Fiction - Sagas

The problem with secrets is they create powerful monsters.And even more dangerous enemies. He's the keeper of all his family's secrets, the watcher of all.He knows what I've done, what I've risked... the deadly choice I made. The tangled vines of his mighty family...

A housemaid with a dangerous family secret conspires with a wealthy young abolitionist to help an enslaved girl escape, in volatile pre-Civil War Philadelphia. The rebel . . . the socialite . . . and the fugitive. Together, they will risk everything for one...

Set amongst the rolling vineyards and gentle courtyards of a small seaside village in Catalonia, Patrick O'Brian's second novel is a poignant story of tumultuous love, complex faith and one man's desperate bid to reclaim his humanity. Summoned from his medical practice in China...

One reality star bad girl. One small-town vet. And the passion is unforgettable...Move away. Dye my hair. Change my name. Fly under the radar.That's my plan to keep the public from recognizing me. I just want to be the new business owner of an...

Everyone has secrets, some more than most.Armed with her Irish mother's recipes and a willingness to roll up her sleeves, Mae Keaney retreats to the island of her childhood to escape a shameful and bitter past. After turning an abandoned fishing camp into a...

Like a phantom dogging Harriet Gray's trail, Frank Sefton is polished, charming-and utterly ruthless. Once, he abandoned the actress to a miserable fate on the far-flung shores of New Zealand. Now, he is back in her life-full of devious schemes to rob and mortify...

Pulitzer Prize-winning author James A. Michener brings Hawaii's epic history vividly to life in a classic saga that has captivated readers since its initial publication in 1959. As the volcanic Hawaiian Islands sprout from the ocean floor, the land remains untouched for centuries--until, little...

A fabulous Fifth Avenue apartment. The world of luxury real estate sales and cutthroat co-workers. A charismatic boss and an intriguing next-door neighbor...Thirty-year-old Sophie has longed to live in Manhattan but could never afford to do so--even with roommates. She has just been laid...

LARGE PRINT EDITIONA fabulous Fifth Avenue apartment. The world of luxury real estate sales and a cutthroat co-worker. A charismatic boss and an intriguing next-door neighbor...Thirty-year-old Sophie has longed to live in Manhattan but could never afford to do so--even with roommates. She has...

Liverpool 1931, where Daisy Gallagher, big, tough and loving, learns to fight competition, laugh with her customers, weep in private. In a Liverpool torn by the Depression, Daisy Gallagher grows to womanhood the hard way. She is the mainstay of her poverty-stricken family and...

Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1988, Naguib Mahfouz is perhaps the best-known living Arab writer. His books have had great success in this country, particularly The Cairo Trilogy. Fans of the famed trilogy will be delighted with The Harafish, an epic...

She has a secret admirer... Who might be putting her life in danger. Bookstore owner Frannie Colton has enough drama to deal with when she discovers her father had a secret family. She definitely doesn't have time for the handsome customer who keeps coming...

"She, You, I" is an emotional roller-coaster of a family saga about three generations of women.It's been hailed as "A book of our time," and "A brilliant first novel from a talented and skilled writer."When Skye Stanhope returns to her grandmother's childhood home, she's...

Alexander has been sent on a perilous journey through the Southlands, a pilgrimage all would-be magi must undertake in order to develop their abilities. His brother, Andrew, was named his guardian by the Oracle, a strange woman with the ability to see glimpses of...

For a young woman in 1960s England, falling in love can be a crime-and could cost her everything . . . In 1963 Manchester, England, a pregnancy is enough to get eighteen-year-old Janine thrown out by her mother-regardless of whether the baby's father is...

A TODAY Show Read With Jenna Book Club Pick! A powerful novel about the construction of the Panama Canal, casting light on the unsung people who lived, loved, and labored thereIt is said that the canal will be the greatest feat of engineering in...

6 Fantasy Novellas - 1 Epic Adventure!When the heronie, Alerice Linden, dies at the beginning of her story don't worry... She gets better.After being stabbed, Alerice wakes in the Evherealme, only to learn that she is a Realme Walker, a mortal who can traverse...

When Victor Kane left the States to start a new life in Australia, he was desperate to rid the memory of his evil and sadistic father. The land down under offered an appealing, prosperous future for the 24-year-old New Yorker.Working on an island just...

Joshua Ryder is eight when his mother is murdered. An old cowboy becomes the father he has never had and when he is dying asks Josh, now eighteen, to leave the ranch with their neighbor, Miguel, and get some experience working for another outfit....

Joshua Ryder ashamed of being an outlaw's son and convinced he carries bad blood, leaves Texas in the spring of 1876 with a trail herd of longhorns bound for Montana. The following spring he heads west with plans to settle near the Pacific Ocean...

An Italian Downton Abbey (1870-1950). This enticing family saga unfolds on the background of Italian history. The rich narrative tapestry includes a castle in the Piedmont countryside near Turin, three women, three generations, and a multitude of minor characters. It brings to the fore...

The Vineyard on Mulberry Street is a saga of the Ghirardis, an Italian American family, who leave their roots in Armento, Potenza, in Italy to relocate to Mulberry Street in New York's Lower East Side. It begins with Francesco Paolo Ghirardi who comes to...

In 1965 Chicago, thirteen-year-old Dani Marek declares she's in love, and you best believe it. This is no crush, and for six blissful years she fills her hope chest with linens, dinnerware, and dreams of an idyllic future with John. When he is killed...

Three generations of Irish American women seek better lives in Boston, in this historical saga of hope, hardship, and love by the author of Lace Curtain. Mary Boland suffered aboard a coffin ship to escape famine and make her way to America. Her daughter,...

War changes everything... Emily has always lived a life of privilege. That is until the drums of World War One came beating. Her family may be dramatically affected but it also offers her the freedom that she craves. Away from the tight control of...

The island of Key West located on the Southernmost Point of the United States has always been a place known for its uniqueness and mystery. Many people that don't know the island, perhaps, believe it is a place to just have fun, relax, and...

Apennine Mountains, Italy, 1965Leonora Bacchetti was once a happy child. But at the age of seventeen she has become a wild and rebellious young woman who leaves her parents in despair when she runs away from home with a group of itinerant travellers.In the...

"An ambitious historical epic that doubles as an intimate family saga. Jessica Shattuck captures and connects it all--the imperial ambitions of the postwar generation, the rebellion of their offspring in the Sixties, and the fallout we're still sifting through today. . . . This...

A family home, full of secrets.Number Thirty-Two was once a family home. Anna was once a mother and a wife. Now, she is in arrears and alone.With little choice but to sell up, she is forced to confront the memories of the people who...

For fans of Yellowstone, the Roaring 20s in America's Wild West come to vivid life in this inspiring saga of love, hope and endurance. 1920s, Blue Moon, Montana. The small cattle town is alight with the excitement of cars, telephones, and airplanes. But as...

The path to progress is never smooth. Winkler is changing from a company-owned town to one with new private homes and businesses. Among these are a hospital, a newspaper, a movie theater, and the Eat and Sleep, now owned by May Rose and her...

The contemporary figure has somewhat similar characteristics to his father, grandfather, and great grandfather; a soul-searching thinker, all the same, departing from the ruinous while conserving the beneficial side of the culture, customs, and manners in which he was raised and the larger generational...

After the sudden death of his parents, fourteen year old Mark Talbot's comfortable and sheltered world crashes around him. His uncle, following instructions in his father's will, sends Mark to New Zealand to live with a colony of Maori people that his father knew...

A former Hollywood star discovers the one thing she has always wished for could come true in this classic novel of second chances and timeless love by #1 New York Times bestselling author Fern Michaels. Now in trade paperback for the first time! A...

Richly plotted, animated by beautifully realized characters, and steeped in magnificent old-world detail, Malkeh and Her Children is the captivating epic of the remarkable Mandelkern family as they weather the storm of the Russian Revolution. At the family's center stands the indomitable Malkeh, an...

As wrenching and luminous as Omar El Akkad's What Strange Paradise and Mohsin Hamid's Exit West, a searing exploration of the global migration crisis that moves from Nigeria to Libya to Italy, from an exciting new literary voice.Able God works for low pay at...

Hope never dies... The dramatic novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of NOBODY'S GIRL. After losing everything in the Blitz, Hilda Stone and her 14-year-old daughter Ellen are desperate for a miracle. But their world is shattered when a telegram informs them that...

The tide is turning, but on the home front, the battle is far from over for the Campions... Autumn 1944, the allies are invading Italy. On the home front, the Campion family are doing their bit -working tirelessly in the hope that the end...

Rakesfall is a groundbreaking, standalone science fiction epic about two souls bound together from here until the ends of time, from the author of The Saint of Bright Doors. Some stories take more than one lifetime to tell. There are wrongs that echo through...

'I just love these characters...they truly feel like people I know.' Lisa Boyle, author of the Paddy SeriesAn extraordinary bequest alters their fate...In the winter of 1846, Cormac and Bridget receive two letters that will change their lives forever. Lord Bewley has died and...

"Cattle die, kinsmen die, what never dies is one's reputation." -H疱am疝This is a story of a legendary mythological family, a dynasty descended from the gods themselves. It has been told and retold over many centuries, kept alive in poems, stories, and songs that were...

"A very entertaining and, ultimately, deeply moving novel about the complex bonds between mother and daughter." --Washington Post"Mary McCarthy, Anne Rivers Siddons, and a host of others have portrayed the power and value of female friendships, but no one has done it with more...

The perfect Christmas story which follows four women who arrive at Nottingham Aircraft Centre during the festive season. They have come to build aeroplanes to help the war effort but there is love and friendship to be enjoyed this Christmas time . . .Author:...

**Available for pre-order now** Catch up with Alice, Kate and Naomi in the third novel in The Wartime Bookshop series - an uplifting WWII saga, perfect for fans of Donna Douglas and Elaine Everest. **Real readers are LOVING The Wartime Bookshop series** 'BRILLIANT' ?...

Gary Sheldon is about to meet the child he never knew he had. Within months, the popular afternoon-drive radio announcer and music director at Connecticut's Z97-3 initiates a lawsuit seeking full custody of his nine-year-old daughter. Some years later, after enduring an acrimonious custody...

Amia and others living in Sector Seven, a dystopian, tyranny civilization atop a Cumberland Gap mountain in what was an 1800s settlement, move daily through a suppressed life constantly threatened by violence from Demyan soldiers of this new America. Citizens serve the sole purpose...

Henry Morrison works as a fly-fishing guide on a river in Northern Michigan where he first learned to cast a line sixty years earlier. His life should be settled, surrounded by family and friends, but nothing turned out as planned. Bitter and angry, Henry...

Ties That Bind is one woman's journey on the path of self-discovery as she puts the pieces of her past together. Pat always knew she was adopted; she was reminded of it daily. What she didn't know was the depth of the cover-up. With...

Anne of Green Gables is a 1908 novel by Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery. Written for all ages, it has been considered a children's novel since the mid-twentieth century. It recounts the adventures of Anne Shirley, an 11-year-old orphan girl who is mistakenly sent...

The Age of Peace has arrived. For the first time in history, the Kingdoms are united, and Sages are being born. But there is a new horror on the horizon. An evil remnant from an ancient time threatens stability, and those that survived the...