Fiction - Sagas

A love affair tests a new nation's revolutionary ideals.In 1770s Boston, a prosperous merchant's daughter, Eliza Boylston, lives a charmed life--until war breaches the walls of the family estate and forces her to live in a world in which wealth can no longer protect...

In mid-nineteenth-century Ireland, charming Kathleen and dashing Michael harbor secrets and dreams. Imagining a life beyond the kitchen and fields of the wealthy family they both work for, they plot to leave their homeland, marry, and raise the child Kathleen is secretly carrying. The...

From Helen Bryan, bestselling author of War Brides, The Sisterhood, and The Valley, comes the second book in an epic trilogy told from multiple viewpoints--a story about the resilience, bravery, love, and unity that formed the foundation of the New World.The frontier of the...

Sarah Lark's epic Sea of Freedom trilogy reaches its sweeping conclusion in a story of courage, strength, and sisterhood.The dawning twentieth century brings change to New Zealand--and new opportunities for any woman bold enough to grasp them. Atamarie Turei, whose mother fought for suffrage,...

From the author of Toward the Sea of Freedom comes a novel of the triumphs, tragedies, and courage of two women bravely changing the tide of history...As the nineteenth century draws to a close, the struggle for women's suffrage has finally reached New Zealand....

New York Times Notable Book of 2015 Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Book of 2015 Finalist for the 2015 Kirkus Prize for Fiction Winner of a Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize Hailed by The New York Times for its "wildly ambitious...dazzling use of language" and "mesmerizing...

This early work of poetry is both expensive and hard to find in its first edition. Written in the early thirteenth century, it contains a collection of sagas about Norwegian kings. This is a fascinating work and is thoroughly recommended for anyone interested in...

The years-long New York Times bestseller and major motion picture from Spielberg's Dreamworks is "irresistible...seductive...with a high concept plot that keeps you riveted from the first page" (O, The Oprah Magazine). After four harrowing years on the Western Front, Tom Sherbourne returns to Australia...

First published in 1984, this remarkable story of a Japanese American family, received accolades to this day. From 1907, through WWI, adventure and discrimination, Pearl Harbor and WWII, Hiroshima to the market battle of the 80's, this mighty epic is a powerful page turner....

Harriet Beecher Stowe is the famous writer of Uncle Tom's Cabin. Her book made her readers aware of the conditions in the South for slaves and helped the abolition cause. Stowe wrote in her journal "I wrote what I did because as a woman,...

Dessie Harper faces a crossroads in her life. She's lost her cousin and lover, gained a brother, and carries an unborn child. During a tropical getaway to Montego Bay, Jamaica, Dessie meets a captivating man named Daniel-but even the prospect of romance can't deter...

Millennia from now earth is ash and cold silence. Four different worlds have evolved from the ancients. Great City, the only structure on the surface, contains thousands of citizen-units who function without question because there are no more questions. The Space States are a...

The Tudors is an intimate, delicious, and daring drama revealing the early years of Henry VIII, an idealistic, lustful tyrant torn between bedding wives and mistresses and conquering Europe. This is not the story of the old, fat Henry you've read about in history...

The Garment Maker's Daughter is a multigenerational saga of immigrant dreams and sweatshop realities, labor strikes, and women's rights. Lena Rothman is a shirtwaist-maker and devoted suffragette whose plans get derailed when she falls in love with her best friend's boyfriend. Jake Brenner is...

A panoramic and epic novel, Push Not the River recounts the rich story of Poland in the late 1700s--a time of heartache and turmoil as the country's once peaceful people are being torn apart by neighboring countries and divided loyalties within. It is then,...

When Andrew returns to his Taylor family roots in Magnolia County, Tennessee, to attend graduate school, he unexpectedly finds himself at the very center of the burgeoning American existentialist movement and facing painful choices of both head and heart. He walks the Pantheon University...

Set in the mid-1950s in rural Wyoming, Hardpan tells the journey of a young ranch family grappling with the fierce forces of nature and the changing American West after World War II. The author grew up on her grandparents' ranch in Jordan Valley, Oregon,...

1899. A life altering event led Catrina Davies to hide from her family and society. Alone in The Highlands she exists in a lonely world cared for only by her savior, a kind old gentleman. When she receives a surprise visitor, Travis Millard, the...

1898 Yorkshire--Aurora Pettigrew has it all, a loving family, a nice home, a comfortable life. She's waiting for the right man to offer her marriage, and the man for her is Reid Sinclair, heir to the Sinclair fortune and the love of her life....

She thinks her life has changed for the better, her dark secrets hidden, but little does she know... The daughter of a wealthy landowner in Yorkshire, England in 1864, Anna Thornton leads a privileged life. But she is not content. She wants her life...

Finding the girl of his dreams should have been a blessing. But people were watching ... prepared to do anything to keep them apart.If only they'd considered the unintended consequences...Farm labourer Charles Jackson doesn't expect much from life. For the price of a few...

Jan Turnbull's life takes a sharp turn towards chaos the instant her eldest son, Simon takes a tumble in the surf and loses his life. Blame competes with grief and Jan's husband turns against her. She finds herself ousted from the family home and...

When the Revd Robert Melton first arrives at St Mungo's, his initial enthusiasm quickly turns to despondency - until the biggest jackpot in US lottery history triggers a series of uncanny events that throws him, and the seemingly unconnected lives of people on both...

WINNER OF THE DIAMOND BOOK AWARD 2017 The fifth of The Guernsey Novels, Echoes of Time is a dual-time story set in the German Occupation and present-day Guernsey and is likely to appeal to fans of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society.Betrayal,...

The second instalment of The Iceberg Trilogy, Come What May, continues the story of Samuel and Rebecca Dalton through the lives of their children, most notably, their beautiful, troubled daughter, Evangeline - Gene to all who knew and loved her. In 1951 - the...

Selected for the 2017 Go On Girl Book Club reading list and, a finalist for 2016 Phillis Wheatley Award for First Fiction. Southern civility turns savage when Hank Whitaker's dying words reveal the unimaginable. No one--not his socialite wife, Maggie, or young son, Lance--ever...

E.W. Rauscher, the preeminent merchant of his small hometown of Erin, Tennessee, has always felt a comfortable level of self-confidence. But when his motives are called into question, in the middle of a Sunday morning worship service of all places, E.W. begins to ruminate...

E.W. Rauscher, the preeminent merchant of his small hometown of Erin, Tennessee, has always felt a comfortable level of self-confidence. But when his motives are called into question, in the middle of a Sunday morning worship service of all places, E.W. begins to ruminate...

Discover the magic of New York Times bestseller Melissa Foster's writing, and see why millions of readers have fallen in love with the Remingtons and the rest of the Love in Bloom contemporary romance collection. The Remingtons are a series of stand-alone romances that...

Discover the magic of New York Times bestseller Melissa Foster's writing, and see why millions of readers have fallen in love with the Remingtons and the rest of the Love in Bloom contemporary romance collection. The Remingtons are a series of stand-alone romances that...

The unforgettable story of a woman splintered by war and cultural mores, desperately struggling to hold her family together, THE FIG ORCHARD is a rich, compelling epic of love, heroism, family and empowerment. In an isolated, tradition-bound village high above the Jordan River, balancing...

Brilliant and charismatic, Rupert Willows is among the best of liars. Not even his wife knows his true identity. Overnight fortunes are being made in1890s Winnipeg and Rupert wants his share of the action. Known as the Chicago of the North for its grand...

HEAL? OR IMPLODE?Josh is all for moving forward, but how's he supposed to do that when every time Jessie tries to face her troubled past she runs away?A quaint island is a great place to hide. But a riptide can be merciless and unforgiving...especially...

Third Book in the Drifters series, after A Song For Josh and PromisesA lonely man works to help the homeless on the Downtown Eastside in Vancouver - it is his way of telling his old friend, Jessie Wheeler, that he cares about her world...

Set on the rugged island of Newfoundland, OF SEA AND SEED takes the reader on a tragic journey through the 1920s as one family strives to hold onto life in the face of secrets, betrayal, and tsunami. Chronicling this journey is the family matriarch,...

The community of Daybreak survived the war. Can it survive the peace? After the war, James Turner and the other men of Daybreak return home to find that war has changed their Utopian community forever. Charlotte Turner, Marie Mercadier and the other women they...

Real families aren't always the ones you know about... A Family Affair is where it all began...Heartache, Betrayal, Forgiveness, Redemption...all wrapped up in the people you will love to love, and those you will love to hate? When Christine Blacksworth's larger-than-life father is killed...

GIFT OF SYDNEY is an epic novel of the struggle to forge the multicultural, world-class city of Sydney, Australia. It is the second in the series of novels about the history of the city and Australia. In 1903, the wealthy and powerful Armstrongs are...

Author: Patricia Kay LucasISBN-10: 098444131XISBN-13: 9780984441310Publisher: First Person ProductionsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/01/2010Pages: 420Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.35lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.93d

Scotsman, Duncan Penross, lands on the pioneering shores of the colony of Port Phillip in 1838, the dawn of its pastoral era. Driven by fierce ambition and a lust for women, he is determined to build an empire.Isabelle Waring emigrates from northern England to...

"The House on the Beach" is a novel set in the years after the Civil War, in a Spain ruled by the military dictator Francisco Franco. This is a time when women had little independence; they were expected to lead prescribed lives, dominated by...

'This is a committed and compassionate work which I read in one sitting-it introduces a fresh new voiceand I have no hesitation whatsoever in recommending it to readers.I enjoyed it very much.' Patrick McCabe "Then the leaves whispered, the branches creaked. Something was up...

Driven into exile from Carmena, Spain, in 1577, to escape the threat of death by the Inquisition, the Robledo family immigrates first to New Spain and then joins the Onate colonial expedition in 1596 to New Mexico. Set against the historically accurate backdrop of...

Parsifal (or Sir Percival) was a Knight of King Arthur. His story is told by the troubadours of France and Germany, notably Chr tien de Troyes and Wolfram von Eschenbach. The Parsifal story stands between the past age that looked for secrets of the...

A "sharp, weird, and wildly innovative" cyberpunk family drama set in a world run by the afterlife--from a Nebula Award finalist (Cherie Priest, Locus Award-winning author of Boneshaker) In the near future, the minds of the deceased are uploaded into the computer network, where...

A heart-warming and nostalgic family saga set at the heart of wartime London, from the bestselling author of A Wartime Christmas. Perfect for fans of Sheila Newberry and Rosie Goodwin 'Surely one of the best saga writers of her time' - Rosie Clarke WILL...

Two remarkable women, one fateful night aboard the Titanic, and a lifetime of secrets--an unforgettable tale spanning three generations and three countries, rich in detail, and marrying fiction with little-known fact. The secrets in a woman's heart are deeper than the ocean... For May...

An epic spanning three generations, Leaves of the Banyan Tree tells the story of a family and community in Western Samoa, exploring on a grand scale such universal themes as greed, corruption, colonialism, exploitation, and revenge. Winner of the 1980 New Zealand Wattie Book...

E. R. Eddison's classic saga novel now in paperback--includes for the first time Eddison's remarkable letter of introduction and his unabridged closing note Styrbiorn the Strong tells the grand tale of Styrbiorn Olafsson, heir to the Swedish throne and known both for his impressive...

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK - From the author of The Chalk Artist, this beloved collection of linked stories is "one of the most astute and engaging books about American family life to have come our way in quite a while" (The Boston...