Fiction - Fantasy - Historical

Our heroes have arrived at the desert city of Rhabat, where they will be guests of the Sharai leader, Hasan. Whether they will be safe there is another matter. Morakh, the leader of the Sand Dancers, is still on the lose. And then there...

Of this book, H. G. Wells wrote: "The World Set Free was written in 1913 and published early in 1914. It is the latest of a series of three fantasias of possibility, stories which all turn on the possible developments in the future of...

Kyrra d'Aliente's metal arm has always been her salvation, but will it now become her downfall?Peace may have been declared in Liera, but the city is a dangerous place for mercenary Kyrra d'Aliente. Her family is dead, her pockets empty, the man she loves...

A bad reputation, a metal arm, and a burning need for revenge...Once played as a pawn in a deadly game of feuding Houses, Kyrra d'Aliente now makes her living in male guise as the ruthless mercenary Kyris di Nada. Yet hidden beneath her tough...

Two brothers. Two realms. One inescapable fate.​In 14th Century England, two brothers reunite after years of being separated by war. Thomas and Graeme are haunted, in more ways than one: Thomas is plagued by memories of the atrocities he committed on the battlefield, while...

In the third book of the Ancient Guardians Series: The Awakening, EVERYTHING WILL CHANGE Treaties will be broken-Mysteries will be exposed-Lives will be lost As the new Emperor of Pemdas, Levi begins restoring hope to the grieving lands and the people who lost so...

"Whip-smart heroines and irresistible heroes delivered in packages bursting with wicked wit, feminist leanings, and sex positivity." --Entertainment WeeklyFrom a world where women are forbidden to use magic and the only freedom is found on the Caribbean high seas comes a swashbuckling romantasy from...

Holland, 1650. One fine spring day in Friesland, twenty-year-old Clara van Weiren is faced with an ill omen: a whale, beached and rotting in the noonday sun. But Clara doesn't believe in magic and superstition, and this portent is quickly dismissed when a proposal...

Igraine, destined mother of King Arthur, takes center stage for a powerful, feminist retelling of Camelot. The stories of Camelot do not begin with the sword in the stone--but rather with a twisted chain of murder, magic, and deceit. Igraine is happily married to...

There are creatures lurking in our world. Obscure creatures long relegated to myth and legend. They have been sighted by a lucky-or unlucky-few, some have even been photographed, but their existence remains unproven and unrecognized by the scientific community.These creatures, long thought gone, have...

England/France - at the end of the 16th Century. Witch Hunters are more than just rumours. They are everywhere, in every shadow, watching. Nicholas had been training his whole life to become a Witch Hunter worthy of his family, while Millicent has spent her...

A husband and wife brought together by magic strive to stop a war of the worlds in an epic adventure of hope, sorcery, and secrets by Wall Street Journal bestselling author Jeff Wheeler.What humankind feared the most has come to pass: the Awakening of...

Swordplay, magic, intrigue and friendships stronger than iron: the first volume in the new swashbuckling fantasy series set in the universe of THE GREATCOATS. Damelas Chademantaigne picked a poor night to flee a judicial duel. He has precious little hope of escaping the wrath...

In 1870, Sister Elizabeth boarded a train from Ohio to Springfield, Arkansas, determined to deliver a life-changing message to Evening, a woman of Indian and African descent. Her arrival in the post-Civil War South stirred already simmering tensions, challenging the delicate equilibrium of a...

Ten years have passed since the arrest of the Templar in 1307. Eight special travelers carry eight letters that reveal a sacred pilgrimage for the future of esoteric and magical societies in Europe. The letters direct the bearers on a dangerous adventure through the...

This story is the continuation of the first volume, The Mourikis Project: The Path of the Outsider. In this story, both Zimouri, called El'izabetta (the Alien/the Outsider), and Her naive traveling companion, Luciana Balletto, called Gavriela Levy (the human/the devout Israelite), continue on their...

Author: Paula BrackstonISBN-10: 125028404XISBN-13: 9781250284044Publisher: St. Martin's PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/11/2025Pages: 320Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.00lbsSize: 9.25h x 6.12w x 1.00d

Sure, there are beginnings and ends and there is all the stuff that happens in the middle.Begin with the Big Bang and end with a distant trumpet call; understand how to send a cheese sandwich into the future, have the origin of the universe...

Now in paperback, the sixteenth novel in the magical alternate history Elemental Masters series follows sharpshooter Annie Oakley as she tours Europe and discovers untapped powers. Annie Oakley has always suspected there is something "uncanny" about herself, but has never been able to put...

* INSTANT INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER * For fans of Piranesi and The Midnight Library, a STUNNING HISTORICAL FANTASY set on a grand express train, about a group of passengers on a dangerous journey across a MAGICAL LANDSCAPE "BREATHTAKING...Abounding with mysteries and marvels." --Samantha Shannon, NEW...

A husband and wife brought together by magic strive to stop a war of the worlds in an epic adventure of hope, sorcery, and secrets by Wall Street Journal bestselling author Jeff Wheeler.What humankind feared the most has come to pass: the Awakening of...

Combat Monsters brings together twenty award-winning and bestselling speculative fiction authors who each bring their own spin on an alternate history of World War II.New research has uncovered deeply buried military secrets--both the Allied and Axis special operations during World War II included monsters....

Unique Elements About the Author Commentaries Biographical Article A CHARMING Storybook for children by LOUISA MAY ALCOTT.LULU'S LIBRARY, VOLUME 3 by AMERICAN author LOUISA MAY ALCOTT is a book of short stories for children first published in 1889 in the UNITED STATES.The third volume,...

Lesedi and the Purple Lotus is a whimsical fantasy that tells the story of Black people, celebrating the magic and resilience that makes them who they are at their core. As descendants of enslaved Africans and children of the diaspora, Black history is often...

A schoolgirl steps between a soldier and a ravening monster... 1943. Soviet Union is under attack as WW2 is raging. Fighting in the doomed battle of Kursk, Andrei finds himself in a strange city where Svetlana, a girl he has never seen but who...

These are the mystical, magical and spiritual adventures of the sea druid, poet and warrior prince Amergin. The Milesian tribes have swept across Europe. Their quest to fulfill the prophecy that they will journey to a promised land across the Northern Ocean, to the...

She wanted to run her father's business. She got a mad prince, demons, ghosts and a kingdom in debt.As the only child of a successful merchant, Johanna has her wits and a sense for business.The royal family is in deep trouble: ever since the...

It is 1938 in New Mexico's Chaco Canyon as Zed Moonhawk helps train a group of Civilian Conservation Corpsmen who are excavating and rebuilding Anasazi ruins. Moonhawk is exceptionally skilled at his masonry work--as well he should be. After all, he was there when...

In this fierce, glamorous adult fantasy debut, Silvia Moreno-Garcia meets Fonda Lee, with the feverish intensity of R.F. Kuang's Poppy War trilogy. Singapore, 1972: Newly independent, a city of immigrants grappling for power in a fast-modernizing world. Here, gangsters are the last conduits of...

What does it mean to be different? When Johnny Cruel is born with strange appendages on his back in the 1930s South, the locals think he's a devil. Determined to protect him, his mother fakes his death, and they flee. Thus begins Johnny's yearslong...

Hunger makes monsters in this dark new tale in Nghi Vo's Hugo Award-winning Singing Hills Cycle. "Nghi Vo is so good."―NPR on The Brides of High Hill Wandering Cleric Chih of Singing Hills and their hoopoe companion Almost Brilliant come to the river town...

Empress Wu Zetian was the only female emperor in Chinese history, honored as the Holy and Divine Emperor of Wu Zhou. Her original name was Wu Meiniang, and she changed her name to Wu Zhao after ascending the throne.She entered the palace as a...

Every Baron de Luizzi has, for centuries, sold his soul to the Devil for wealth, knowledge, and power. The latest, Armand de Luizzi, comes to sign his own pact in which he will be required to prove that those things have made him happy...

Caroline Morton is a young widow; unemployed, depressed, and hoping to get her life back on track by writing a novel about her family history. But after a year, she hasn't written the first chapter. Her ancestors, sometimes mischievous and sometimes alarming, intervene, and...

A pirate who walks amongst the highest circles of society.A governess desperate to escape servitude.In Victorian England, the Silver Order has kept its supernatural discoveries hidden for centuries. Those who seek its secrets must always pay a price...Mae Blackthorne, the daughter of an English...

A war is coming. Truths come to light. Sacrifices must be made.Ivy has always known that the Elven Council holds the fate of both humans and fair folk in their hands, but now their devious agenda threatens to destroy everything she holds dear. Trapped...

In the picturesque landscape of rural fourteenth-century England, Hugo lives a tranquil existence as he learns the art of apothecary under the tutelage of his revered father, in the quaint village of Knottbury. However, Hugo's life is shattered when his father becomes ensnared in...

He lied about his identity. Two hundred years later, he's still paying the price...Prussia, 1841. Abraham only ever wanted to play violin. Hiding his Jewish status so he can study at the prestigious Berlin Academy of Music, the eager young man is delighted to...

Undead dancers, underhanded management...and a deadly opera ghost in 1890s Paris!Now comfortably wealthy for the first time in her life, Miss Dark finds herself looking forward to her crew's newest assignment at the Paris Opera. Certainly, it's tough luck on the tenor whose grisly...

Llana of Gathol is a compilation of four novellas written by Edgar Rice Burroughs for Amazing Stories in 1941. Llana, the daughter of Gahan of Gothol and the granddaughter of John Carter. The book comprises four books, namely, The Ancient Dead (formerly The City...

A merchant's disinherited daughter fights to keep the city from collapsing in the aftermath of the war with the Stone Elves.With the Stone Elves retreating back up into the mountains and the warlocks in hiding, Stasia would have expected that Verida would rapidly return...

In a realm where the shadows whisper secrets, her quest for the truth becomes a battle for survival.Kate Winter is desperate for a more exciting life. So when a fortune teller reveals that her family is guarding dark secrets, she embarks on a daring...

Combat Monsters brings together twenty award-winning and bestselling speculative fiction authors who each bring their own spin on an alternate history of World War II.New research has uncovered deeply buried military secrets--both the Allied and Axis special operations during World War II included monsters....

When Marianna was spirited away by unknown raiders, everyone expected a ransom demand to soon follow. Such was the peril of everyday royal life in the chaotic times following abandonment of the misty isles of Albion by indifferent Rome. But when weeks went by...

Author: Paul BaumanISBN-10: 1732546525ISBN-13: 9781732546523Publisher: Flower City Press LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/10/2024Pages: 624Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.99lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.38d

Author: Richard HerzogISBN-13: 9798892114974Publisher: Dorrance Publishing Co.Language: EnglishPublished: 08/01/2024Pages: 228Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.05lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56d

Author: Michael J. SullivanISBN-10: 194336396XISBN-13: 9781943363964Publisher: Riyria Enterprises LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/09/2025Format: Paperback

The prophecies of two ancient bloodlines converge when the Wolf Clan of Aria finds the fabled passage through the North Gate, surviving months traversing the arctic icescape in discovery of the New World, presaged to be the land that shall host their greatest glory....

Dante's Inferno meets Susanna Clarke's Piranesi in this all-new dark academia fantasy from R. F. Kuang, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Babel and Yellowface, in which two graduate students must put aside their rivalry and journey to Hell to save their...

Time travel with unexpected twists and turns. Emily and Daniel, a happily married couple, are attempting to live a simpler life and live it to the fullest at their small farm in rural middle Tennessee. However, the two become separated when Daniel, while on...