The Summer Before the War: A Novel
Helen SimonsonThe bestselling author of Major Pettigrew's Last Stand returns with a breathtaking novel of love on the eve of World War I that reaches far beyond the small English town in which it is set. East Sussex, 1914. It is the end of Englan...
The American master's first novel since Winter's Bone (2006) tells of a deadly dance hall fire and its impact over several generations.Alma DeGeer Dunahew, the mother of three young boys, works as the maid for a prominent citizen and ...
The Fateful Lightning: A Novel of the...
Jeff ShaaraFrom New York Times bestselling author Jeff Shaara comes the riveting final installment in the Civil War series that began with A Blaze of Glory and continued in A Chain of Thunder and The Smoke at Dawn. November 1864: As the Civil ...
Sharpe's Company: Sharpes's novel # 1...
Bernard CornwellTo lead an assault on the thick, sheer battlements of the Badajoz fortress is suicide, yet Richard Sharpe must lead one. For inside the walls are his wife and daughter, and only he can save them.
Sharpe's Siege: Sharpes's novel # 20:...
Bernard CornwellOutmaneuvered by the treachery of his old enemy Pierre Ducos and abandoned by his own navy, Sharpe must escape with the aid of the charming, unscrupulous American mercenary Cornelius Killick, or die.
Blue at the Mizzen: Aubrey-Maturin Se...
Patrick O'BrianNapoleon has been defeated at Waterloo, but the ensuing peace becomes ugly for Captain Jack Aubrey, with violent celebrations of the English sailors in Gibraltar and the desertion of nearly half his crew. To cap it all off, the Surpri...
Sharpe's Rifles: Sharpes's novel # 6:...
Bernard CornwellIts 1809, and Lieutenant Richard Sharpe is newly in command of the demoralized, distrustful men of the Ninety-fifth Rifles. He must lead them to safety by a treacherous trek through the enemy-infested mountains of Spain.
Sharpe's Revenge: Sharpes's novel # 2...
Bernard CornwellAccused of stealing Napoleons personal treasure, Sharpe escapes from a British military court and embarks on the battle of his life, armed only with the unflinching resolve to protect his honor.
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
Kim Michele RichardsonThe hardscrabble folks of Troublesome Creek have to scrap for everything everything except books, that is. Thanks to Roosevelt s Kentucky Pack Horse Library Project, Troublesome s got its very own traveling librarian, Cussy Mary Carte...
Follett risks all and comes out a clear winner,' extolled Publishers Weekly on the release of The Pillars of the Earth. A departure for the bestselling thriller writer, the historical epic stunned readers and critics alike with its am...
It is 1934, and New York City is in the icy grip of the Great Depression. With enormous compassion, Dr. James Delaney tends to his hurt, sick, and poor neighbors, who include gangsters, day laborers, prostitutes, and housewives. If th...
Ken Follett has 90 million readers worldwide. The Pillars of the Earth is his bestselling book of all time. Now, eighteen years after the publication of The Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett has written the most-anticipated sequel of ...
Sharpe's Eagle: Sharpes's novel # 8: ...
Bernard CornwellAs Captain Richard Sharpe prepares to lead his men against the armies of Napoleon, he also must face the envy and treachery of fellow officers who have bought rather than earned their captaincy.
A fatal car crash sets detective Dave Robicheaux on a path destined for trouble in this 13th volume in the series. As his investigation draws closer and closer to the truth, Robicheaux finds clues in his own past surfacing, and his li...
With a final twist that will shock even his most ardent listeners, Heads You Win is #1 New York Times bestseller Jeffrey Archer's most ambitious and creative work since Kane and Abel. Leningrad, Russia, 1968. Alexander Karpenko is n...
...[I]It's not just King's stories and their indelible moments...that explains his tight connection to readers. IIt's the man's uncanny talent for carefully rendering everyday life....Sounds right, feels right, so we respond with grat...
Following the tremendous success of her first novel, Innocent Traitor, acclaimed historian and New York Times bestselling author Alison Weir turns her masterly storytelling skills to the early life of young Elizabeth Tudor, who ...
The Lady of the Rivers (The Cousins' ...
Philippa Gregory#1 New York Times bestselling author Philippa Gregory weaves witchcraft, passion, and adventure into the story of Jacquetta, Duchess of Bedford, a woman who navigated a treacherous path through the battle lines in the War of the Roses...
Young Anna Frith, a vicar's maid, is faced with the loss of her family, the disintegration of her local community, and a passionate, illicit love as she and her village confront the horrors of the plague, in a historical novel based o...
A Gentleman in Moscow: A Novel
Amor TowlesA New York Times bestseller“The same gorgeous, layered richness that marked Towles’ debut, Rules of Civility, shapes [A Gentleman in Moscow]” –Entertainment Weekly“’The Grand Budapest Hotel’ and ‘Eloise’ meets all th...
After their New York Times bestselling series on the American Civil War, Newt Gingrich and William R. Forstchen now turn to the events leading up to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and examine how different decisions might have pr...
Though the events depicted here should be extraordinarily rousing..., Shaara manages to render almost all of them mundane. He has an excellent grasp of the military and political significance of what's going on, but his flat tone and ...
Filled with exciting tales of the frontier, the chronicle of the Sackett family is perhaps the crowning achievement of one of our greatest storytellers. In The Warrior's Path L'Amour tells the story of Yance and Kin Sackett, two broth...
From the New York Times bestselling author of Midwives and The Sandcastle Girls comes a spellbinding novel of love, despair, and revenge—set in war-ravaged Tuscany. 1943: Tucked away in the idyllic hills south of Florence, the Rosat...
Pearl Harbor is in utter chaos after the unexpected third strike by Imperial Japanese Naval Air Forces, ordered into the attack by Admiral Yamamoto. A victory has been achieved, but is it total victory? Yamamoto is horrified to discov...
Sharpe's Triumph: Sharpes's novel # 2...
Bernard CornwellThe paths of treachery lead Sharpes company to take on the Mahratta horde, where Sharpe must survive carnage and betrayal and live to tell the tale of one of the greatest battles of the century.
A reissue of a Pulitzer prize-winning classic, and now the major motion picture GETTYSBURG. As a result of these acclamations, this book is considered one of the greatest novels written on the Civil War.From the Hardcover edition.
England between the wars was a paradise of calm and leisure for the very, very rich. Into this enclave is born Mrs. Emmeline Lucas—La Lucia, as she is known—a woman determined to lead a life quite different from the subdued formal...
Cavendon Women, the stunning sequel to Barbara Taylor Bradford's Cavendon Hall follows the Inghams' and the Swanns' journey from a family weekend in the summer of 1926 through to the devastation of the Wall Street crash of 1929. ...
[Read by Davina Porter] ''There is nothing hidden that will not be revealed . . . '' On a brisk autumn day in 1686, eighteen-year-old Nella Oortman arrives in Amsterdam to begin a new life as the wife of illustrious merchant trader Jo...