Fiction - Fantasy - Historical

This is a satirical fairytale for the 21st century. Troglodytes Watch is the Winter Wren, a direct descendant of the dinosaurs. It survived the calamitous upheaval caused by the meteorite perhaps because it was as it still is: a diminutive, secretive and watchful spirit....

Back home after her first year of college, Clare Carlyle longs for more excitement than her summer job at the library can provide, but all that is about to change. After discovering a curious World War II memento at a local flea market, Clare...

In July 1932, MGM producer and notorious nice guy Paul Bern marries the love of his life, screen icon Jean Harlow. Two months later, he is found shot to death in their Benedict Canyon home, the victim of a Hollywood cover-up that eventually portrays...

Two trains scheduled to connect in Big Springs, Texas carry demons and the souls they seek. Lynn and Madeline board a train headed to California in the hunt for the evil Ms. Irma. Unbeknownst to them, she is on the same train. Earlier, on...

Suddenly talking and walking upright, a stray tomcat in ancient Egypt becomes the young Pharaoh's intimate and, when accused of his murder, time travels to New York City and learns how to raise him from the dead.The cat is quick-witted, wisecracking narrator as well...

BETWEEN LIFE AND DEATH, LIGHT AND SHADOWRome has collapsed. Dark Forces eye the imperial remnants like birds of prey, ready to devour its carcass and any secrets hidden therein.Among these, Arawn, ancient Celtic god of the afterlife, holds Erik of Birkenshire in his ruthless,...

Pity he had not heeded his own counsel and chosen with greater care those many years before.Displaced Irish Druid, Bronan, knows the real reason for the fall of Edenshire. As fourth century Christendom terrorises earthy gods into myth throughout Roman Britain, though one of...

From the highly celebrated and award-winning authors Jeff Noon and Steve Beard comes Gogmagog, the first book in adventurous duology, perfect for fans of Mervyn Peake. Gogmagog tells the story of an epic journey through the sixty-mile long ghost of a dragon. We travel...

Van, a former soldier made slave, toils away endlessly in a salt mine. An unexpected chance at liberation drops in his lap when a pack of infected dogs passes through, killing everyone but him and a young girl he names Yuna. Van hopes to...

In this danmei/Boys' Love novel series originally released in Chinese-and coming to the English language for the first time-a man is transported into the historical world of a webnovel to win over a tyrant...as his pet fish?! After Li Yu stays up all night...

After years of struggle and sacrifice, Falcio val Mond, First Cantor of the Greatcoats, is on the brink of fulfilling his dead king's dream: Aline, the king's daughter, is about to take the throne and restore the rule of law once and for all....

Part historical fiction, part horror mystery, this thrilling novel is perfect for fans of Black Leopard, Red Wolf and Black Sun A leader of the Jamaican Maroons crosses paths with an enigmatic sorceress in this spine-tingling tale of ancient enemies, based on real Jamaican...

In the original "Ruritanian romance" duology by Anthony Hope (The Prisoner of Zenda - 1894, Rupert of Hentzau - 1898), struggles for power drive a plot laced with dark conspiracies, wild coincidences, daring exploits and a trail of corpses strewn across a central European...

A New York Times Bestseller!"A thrilling, transportative adventure that is everything promised-Chakraborty's storytelling is fantasy at its best." -- R.F. Kuang, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Babel and The Poppy War"An exhilarating, propulsive adventure, stitched from the threads of real history, Amina's...

Trapped in an emotionally abusive marriage, thirty-six-year-old modern woman Vale is depressed. She longs for a happier life for herself and her two children. Everything changes when she meets John Emberley, who presents himself as a distant relative but forces Vale back to his...

Getting all she's ever wanted may cost her everything. After years of searching, Lady Gwen finally has a chance to find her missing sister and heal her wounded heart. All she must do is work a dangerous spell that punches a hole through the...

"Eric Brighteyes" is a romance founded on the Icelandic Sagas. "What is a saga?" "Is it a fable or a true story?" The answer is not altogether simple. For such sagas as those of Burnt Njal and Grettir the Strong partake both of truth...

For ages, an ancient evil has been harboured in the heart of the Carpathian Mountains, an enemy of the god Mithras, Lord of Light.In A.D. 9, when three of the Emperor Augustus' legions are slaughtered in the forests of Germania, it becomes evident to...

It's 1831, and Lady Gwendolyn Crichton has been appointed Royal Sorceress following the tragic events known as the Swing. Although unleashed by the rebel master magician Jack in battle with Gwen's mentor Master Thomas, the popular press firmly laid the blame at the feet...

Prodded by a childhood haunting, an ostensible descendant of KING ROBERT I, the Bruce of Scotland, takes a side road to his mother's family burial ground at the Dunfermline Abbey in Scotland to pay homage. Enlightenment prompts him to join in the seven-century-old debate...

If Elayne thought that her adventures were over with the slaying of the dragon queen... was she ever wrong Because when she and Leo came back from Goloth to New York through the tapestries, Tiamat's three daughters hitched a ride. Elayne had learned that...

Reproduction of the original: The Kipling Reader by Rudyard KiplingAuthor: Rudyard KiplingISBN-10: 3752363967ISBN-13: 9783752363968Publisher: Outlook VerlagLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/29/2020Pages: 152Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.87lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.50d

Gilgamesh, son of the goddess Ninsun and the mortal Lugalbanda, is the arrogant king of the vibrant city of Uruk, a sprawling desert metropolis. In an attempt to quell Gilgamesh's oppressive behavior, the gods fashion the wild man, Enkidu, to be a companion to...

The ship "Glen Carrig" gets lost at sea when it strikes "a hidden rock" and several survivors escape the wreck in two lifeboats. But that is when their agony actually begins, as they become exposed to the Sargasso Sea, also known as "cemetery of...

Craig never knew his father. But when he stumbles across Logan's diaries from 1894 to 1935, he falls straight into the past, and the story of a little lakeside chalet around Lake Louise and Banff that became one of the most charming tourist destinations...

In a magical Persian Empire, an extraordinary thief will steal a ruthless warrior's heart, upend an empire, and form bonds deeper than blood. When the power to rule all is in your hand, what will you do?Opening portals, controlling shadows, or creating storms are...

Unmasked, hunted, devastated, revealed... Kaveh, Nin, Taline, and Rone must decide what is worth fighting for-and who can be trusted to change the world.Brother against brother. Slayer against survivor. Tormentor against victim. Trust against hatred.Hope, betrayal, family, and love.... The end has come, the...

When a stranger claims to be the rightful demon queller of the Far East, 11-year-old Pingzi worries about losing the life she loves. Pingzi Po is a member of the Imperial Family and the only demon queller in the Far East. That's why she's...

What would you risk so others could live? It is the early months of WWII and Rathna already has an idea of how bad it might get. If she can make the final connections she needs to create a new portal in a matter...

V. E. Schwab, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, opens another door to a new fantasy series set in the dazzling world of Shades of Magic. Prepare for tangled schemes and perilous adventures with friends old and...

A madcap Regency-era romantic comedy involving a most determined heroine, a baffled scholarly hero, and a surprising number of dragons.Rose Tregarth may have been invited into her uncle's remote home in the heart of Wales as an act of kindness to a poor relation,...

Hekate, the Goddess of Magic, has called all heroes and heroines with a pen.In the ancient age, a carnation with petals of rich color was found in Greece. The botanist who discovered it was so taken with it that he called it Dianthus-The Flower...

The clan of Reinhold fled from the Isle of Light thirteen years ago. Now--armed with her bow and determined to reclaim lost treasures--Princess Arliss wants to go back. One year ago, a mysterious warlord named Thane upturned Arliss's simple Celtic life when he attacked...

As the war drew to a close, its heavy toll weighed mightily on Stella Benson's heart. Any means of escape was viable, as long as it took her truth with it. Living Alone, the most fantastical and delightfully wayward of her first three novels,...

Ell, a millennial of European and Mexican heritage, has one humorous children's book published, but her more serious writing projects are stalled, her boyfriend has dumped her, and she is deeply frightened by a recurring dream. To solve her problems, she delves into family...

Abraham! We know him as the father of three of the world's great religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Yet his story begins abruptly, with two words from Genesis: "Lech Lecha" - "Go to yourself" as it is often translated. Who was the unknown Abraham...

The Wind in the Willows is a classic of children's literature, first published in 1908. Alternately slow moving and fast paced, it focuses on four anthropomorphised animal characters in a pastoral version of England. The novel is notable for its mixture of mysticism, adventure,...

Ireland, 279 BC. A nation at war.For two boys, it will be gruelling. For Ireland... it will be bloody.When the first raiding skirmishes of a foreign army are crushed and Ireland mourns her dead, one king knows their newfound peace is destined to fail....

"No series since George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire has quite captured both palace intrigue and the way that tribal infighting and war hurt the vulnerable the most." --Paste MagazineThe final chapter in the bestselling, critically acclaimed Daevabad Trilogy, in which...

Many tales are told of the Syldoon Empire and its fearsome soldiers, who are known throughout the world for their treachery and atrocities. Some say that the Syldoon eat virgins and babies -- or perhaps their own mothers. Arkamondos, a bookish young scribe, suspects...

Two hundred and sixty-four years after the first awakening, the family line stops momentarily, perhaps forever, in the body of a child. Victor is a second-grader growing up with a very unique family history: he is a direct descendant of the monster created by...

Author: Madlyn A. FafardISBN-10: 1450042066ISBN-13: 9781450042062Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/23/2010Pages: 146Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.82lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.50d

A bitter feud in Hell. Powerful birthrights to claim or deny.Lilith and Azazael, Hell's greatest general, make a bet to settle their hatred of each other: Each will have a child with a mortal and their progeny will settle the score.Malachi Ben Sinai, born...

From #1 New York Times bestselling author V.E. Schwab, soar through the phenomenal Shades of Magic universe in this stunning trade paperback boxed set collecting all three volumes. Kell is one of the last Antari--magicians with a rare, coveted ability to travel between parallel...

Hunter stopped just shy of the cobblestone path. He wrapped his arms around me. "Not much longer," he whispered. "You won't be confined to the property.""And why is that?""Honeymoon, remember?"Jessica's longtime dream has always been to visit all the places she read about growing...

According to the book's teachings, African spirituality was systematically suppressed and demonized by the Catholic Church, fearing the book's power and the movement it inspired. They created a clandestine subgroup called The Sons of Eve to suppress its teachings and maintain their control over...

On an adrenaline-pumping journey, Master Sergeant Mike Mann and his elite team of soldiers paradrop into unknown territory over the Afghanistan/Pakistan border. Something feels different about this mission, and as they secure a defensible campsite, they unleash the power of the extraordinary X-ray Laser...

A noble individual's rise from humble beginnings and the struggle between brothers for dominance form two of the basic stories that attract people to literature and history, both personal and global. In How Nicholas Became Santa Claus, Sandra Jo and Darrell R. Troupe, a...

The New York Times bestselling series that inspired the Witcher video games.Geralt of Rivia. A witcher whose mission is to protect ordinary people from the monsters created with magic. A mutant who has the task of killing unnatural beings. He uses a magical sign,...

The popular fantasy novel Tinker introduced the inventor-heroine of the same name, who lives in a near-future Pittsburgh, which shares an interdimensional border with the land of the elves. In this sequel, Wolf Who Rules, the elven noble whose destiny is intertwined with Tinker,...