 | Hugh and Bess
Release Date: August 1, 2009"A delightful novel full of chivalry, romance, and real-life terrors."Historical Novels ReviewForced to marry Hugh le Despenser, the son and grandson of disgraced traitors, Bess de Montacute, just 13 years old, is appalled at his less-than-desirable past. Meanwhile, Hugh must give up the woman he really loves in order to marry the reluctant Bess. Far apart in age and haunted by the past, can Hugh and Bess somehow make their marriage work? Just as walls break down and love begins to grow, the merciless plague endangers all whom the couple holds dear, threatenin...
 |  | The DeValera Deception
Publication Date: September 21, 2010In the summer of 1929 Weimar Germany still has a secret military agreement with the USSR to develop new weapons beyond the Ural Mountains. Ultimately, both want to dismember the newly revived independent Poland, but to distract Britain from helping the Poles, the new Irish Free State is placed at risk by conspirators and arms dealers intent on fomenting an IRA coup d'état.Winston Churchill is about to travel to North America when the new Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald asks him to handle a secret assignment. The IRA intends to buy large quantities of ...
|  | Life and Fate: A Novel
Publication Date: February 1986Suppressed by the KGB, Life and Fate is a rich and vivid account of what the Second World War meant to the Soviet Union.On its completion in 1960, Life and Fate was suppressed by the KGB. Twenty years later, the novel was smuggled out of the Soviet Union on microfilm. At the centre of this epic novel looms the battle of Stalingrad. Within a world torn apart by ideological tyranny and war, Grossman’s characters must work out their destinies. Chief among these are the members of the Shaposhnikov family – Lyudmila, a mother destroyed by grief for her d...
|  | Miss Fuller: A Novel
Release Date: April 3, 2012She was the most famous woman in America.And nobody knew who she was. It is 1850.Margaret Fuller--feminist, journalist, orator, and "the most famous woman in America"--is returning from Europe where she covered the Italian revolution for The New York Tribune.She is bringing home with her an Italian husband, the Count Ossoli, and their two-year-old son.But this is not the gala return of a beloved American heroine.This is a furtive, impoverished return under a cloud of suspicion and controversy.When the ship founders in a hurricane off Long Is...
|  | The Fall of the Pagoda
Release Date: April 15, 2010This novel describes the growing up a small girl in Shanghai at a time when traditional values are turned upside down and new values have yet to be established. This small girl is mature well beyond her age, and the novel records her perceptions of the adults around her. ...
|  | La Reine Margot (Oxford World's Classics)
Publication Date: April 15, 2009| Series: Oxford World's Classics La Reine Margot (1845) is a novel of suspense and drama which recreates the violent world of intrigue, murder and duplicity of the French Renaissance.Dumas fills his canvas with a gallery of unforgettable characters, unremitting action and the engaging generosity of spirit which has made him one of the world's greatest and best-loved story-tellers. This revised edition of the classic translation of 1846 is richly annotated. An introduction sets Dumas and his work in their literary, historical and cultural context.About the Ser...
|  | The Other Queen: A Novel
Release Date: September 16, 2008Now in paperback from “the queen of royal fiction” (USA TODAY) Philippa Gregory— a unique novel about the intriguing, romantic, and maddening mary Queen of scots. For years Philippa Gregory’s readers have been asking her to write a novel about Mary Queen of Scots—a request she now fulfills with a tale as engrossing as any she has ever written. A heroine everyone recognizes but few truly know, Mary Queen of Scots is remembered mostly for her death on the scaffold than for her turbulent, romantic life. In The Other Queen, Philippa G...
|  | The Ballad of Tom Dooley: A Ballad Novel
Release Date: September 13, 2011A literary triumph—what began as a fictional re-telling of the historical account of one of the most famous mountain ballads of all time became an astonishing revelation of the real culprit responsible for the murder of Laura FosterHang down your head, Tom Dooley…The folk song, made famous by the Kingston Trio, recounts a tragedy in the North Carolina mountains after the Civil War. Laura Foster, a simple country girl, was murdered and her lover Tom Dula was hanged for the crime. The sensational elements in the case attracted national...
|  | Sally Hemings: A Novel (Rediscovered Classics)
Publication Date: April 1, 2009| Series: Rediscovered Classics One of the greatest love stories in American history is also one of the most controversial. Thomas Jefferson had a mistress for 38 years whom he loved and lived with until he died—the beautiful and elusive Sally Hemings. But it was not simply that Jefferson had a mistress that provoked such a scandal in both his time and ours. It was that Sally Hemings was a quadroon slave and that Jefferson fathered a slave family whose descendants are alive today. In this moving novel, originally published in 1979 and having sold over two ...
|  | Signora Da Vinci
Publication Date: January 6, 2009Following the “absolutely superb”(Diane Haeger, author of The Secret Bride) Mademoiselle Boleyn, novelist Robin Maxwell delves into the life of Caterina—the adventurer, alchemist, and mother of Leonardo da Vinci.Caterina was fifteen years old in 1452 when she bore an illegitimate child in the tiny village of Vinci. His name was Leonardo, and he was destined to change the world forever. Caterina suffered much cruelty as an unmarried mother and had no recourse when her boy was taken away from her. But no one knew the secrets of her own childhood,...
|  | Me llaman la tequilera (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: August 25, 2012Esta novela retrata a una mujer extraordinaria: Lucha Reyes, la cantante que revoluciono para siempre la musica mexicana, brindandole el sello caracteristico que ha cautivado a generaciones dentro y fuera del pais. Combinando la emotividad de la ficcion y la documentacion precisa de la cronica, con testimonios y datos reales, Alma Velasco narra la trayectoria de este personaje que creo el genero de la musica de mariachi tal y como la conocemos actualmente. Me llaman la Tequilera no solo nos descubre a una cantante fuera de serie, sino a un personaje real, con...
|  | The King's Daughter. A Novel of the First Tudor Queen (Rose of York)
Publication Date: December 2, 2008| Series: Rose of York In this groundbreaking novel, award-winning author Sandra Worth vibrantly brings to life the people’s Queen, “Elizabeth the Good.” Seventeen-year-old Elizabeth of York trusts that her beloved father’s dying wish has left England in the hands of a just and deserving ruler. But upon the rise of Richard of Gloucester, Elizabeth’s family experiences one devastation after another: her late father is exposed as a bigamist, she and her siblings are branded bastards, and her brothers are taken into the new king’s ...
|  | Girl in a Blue Dress: A Novel Inspired by the Life and Marriage of Charles Dickens
Release Date: August 3, 2010At the end of her life, Catherine, the cast-off wife of Charles Dickens, gave the letters she had received from her husband to their daughter Kate, asking her to donate them to the British Museum, “so the world may know that he loved me once.” The incredible vulnerability and heartache evident beneath the surface of this remark inspired Gaynor Arnold to write Girl in a Blue Dress, a dazzling debut novel inspired by the life of this tragic yet devoted woman. Arnold brings the spirit of Catherine Dickens to life in the form of Dorothea “Dodo”...
|  | Tropic of Capricorn
Publication Date: June 4, 2012Tropic of Capricorn is a semi-autobiographical novel by Henry Miller, first published in Paris in 1938. The novel was subsequently banned in the United States until a 1961 Justice Department ruling declared that its contents were not obscene. It was also banned in Turkey. It is a sequel to Miller's 1934 work, the Tropic of Cancer.The novel is set in 1920s New York, where the narrator 'Henry V. Miller' works in the personnel division of the 'Cosmodemonic' telegraph company. Although the narrator's experiences closely parallel Miller's own time in New York working...
|  | Two Seeing Eye Dogs Take Manhattan...a love story
Publication Date: July 13, 2012To their owners all Seeing Eye dogs are miracle workers.However, there are the rare few, like the two exceptionally stalwart heroes of this book, who triumph brilliantly over the obstacles of a huge city. They are the canine equivalents of the intrepid “Navy Seals.”Undaunted, they meet the challenges of the “Big Apple.”Dodging cars, crowds, and one emergency situation after another, they guide their visually challenged partners safely to any destination. Two Seeing Eye Dogs Take Manhattan:A Love Story is a funny, fast-paced account o...
|  | The Shadow Catcher: A Novel
Publication Date: June 3, 2008Following her National Book Award finalist, Evidence of Things Unseen, Marianne Wiggins turns her extraordinary literary imagination to the American West, where the life of legendary photographer Edward S. Curtis is the basis for a resonant exploration of history and family, landscape and legacy.The Shadow Catcher dramatically inhabits the space where past and present intersect, seamlessly interweaving narratives from two different eras: the first fraught passion between turn-of-the-twentieth-century icon Edward Curtis (1868-1952) and his muse-wife, Clara; and a...
|  | Mistress Shakespeare
Release Date: January 5, 2010 A bold and intriguing novel about the woman who was William Shakespeare's secret wife, by the national bestselling author.As historical records show, Anne Whateley of Temple Grafton was betrothed to William Shakespeare just days before he was forced to wed the pregnant Anne Hathaway. Here, Anne Whateley takes up her pen to tell the intimate story of her daring life with Will. Obliged to acknowledge Will's publicly sanctioned marriage, Anne Whateley nevertheless follows him from rural Stratford-Upon-Avon to teeming London, where they honor their secret union, t...
|  | The Mind Tree: A Miraculous Child Breaks the Silence of Autism
Publication Date: November 1, 2011From behind the wall of imposed silence, a breathtaking collection of autobiographical prose and poetry, all the more remarkable because the writer is a child with autism.Well-received on initial publication, The Mind Tree is truly an enthralling read. Although he is severely autistic and nearly nonverbal, Tito’s ability to communicate through his extraordinary writing is astonishing. At the age of three, Tito was diagnosed with severe autism. But his mother, with boundless hope and determination, read to him and taught him to write in English. She al...
|  | Theodora: Actress, Empress, Whore: A Novel
Release Date: September 27, 2011"A bravura performance: a witty, moving, sexy book that burstswith as much color and excitement as the city of Constantinopleitself." -Financial TimesRoman historian Procopius publicly praised Theodora ofConstantinople for her piety-while secretly detailing her salaciousstage act and maligning her as ruthless and power hungry. So who wasthis woman who rose from humble beginnings as a dancer to become theempress of Rome and a saint in the Orthodox Church? Award-winningnovelist Stella Duffy vividly recreates the life and times of a womanwho left her ma...
|  | 1996 (English and English Edition)
Publication Date: June 1, 2007This fictionalized memoir of the award-winning author, Gloria Naylor, tells a story of a massive covert surveillance operation perpetrated against her by an official of the U.S. government. This domestic spying both destroys the peace and tranquility of the writer’s home and raises serious questions about the use of surveillance and technology by the government. ...
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