Fiction - Fantasy - Historical

Once, Silas and Lainie Vendine, former bounty hunters and renegade mages, had a home and ranch of their own and the friendship and respect of their non-magical neighbors. Then the mage-hating Chardonikans came and drove Silas and Lainie from their home.Now, Silas and his...

Beginning with the title - "Conversations with Likka Sto' Rufus". Rufus is a complex African-American character. It would not be accurate to call him "Liquor Store Rufus", because the cultural nuances would be muted. "Likka Sto' Rufus", at seventy something, is beautifully mellow and...

A true tour de force for de Camp, The Glory That Was brings together many of the themes the author excelled in writing about, including time travel and alternate history. Earth in the twenty-seventh century is ruled by a constitutional monarchy, thougAuthor: L. Sprague...

"A tale of high adventure, rich in historical lore and erudite in the telling. Of Mr. de Camp's ... novels, this may well be the most ambitious and quite possibly the best."-Publishers Weekly *** The Golden Wind is the last of the five classic...

Menedemos, the young dashing sea captain, and his helper (and cousin), the scholarly Sostratos, are back in a new adventure. xxx Soon after their successful return to Rhodes the two cousins find that Greece is a dangerous place after the death of AlexandeAuthor: Harry...

Menedemos, the young dashing sea captain, and his helper, the scholarly Sostratos, are sea-traders from the Greek island of Rhodes. Fearless sailors, they will travel any distance to make a profit or to search for rich treasures. *** While they trade in fAuthor: Harry...

After a traumatic early childhood spent living in poverty in a Preston cellar, the suddenly orphaned George Silverman grows up convinced that he is at fault for all the misfortunes in his life. Hoodwinked by hypocritical clergymen and exploited by his employer, he finds...

Puck of Pook's Hill is a fantasy book by Rudyard Kipling, published in 1906, containing a series of short stories set in different periods of English history. It can count both as historical fantasy - since some of the stories told of the past...

The House of Crimson & Clover continues in the tenth volume, The Secrets Amongst the Cypress. Time is a perilous wheel when turned by untested hands. Amelia and Jacob have landed in a very familiar where. The when, on the other hand... Jacob's first...

Her name is Inanna. Spoiled granddaughter of King Anu of the planet Arra, she is more obsessed with being a queen on Earth than in saving Arra from a disaster set in motion by her malicious father, Morgoth. The feud between the Arkonian Morgoth...

Silas and Lainie recover from their ordeal in Granadaia, while knowing that an evil is at work that threatens the freedom of the Wildings and that this peaceful interval is no more than a brief illusion. Then the unthinkable happens, the battle begins, and...

At the great summer fair at the capital, a little less than a year ago, the Gylden Sirklene challenge--Sommerhjem's ancient way for choosing rulers--was called, forcing Regent Cedric Klingflug to step down. The governing of the country was turned over to an interim ruling...

IT'S 770 AD. IN WHAT WILL LATER BECOME CENTRAL AMERICA, THE ANCIENT MAYA HAVE FLOURISHED FOR CENTURIES, BUILDINGA CIVILIZATION OF CULTURE, WONDER, AND INTRIGUE, BUT THEIRWAY OF LIFE MAY NOT ENDURE FOREVER. . .The intrepid Mara has left her homeland, Chichen Itza, on a...

CURSED BY PROPHECY. CORRUPTED BY POWER.When Eridani's parents are murdered and their kingdom is seized by a traitorous duke, she plans to run. After she suffers yet another unendurable loss, the lure of revenge pulls her back.Eridani's brilliance as a strategist offers her a...

You know by now what a woman is capable of.Caroline is home with her father and the woman she loves-but with the Leviathan still unaccounted for, such peace can only be temporary. Soon, the mysterious Mr. Smith is asking for her aid once more:...

We will survive this, Caroline.It has been several months since Harkworth Hall burned, and mere weeks since Joanna Chase came back into Caroline Daniels' life. But when a stranger arrives in their village and asks to see the damaged bay, they know that word...

Caleb Marcus is a Peacemaker, a roving lawman tasked with maintaining the peace and bringing control to magic users on the frontier. A Peacemaker isn't supposed to take a life--but sometimes, it's kill or be killed... After a war injury left him half-scoured of...

From the bestselling, award-winning author Seth Adam Smith comes The Pumpkin Lantern-a fantasy novel influenced by the writings of Nathanial Hawthorne, Lloyd Alexander, and C.S. Lewis. Loaded with humor, action, suspense, and fascinating American history, The Pumpkin Lantern is a poignant fable about faith,...

Lydia Hamilton was a modern woman, happily in love and living in Canada ... until the nightmares. Following the death of her father, Lydia begins dreaming of places and people she doesn't know. When she closes her eyes, she sees a bloodied, severed head....

True horror is the knowledge that fate has turned against you.A monster is approaching the Bronze Age city of Yarich.It cannot be stopped. It cannot be turned aside.And the monster is...God Himself.Sakal, caravan-master to the "Melek" or king of the Canaanite city-state, recounts the...

England, AD 617. At the edge of the known world, kingdoms devour kingdoms, and being a warrior is neither optional nor extraordinary; it is what is necessary to survive. Out of the chaotic clash of warlords, kingdoms, and religions, a creature will emerge that...

This early novel is both expensive and hard to find in its first edition. Written by the prolific English critic and author of novels, short stories, essays and verse, G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936), it is a futuristic novel set in 1984 in a London...

Abandoned, neglected, and sitting atop Hathorne Hill, Danvers Asylum for the Insane towers above modern-day Danvers, Massachusetts. When November Atwood and her twin cousins, Jeff and wheelchair-bound Hawk, discover a strangely-marked wooden box long-buried in the asylum's shadows, they unwittingly set in motion events...

In the tradition of the old "Ace Doubles" (flip one book over to read the second title)--here is the ninth Wildside Double: DA VINCI RISING, by Jack Dann Imagine what would happen if Leonardo da Vinci--the Albert Einstein of the Renaissance--was actually able to...

The path to Camelot never runs smooth... When war threatens the kingdom of Camliard, sisters Lynet and Laurel find themselves in the heart of the darkening crisis, with only one way to restore peace. While her older sister remains as a hostage, Lynet must...

Quintessence Sky continues where the events of Quintessence (Tor Books, 2013) left off. At the edge of the flat Earth, a strange fire in the sky burns, altering the balance of the elements and threatening all life on Horizon Island. Matthew Marcheford experiments to...

This book is not recommended for those who believe that a woman can get pregnant without a man. After all, many people believe that the Virgin Mary gave birth to a son of God, who committed adultery with her, although he himself condemned such...

Bertha, is a slave on Master Jackson's plantation in Mississippi before the start of the American Civil War. She is young, sassy, driven, head-strong, and beautiful. Bertha is allowed to work inside of the big house, which is taboo at the time because of...

The dead come from the sea, at night. They merely arrive and are discovered in the morning on the wharves, lying in great heaps. It has been the immemorial custom for people to take them into their homes, to find places for them, to...

"Quasi-supernaturalism creeps into a few of [Grant's] novels, especially Kalee's Shrine (1886)...about the Thuggee cult and Mesmerism." -- Encyclopedia of FantasyAuthor: Grant AllenISBN-10: 1479444278ISBN-13: 9781479444274Publisher: Wildside PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/29/2019Pages: 238Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.65lbsSize: 8.25h x 5.50w x 0.54d

The author, drawing equally upon his experience and his fancy, brings together six men, including himself, at a hunting lodge in the Catoctin Mountains on an evening in 1943. They are Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Winston Churchill. "Putzi" Hanfstaengl, Bernard Baruch, Harry Hopkin, and John...

If this were the ancient Egypt of our time line, the year that this story begins would be around 1365 BCE. It isn't. If this were the ancient Egypt of our time line it would be only a nation. It's an Empire. If this...

The time: 1945. The place: Germany during the final days of the Nazi regime of Adolf Hitler. When Major John Carter and Sergeant Carson Napier discover a barracks at the Dachau concentration camp full of young, beautiful women being prepared as pagan sacrifices to...

Set in 1913 Naples, Italy, Tos-Cat is the story of an unlikely star of the operatic stage, and the kind, gentle mentor who believes in him. Giuseppe Cantante, a renowned Baritone of the opera world, dreams of opening his own opera house in the...

Dating back to the dawn of the twelfth century, the ancient Order of the Knights' Templar is one of the most powerful and mysterious international organizations in history. Its power lies within its ability to keep its secrets secret-and its assets even more clandestinely...

Sometimes we have to go back to the time when things went wrong in order to make them right... George Cooper, a 35-year-old Bostonian in a thankless job, is at the end of his rope. Desperate for change, he needs a way to gain...

China, 627 C.E. The Tang dynasty's rule remains tentative after a decade of civil war. The rise of a new uncertainty in the far south thrusts the fledgling dynasty between its most powerful enemies in the north and the possible revolt of the southern...

It is a rare opportunity for a young man turning eighteen to learn first hand the reasons behind his father's mistakes. For Cavan Anstruther, learning why his father disappeared ten years ago in 1908 after inadvertently beginning the Great War was an opportunity he'd...

Paula Brackston, the New York Times bestselling author of The Witch's Daughter, returns with its sequel The Return of the Witch, another bewitching tale of love and magic, featuring her signature blend of gorgeous writing, a fabulous and intriguing historical backdrop, and a headstrong...

For too long the disciplines of thaumatic ursology and political science have held themselves apart, each asserting its own unique magisterium. Isn't it time someone brought these two disparate fields to synthesis? In this revolutionary collection of short stories from the first international symposium...

Beatrice had a secretive and unusual life. In death, instead of eternal rest, she became a central figure in the battle between good and evil and God's desire to change the afterlife. Author: W. B. RossISBN-10: 1503593479ISBN-13: 9781503593473Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/17/2015Pages: 348Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.46lbsSize:...

Author: Dj PowerISBN-10: 1503561828ISBN-13: 9781503561823Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/11/2015Pages: 338Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.09lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.76d

When the wife of Napoleon Bonaparte is kidnapped by the mysterious Man in the Iron Mask, whom can he trust to get her back?The Broken Bards of Paris What three men, despite deformity and unrequited love, will unite to become a trio of heroic...

The battle for power in the Celtic kingdom of Britannia, reaches a climax when families turn against each other and the most trustworthy can no longer be trusted. It is the sixth century and the growth of immigrants threaten the Celtic way of life...

This book is the first in this series of Norwegian migrations to the United States. This book will cover the first migration to America through Iceland and Greenland; the next one will cover the migration to America through Holland, England, and Normandy. Finally, the...

Moved by previous visits to Centralia, and ultimately by a trip to the now deserted town, which was bought out by the state following an unstoppable mine fire that began in 1962, the author was inspired to write a fitting eulogy. The novel is...

BEOWULF - EVERY LEGEND HAS A BEGINNINGGeatland in the first decades of the 6th Century.Under the benevolent rule of King Hrethel and his sons, the king's grandson is carefully groomed by the family in the skills and duties of the warrior elite. But shadowy...

Author: Dennis MuncriefISBN-10: 1418442054ISBN-13: 9781418442057Publisher: AuthorhouseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/17/2004Pages: 276Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.90lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.62d

Author: Angelica HarrisISBN-10: 1418435236ISBN-13: 9781418435233Publisher: AuthorhouseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/30/2004Pages: 184Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.61lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.42d

Tumanbay: Once the most magnificent city on earth -now the dark heart of an empire which lies in ruins. Occupied by the fanatical forces of the mysterious cult of Maya, corpses hang from the gallows, and citizens are flogged for next to nothing. Barakat,...