đź“ś Where past meets powerful storytelling.
Richly detailed and vividly imagined, these novels bring bygone eras to life—illuminating the people, events, and moments that shaped the world.
GET TWO ENCHANTING AND COMPELLING HISTORICAL FAMILY SAGAS IN ONE GREAT-VALUE BOX SET. Discover heartrending stories of love, loyalty and kindness set in the beautiful Welsh valleys in the early 1900s. Perfect for fans of Nadine Dorries, Rosie Goodwin, Dilly Court,...
“Allende is a master storyteller at the peak of her powers.”— Los Angeles Times The New York Times bestselling author of The House of the Spirits and A Long Petal of the Sea tells the story of one unforgettable woman—a slave and concubine determined to take control of...
Paris, 1943: Keeping her eyes fixed on the Nazi officer, Antoinette slowly reaches under the pillow for the knife. She knows what she must do to save her family… When the Germans invade Paris, Antoinette Valette’s world shatters overnight. Each day, she fears for the...
"This compelling and fierce historical novel, where the slave master gives his white daughter his black daughter as a wedding gift" is based on a true story (Henry Louis Gates, Jr.). In 1852, when prestigious Alabama plantation owner Cornelius Allen gives his daughter...
The World That Was has sold over 4,000 copies and climbed to #74 on the UK charts and #135 in the US — a breakout success that celebrates humanity’s relentless pursuit of ingenuity. "This book felt like a love letter to the human thirst for knowledge – to curiosity,...
The classic debut novel by the author of Rebecca following the generations of an English family coping in an era of profound change. "Daphne du Maurier has no equal." — Sunday Telegraph Born at the turn of the twentieth century in Cornwall, Janet Coombe longs to share...
The international bestseller based on a haunting true story that raises provocative questions about complicity, guilt, and survival. They called it the Wolfsschanze, the Wolf's Lair. "Wolf" was his nickname. As hapless as Little Red Riding Hood, I had ended up in his...
Winner of the Illinois Soon To Be Famous Author Contest Finalist for the Goethe Award in Late Historical Fiction Women could not be surgeons. She did it anyway. After the heartbreaking loss of her mother and a cruel attack by her drunken father, Ella Parker decides...
"An intensely readable novel of the complexity of family ties . . . Dot Jackson is a true Southern voice, a master storyteller and an Appalachian treasure" (Dori Sanders, author of Clover and Her Own Place ). Early one morning in 1929, Mary Seneca Steele spontaneously...
Adopting the structure and themes of the Arthurian legend, John Steinbeck created a “Camelot” on a shabby hillside above the town of Monterey, California, and peopled it with a colorful band of knights. At the center of the tale is Danny, whose house, like Arthur’s...