Fiction - Sagas

There's nothing more dangerous than a mama bear... Only days ago, Stacy Moraine and her three young boys' arrival at Timberwolf Lodge involved a near disaster in a flooded river. This week's agenda? Learn the ins and outs of the huge kitchen Stacy needs...

In 1906 Matt Conover moved his family of ten from Texas to Indian Territory to keep his son Buford out of jail. A year later Ben returns from Texas to help his family through the winter before he departs for Texas to live. That...

From the New York Times best-selling author of The Color Purple: a "moving, tender" novel of a Deep South tenant farmer's quest for a new life (Publishers Weekly).Author: Alice WalkerISBN-10: 0156028360ISBN-13: 9780156028363Publisher: Amistad PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/29/2023Pages: 336Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.69lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.36w x 0.79d

I stroked the top of my baby's head and whispered to him gently that I would find a way. I will not let them take you... Once upon a time Kate's life was full of love and smiles and laughter. A time where she...

'Real sagas with female characters right at the heart' Woman's Hour 'In the world of historical saga writers, there's a brand new voice' My Weekly 'This heartwarming tale celebrates the power of friendship and community' Woman's Own 'I really don't think any review I...

In the fictional town of Durham, The Pentlands were a proud and wealthy family with a rich history dating back to the founding colony of Massachusetts Bay. Everything was how it should be with John, the elder patriarch; his son Anson and his wife...

Stepping inside, Margot could hardly contain herself. On gold-striped wallpaper hung photographs of theatre stars in gilt frames. Maroon velvet curtains at the doors perfectly matched the seats. This was where she belonged. Only not down here, sitting in the stalls. Her place was...

Newly restored from the original manuscript and more than a quarter longer than existing editions: one of the finest novels from one of the greatest English novelists is finally available in the form he intended. Trollope wrote The Duke's Children, his final Palliser novel,...

Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell is a classic novel that has captured the hearts of readers for generations. Set in the American South during the Civil War and Reconstruction eras, the story follows the life of Scarlett O'Hara, a headstrong and determined...

For fans of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society, The Postmistress, and Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, a story of love, war, loss, and the scars they leave set during the years of World War II and its aftermath. It's...

Forced into early retirement and stuck in an unhappy marriage, Valerie Fisher begins to question her life and what she wants to do with the rest of it. She's compelled to check out the little town of Hideaway Bay that her grandmother spoke about...

#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER For readers of Ian McEwan, Elena Ferrante, and Julie Orringer, the spellbinding, internationally bestselling, multigenerational family saga set in a fractured rural village in WWI Austria. Maria and Josef live with their children in a valley in westernmost Austria. When the...

A Brittle Paper Notable African Book of 2023 A gripping multigenerational novel that explores the history and human cost of colonialism in the Congo. April 1958. Organizing the Brussels World's Fair, the biggest international event since the end of the Second World War, subcommissioner...

Fifteen years ago on Easter Sunday, I learned from a stranger's voice at a hospital emergency room on the west coast where my daughter was attending college, she was dead-on-arrival from GHB poisoning. The men, a local hip-hop rapper, and his band, who brought...

The orgasmic maithuna (sacred sexual ritual of union) between the Inner Shakti and Shiva finds expression through these 112 set of talks between them. The VIGYAAN BHAIRAVA TANTRA as its inspiration; enticing, illuminating and full of rasa....They bring the reader to be inspired to...

Now a Netflix film starring Tom Holland and Robert Pattinson A dark and riveting vision of 1960s America that delivers literary excitement in the highest degree. In The Devil All the Time, Donald Ray Pollock has written a novel that marries the twisted intensity...

The Tales of the Otori continue...After the devastating battle of Takahara, the Otori have allied with the Saga clan to defeat the Arai and give their clan any chance of survival. But their fragile alliance is threatened by Lord Saga's descent into paranoia and...

In a novel as warm and embracing as a family kitchen, Barbara O'Neal explores the poignant, sometimes complex relationships between mothers and daughters--and the healing magic of homemade bread. Professional baker Ramona Gallagher is a master of an art that has sustained her through...

Spring has arrived and it's time to Dig for Victory... March 1941After Flo Butterworth loses everything in Manchester's Christmas Blitz, she decides to leave the area and join the Women's Land Army. Putting the past firmly behind her, she arrives at Rookery House in...

Evangeline Hussey has made a home for herself on Nantucket, though she knows she is still an outsider to the island's small, close-knit community, one that by 1849 has started to feel the decline of a once-thriving whaling industry. Her husband, Hosea, and the...

Painter Honor Sullivan has made a life for herself and her three daughters-Regis, Agnes, and Cecilia-at Star of the Sea Academy on the magical Connecticut shore. Here she teaches art at the convent school's beautiful seaside campus, over which Honor's sister-in-law, mother superior Bernadette...

The 20th anniversary edition of the #1 New York Times bestselling novel beloved by readers the world over, with a new afterword by the author The unforgettable, heartbreaking story of the unlikely friendship between a wealthy boy and the son of his father's servant,...

THE #2 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING SAGA FROM AUTHOR KATIE FLYNNWill love bloom in a new city? It's 1938, and Cadi is chosen to be Rose Queen in the annual Rose Fete. She is thrilled to be treated like royalty for the day. But deep...

History and legend combine in the gripping tale of Hakon Haraldsson, a Christian boy who once fought for the High Seat of a Viking realm.It is 935 A.D. and the North is in turmoil. King Harald Fairhair has died, leaving the High Seat of...

I don't believe in second chances. Then again, I didn't believe in love until I met Blake Fulton. Fifteen years ago, we were opposites who didn't attract. He was quiet and kept to himself in high school. I hung with the cheerleaders and the...

***Finalist Regional Fiction 2021 Next Generation Indie Book AwardsA sweeping saga of love and loss, self-discovery and sacrifice set during the U.S. Civil War era1849: Revolution is sweeping across Rhenish-Bavaria, changing the lives of three young people from different social classes forever. Desperate for...

I love her.After all these years, I admit to it. Something I've been denying my entire life. But it's true. I can't imagine a life without her. I barely have any memories she isn't in. We've had more sleepovers than I can count. Our...

I hate him.Someone I've loved my entire life hurt me deliberately. I never thought it'd be him that would destroy my heart out of all the guys on this planet, but he did. At one time he was one of my best friends. Where...

The saga continues as Christian Rivers and his remaining friends face off against new threats...the most formidable of which is themselves. What happens when the reprieve we desperately seek is finally gained? When there is no distraction from the monster that lurks within us...

In this, the fourth book in a five-book series, J'nell can no longer deny her attraction to the handsome, Tom Rushing. Just as with her late husband, Dolph Johnson, Tom drifted in and out of J'nell's life for many years; ever since she and...

A National Post Bestseller!A multi-faceted story that explores how small actions and changes can give rise to startling and unintended consequences.Trajectory. Declination. Impact. Escape Velocity. These are rocketry terms that could also describe aspects of the human experience.A lumberjack obsessed with space travel loses...

A story about lives in criminal San Francisco after sail gave way to steam. Coal, steel and shipping shaped most lives and fortunes, followed by gambling and crime. Possibly the largest outfit operated under the Irish Kelly family, reaching the height of their power...

From award-winning author Siobhan Daiko comes an epic novel of love, betrayal, and finding where you truly belong.1943Lidia De Angelis has kept a low profile since Mussolini's laws wrenched her from her childhood sweetheart. But when the Germans occupy Venice, she must flee the...

The New York Times bestselling author of The Glass Room brings a slice of his own family history to life through extensive research and rich storytelling.Beginning with his great-great-grandfather Abraham Block, acclaimed novelist Simon Mawer sifts through evidence like an archaeologist, piecing together the...

An adventure novel about the trials and trepidations of Winston Saddleworth, Big Shorty's favorite grandsonBig Shorty is a humorous coming of age novel full of action and suspense.It centers on family life in the 1950's and 1960's. We follow Winston Saddlesworth from being an...

Romeo and Juliet's families caused all sorts of problems, but the two lovers took that poison themselves, the idiots. When Beth Ellingson meets Ethan Brooks, it's because her aunt and father are conspiring to steal the Birch Creek Ranch from the handsome young man....

Follow the money in this gripping literary puzzle--the fourth and final installment of Sarah Caudwell's brilliant Hilary Tamar mystery series."Sarah Caudwell is one of my very favorite mystery writers."--A. J. Finn, New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in the Window Julia Larwood's...

A lawyer's lucrative case has deadly consequences in the third installment of the Hilary Tamar mysteries that began with Thus Was Adonis Murdered "Sarah Caudwell is one of my very favorite mystery writers."--A. J. Finn, New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in...

Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal of Excellence in Fiction 2024Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2023"Wandering Souls is a poetic, heartbreaking, and ultimately triumphant celebration of the human spirit. Casting well-known history in new light, Pin offers a capacious rendering of the...

The Biographies of Ordinary People is the story of the Gruber family: Rosemary and Jack, and their daughters Meredith, Natalie, and Jackie. The two-volume series begins in July 1989, on Rosemary's thirty-fifth birthday; it ends in November 2016, on Meredith's thirty-fifth birthday.The second volume...

A family torn apart by the effects of war must now deal with the trickle-down effects of peace: the collapse of the kelp industry on which they depend. Sheila McLean worries about her children getting ahead in the rapidly industrializing world of 1822, while...

"From Amazon bestselling author Steve Gannon, thrillers that will keep you up all night . . . but make sure to lock your doors and windows first."From the drama of the High Sierra to the beaches of Malibu and the streets of Los Angeles,...

In the ancient mists of time, a ragged band of refugees takes to the icy sea to escape the war-torn Scythian plains of Indo-Europe. Although the Cruithne, named for their chief, find a new home in a distant and unfamiliar land, fewer than two...

LONGLISTED FOR THE INDIE BOOK AWARD FOR DEBUT FICTION 2018LONGLISTED FOR THE AUSTRALIAN BOOK INDUSTRY AWARDS 2018: General Fiction Book of the Year and Matt Richell Award for New Writer of the YearIn 1978 the Northern Territory has begun to self-govern. Cyclone Tracy is...

From a National Book Award winner comes a masterful novel set in the 1940s about a woman finding a new life for herself and her grown children after her husband's death.Author: Robb Forman DewISBN-10: 0316013307ISBN-13: 9780316013307Publisher: Back Bay BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/03/2006Pages: 352Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.70lbsSize:...

In the fictional town of Durham, the Pentlands are a proud and wealthy family with a rich history dating back to the founding colony of Massachusetts Bay. Everything is how it should be with John, the elder patriarch; his son Anson and his wife...

An epic comedy about love, spirit, and the quest for transcendence in an anything-but-transcendent America, from the author of the perennial cult bestsellers The River Why and The Brothers K. A random bolt from a DC-8 falls from the sky, killing a child and...

When Johnny Redfeather, an Irish/Cheyenne Civil War veteran, and Union Colonel William Swanson escaped from Lawton Prison in Georgia in late 1864, Redfeather killed a young guard named Hank Bulger. Vowing revenge for his brother's death, Jake Bulger pursues Redfeather and Swanson to Green...

A brand new series from best selling author R.C. Stephens. Get ready for a steamy heart-stopping happily ever after. The only thing I ever loved more than hockey? Skylar Ward. The one who got away, or rather the one I pushed away and into...

The year is 1915, and the war is raging on . . . The war was not 'over by Christmas' after all and as 1915 begins, the Hunters begin to settle into wartime life. Diana, the eldest Hunter daughter, sees her fiance off to...