Fiction - Sagas

Millions of people have disappeared in an instant from the earth, including Mark Hillag's missionary parents, Caleb and Sarah Hillag, and his sister Esther. Mark is left alone in a world suddenly turned upside-down. When he tries to escape from Mexico City to return...

Collected for the first time is author H. Bedford-Jones' 17-part saga of the French Foreign Legion... a fascinating series based on the records of the most famous and picturesque fighting force of modern times. Featuring stories of the Foreign Legions in Crimea, Italy, Formosa,...

Ava Wilder's home in small-town Iowa is her sanctuary. A talented sketch artist with severe agoraphobia, Ava spends her days drawing a far more adventurous life than her invisible disability allows. Until she receives a package from London, explaining that she has inherited her...

Scotland, 1722: on a remote and windswept Scottish island an enigmatic poetess foretells tragedy for the proud Macdonalds of Clanranald and the birth of an extraordinary child. That child is the passionate and free-spirited Flora, daughter of Marion. Flora's early years are spent roaming...

1920: Millie escapes the bleak pit village of Craston and eviction when her mother poses as a widow to start a new life running the station hotel in Ashborough. Haunted by childhood poverty Millie sees security and happiness in the form of handsome but...

Emmie Kelso is only nine years old when she is rescued from a dingy Gateshead tenement and sent to Crawdene for her health; taken in to the vibrant, loving household of the MacRaes, a radical mining family. Blossoming into a pretty, spirited young woman,...

A heartbreakingly moving story of loyalty and passion: second in the Durham Trilogy. When pretty Sara Pallister's father dies leaving his farm bankrupt, she is begrudgingly taken in by her narrow-minded uncle and aunt in the mining village of Whitton Grange. Made to pay...

slanders is Margaret Elphinstone's first novel, written when she lived at Northbanks, Papa Stour in 1979. It is the author's expression of the seven years she lived in Shetland, during which she explored Shetland by land and sea, discovered the sagas while working in...

It's never too late to fall in love . . . Now in her seventies and widowed for the past three years, Mary Wilson never expected to find love again. But when a kindly stranger helps her home with her shopping and she invites...

Three friends discover that marriage and motherhood have their ups and downs in this warm and engaging family saga. 1960. Having been firm friends ever since they met in a Blackpool boarding house five years before, Val, Cissie and Janice are all now happily...

In 1803, the fragile Peace of Amiens breaks down, and Anne Peters finds herself stranded in Paris, penniless and alone, in danger of arrest.One chance of escape is offered, to flee under the protection of the dashing Count Nikolai Kirov, and make a new...

These stories are old, old as the Behmer Wold and seldom in life has there been such a brewing...Cycles of Norse Mythology captures the passion, cruelty, and heroism of an ancient world. Encompassing Odin's relentless pursuit of wisdom across the nine worlds, Gullveig's malicious...

Winner of the Center for Fiction's 2016 First Novel Prize The hotly anticipated first novel by lauded playwright and The Wire TV writer Kia Corthron, The Castle Cross the Magnet Carter sweeps American history from 1941 to the twenty-first century through the lives of...

Winner of the Strega Prize: a young girl in Tuscany finds hope amid heartbreak in "a story about the lonely daydreams of outsiders" (Kirkus Reviews). Smart, funny thirteen-year-old Luna lives in a small town on the coast of Tuscany. When her beloved brother, Luca,...

From master storyteller Barbara Wood comes an engrossing suspense novel about a young girl caught between the possibilities of science and the mysteries of faith. According to the doctors, seventeen-year-old Mary McFarland is pregnant. But Mary knows she is a virgin, despite her strange...

"For the love of the blessed Crown, most royal lady," said Edith-and Sir Kenneth, with feelings which it were hard to unravel, heard her prostrate herself at the Queen's feetｬ-"for the love of our blessed Lady, and of every holy saint in the calendar,...

The epic journey of Bodhidharma, who brought Zen and martial arts to the Shaolin Temple. This epic historical fiction novel opens with a young man named Sardili born of the warrior caste in 507 A.D. Sardili realizes that he would rather seek enlightenment than...

In American history, the Santa Fe Trail looms as large as the Kansas, Colorado and New Mexico landscapes it traverses. Along its path, thousands of hearty settlers traveled westward seeking a new life. In some places, the wagon ruts remain reminding us of the...

What goes around, comes around... Jimmy Diamond is growing up in the shadow of his gangster father, Martin Morton, who is determined to get shot of him. Trouble is, Jimmy is not prepared to go quietly. Martin Morton murdered his mother, and now it's...

A captivating cross-generational novel from German author Mina Baites about a Jewish family divided by World War II and an inheritance with the power to bring them back together.1914. For Paul, with love. Jewish silversmith Johann Blumenthal engraved those words on his most exquisite...

An illuminating and heart-stirring historical novel set in post-WWII Palestine, where the boundaries of love and friendship are challenged by the intractable conflicts of war.Jerusalem, 1947: Judith, a young Jewish survivor of the Dachau concentration camp, arrives in Mandatory Palestine, seeking refuge with her...

A cherished heirloom reveals the destinies of three generations of women in a powerful saga of lost love by the bestselling Greek author of The House by the River.After years spent in Germany struggling to come to terms with a dispirited and abusive past,...

Hamburg, 1898. As Ella nurses her beloved adoptive father on his deathbed, he uses the last of his strength to scribble down a name: 'Richard F'. Convinced this man must hold the key to her unknown origins, Ella hunts for more clues, uncovering years...

From Kazakhstan's most celebrated author comes his powerful and timely English-language debut about a fisherman's struggle to save the Aral Sea, and its way of life, from man-made ecological disaster.Unfolding on the vast grasslands of the steppes of Kazakhstan before its independence from the...

Hometown Alaska Men NOVELLA A blizzard, a baby, four sisters held hostage... Newlywed Tawney Tabor is at a crossroads. Feeling pressured by her husband, Rick, to get pregnant, she needs some space. Thinking some girl time with her three sisters is just what she...

Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1995. Conrad "Radical" Jessup, Sergeant at Arms of the Brazen Bulls Motorcycle Club, has life just about where he wants it: he's free of a bad marriage, and his club is cruising along healthy and strong, their business relationships as solid as...

THE EIGHTEENTH CLIFFEHAVEN NOVEL BY SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR ELLIE DEAN Author: Ellie DeanISBN-10: 178746279XISBN-13: 9781787462793Publisher: ArrowLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/01/2020Pages: 512Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.78lbsSize: 7.75h x 5.00w x 1.20d

There are going to be so many things I wish I could've told you in person, Poppy. I won't get the chance to do that, so perhaps this is my only way... It's Poppy Kinsey's birthday. She should be blowing out candles and opening...

How much would you sacrifice to save your family? 1929. When a passionate love affair threatens to leave Lucy in disgrace, she chooses a respectable marriage over a life of shame. With her husband, coffee plantation owner James, she travels to her new home...

In the darkest days of the Blitz, family is more important than ever. With her family struggling amidst the nightly bombing raids in London's East End, Ida Brogan is doing her very best to keep their spirits up. The Blitz has hit the Brogans...

From the Academy award winning screenplay writer of Burnt by the Sun, Solar Plexus is a compelling saga of family and friendship, love and betrayal, set against the backdrop of Azerbaijan's rapidly-changing capital, Baku, as the country struggles with the transition into a post-Soviet...

In By The Next Pause, Canadian author G. Barton-Sinkia brings us to a time when Toronto was on the cusp of turning into the diverse mosaic it is today.At seventeen, Pam Allen escapes Jamaica, leaving her infant daughter Simone behind. Years later, after the...

**Winner - Canada Book Awards****Independent Press Award 2020 Distinguished Favorite - Historical Fiction Series****Next Generation Indie Book Award 2020 Finalist - Fiction Series****Readers' Favorite 2020 5-Star Review**A story of war, prejudice, migration, crime, love, and heartbreak. The Prophecy saga is a fast-moving, intriguing historical...

1990On a moonlit evening in Key West, Florida, the "Journal of Johnny Cipp" is found on a secluded beach. It has been more than twenty-three years since the author disappeared from his home 1500 miles away. His opening journal entry is cryptic in its...

Outlaw is not just his name...Christopher "Outlaw" Caldwell lives life the only way he knows how. Hard. Loyal. Brutal. As president of the Death Dwellers he takes what he wants and gives only what is deserved, even meeting death head-on if it's called for....

Author: Lady Charlotte GuestISBN-10: 173170559XISBN-13: 9781731705594Publisher: Simon & BrownLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/14/2018Pages: 248Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.81lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56d

Christina's Saga: From Norway to Dakota Territory is the heartwarming story of a single woman's emigration to the Midwest prairie. This pioneer story is based on the life of Christina Gunnerson, expertly told by her grandson, Wayne Anderson. Following hardships mixed with adventure during...

Have you ever fallen in love with the wrong person--or the person who feels he or she is wrong for you? NOBODY'S HERO is the continuing romantic journey of Adam and Karla, which began in MASTERS AT ARMS & NOBODY'S ANGEL. Retired Marine Master...

JOURNEY HOME - A CAT'S TALE is a story based upon the actual life of a cat found abandoned in a dumpster, left to die. Born in a small town on the coast of Maine, an unpretentious cat named 'Patches' encounters life changing experiences...

This epic novel of the struggle for the Americas is an odyssey moving from the pre-Columbian Mayan empire to the splendid Golden Age of Spain, then back to the battle for the land and soul of Guatemala. The tale is told in three first-person...

"...a page-turner of a story about love and loyalty, loss and regret..."--STEPHEN TRIMBLEWhen Nell Jorgensen buried her husband after a hunting accident in 1975, she buried a piece of herself, her relationship with her daughter, and more than one secret along with him. Now,...

A story of the lives of three women, tightly woven together and surviving the harsh societal environment of an Appalachian mining town in the early to mid-1900s. Two religions contrast with each other--the Cherokee spirits of the native people and the Old Testament God...

Seventeen-year-old Lyuba Zhukova is left behind in Russia when her mother and aunt immigrate to America, forcing her to go into hiding from the Bolsheviks and sometimes flee at a moment's notice. By the time the Civil War has turned in favor of the...

A Tasmanian East Of EdenThe Lost Valley is a sweeping saga of ambition, betrayal and dangerous love. Tasmania, 1929: Ten-year-old-twins, Tom and Harry Abbott, are orphaned by a tragedy that shocks Hobart society. They find sanctuary with their reclusive grandmother, growing up in the...

A Tasmanian East Of EdenThe Lost Valley is a sweeping saga of ambition, betrayal and dangerous love. Tasmania, 1929: Ten-year-old-twins, Tom and Harry Abbott, are orphaned by a tragedy that shocks Hobart society. They find sanctuary with their reclusive grandmother, growing up in the...

Studio Art Case Laminate Library Edition1740s France and England-the age of hedonism and enlightenment. Antonia must flee the Court of Versailles and the lascivious attention of the predatory Comte de Salvan. She orchestrates an escape with the unwitting assistance of the all-powerful Duke of...

India Saene, Princess of Bagumi, must enter a marriage alliance to save her kingdom from an economic crisis. Tragedy strikes when her husband of a few hours is killed in an accident on the way to their honeymoon. She recovers from a coma two...

Princess Amira Saene has always done the right thing when it came to her beloved Kingdom of Bagumi. Yet her unorthodox online relationship with a man across the sea has derailed her from cultural norms. After a year of communicating, the man she's developed...

In Victorian London's East End, life for Hope Daniels in the public house run by her parents is not as it seems. Pa drinks and gambles, brother John longs for a place of his own, sister Violet dreams of a life on stage and...

Loneliness. It can lead to out-of-character behaviour. The solitary figure who sits confined in a small room, hunched over a table and writing feverishly, knows this only too well.Young Susan Smith's world was shattered when a freak accident killed her mother and nothing was...