Captain Jack Aubrey is sailing the Leopard to Australia with a hold full of convicts and a Dutch man-of-war to windward. Undermanned and outgunned, the Leopard sails for her life into the freezing Antarctic, where, in mountainous seas...

Colonel Leroux is killing Britains most valuable spies, and its up to Richard Sharpe to stop him. Thrust into the unfamiliar world of political and military intrigue, Sharpe must tangle with the beguiling yet calculating La Marquesa.

The first novel in a trilogy, SARAH brings to life the world of the Bible in the story of the Sumerian woman who becomes a high priestess serving the goddess Ishtar. But she is also the lover of Abraham, and with him she runs away fro...

Harris's acclaimed Roman trilogy continues with an historical saga in which the future of democracy is decided, and revenge is the coin of the realm.

This third novel in the acclaimed Roman Empire series by New York Times bestselling author Ruth Downie brings the medicus Ruso home to Gaul, where he is forced to investigate yet another murder.

Charged with an epic mission to find and destroy the one many believed to be the evil mastermind of the galaxy, a brilliant young man's destiny takes on strange and startling dimensions.This spellbinding story opens with high-voltage ...

In a sparsely settled region of North Africa, a band of disheveled soldiers turn their eyes toward one man among them: their leader, Julius Caesar. The soldiers are Roman legionaries. And their quarry is a band of pirates who dared to...

Richard Sharpe believes that his soldiering days are over, but his retirement is interrupted by a request from Donna Louisa Vivar for Sharpe to discover the truth about the disappearance of her husband, the Captain-General of Chile. S...

"Anyone suffering Downton Abbey withdrawal symptoms (who isn't?) will find an instant tonic in Daisy Goodwin's The American Heiress. The story of Cora Cash, an American heiress in the 1890s who bags an English duke, this is a del...

Unabridged, 4 CDs, 5 hours Read by TBA By turns thrilling, poignant, and haunting, this is a story of two lives touched by war and transformed by courage.

"May Steven Saylor's Roman empire never fall. A modern master of historical fiction, Saylor convincingly transports us into the ancient world...enthralling!" -USA Today on Roma Continuing the saga begun in his New York Times...

Ex-slave. Philosopher. Chosen one. Taita has risen from nothing to become the most trusted man at the Pharaoh's side. Only he can plot a mission that will return Egypt to its former glory. Only he can muster the force that can break t...

When her health begins failing, the mysterious author Vida Winter decides to let Margaret Lea, a biographer, write the truth about her life, but Margaret needs to verify the facts since Vida has a history of telling outlandish tales.

Based on actual historical events, this novel follows the indomitable May Dodd as she travels to the Cheyenne, becomes the bride of Little Wolf, chief of that tribe, and struggles with living in and being loyal to two different worlds...

Two armed men board a 727 all but forgotten at an airfield in Angola. Hijacking the jet, they then slit the throat of the lone crew and fly to parts unknown. The consternation is immediate, as the CIA, FBI, and other agencies race to ...

The first kiss occurred in a dimly lit hallway on the upper floor of Elwin Hastings's grand house. Louisa never saw it coming. . . .Of course, Anthony Stalbridge couldn't possibly have had romantic intentions. The kiss was an act of d...

The lives and careers of four great military leaders--Stonewall Jackson, Winfield Scott Hancock, Joshua Chamberlain, and Robert E. Lee--reach a climax as Union and Confederate forces clash on the battlefields of the Civil War. Read by...

Eveline Armstrong is fiercely loved and protected by her powerful clan, but outsiders consider her "touched." Beautiful, fey, with a level, intent gaze, she doesn't speak. No one, not even her family, knows that she cannot h...

A glorious, sweeping novel of desire, ambition, and the thirst for knowledge, from the # 1 New York Times bestselling author of Eat, Pray, Love and Committed In The Signature of All Things, Elizabeth Gilbert returns to fiction, in...

Two women. One mysterious relic. Separated by centuries. Nicola Marter was born with a gift so rare and dangerous, she keeps it buried deep. When she encounters a desperate woman trying to sell a small wooden carving called "The ...

On March 18, 1990, thirteen works of art today worth over $500 million were stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. It remains the largest unsolved art heist in history, and Claire Roth, a struggling young artist, i...

Genevieve McInnis is locked behind the fortified walls of McHugh Keep, captive of a cruel laird who takes great pleasure in ruining her for any other man. Yet when Bowen Montgomery storms the gates on a mission of clan warfare, Genevi...

Unabridged CDs, 11 CDs, 9 hours Read by TBA In 1666, a young woman comes of age during an extraordinary year of love and death.

The first kiss occurred in a dimly lit hallway on the upper floor of Elwin Hastings's grand house. Louisa never saw it coming. . . .Of course, Anthony Stalbridge couldn't possibly have had romantic intentions. The kiss was an act of d...

Bestselling author Harry Turtledove turns his attention to an epic battle that pits three Roman legions against Teutonic barbarians in a thrilling novel of Ancient Rome.

C.W. Gortner's gripping novel follows young Isabella of Castile in her dramatic and turbulent ascent to power, transforming from the defiant, passionate daughter of an exiled widow into the famed warrior-queen who irrevocably changed ...

An ambitious young woman, Alice Verney risks everything for pride and status as she deals with the political intrigues, private passions, shifting alliances, and social machinations of the Restoration court of King Charles II. By the ...

Summer 1924: On the eve of a glittering Society party, by the lake of a grand English country house, a young poet takes his life. The only witnesses, sisters Hannah and Emmeline Hartford, will never speak to each other again. Winter 1...

DIV"[Anne] Perry's Victorian-era holiday mysteries [are] an annual treat," declared IThe Wall Street Journal. Perry continues this magnificent tradition with IA Christmas Garland, a yuletide tale set in exotic India. This ...

In the wake of a humbling incident aboard a canal boat in the Cotswolds, young Captain Horatio Hornblower arrives in London to take command of the Atropos, a 22-gun sloop barely large enough to require a captain. Her first assignment ...