Peter Esterhazy The Esterházys, one of Europe's most prominent aristocratic families, are closely linked to the rise and fall of the Hapsburg Empire. Princes, counts, commanders, diplomats, bishops, and patrons...

Simon Scarrow The bestselling new Roman army novel from the much-loved authorIn the first century AD the Roman Empire faces a new threat from its long-standing enemy Parthia. Parthia is...

Philippa Gregory In 1453, seventeen-year-old Luca Vero, accused of heresy and expelled from his monastery, is recruited to help investigate evil across Europe but frees his first subject, Isolde, from...

Changes for Samantha, A Winter Story, 1904, Book Six (6), American Girl Collection(American Girl: Samantha #6) by Valerie TrippSixth in a series of six historical fiction books filled with lessons...

Jude Morgan Also known as The Taste of Sorrow.From an obscure country parsonage came the most extraordinary family of the nineteenth century. The Brontë sisters created a world in which we...

Kaye Gibbons A family without men, the Birches live gloriously offbeatlives in the lush, green backwoods of North Carolina.In a sad and singular era, they are unique among womenof their...

Peter Ackroyd First U.S. edition, an advance reading copy. A novel with three intertwined the story of Thomas Chatterton, the eighteenth-century forger, the story of George Meredith, who posed for...

Estelle Chasen Growing up in the Soviet Union under the oppressive communist regime, Chava Bernstein, a Jewish teenager, strives to maintain her Jewish identity and stay true to the traditions...

David MametA big-shouldered, big-trouble thriller set in mobbed-up 1920s Chicago—a city where some people knew too much, and where everyone should have known better—by the Oscar-nominated screenwriter of The Untouchables...

Valerio Massimo Manfredi A huge international bestseller, Alexander: Child of a Dream is the first in Valerio Massimo Mandfredi's outstanding trilogy of brutal passion and grand adventure in Ancient Greece.Who...

Michael TG YepesChild of Europe is a novel about the Jesuit Enterprise, which laid the ground for modern California. In the center of the story is the figure of Carlos...

Barbara Erskine In 1218 an extraordinary princess is born, whose mystical powers and unquenchable spirit will alter the course of history... Raised by her fiercely Welsh nurse to support the...