Fiction - Sagas

Duplicity. Degeneracy. Destruction. One Empire. Two Emperors. Only one can survive.Author: L. J. TraffordISBN-10: 191257327XISBN-13: 9781912573271Publisher: Sphinx BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/30/2018Pages: 480Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.20lbsSize: 7.80h x 5.10w x 1.00d

'Njal's Saga' is rightly famous as one of the most heroic, and most poignant, of all the Icelandic narratives. Epic in scale, with battles, blood-feuds and storm-filled voyages that stretch across the breadth of the Scandinavian World, the tale is spiced with strange apparitions,...

Two sisters. Bound by blood. Torn apart by love. My sister - the glue that held our family together and the gatekeeper to the memories of our shared childhood. The girl I made a pact with - to protect each other for life. The...

William Morris is more widely known for his beautifully designed 'Arts and Crafts' wallpapers, but his first love was ancient Nordic Poetry, and especially the 13th century Icelandic 'Volsunga Saga'. Morris was obsessed with this tale from his youth, and over many years penned...

An epic tale of love and betrayal, war and hope The Iliad is the first of two legendary ancient poems attributed to the Greek bard Homer. Typically dated between the 8th and 7th centuries BC it is believed by many to be the earliest...

New York Times bestselling author Barbara Wood's latest novel follows a disinherited English baron and a young New York heiress who marry and move West to build an agricultural empire in Palm Springs in the 1920s when it was just a budding town on...

Comes the Electric Circus is a novel that reflects the tumultuous changes from the traditional 1950's to the mind-blowing 60's. The story of the romance between two young Manhattanites, at a time when New York became the world's capitol of finance and the arts,...

Reeling from addiction and on the run, accused murderer, Jeff Radcliffe escapes South Carolina authorities by sailing to the U.S. Virgin Islands. In Saint John, Jeff tracks down old sailing rival, Marcel Renaud, who invites him to sail to Trinidad. En route, a storm...

Augusta "Tucker" Delacroix is perfectly content running a successful oil field supply company until her brother and business partner, Jim Bob, dies suddenly. Things go from bad to worse when the family's lawyer introduces her to Monique, a beautiful stranger who turns out to...

Betrayal, revenge, and murder take their seats at an anniversary table. Thirteen guests toast their Sicilian-American hosts, Dante and Lisa Santangelo, as a communion-like Chianti and homemade focaccia suddenly turn bitter on their palates. With cries for help frozen on their faces, all thirteen...

The Nj ls Saga (in Icelandic Saga Brennu-Nj ls) is one of the most famous and important of the Sagas of Icelanders. The work was written in the thirteenth century prose in Old Norse language, by an anonymous Icelandic author of considerable erudition, as...

Germany, 1939.While Europe braces for the inevitable advancement of the Nazi war machine, Hitler turns his hate-filled agenda on his own people, specifically the portion of the German population least able to defend itself-the mentally and physically disabled.Aktion T4 is enacted to disinfect mainstream...

Germany, 1939.While Europe braces for the inevitable advancement of the Nazi war machine, Hitler turns his hate-filled agenda on his own people, specifically the portion of the German population least able to defend itself-the mentally and physically disabled.Aktion T4 is enacted to disinfect mainstream...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The incomparable Danielle Steel breaks new ground as she takes us to nineteenth-century England, where a high-born young woman is forced out into the world--and begins a journey of survival, sensuality, and long-sought justice. Ang lique Latham has grown...

Winner of the 2019 American Fiction Award for Best Historical Fiction Set in London and Russia at the turn of the century, Susana Aikin's debut introduces a vibrant young woman determined to defy convention and shape an extraordinary future. Like other well-bred young women...

After the gloomy memorial, the formerly pampered 1929 characters mourn the loss of Aryl Sullivan. Claire, now a pregnant widow, is too devastated to cope and withdraws from the group, delving into a deep depression. Caleb drowns his own sorrow in a bottle of...

Laurie McBain's classic bestselling Dominick saga"Now you can see how easily an ill-spoken word can cast doubt on or even destroy the feelings we thought inviolate," Dante warned her. "Never let anyone turn you against me, Rhea. Promise me that."Newly-wed, Lady Rhea Claire and...

Chance brought Miranda and Jake together. Now, the strength of true love is tested against a past that he can't leave behind.Miranda Hayes's life was changed the day she faced down Jake Harkner...and walked away with the dark and broken heart of the infamous...

A decades-long love story of two people, united by chance and separated by agonizing circumstance, that proves the power of unending love and its ability to overcome all odds.Miranda Hayes has lost everything--her family, her husband, her home. Orphaned and then widowed, desperate to...

Andy Foster never expected lightning to strike when she met the enigmatic frontman of an up-and-coming rock band, but Giovanni Carnevale left her thunderstruck. At first it is easy to use her freelance writing career as an excuse to indulge the steamy flirtation from...

Are you a person who likes to walk in new places when no one knows where you are or what you're doing, and your choices are exactly yours alone? If so, you will understand Sarah, who was never able to do this until one...

For college student Emily Sheppard, the thought of spending a summer alone in New York is much more preferable than spending it in France with her parents. Just completing her freshman year at Callister University, Emily faces a quiet summer in the city slums,...

A tale built around truth, well seasoned with fiction, in the era from 1929 to 2004, about a man named Jack who was born on a small ranch in the desert canyon country of the southwest to Anglo parents with the light of their...

2017 Evergreen Award, Forest of Reading -- NominatedA sister. A baby. A man who watches from the trees.Fara and her husband buy a house with a disturbing history that reawakens memories of her own family tragedy. Maddy still lives in the house, once a...

From the author of the beloved classic The Windflower comes a moving and tender contemporary romance of one couple's journey to rediscover love after their lives have completely changed. A loving and devoted wife, Christine Ludan has waited six months to be reunited with...

The Iliad is typically described as one of the greatest war stories of all time, but to call it a war story does not begin to describe the emotional sweep of its action and characters: Achilles, Helen, Hector, and other heroes of Greek myth...

The Obsession is one of Catherine Cookson's most unusual novels, powerfully portrays a woman so driven by the need to protect her inheritance that she will sacrifice almost anything or anyone to ensure she does not lose it. Beatrice Steel, always over-possessive about her...

From V.C. Andrews, bestselling author of Flowers in the Attic (the first in a series of Lifetime movie events about the Dollanganger family), comes the tale of a young girl kept under the watchful eye of her adoptive parents, as if they fear who--or...

Originally published in 1893, this classic book contains 'Pan Michael' the historical novel of Poland, the Ukraine and Turkey, and will prove to be a fascinating read. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely...

In this heart-wrenching novel by Sigrid Undset, The Cross brings Kristin's story to a close as the final years of her life are consumed by the Black Death, in the final installment in the well-known Norwegian trilogy, Kristin Lavransdatter. Kristin Lavransdatter has lost almost...

The first book in a heartwarming new Lancashire-based series by beloved and bestselling saga writer Anna Jacobs, set at the end of World War Two. 1945 - the war in Europe is over. It should be a time of utter joy and celebration. Most...

Author: Dwight G. StackhouseISBN-10: 1483632229ISBN-13: 9781483632223Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/19/2013Pages: 460Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.48lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.02d

When the results of your life's choices causes you to feel as if you're living in a perpetual Hell...Just know that Hell Don't Last Always... "Hell Don't Last Always" is the sequel to, "I'm Catchin' Hell." The story resumes with Angelica Townsend as she...

The second book of the serial trilogy In the Land of Rob. The Call of the Whip-poor-will picks up the story of Rob Nickerson with his imprisonment at the end of the first book, The Tale of a Woods Colt. After his stint in...

In 1875, teenager Lucy Nickerson slips into a haymow dalliance with family farmer Morgan Dinkins, a liaison that brings Rob Nickerson into the world with the unpromising prospects of a woods colt-the child of an unwed maiden of the mountains. But it's the pious...

The Spanish moss blew softly in the breeze as it danced along the sprawling limbs attached to the century old oaks that outlined the yard. The lawn had been home to five generations of Whitley descendants. The forsaken home is all that is left...

A nonstop fictional story of one man's journey, starting as a youngster from an old Italian Chicago neighborhood growing up around hardened mobsters and his quest to become something other than a criminal. The stakes get higher as he twists and turns through nine...

"Rock Star" is the highly anticipated sequel to Ginger Voight's Rock and Roll Rubenesque saga, which began with the sizzling debut of "Groupie." For those who have been anxious to see what has become of Andy, Vanni and Graham... buckle your seat belts. You're...

Everyone has secrets, but some can change your life forever...In the midst of the Second World War, Eva receives the devastating news that her husband is missing and presumed dead. Neither wife nor widow, she lives in a numb state of limbo until, in...

From the internationally bestselling author of Last Train to Istanbul.Ever since Nimeta was a child, she'd done exactly what was expected of her. She married a responsible man she met in college, had two children, and established a busy journalism career--and there was no...

The Lord of the Night is coming. The future of civilization is at stake.Miro is in the Imperial capital to prepare the Empire for the onslaught. He knows his homeland lies directly in the enemy's path but struggles to form the alliances he needs.As...

Petra Durst-Benning's captivating historical novel pays homage to the trailblazing women of the early twentieth century--like Elizabeth Arden and Est e Lauder--who shaped culture, shattered convention, and strived to make the world around them more beautiful.Despite all that Clara Berg has achieved as a...

Have you ever wished you could go back and do something all over again and do it differently? I know I have; we all have. Th e choices that we make every day not only effect our lives but the lives of those that...

Author: Lord WalkerISBN-10: 147711761XISBN-13: 9781477117613Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/06/2012Pages: 568Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.81lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.27d

For fans of Colleen McCullough, Kate Morton, and Lucinda Riley, a powerful saga of family, love, honor, and betrayal set in historical Barcelona and romantic Paris, from the author of Tuscan Rose."You who judge me: come! Let me tell you a story..." Paloma Batton...

The Black Madonna has long protected her mountain villagers in southern Italy, and some say she followed her people to America. What else explains the magic and miracles on Spring Street in Little Italy over the decades? Teresa, whose son Nicky should never have...

From New York Times bestseller Judith Michael comes a dramatic novel of love, loss, and deep-buried family secrets. Laura Fairchild enters a charmed world when eccentric patriarch Owen Salinger takes her in as his protegee and confidante. In the patrician circles of Boston's Beacon...

Looking back can seem daunting. Moving forward can feel impossible. With an old friend back in her life, will Betty hold on to yesterday even if it tears her apart?Betty's life takes an unexpected turn when a friend, long thought lost in the passages...

From New York Times bestselling author Isabel Allende, "a magical and sweeping" (Publishers Weekly, starred review) love story and multigenerational epic that stretches from San Francisco in the present-day to Poland and the United States during World War II. In 1939, as Poland falls...

From the author of the Walker Series comes a family drama like no other, a sprawling character epic, a forbidden love story full of angst, adventure, heartbreak, and second chances. Welcome to the mother chapter of the Lean Dogs Motorcycle Club; meet the girl...