In the days before the Civil War, there lived a Louisiana people unique in Southern histroy. Though descended from African slaves, they were also descended from the French and Spanish who enslaved them. Called the Free People of Color...

Interweaving historical fact with fiction, this richly textured novel by the author of Girl with a Pearl Earring explores the mystery and personal stories behind the creation of the remarkable Lady and the Unicorn tapestries, woven at...

From Brittany’s misty shores to the decadent splendor of Paris’s royal court, one woman must fulfill her destiny–while facing the treacherous designs of Catherine de Medici, the dark queen.She is Ariane, the Lady of ...

Whether he is nurturing a single rare seedling into a blossoming tree or planning acres of exquisitely conceived royal gardens, John Tradescant's fame and skill as a gardener are unsurpassed in seventeenth-century England. But it is T...

Historical novelist Sarah Waters sets her fourth book in World War II-era London, which serves as a backdrop to the poignant intertwined stories of men and women looking for love, often in not societally approved liaisons (with their ...

Can a family's mannered traditions and cool emotions erase the horrors of war from a young couple's past?Now back in print from New York Times bestselling author Philippa Gregory, Fallen Skies takes readers to post-World War I England...

At the time of her death, Granny Dan was known simply as a fun-loving grandparent, beloved for her kindness and wisdom. But when her granddaughter stumbles upon her only legacy--a small box wrapped in brown paper--she finds the key to...

A lush, seductive novel of the legendary beauty whose face “launched a thousand ships” Daughter of a god, wife of a king, prize of antiquity's bloodiest war, Helen of Troy has inspired artists for millennia. Now Margaret Ge...

Set in the 19th century, in an English city suffering from a cholera epidemic, this novel is about a young prostitute named Gustine who sells herself to pay for the care of her horribly deformed baby. She becomes involved with a mad d...

This fiercely beautiful novel tells the true story of Charles Radcliff, a Catholic nobleman who joined the short-lived Jacobite rebellion of 1715, and of his daughter, Jenny, by a secret marriage. Set in the wilds of Northumbria, teem...

My favorite historical novel...A superb re-creation of the Battle of Gettysburg, but its real importance is its insight into what the war was about, and what it meant.'JAMES M. McPHERSONAuthor of BATTLE CRY OF FREEDOMWinner of the 197...

E. L. Doctorow digs deeply into American history once again in this epic tale of Sherman’s march to the sea--a 60-mile trail of death and destruction--toward the end of the Civil War. Mingling real historical figures with imagin...

Joanne Harris, bestselling author of Chocolat, presents her most accomplished novel yet -- an intoxicating concoction that blends theology and reason, deception and masquerade, with a dash of whimsical humor and a soupçon of sens...

As England descends into civil war, John Tradescant the Younger, gardener to King Charles I, finds his loyalties in question, his status an ever-growing danger to his family. Fearing royal defeat and determined to avoid serving the re...

From the pen of the legendary historical novelist Jean Plaidy comes the story of Princess Margaret Tudor, whose life of tragedy, bloodshed, and scandal would rival even that of her younger brother, Henry VIII.Princess Margaret Tudor i...

The year is 878. Uhtred, the dispossessed son of a Northumbrian lord, has helped the Saxons of Wessex defeat the invading Danes. Now, finally free of his allegiance to the victorious, ungrateful King Alfred, he is heading home to res...

Legendary historical novelist Jean Plaidy brings to life the story of Princess Mary Tudor, a celebrated beauty and born rebel who would defy the most powerful king in Europe—her older brother.Princess Mary Rose is the youngest s...

An extraordinary historical novel about a peculiar friendship between the mistress of a Scottish estate and her irresistibly appealing housemaid Scotland, 1863. In an attempt to escape her not-so-innocent past in Glasgow, Bessy Buckl...

From the bestselling author of Girl With a Pearl Earring comes a stirring eighteenth-century coming-of-age tale Tracy Chevalier, author of the international bestseller Girl With a Pearl Earring, returns with another brilliantly rende...

Drawing from decades of work, travel, and research in Russia, Robert Alexander re-creates the tragic, perennially fascinating story of the final days of Nicholas and Alexandra as seen through the eyes of the Romanovs' young kitchen bo...

"A simply remarkable book. Robin Oliveira brings the Civil War era vividly alive with a heroine no reader will ever forget." -Ron Rash, author of Serena Mary Sutter is a brilliant young midwife who dreams of becoming a surg...

The Chili Queen is a whorehouse in 1860s New Mexico, and the story of the place is told first by Addie French, the madam; Ned Partner, a bank robber who patronizes the whorehouse; Emma Roby, a mail-order bride; and Welcome, the whoreh...

The Scottish Lowlands, October 1789.A year has come and gone since Jamie McKie fled for his life, arriving at Auchengray in search of sanctuary and a bonny wife. Young Rose McBride, as fair a lass as any in Scotland, dearly loves her ...

While escaping from an arranged marriage to a much-older man, Felicia Camell is taken hostage by Rory Maclean, the leader of a rival clan, and finds herself drawn to the enemy, which could cause a clan war to erupt. Original.

You can get anything you want in postwar Hot Springs, Arkansas--girls, gambling, drugs, or booze--courtesy of gangster Owney Madden, a picaresque character who affects jodhpurs, ascots, and an English accent to disguise his origins in...

A COMPELLING, WELL-WRITTEN EPIC. . .Penman is an accomplished novelist and certainly has staked a claim to medieval England as her literary fiefdom.'--The Philadelphia InquirerA.D. 1135. As church bells tolled for the death of England...

The House Girl, the historical fiction debut by Tara Conklin, is an unforgettable story of love, history, and a search for justice, set in modern-day New York and 1852 Virginia.Weaving together the story of an escaped slave in the pre...

With the Winter King, the first volume of his magnificent Warlord

Roberta Gellis, acclaimed author of The Roselynde Chronicles, brings medieval London to life--and death--with her latest tale of splendor and squalor. Magdalene la Bâtarde is the madam of the Old Priory Guesthouse in Southwark. She a...

She was a child crowned a queen....A sinner hailed as a saint....A lover denounced as a whore...A woman murdered for her dreams...