 | 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 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...
|  | 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...
|  | The Painted Veil
Release Date: November 14, 2006Set in England and Hong Kong in the 1920s, The Painted Veil is the story of the beautiful but love-starved Kitty Fane. When her husband discovers her adulterous affair, he forces her to accompany him to the heart of a cholera epidemic. Stripped of the British society of her youth and the small but effective society she fought so hard to attain in Hong Kong, she is compelled by her awakening conscience to reassess her life and learn how to love.The Painted Veil is a beautifully written affirmation of the human capacity to grow, to change, and to forgive. ...
|  | Black Rain (Japan's Modern Writers)
Publication Date: August 3, 2012| Series: Japan's Modern Writers Black Rain is centered around the story of a young woman who was caught in the radioactive "black rain" that fell after the bombing of Hiroshima. lbuse bases his tale on real-life diaries and interviews with victims of the holocaust; the result is a book that is free from sentimentality yet manages to reveal the magnitude of the human suffering caused by the atom bomb. The life of Yasuko, on whom the black rain fell, is changed forever by periodic bouts of radiation sickness and the suspicion that her future children, too, may ...
|  | Novel without a Name
Release Date: June 1, 1996The author of Paradise of the Blind, the first novel fromVietnam ever published in America, traces a young man's experiencesfighting for North Vietnam, in a novel banned in Vietnam for itssubversive content. Reprint. 10,000 first printing. NYT....
|  | The Queen of the Big Time: A Novel
Release Date: May 31, 2005Known and loved around the world for her sweeping Big Stone Gap trilogy and the instant New York Times bestseller Lucia, Lucia, Adriana Trigiani returns to the charm and drama of small-town life with Queens of the Big Time. This heartfelt story of the limits and power of love chronicles the remarkable lives of the Castellucas, an Italian-American family, over the course of three generations.In the late 1800s, the residents of a small village in the Bari region of Italy, on the shores of the Adriatic Sea, made a mass migration to the promised land of America. They se...
|  | 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 ...
|  | The Egyptian: A Novel (Rediscovered Classics)
Publication Date: April 1, 2002| Series: Rediscovered Classics First published in the United States in 1949 and widely condemned as obscene, The Egyptian outsold every other novel published that year, and remains a classic; readers worldwide have testified to its life-changing power. It is a full-bodied re-creation of a largely forgotten era in the world’s history: the Egypt of the 14th century B.C.E., when pharaohs and gods contended with the near-collapse of history’s greatest empire. This epic tale encompasses the whole of the then-known world, from Babylon to Crete, from Theb...
|  | 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...
|  | 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...
|  | 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...
|  | 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...
|  | 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...
|  | 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...
|  | 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. ...
|  | 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...
|  | Her Highness, the Traitor
Release Date: June 1, 2012Praise for Susan Higginbotham's Novels "Susan Higginbotham transports her readers into a vividly portrayed past."—Helen Hollick, author of The Pendragon's Banner trilogy A daughter can be a dangerous weapon in the battle for the throne of England Frances Grey harbored no dream of her children taking the throne. Cousin of the king, she knew the pitfalls of royalty and privilege. Better to marry them off, marry them well, perhaps to a clan like the Dudleys. Jane Dudley knew her husband was creeping closer to the throne, but someone had to t...
|  | The King's Concubine: A Novel of Alice Perrers
Release Date: June 5, 2012A child born in the plague year of 1348, abandoned and raised within the oppressive walls of a convent, Alice Perrers refused to take the veil, convinced that a greater destiny awaited her. Ambitious and quick witted, she rose above her obscure beginnings to become the infamous mistress of Edward III. But always, essentially, she was alone... Early in Alice’s life, a chance meeting with royalty changes everything: Kindly Queen Philippa, deeply in love with her husband but gravely ill, chooses Alice as a lady-in-waiting. Under the queen...
|  | 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...
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