris magnificently portrays the birth of a new nation in the midst of enemies-the beginning of an earthshaking struggle for power. Here is the tale that swept the world with its fury: the story of an American nurse, an Israeli freedom fighter caught...
It was a time of crisis, a time of tragedy-and a time of transcendent courage and determination. Leon Uris's blazing novel is set in the midst of the ghetto uprising that defied Nazi tyranny, as the Jews of Warsaw boldly met Wehrmacht tanks with homemade weapons and bare fists. Here, painted on a canvas as broad as its subject matter, is the compelling of one of the most heroic...
Balboa Press, 2011. — 448 p. — ISBN10: 1452535159; ISBN13: 978-1452535159. Who burned the Great Library of Alexandria? When the Roman Empire collapses in the 5th century, the city of Alexandria, Egypt is plagued with unrest. Paganism is declared punishable by death and the populace splinters in religious upheaval. Hannah, a beautiful Jewish shepherd girl is abducted from her...
Balboa Press, 2011. — 448 p. — ISBN10: 1452535159; ISBN13: 978-1452535159. Who burned the Great Library of Alexandria? When the Roman Empire collapses in the 5th century, the city of Alexandria, Egypt is plagued with unrest. Paganism is declared punishable by death and the populace splinters in religious upheaval. Hannah, a beautiful Jewish shepherd girl is abducted from her...
Grove Press, 2023. — 1208 р. — ISBN 978-0-8021-6217-5 The Covenant of Water is the long-awaited new novel by Abraham Verghese, the author of the major word-of-mouth bestseller Cutting for Stone, which has sold over 1.5 million copies in the United States alone and remained on the New York Times bestseller list for over two years. Spanning the years 1900 to 1977, The Covenant of...
Vintage, 2003. — 430 p. Gore Vidal's Narratives of Empire series spans the history of the United States from the Revolution to the post-World War II years. With their broad canvas and large cast of fictional and historical characters, the novels in this series present a panorama of the American political and imperial experience as interpreted by one of its most worldly,...
Vintage, 2003. — 528 p. Julian the Apostate, nephew of Constantine the Great, was one of the brightest yet briefest lights in the history of the Roman Empire. A military genius on the level of Julius Caesar and Alexander the Great, a graceful and persuasive essayist, and a philosopher devoted to worshiping the gods of Hellenism, he became embroiled in a fierce intellectual war...
Vintage, 2000. — 672 p. Gore Vidal's Narratives of Empire series spans the history of the United States from the Revolution to the post-World War II years. With their broad canvas and large cast of fictional and historical characters, the novels in this series present a panorama of the American political and imperial experience as interpreted by one of its most worldly,...
Tyndale House Publishers, 2016. — 287 p. “As one of the bestselling stories of all time, Lew Wallaces Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ has captivated and enthralled millions around the both in print and on the big screen. Now great-great-granddaughter has taken the old-fashioned prose of this classic novel and breathed new life into it for todays audience. Coming to theaters in...
Judah Ben-Hur lives as a rich Jewish prince and merchant in Jerusalem at the beginning of the 1st century. His old friend Messala arrives as commanding officer of the Roman legions. They become bitter enemies. Because of an unfortunate accident, Ben-Hur is sent to slave in the mines while his family is sent to leprosy caves. As Messala is dying from being crushed in a chariot...
Thomas Nelson, 2015. For love of country, for love of maiden, for love of freedom... he became the hammer and scourge of England. In one of history's darkest hours there arose from humble beginnings a man of courage and honor-- the likes of whom the world may never see again. Amid the color, pageantry, and violence of medieval Scotland unfurls the resplendent tale of the...
Pocket Books, 2011. — ISBN: 9780671522810. For love of country, for love of maiden, for love of freedom... he became the hammer and scourge of England. In one of history's darkest hours there arose from humble beginnings a man of courage and honor-- the likes of whom the world may never see again. Amid the color, pageantry, and violence of medieval Scotland unfurls the...
Little, Brown and Company, 2023. — 539 р. — ISBN 978-0-316-56369-7 Paris, 1938. Two women meet: Mielle, a shy pacifist and shunned Mennonite who struggles to fit in with the elite cohort of foreign correspondents stationed around the city; the other, Jane, a brash, legendary American journalist, who is soon to become a fascist propagandist. When World War II makes landfall in...
Doubleday; First Edition/First Printing, 2021. — 336 p. — ISBN-10 0385545134; ISBN-13 978-0385545136. New York TIMES BEST SELLER • From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys, a gloriously entertaining novel of heists, shakedowns, and rip-offs set in Harlem in the 1960s. "Ray Carney was only slightly bent when it came to being...
Doubleday; First Edition/First Printing, 2021. — 336 p. — ISBN-10 0385545134; ISBN-13 978-0385545136. New York TIMES BEST SELLER • From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys, a gloriously entertaining novel of heists, shakedowns, and rip-offs set in Harlem in the 1960s. "Ray Carney was only slightly bent when it came to being...
Doubleday, 2019. — 224 p. The Nickel Boys is a 2019 novel by American novelist and writer Colson Whitehead. Colson Whitehead brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida. As the Civil Rights movement begins to reach the black enclave of Frenchtown in segregated Tallahassee,...
Doubleday, 2019. — 224 p. The Nickel Boys is a 2019 novel by American novelist and writer Colson Whitehead. Colson Whitehead brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida. As the Civil Rights movement begins to reach the black enclave of Frenchtown in segregated Tallahassee,...
Affirm Press, 2023. — 679 р. — ISBN: 9781922806628 What is lost when knowledge is withheld? In 1914, when the war draws the young men of Britain away to fight, it is the women who must keep the nation running. Two of those women are Peggy and Maude, twin sisters who work in the bindery at Oxford University Press in Jericho. Peggy is intelligent, ambitious and dreams of going to...
Broadway, 1996. Pope Joan is a 1996 novel by American writer Donna Woolfolk Cross. It is based on the medieval legend of Pope Joan. For the most part this novel is the story of a young woman, whose desire to gain more knowledge compels her to dress up as a man, who eventually rises to become the pope.
Random House, 2006. — 304 p. — (Napoleonic Wars). The year is 1797. Napoleon Buonaparte is racking up impressive wins in the field against the enemies of revolutionary France, while on the seas England is putting up a staunch resistance. Twenty-five-year-old Charles Edgemont is second lieutenant aboard the British ship Argonaut. When orders come for the Argonaut to engage in an...
Westholme Publishing; 1st Edition edition, 2011. - 319 c. - ISBN10: 1594161445; ISBN13: 978-1594161445. The Exploration for Real and Mythical Treasures in the Americas For half a millennium, stories of vast treasures—El Dorado, Manoa, the Seven Cities of Cibola, the Lost Dutchman Mine—have been part of the lore of the Americas. Long before the Europeans set foot in the New...
Westholme Publishing; 1st Edition edition, 2011. - 319 c. - ISBN10: 1594161445; ISBN13: 978-1594161445. The Exploration for Real and Mythical Treasures in the Americas For half a millennium, stories of vast treasures—El Dorado, Manoa, the Seven Cities of Cibola, the Lost Dutchman Mine—have been part of the lore of the Americas. Long before the Europeans set foot in the New...
I was just a boy when I come to Jamaica. Kingston, 1938. Fourteen-year-old Yang Pao steps off the ship from China with his mother and brother, after his father has died fighting for the revolution. They are to live with Zhang, the 'godfather' of Chinatown, who mesmerises Pao with stories of glorious Chinese socialism on one hand, and the reality of his protection business on the...
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