Fiction - Sagas

This is the third book in the Sackett Series. It finds Brent Sackett wounded and on the verge of death and being treated by a doctor in Sundown, Texas. Brian Sacket, Brent's identical twin brother, returns to the family cattle ranch just out of...

In Lineages and Lies, Jimmy Fox has created an intricate, gripping tour de force of genealogical mystery-a worthy successor to his acclaimed first Nick Herald novel, Deadly Pedigree. Nick Herald doesn't go looking for trouble. Really. He's just a struggling, not-so-humble professional genealogist trying...

In this stirring suspense filled romance novel, Kareena's short lived love affair with Rian O'Connor spirals into an unbelievable journey of heart wrenching loss and mind blowing discoveries. Rian is forced to choose between his love for Kareena and his loyalty to his father...

In the sequel to The Gospel of Loki, Loki's adventures continue when he finds a way out of the end of the world and plans to restart the power of the Norse gods. The end of the world--also known as Ragnarok to the Norse...

Will Laurel Worth be able to survive the alien environment into which she and her young family have moved? As a successful teacher with nurse training and a well-known speaker for social issues such as women's right to vote, Laurel--the beautiful, auburn-haired daughter of...

The Omnibus Edition of Tucker's Way and For TuckerAfter enduring a childhood of horrific abuse and crushing poverty, Tucker seeks refuge in her rural Tennessee home. The three grandchildren she is raising are her only connection to the outside, and her demeanor is purposefully...

Known for the wit of her writing, in her lifetime Catherine Cookson became the UK's most widely read novelist. When the Cookson Estate discovered the unpublished manuscript of Saint Christopher and the Gravedigger in the attic of her home, they unearthed a gem for...

Seventeen-year-old Bradalynn Collier is used to enduring night after night of unbearable restlessness. In the quiet darkness while everyone else sleeps, dreams that are not only hers take possession of her mind. Brady thinks her gift for entering the subconscious minds of others is...

A historic family drama based in and near 1640 Amsterdam, the wealthiest city on earth at the time, The Seventh Etching tells the story of two families over a one-year period. Both Griet and Johannes Verhoeven, farmers, in their early 20's and Jos and...

Annie and her brothers have been surrounded by wealth and prestige their entire lives. But, as their mother says, "They don't know how to dream." When she dies, their father seizes upon an opportunity to uproot the family and move them to a place...

The Mabinogion is one of the masterpieces of world literature, and a must-read for anyone who wants to have an understanding of Celtic lore.Author: Lady Charlotte Guest, AnonymousISBN-10: 1463612583ISBN-13: 9781463612580Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/23/2011Pages: 98Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.31lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.20d

Snared by evil ... freed by love ...When Raja, a peasant in a village outside of a royal manor, is appointed by a young lord, Pavel, to serve in the manor, she quickly meets Hannah, her long-lost cousin, and learns of her real status-Princess...

The Tagger Family rescued a small herd of horses in book one of the series. Each book follows the rehabilitation of the horses from a different family members point of view. It's more than just the horses; it's about family too. Book Ten is...

The Tagger Family rescued a small herd of horses in book one of the series. Each book follows the rehabilitation of the horses from a different family members point of view. It's more than just the horses; it's about family too. Book Nine is...

Its harvest time on the Tagger family farm and ranch. The only adult that can get away is Nora's mom. but when she takes Sadie and Wade to a rodeo, it's a surprising weekend companion that takes Nora to her horse show. It's a...

When Isabelle took a chance and eloped with Leon Feininger, her true love, she hadn't stopped to consider what would happen next. Winter on his family's isolated vineyard proves tougher than she expected, and Isabelle finds herself daydreaming, envisioning the wines she and Leon...

How breathtakingly close we are to lives that at first seem so far away.From the civil rights struggle in the United States to the Nazi crimes against humanity in Europe, there are more stories than people passing one another every day on the bustling...

A multigenerational family drama about grief, motherhood, and coming of age, all taking place on an Ohio farm. Joan Chase's subtle story of three generations of women negotiating lifetimes of "joy and ruin" deserves its place alongside such achievements as Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping and...

KAATJE JANSSEN--Desperate to know if her missing husband still lives, Kaatje hires the rugged, yet tenderhearted James Walker to guide her through the perils of the Alaskan wilderness. What she finally discovers, however, is far from what she expected--and could well place her in...

"A well-wrought, classically inspired riches-to-rags tale." Kirkus Review (starred) William and Ella Durant, heirs to a bygone fortune, are recounting the events that led to the Durant family downfall during the Gilded Age. In 1931 William returns to visit the estate he once possessed...

Can an idealistic young doctor and a fallen woman find love when Victorian society believes they should not?Dublin, Ireland, 1880. Tired of treating rich hypochondriacs, Dr Will Fitzgerald left his father's medical practice and his home on Merrion Square to live and practice medicine...

An orphan leaves Dark Ages London, taking a dangerous journey and posing as a Jew to study medicine in Persia, in "an adventurous and inspiring tale" (Library Journal). A child holds the hand of his dying mother and is terrified, aware something is taking...

From the bestselling author of The Road Beyond Ruin comes a novel about a family torn apart by grief and secrets, then pulled back together by hope in the wake of World War I.England 1922. It's been four years since Rudy's brother Edgar went...

From the author of Unbreak My Heart comes a heart-wrenching story about a young married couple's struggle to find their way back to each other after an unbearable loss --Nicole Jacquelyn delivers a novel that will break your heart in all the best ways.Alex...

The Everlasting Spring: Beyond Olympus is an epic trilogy in three heroic sagas spanning two thousand years in the tumultuous advance of Western Civilization. The Storyteller is an old man who understands and appreciates the heroes and heroines, saints and sinners who made world...

"Hypnotic...a sophisticated meditation on politics, race and ethnicity. (...) Anyuru's prose is incandescent." --Peter Kimani, The New York Times Book Review "An extraordinary life in exile inspires a multilayered novel. (...) A deeply moving meditation on identity and history, the personal and the political,...

Former international flight attendant Annie Taylor is embracing her country roots and racing toward a future with her sustainable farmer fianc , but wedding plans are complicated by her new job, a mysterious ex-boyfriend, and a narcissistic father. Meanwhile, Annie's old-fashioned grandma, Beulah, is...

Feeding the Enemy is based on the true story of an Italian family's determination to survive in the face of evil during WW II. It is a story of perseverance, ingenuity and love. This book captures the spirit of survivability against all odds and...

2017 Beverly Hills Book Award Winner in New Fiction 2017 Beverly Hills Book Award Winner in Women's Fiction 2018 IBPA Ben Franklin Finalist in Best New Voices: Fiction Becca Meister Fitzpatrick--wife, mother, grandmother, and pillar of the community--is the dutiful steward of her family's...

2017 Beverly Hills Book Award Winner in New Fiction 2017 Beverly Hills Book Award Winner in Women's Fiction 2018 IBPA Ben Franklin Finalist in Best New Voices: Fiction Becca Meister Fitzpatrick--wife, mother, grandmother, and pillar of the community--is the dutiful steward of her family's...

A magnificent saga of two proud and powerful families--one British, one African--and their battle over Kenya's destiny in the twentieth century. In 1917, Dr. Grace Treverton arrives in Kenya, determined to bring modern medicine to the African natives. Her brother, Sir Valentine Treverton, has...

It ends with the beginning. This legendary, indie, cult-favorite series ends its tale with the story of the Poughkeepsie brotherhood before the tattoo. Before the train station, before the church, before a criminal empire, there was a foster home and three teen boys who...

The sweeping chronicle of a great and tragic pharaoh who lost his throne for the love of a god. In the glory of ancient Egypt, an epic of a royal family divided, bloody power ploys, and religious wars that nearly tore apart one of...

The spectacular conclusion to the Egyptian epic begun in A God Against the Gods. After his brother's assassination, a new pharaoh must take the throne and battle the corrupt and violent priesthood.His name is TUTANKHAMUN.Pulitzer Prize winning author Allen Drury paints a vivid, dramatic...

To have a son adopt his father's dream as his own is rare. But that is exactly what Rod Strong does when in 2006 he enlists in the Army to join The Old Guard. Serving as a Sentinel at the Tomb of the Unknown...

A third-generation Greek American visits his ancestral homeland, and discovers a century of family secrets, in this "hauntingly poignant" novel (World Literature Today). From the burning quay at Smyrna to present-day Manhattan, the Argyriou family has been pursued by disaster. In the 1922 Greco-Turkish...

The Journeyman is a novel that touches on cultural and religious differences, international travel without a passport, and what can happen when a child trusts a stranger. A man, about to retire, risks it all for a happy ending.Author: Mickey ThompsonISBN-10: 160910143XISBN-13: 9781609101435Publisher: Booklocker.comLanguage:...

An unabridged edition of The Making of a Marchioness by Frances Burnett, with drawings by C. D. WilliamsAuthor: Frances Hodgson BurnettISBN-10: 1603863591ISBN-13: 9781603863599Publisher: Watchmaker PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/07/2010Pages: 100Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.35lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.24d

Moving through the exotic settings of California, Hawaii, and Africa, Barbara Wood weaves a rich and compelling story of three women's lives and the challenges they face in their careers and in their relationships.Author: Barbara WoodISBN-10: 1596528648ISBN-13: 9781596528642Publisher: TurnerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/01/2012Pages: 340Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.38lbsSize:...

With the Great War still raw in the memory and life in the 1920s mining village of Whitton Grange hard and dangerous, Louie Kirkup dreams of a better future. But with a sick mother and a large family of pitman brothers and father, the...

Catherine (Kitty) McMullen, is seventeen, restless and rebellious. Resentful of her mother Kate's new husband, she yearns for stories of the father she never knew and when her gossipy aunt divulges that he was a wealthy gentleman, Catherine's discontent with grimy, impoverished Jarrow grows....

Brought up on her parents' smallholding in Jarrow in the harsh years of the 1870s, selling vegetables to poverty-struck Irish labourers such as the unruly McMullens, Rose dreams of the world beyond the grime of the town, a world she glimpsed at a fairytale...

This illustrated edition retains Willy Pogany's original drawings. Master storyteller Padraic Colum's rich, musical voice captures all the magic and majesty of the Norse sagas in his retellings of the adventures of the gods and goddesses who lived in the Northern paradise of Asgard...

Connie and Eva are best friends but their families are the worst of enemies...During the VE Day celebrations, two women meet completely by chance. As Connie and Eva talk they discover they are from feuding families, the Maxwells and the Dixons. But when they...

January, 1941: As Charlie Barton tiptoes silently out of the house one cold winter morning to go off and fight for his country, his wife Audrey is left to run the family bakery on her own. Times are tougher than ever, but at the...

December, 1940: All that Audrey Barton wants is her family together for Christmas. But the war changes everything... The Barton family bakery in Bournemouth has been at the heart of the town for generations: Audrey and Charlie Barton have never been rich, but their...

Brighton 1930: Maureen O'Connell is a carefree girl, but her family is on the brink of tragedy, war is looming and life will never be the same again. Jack and Nelson have always been dear friends to Maureen. Despite their different backgrounds, they've seen...

After the Franco-Prussian War and the siege of 1870-1871, the St. Clair family return to Paris, only to be swept up into the terrible cruelties and violence of the Commune. Here their young daughter, Helene, falls ill, becomes separated from the family, and is...

Song of the Tree Frogs tells the story of two brothers in a brutal reality, revealing that there are no throwaway kids, especially when unconditional love works its transforming power.Author: J. W. KitsonISBN-10: 1683506057ISBN-13: 9781683506058Publisher: Morgan James FictionLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/03/2018Pages: 254Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.83lbsSize: 9.00h...

In 1914, Andrew Houghton's family is one of hundreds eking out an existence in the coal mines of southwestern Pennsylvania. Though he longs to be a veterinarian, he's fated for a life underground, picking rock alongside his father. That destiny changes when his aunt,...