 | The Lonely Men: The Sacketts: A Novel
Release Date: October 1, 1984| Series: Sacketts In The Lonely Men, Louis L’Amour spins the tale of a man who must elude an Apache trap—only to discover that his greatest enemy might be very close to home.Tell Sackett had fought his share of Indians and managed to take something of value from his battles: a deep and abiding respect. But that respect is lost when Apache braves kidnap his nephew, forcing Tell to cross the border into the Sierra Madres to bring the boy back. What troubles Tell more, though, is the boy’s mother: Could she possibly be inventing a rescue missio...
 |  | The Virgin's Lover (Boleyn)
Release Date: August 30, 2005| Series: Boleyn The National BestsellerIn the autumn of 1558, church bells across England ring out the joyous news that Elizabeth I is the new queen. One woman hears the tidings with utter dread. She is Amy Dudley, wife of Sir Robert, and she knows that Elizabeth's ambitious leap to the throne will draw her husband back to the center of the glamorous Tudor court, where he was born to be.Elizabeth's excited triumph is short-lived. She has inherited a bankrupt country where treason is rampant and foreign war a certainty. Her faithful advisor William Cecil warn...
|  | The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb: A Novel
Release Date: April 3, 2012For anyone who loves the historical novels of Sara Gruen, Geraldine Brooks, and E. L. Doctorow, a barnstorming tale of an irrepressible, brawling, bawdy era and the remarkable woman who had the courage to match the unique spirit of America’s Gilded Age.She was only two feet, eight inches tall, but more than a century later, her legend reaches out to us. As a child, Mercy Lavinia “Vinnie” Warren Bump was encouraged to live a life hidden away from the public. Instead, she reached out to the immortal impresario P. T. Barnum, married the tiny supersta...
|  | Seduction of a Highland Lass (McCabe Trilogy)
Release Date: September 27, 2011| Series: McCabe Trilogy (Book 2) A warrior is caught between family loyalty and forbidden love in book two of bestselling author Maya Banks’s sensual new trilogy featuring three indomitable Highlanders. Fiercely loyal to his elder brother, Alaric McCabe leads his clan in the fight for their birthright. Now he is prepared to wed for duty, as well. But on his way to claim the hand of Rionna McDonald, daughter of a neighboring chieftain, he is ambushed and left for dead. Miraculously, his life is saved by the soft touch of a Highland angel, a courageo...
|  | La muerte de Artemio Cruz / The Death of Artemio Cruz (Spanish Edition) (Narrativa (Punto de Lectura))
Publication Date: June 15, 2010| Series: Narrativa (Punto de Lectura) A soldier who without qualms betrayed his comrades and yet was unable to withstand the wounds inflicted by destiny, reaches the end of his life. Confined to a bed, he faces an imminent and demeaning death; but the will that helped him carve his prominent place in society, refuses to give in. Using a brilliant narrative tone, which brings together past, present and future, the conscious, the subconscious, and objective narrative, Fuentes guides us through the very heart of the Mexican revolution, Mexico s political system a...
|  | The Far Pavilions
Publication Date: January 15, 1997When The Far Pavilions was first published nineteen years ago, it moved the critic Edmund Fuller to write this: "Were Miss Kaye to produce no other book, The Far Pavilions might stand as a lasting accomplishment in a single work comparable to Margaret Mitchell's achievement in Gond With the Wind." From its beginning in the foothills of the towering Himalayas, M.M. Kaye's masterwork is a vast, rich and vibrant tapestry of love and war that ranks with the greatest panoramic sagas of modern fiction.The Far Pavilions is itself a Himalayan achievement, a book we ...
|  | Elizabeth I: The Novel
Release Date: March 27, 2012The latest New York Times bestseller from Margaret George-acaptivating novel about history's most enthralling queen.One of today's premier historical novelists, Margaret Georgedazzles here as she tackles her most complicated subject yet: thelegendary Elizabeth Tudor, England's greatest monarch. Thismagnificent, stay-up-all-night page-turner is George's finest-aspectacular portrait of the alluring yet elusive woman who ruled overthe golden age of British history and culture. But what was she reallylike? In this novel, her flame-haired, look-alike cousin, LetticeKno...
|  | Revelation: A Matthew Shardlake Mystery (Matthew Shardlake Mysteries)
Release Date: February 23, 2010| Series: Matthew Shardlake Mysteries"We can't recommend this book too highly; it's another virtuoso performance from a truly great talent." -The Denver PostReaders across America are discovering C. J. Sansom's marvelous Shardlake novels. Now, with the brilliant fourth installment in the series, Revelation is poised to bring his highly praised historical thrillers to an even wider audience. In 1543, while Tudor England is abuzz with King Henry VIII's wooing of Lady Catherine Parr, Matthew Shardlake is working to defend a teenage boy, a religious fanatic bei...
|  | The Devil's Elixir
Release Date: December 22, 2011FBI agent Sean Reilly and his girlfriend, archaeologist TessChaykin, heroes of Raymond Khoury's bestselling Templar novels, return inanother edge-of-your-seat thriller that reaches from present day back to1700s Mexico-and possibly beyond. What if there was a drug, previously lost to history in the jungles ofCentral America, capable of inducing an experience so momentous-and sounsettling-that it might shake the very foundations of Westerncivilization?What if powerful forces on both sides of the law got wind of that drugand launched a vicious, uncompromising purs...
|  | H. M. S. Surprise (Vol. Book 3)(Aubrey/Maturin Novels)
Publication Date: May 17, 1991| Series: Aubrey/Maturin Novels (Book 3) "Few, very few books have made my heart thud with excitement. H.M.S. Surprise managed it."—Helen Lucy Burke, Irish PressThird in the series of Aubrey/Maturin adventures, this book is set among the strange sights and smells of the Indian subcontinent, and in the distant waters ploughed by the ships of the East India Company. Aubrey is on the defensive, pitting wits and seamanship against an enemy enjoying overwhelming local superiority. But somewhere in the Indian Ocean lies the prize that could make him rich beyond...
|  | The Turner Diaries: A Novel
Publication Date: May 1, 1996At 9:02 am on Wednesday April 19, 1995, two tons of explosives ripped apart the federal office building in Oklahoma City and the psyche of America. The worst case of domestic terrorism in our history, this explosion killed 169 men, women, and children. The author of this book has written, If [this book] had been available to the general public . . . the Oklahoma bombing would not have come as such a surprise. It has been considered by the Justice Department and other government agencies as the bible of right-wing militia groups, and the FBI believes it provided t...
|  | Musashi: An Epic Novel of the Samurai Era
Publication Date: September 14, 2012The classic samurai novel about the real exploits of the most famous swordsman. Miyamoto Musashi was the child of an era when Japan was emerging from decades of civil strife. Lured to the great Battle of Sekigahara in 1600 by the hope of becoming a samurai-without really knowing what it meant-he regains consciousness after the battle to find himself lying defeated, dazed and wounded among thousands of the dead and dying. On his way home, he commits a rash act, becomes a fugitive and brings life in his own village to a standstill-until he is captured by a w...
|  | The King Must Die: A Novel
Release Date: February 12, 1988The story of the mythical hero Theseus, slayer of monsters, abductor of princesses and king of Athens. He emerges from these pages as a clearly defined personality; brave, aggressive and quick. The core of the story is Theseus' Cretan adventure. ...
|  | Mary Stewart's Merlin Trilogy
Release Date: September 7, 2004The Arthurian legend is one of the most enduring and powerful of myths, and Mary Stewart's classic The Merlin Trilogy is one of its most beloved and acclaimed retellings. In prose that is as vividly, achingly real as it is poetic, New York Times bestselling author Mary Stewart brings to life the man behind the myth: Myrddin Emrys ... Merlinus Ambrosius ... Merlin. The Crystal Cave The Hollow Hills The Last Enchantment Born the bastard son of a Welsh princess, Myrddin Emrys -- or, as he would later be known, Merlin -- leads a perilous childhood in The Crystal Ca...
|  | Palace Walk: The Cairo Trilogy, Volume 1
Release Date: November 29, 2011| Series: The Cairo Trilogy (Book 1) Palace Walk is the first novel in Nobel Prize-winner Naguib Mahfouz’s magnificent Cairo Trilogy, an epic family saga of colonial Egypt that is considered his masterwork.The novels of the Cairo Trilogy trace three generations of the family of tyrannical patriarch al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad, who rules his household with a strict hand while living a secret life of self-indulgence. Palace Walk introduces us to his gentle, oppressed wife, Amina, his cloistered daughters, Aisha and Khadija, and his three sons—the tra...
|  | In the Country of Men
Release Date: February 26, 2008Libya, 1979.Nine-year-old Suleiman’s days are circumscribed by the narrow rituals of childhood: outings to the ruins surrounding Tripoli, games with friends played under the burning sun, exotic gifts from his father’s constant business trips abroad.But his nights have come to revolve around his mother’s increasingly disturbing bedside stories full of old family bitterness.And then one day Suleiman sees his father across the square of a busy marketplace, his face wrapped in a pair of dark sunglasses.Wasn’t he supposed to be away on busine...
|  | Astray
Publication Date: October 30, 2012The fascinating characters that roam across the pages of Emma Donoghue's stories have all gone astray: they are emigrants, runaways, drifters, lovers old and new. They are gold miners and counterfeiters, attorneys and slaves. They cross other borders too: those of race, law, sex, and sanity. They travel for love or money, incognito or under duress. With rich historical detail, the celebrated author of Room takes us from puritan Massachusetts to revolutionary New Jersey, antebellum Louisiana to the Toronto highway, lighting up four centuries of wanderings tha...
|  | Ride the Wind
Release Date: November 12, 1985In 1836, when she was nine years old, Cynthia Ann Parker was kidnapped by Comanche Indians. This is the story of how she grew up with them, mastered their ways, married one of their leaders, and became, in every way, a Comanche woman. It is also the story of a proud and innocent people whose lives pulsed with the very heartbeat of the land. It is the story of a way of life that is gone forever.... ...
|  | Excalibur, A Novel of Arthur (The Arthur Books #3)
Publication Date: July 16, 1999In The Winter King and Enemy of God Bernard Cornwell demonstrated his astonishing ability to make the oft-told legend of King Arthur fresh and new for our time. Now, in this riveting final volume of The Warlord Chronicles, Cornwell tells the unforgettable tale of Arthur's final struggles against the Saxons and his last attempts to triumph over a ruined marriage and ravaged dreams. This is the tale not only of a broken love remade, but also of forces both earthly and unearthly that threaten everything Arthur stands for. Peopled by princesses and bards, by warrio...
|  | Jubilee
Publication Date: January 21, 1999Here is the classic--and true--story of Vyry, the child of a white plantation owner and his black mistress, a Southern Civil War heroine to rival Scarlett O'Hara. Vyry bears witness to the South's prewar opulence and its brutality, to its wartime ruin and the subsequent promise of Reconstruction. It is a story that Margaret Walker heard as a child from her grandmother, the real Vyry's daughter. The author spent thirty years researching the novel so that the world might know the intelligent, strong, and brave black woman called Vyry. The phenomenal acclaim th...
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