Jeanine CumminsIreland, 1959: Young Christy Hurley is a Pavee gypsy, traveling with his father and extended family from town to town, carrying all their worldly possessions in their wagons. Christy...

Hannah Kohler San Francisco, 1968: Jeannie and Kip are lost and half-orphaned, their mother dead under mysterious circumstances, and their father - a decorated WWII veteran - consumed by guilt...

Richard PowersAn Air Force loadmaster in the Vietnam War is shot out of the sky, then saved by falling into a banyan. An artist inherits a hundred years of photographic...

Bernard Cornwell At the onset of the tenth century, England is in turmoil. Alfred the Great is dead and Edward his son reigns as king. Wessex survives but peace cannot...

Amanda Quick The Earl of St. Merryn needs a woman. His intentions are purely practical - he simply wants someone sensible and suitably lovely to pose as his betrothed for...

Jennifer Cody EpsteinReminiscent of Memoirs of a Geisha, a re-imagining of the life of Pan Yuliang and her transformation from prostitute to post-Impressionist.Down the muddy waters of the Yangtze River...

Jennifer Cody Epstein Pan Yuliang was a girl with no dreams. Her parents were taken from her at a young age, then her uncle sold her into prostitution; it was...

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni The Palace of Illusions takes us back to a time that is half-history, half-myth, and wholly magical; narrated by Panchaali, the wife of the five Pandava brothers, we...

Bernard Cornwell This is the exciting—yet little known—the story of the making of England in the 9th and 10th centuries, the years in which King Alfred the Great, his son...

Luke McCallinAs the Nazi war machine is pushed back across Europe, defeat has become inevitable. But there are those who seek to continue the fight beyond the battlefield.German intelligence officer...

Goldie Goldbloom Winner of the 2008 AWP Award for the NovelFrom 1941 to 1947, eighteen thousand Italian prisoners of war were sent to Australia. The Italian surrender that followed the...

Kate Mayfield   Eighteenth-century London and the lives of the sisters Fitzgerald, Constance and Verity, become entwined with the nearby Fowler household. For Clovis Fowler, whose unearthly Nordic beauty belies...