Fiction - Sagas

Whitby 1901. Sarah Brook has kept diaries for most of her life. Now eighty-five and at the end of her own journey, she allows her favourite great-niece Esther to read them. But while full of Sarah's thoughts and dreams, and family stories, the diaries...

Read the next book in the heart-warming WW2 historical romance saga series, The Steel Girls In their darkest days, they'll find the courage to carry on... Summer 1940 The war is raging on but the Steel Girls are fighting their own battles closer to...

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER - One of the most gifted American writers of the twentieth century brings back ex-basketball player Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom, the late middle-aged hero of Rabbit, Run, who has acquired heart trouble, a Florida condo, and a second grandchild, and is looking...

"Tragic and redemptive . . . Updike had Rabbit, Roth has Zuckerman, Richard Ford has Bascombe and Begley has Schmidt. . . . Schmidt Steps Back] is the most ambitious novel yet] in the Schmidt cycle."--Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Full of dark humor, compassion,...

From Mark Haddon, the bestselling author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, comes a dazzlingly inventive novel about modern family life. Richard, a wealthy doctor, invites his estranged sister and her family to join his family for a week at...

An unexpected inheritance is most people's dream, but not for Paula. Having put bad times behind her, she is now happy and secure in Western Australia with her own business. This is a complete contrast to her rootless childhood, and she has little interest...

New York Times bestselling author Tilly Bagshawe, who delivered the late beloved author's brilliance in Sidney Sheldon's After the Darkness, is back with a stunning tale of duplicity and vengeance in Sidney Sheldon's The Tides of Memory.The members of the formidable and captivating De...

A captivating saga set on the eve of WW2 in Liverpool, where life is about to change forever for one girl. As war breaks out so too does Molly Dearden... Molly is used to living in the shadow of her older sister, June. When...

An orphan leaves Dark Ages London to study medicine in Persia in this "rich" and "vivid" historical novel from a New York Times-bestselling author (The New York Times). A child holds the hand of his dying mother and is terrified, aware something is taking...

A young girl trapped in a labyrinthine mansion may finally get the family she longs for when her estranged father reappears in her life in this new novel from the world of the #1 New York Times bestselling Flowers in the Attic and Landry...

Bristow does "a grand job of storytelling" (the New York Times) in this memorable novel of the late eighteenth-century pioneers who settled the Louisiana wilderness, establishing a civilization of charm, luxury, and tragic injustice For his service in the king's army during the French...

Author: Barbara DavisISBN-10: 0451418778ISBN-13: 9780451418777Publisher: Penguin Publishing GroupLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/01/2013Pages: 384Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.85lbsSize: 8.30h x 5.70w x 0.90dReview Citation(s): Kirkus Reviews 09/01/2013Romantic Times 10/01/2013 pg. 48 - Excellent

"Final Lullaby is a courageous, poetic exploration of a controversial and emotionally-charged topic. At turns uncomfortable and celebratory, artistic and thought provoking, this is an important novel." -Brian Kaufman, author of Sins in Blue"Many of us are one bad death away from becoming a...

Freelance photographer Coty Fine falls in love with her traveling companion as they escape 1954 Hanoi. Spanning multiple decades, this four-part, cross-generational novel follows Coty and her progeny-strong women each--as they navigate their strained relationships and, assisted by the revelation of a once forbidden...

One of The New York Times Top 10 Books of the YearWinner of the An Post Irish Book of the Year, the Nero Gold Prize, and the Nero Book Award for FictionShortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Writers' Prize for FictionFinalist for the...

There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens: a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot, a time to kill and a time to heal, a...

Two women, living two hundred years apart but closer than sisters.Mary, miserable in her marriage to Thomas Carre, a merchant and privateer and living in the new family mansion in Georgian Guernsey.Lucy, separated from her husband after a tragic loss and now acting as...

Joy keeps to herself. Love only brings pain and it's not worth the risk. That's why she was the queen of one night stands. Was. Now she's in a new town and ready to start over. Maybe trust that not everyone in life lets...

Carly Graham had chosen the life she lived. And she liked it. She had the best friends a girl could ask for and a loving family that would help with anything. Falling in love was not something she'd longed for. Not since college. Until...

From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Carrie Ann Ryan comes a sexy new contemporary stand-alone series.Hazel Noble has survived horrors she wouldn't inflict on her worst enemy. Since then, she's healed, found herself, and connected with a group of women she's...

The story unfolds in the old Greenleaf Church where young Clay finds the hidden diary of Lamb Shepherd, a veteran of the Civil War. Through the stories, the boy immerses himself in those days of trial and tribulation, which profoundly affect him and his...

From bestselling Spanish author Paul Pen comes a haunting and hopeful tale of discovering light in even the darkest of places.For his whole life, the boy has lived underground, in a basement with his parents, grandmother, sister, and brother. Before he was born, his...

In the village of Lauscha in Germany, things have been done the same way for centuries. The men blow the glass, and the women decorate and pack it. But when Joost Steinmann passes away unexpectedly one September night, his three daughters must learn to...

At the height of World War II, three women must come together to fight for freedom, for the men they love--and for each other.When Hazel is given the chance to parachute into Nazi-occupied France, she seizes the opportunity to do more for the British...

Deborah Jorgenson is just four years old when she witnesses racism for the first time. Unfortunately, the hatred is directed at her. Born to Swedish parents in Minnesota in the early 1900s, Deborah believes her dark hair and skin come from a great-grandmother. When...

The Chameleon Sagas, Book IMan is not at the top of the food chain and hasn't been for a very long time.Shipton-under-Wychwood is a sleepy English village where Kate Henson arrives to study at theatre school. She meets the son of the local peerage,...

It's deal or no deal when a new threat forces two independent neighbours to face a past tragedy. Artisan cheese-maker GRACE ANDERSON lost her closest friend to suicide, then saw her father swindled out of prime dairy land. Abandonment and mistrust cemented her determination...

Bristol 1927Ten year old Magda Brodie's world is torn apart when her mother dies in the workhouse two weeks before Christmas.Her wastrel father arranges for her sisters to be sent to their grandparents in Ireland and for her younger brother to be adopted leaving...

Once upon a time, I fell for a dashing London restaurateur named Xavier.He left me with a broken heart... and a positive pregnancy test.Now, he's back in my life and determined to stay.He asks me just one question: will I move to London with...

Protecting my best friend's new sister-in-law Willow from a fan who wants to get too close is a no-brainer.Just requires me to do some checking around, to act as her shadow for a while, maybe even give her a place to stay so I...

A forbidden romance in occupied Norway...Narvik, 1940. After Laila awakens to the sight of warships in the fjord, it isn't long before she turns resistor to the brutal Nazi regime. She is horrified when local girls begin affairs with enemy soldiers, yet against her...

A Family Reunion with an edge of your seat twist. A seemingly perfect reunion until one fateful moment three lives are put in danger, the fallout could ultimately shatter the deep love and trust in this family, dividing them forever-and the cost could be...

In this family saga, love and loss are bound together by a country always at war.Finalist for the 2019 Whistler Independent Book Awards, and semi-finalist for the 2019 Kindle Book Awards.Lukia Mazurets, a Ukrainian farmwife, delivers her eighth child while her husband is serving...

Author Diana Stevan's sequel to the award-winning Sunflowers Under Fire. Lukia's story continues in Lilacs in the Dust Bowl, an inspirational family saga about love and heartache during the Great Depression.In 1929, when Lukia Mazurets, a widow and a Ukrainian peasant farmer, immigrates to...

An Inspirational Family Saga, that started with the Award-Winning Sunflowers Under Fire. On Miramichi Readers' List of Best Fiction for 2022.Wars, typhus, drought and family losses could not stop Lukia Mazurec. Will her children's indifference finally break her spirit?With the Great Depression ending and...

From Ella's journal entries in 1932 about her pregnancy and miscarriage, to the birth of her first grandchild two years later, to her son's acceptance into the U.S. Naval Academy amid rising war clouds over Europe, An Approaching Storm continues the unfolding saga of...

The long-awaited finale to Marie's beloved Treading Water Series is HERE at last!Maggie Harrington is in way, way over her head, running Matthews House, the shelter her famous sister Kate and brother-in-law Reid have opened, using Reid's family estate to provide support to women...

The New York Times bestselling author of the Six Tudor Queens series explores the dramatic and poignant life of King Henry VIII's daughter--infamously known as Bloody Mary--who ruled England for five violent years. Born from young King Henry's first marriage, his elder daughter, Princess...

Two sisters reconnect and pursue their dreams on the beautiful island of Nantucket, overcoming life's challenges and finding new love, in this heartwarming and hopeful novel by New York Times bestselling author Nancy Thayer. Eddie Grant is happy with her life and her work...

The Chameleon Sagas, Book IIIn the home of the Council, anything can happen.Then... Shipton-under-Wychwood is the sleepy English village where KateHenson arrived to study at the theatre school. It was also where she made friends, fell in love, and discovered a secret, hidden world...

A Complete Summary of Lessons in Chemistry: A NovelChemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it's the early 1960s and her...

From the beginning, as written in Genesis 8:22, "While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease." Described by many as the two faces of fortune, it is the blues and our blessings, one...

Great rice plantations once existed along the rivers of coastal South Carolina. African slaves from the continent's rice-growing regions transformed lowcountry swamps into productive fields. Even today, the earthen dams are still visible, and the Gullah dialect still spoken by descendants. A historically accurate...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLEREven the most perfect lives can be shattered in an instant. In this moving, emotionally charged novel, Danielle Steel introduces readers to an unforgettable cast of characters striving to overcome tragedy and discover the inner resources and resilience to win at...

"An enthralling tale of a secret resistance movement run by Black women in pre-Civil War New Orleans."--Time "Stirring . . . In telling this important, neglected history with imagination-fueled research, The American Daughters offers an inspiring story of people who show a way forward...

A classic tale from Helen Forrester set in the heart of India. A heartwarming story of India, newly free - a moment when the old and new clashed. Lovely Anasuyabehn had been brought up to obey her loving father in all things. But as...

Kindred Spirits. . . is a story about the feeling we often experience that we have known someone we meet from the past, but cannot seem to make the connection at first. The main characters are drawn into a relationship that threatens to destroy...

The masterful story of a lifelong friendship between two very different women with shared histories and buried secrets, tested in the twilight of their lives, set across the arc of the 20th century. Celebrated children's book author Agnes Lee is determined to secure her...

"It is a privilege to read Crystal Hana Kim's fiction, which both edifies and enlightens." --Min Jin LeeA hauntingly poetic family drama and coming-of-age story that reveals a dark corner of South Korean history through the eyes of a small community living in a...

Author: Buddhadeva BoseISBN-10: 0143416383ISBN-13: 9780143416388Publisher: India PenguinLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/2011Pages: 552Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.85lbsSize: 7.72h x 5.04w x 1.50d