VS Naipaul A fictional history of colonialism presents stories whose protagonists range from the disgraced Sir Walter Raleigh to the foppish nineteenth-century revolutionary Francisco Miranda. January 1, 1995 by MINERVA...

Anchee Min To rescue her family from poverty and avoid marrying her slope-shouldered cousin, seventeen-year-old Orchid competes to be one of the Emperor's wives. When she is chosen as a...

James King Thomas Wainewright - Regency fop, literary hanger-on, collector of art and artifacts, forger and deported felon - is considered one of the most notorious of English murderers. He...

Gary Jennings The fascinating history of Mexico that began in the #1 New York Times bestselling novel Aztec continues . . . .Don Juan de Zavala was the most skilled...

Michelle Moran In ancient Egypt, a forgotten princess must overcome her family's past and remake history.The winds of change are blowing through Thebes. A devastating palace fire has killed the...

Cecelia Holland It was a time of religious and political upheaval--the heretic Pharaoh Akhenten's religious reforms had been defeated by the power of the Priests of Amun, and the young...

Stephen Baxter Inscribed in Latin, The Prophecy has resided in the hands of a single family for generations, revealing secrets about the world that is to come, and guiding them...

Eva Rice Set in 1950s London The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets centers around Penelope the wide- eyed daughter of a legendary beauty Talitha who lost her husband to the...

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni WINNER of the 2022 INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF WORKING WOMEN AWARD for BEST FICTION OF THE YEAR!LONGLISTED for 2022 DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD!She rose from commoner to become the...

Steven Uhly One night in autumn 1944, a gunshot echoes through the alleyways of a small town in occupied Poland. An S.S. officer is shot dead by a young Polish...

Eva Ibbotson Annika is happy living in the servants' quarters of a house owned by three eccentric professors. She adores Ellie and Sigrid, the cook and housemaid who found her...

Pascal Mercier One day mild-mannered, middle-aged teacher Raimund Gregorious suddenly quits his ordinary life and, for no reason apparent to his colleagues or his students, sets off on a journey...