 | 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 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...
|  | The Last Station: A Novel of Tolstoy's Final Year
Release Date: November 10, 2009NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTUREStarring Helen Mirren, Christopher Plummer, & James McAvoyIn 1910, Count Leo Tolstoy, the most famous writer in the world, is caught in the struggle between his devoted wife and an equally devoted acolyte over the master's legacy. Sofya Andreyevna fears that she and the children she has borne Tolstoy will lose all to Vladimir Chertkov and the Tolstoyan movement, which preaches the ideals of poverty, chastity, and pacifism.As Tolstoy seeks peace in his final days, Valentin Bulgakov is hired to be his secretary and enlisted as a...
|  | Shadow of the King: Book Three of the Pendragon's Banner Trilogy
Publication Date: March 1, 2010| Series: The Pendragon's Banner Trilogy (Book 3) They knew what was coming. Man and beast knew what lay ahead. After the war cry. Bitter the grave. At long last, the peace King Arthur was born to usher in has settled over the realm. But Arthur was also born to be a warrior... and all true warriors are restless without a fight. Yearning for battle and ever-loyal, Arthur is easily deceived into setting sail for Gaul to defend its territories-leaving his country vulnerable and leaderless. A beacon of hope in a land of desolation, he was to be the Lord of the Summ...
|  | 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 ...
|  | 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 Last Dickens: A Novel
Release Date: October 6, 2009Boston, 1870. When news of Charles Dickens’s sudden death reaches his struggling American publisher, James Osgood sends his trusted clerk, Daniel Sand, to await the arrival of Dickens’s unfinished final manuscript. But Daniel never returns, and when his body is discovered by the docks, Osgood must embark on a quest to find the missing end to the novel and unmask the killer. With Daniel’s sister Rebecca at his side, Osgood races the clock through a dangerous web of opium dens, sadistic thugs, and literary lions to solve a genius’s last myst...
|  | Cervantes Street
Publication Date: September 4, 2012"Manrique adopts a florid, epic style for his tale of 16th-century Spain, one with the quality of a tale told by a troubadour rather than written on the page. He ably captures the human qualities of the legendary writer, as well as his swashbuckling."--Publishers Weekly"Manrique has penned a well-written, well-researched, fast-paced narrative ... An entertaining book ... and a superb retlling of Cervantes's life."--Library Journal"Cervantes Street is historical fiction at its best. Compact and intense... The characters are wonderfully draw, the environments...
|  | 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...
|  | Paradoxia: A Predator's Diary
Publication Date: October 1, 2007“Paradoxia reveals that Lunch is at her best when she’s at her worst . . . [and] gives voice to her sometimes scary, frequently funny, always canny, never sentimental siren song."—Barbara Kruger, ArtforumLydia Lunch relays in graphic detail the true psychic repercussions of sexual misadventure. From New York to London to New Orleans, Paradoxia is an uncensored, novelized account of one woman’s assault on men. Lydia Lunch was the primary instigator of the No Wave Movement and the focal point of the Cinema of Transgression. A musicia...
|  | 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...
|  | Love and Fatigue in America
Publication Date: March 26, 2012<div>Love and Fatigue in America records an Englishman’s decade-long journey through his newly adopted country in the company of a mystifying illness and a charismatic dog.    When he receives an unexpected invitation from an unfamiliar American university, he embraces it as a triumphant new beginning. Instead, on arrival, he is stricken with a persistent inability to stand up or think straight, and things quickly go wrong. Diagnosed with ME disease—chronic fatigue syndro...
|  | 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. ...
|  | 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. ...
|  | Bedside Manner
Publication Date: August 6, 2012Nicklaus Fleischer dreamed of growing up to be a doctor. Few dreams, however, can remain pure under the shadow of the Third Reich. On his journey to become a doctor and soothe his troubled home life, Nicklaus discovers the terrible steps his nation has taken to fight a war not just on the front lines, but against its very own citizens. The government changes the value of 'Do No Harm', and with it, Nicklaus's dreams to better the lives of his fellow man. This is a fictional biography set during a grim time - a tale of life, death, love, and loss that is not for...
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|  | 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...
|  | At the Mercy of the Queen: A Novel of Anne Boleyn
Release Date: January 3, 2012A sweeping tale of sexual seduction and intrigue at the court of Henry VIII, At the Mercy of the Queen is a rich and dramatic debut historical about Madge Shelton, cousin and lady-in-waiting to Anne Boleyn.At the innocent age of fifteen, Lady Margaret Shelton arrives at the court of Henry VIII and quickly becomes the confidante of her cousin, Queen Anne Boleyn. But she soon finds herself drawn into the perilous web of Anne’s ambition.Desperate to hold onto the king’s waning affection, Anne schemes to have him take her guileless young cousin as mi...
|  | 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...
|  | Memory: A Novel
Release Date: December 30, 2008Twenty years after his mother and father jumped to their deaths from a balcony, Philippe Grimbert has written a gripping novel about the hidden memories that dominated their lives. A colossal bestseller in Europe, Memory is the story of a family haunted by the secret of their past: an illicit love affair, a lost child, and a devastating betrayal dating back to the Second World War. The day after my fifteenth birthday, I finally learned what I had always known....Growing up in postwar Paris as the sickly only child of glamorous athletic parents, the narrator i...
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