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.
Her husband vanished. Now survival means standing up to a town that scorns her and protecting a girl no one wants. In 1899, May Rose Long is left to fend for herself in a gritty mountain sawmill town. Alone and disgraced, she takes in a homeless girl—gutsy, wild, and...
From The New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Who Came Home comes a historical novel inspired by true events, and the extraordinary female lighthouse keepers of the past two hundred years.“They call me a heroine, but I am not deserving of such accolades. I am...
This sweeping novel set in the province of Texas is "a powerful depiction of the rough realities of frontier life [and] the vicious influence of racism" (The New York Times).Finalist for the Reading the West Book Award for Fiction In 1827, Duncan Lammons, a disgraced...
Was Sarah Winchester a woman of mystery or simply a strong woman who lived her life on her own terms? It will take another strong woman to ensure her story is told.1918 – Sarah Winchester, heiress to the Winchester rifle fortune, has read and heard all the newspaper...
Brother Cadfael must intervene when a prisoner exchange is interrupted by love and murder, in the Silver Dagger Award–winning medieval mystery series. In February of 1141, men march home from war to Shrewsbury, but the captured sheriff Gilbert Prestcote is not among...
A saga set in the coastal town of Marblehead, Massachussetts, by the New York Times–bestselling author of Katherine and other acclaimed historical novels.  Inspired by research into her own family history, novelist Anya Seton created this compelling tale of New...
The year is 1802. A fragile peace has been reached in Europe, but Britain is at war against the Maratha in India. In its Leicestershire barracks, the 110th infantry welcomes a new officer. Paul van Daan is no typical young subaltern. Ambitious, talented and a...
From the critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Sharon Kay Penman comes the story of the reign of King Baldwin IV and the Kingdom of Jerusalem's defense against Saladin's famous army.The Kingdom of Jerusalem, also known as Outremer, is the land far...
In this classic coming of age novel from a New York Times–bestselling author, an American teenager faces the gritty reality of the Vietnam War. Winner of the Coretta Scott King Award in 1988"Heartbreaking. . . . Other authors have gotten the details right, but Myers...
New York Times bestselling author of Girl With a Pearl Earring and At the Edge of the Orchard Tracy Chevalier makes her first fictional foray into the American past in The Last Runaway, bringing to life the Underground Railroad and illuminating the principles,...