Fiction - Sagas

A sweeping rags-to-riches story of survival and greed across American history following a family transformed by the Klondike Gold Rush."Told in glimmering prose and rich with historical detail, The Prospectors immerses us in the Yukon Gold Rush so deeply, you can feel the grit...

From the bestselling author of The London Girls comes a story of courage and resilience amidst the horror of Auschwitz--and one woman's last chance to share it with the world.London, 1995: When on the fiftieth anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz a news broadcast...

Being a nanny for three girls who belong to a grumpy boxing legend was not on my list of plans when I followed my brother to Macon, Oregon.I went from ruling the boardroom to baking cupcakes in the blink of an eye.And aside from...

RM Johnson's extraordinary debut is a stirring family portrait that resonates with emotion and wit, as a father faces death -- and the three sons he abandoned so many years before. Mr. Harris, I'm sorry, but you have cancer. Although devastated to leAuthor: R....

In the dying days of the Raj, can paths divided by time and circumstance ever find each other again?In 1930s Northern India, childhood friends Stella and Andrew have grown up together in the orbit of the majestic Raj Hotel. Spirited Stella has always had...

It is 2014 when Cape Cod journalist Abigail Jenkins is assigned to interview a once-famous actor, John Linton, The Collector. When she meets this strange man in the deteriorating 1685 Lyman house on Crooked Pond, Abby has no idea of how greatly her own...

The fifth heartwarming instalment in the Cornish Girls seriesCan love still thrive in the uncertainty of war?Cornwall, Summer 1943Eighteen-year-old Alice receives a mysterious work summons for a special unit in Bude. Nervous but excited, she starts training straight away.Meanwhile, land girl Penny also heads...

Eva Abrams fled France to what could be an even more dangerous place-Germany. The last thing she expected was to be pulled into the Berlin underground.While the small resistance struggles to fight against the might of Germany, Eva learns the harsh realities of what...

Pre-order the brand-new instalment in Fenella J. Miller's bestselling Goodwill House series!September 1940With harvest approaching, land girl Daphne is busier than ever as she ploughs the fields and tends to the animals with her friends Sal and Charlie. All three girls enjoy the relative...

Willyhill is not a person, place, or thing. It simply is. Willyhill II: The Progression is the second book in the series and includes fantasy with mystery elements about everyday lives and journeys. This is a fantasy but so much of it is true...

Don't miss the next utterly romantic historical saga from the No.1 Sunday Times bestselling author Dilly Court!She ran along the snow-covered cobbles, gripping her sewing box - fate in her hands...Living hand to mouth ever since her mother's tragic death, Amelia sells the last...

Thorngate is an enchanting and captivating novel that takes the reader on a journey through the lives of several generations of a remarkable family. The story begins with Esme, a young woman gifted with extraordinary talent and ambition. As the book unfolds, readers are...

WINNER OF THE 2022 AGE BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR FICTIONHIGHLY COMMENDED IN THE 2022 VICTORIAN PREMIER'S LITERARY AWARD FOR FICTION 'A parent's love for a child, you probably know this yourself, it's pretty bottomless. It goes down into the guts of the world....

A young activist is bringing the world's elite to Peru's most sacred place to affect environmental policy, but his goals have nothing to do with saving the planet. He has a single, solitary target amongst the crowd and if he is successful, he will...

Winner of the Wilhelm Raabe Literature Prize One of Publishers Weekly's Ten Best Books of 2015A Huffington Post Best Fiction Book of the Year In 1902, a radical vegetarian and nudist from Nuremberg named August Engelhardt set sail for what was then called the...

Calach stood. His anger was surfacing, and he felt suddenly seized by the demons he had been struggling to contain. Sioltach stared at Calach in admiration as he quickly translated his words. "Why have you lost one legion, soon to be followed by another?...

Whitby 1901. Sarah Brook has kept diaries for most of her life. Now eighty-five and at the end of her own journey, she allows her favourite great-niece Esther to read them. But while full of Sarah's thoughts and dreams, and family stories, the diaries...

Read the next book in the heart-warming WW2 historical romance saga series, The Steel Girls In their darkest days, they'll find the courage to carry on... Summer 1940 The war is raging on but the Steel Girls are fighting their own battles closer to...

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER - One of the most gifted American writers of the twentieth century brings back ex-basketball player Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom, the late middle-aged hero of Rabbit, Run, who has acquired heart trouble, a Florida condo, and a second grandchild, and is looking...

"Tragic and redemptive . . . Updike had Rabbit, Roth has Zuckerman, Richard Ford has Bascombe and Begley has Schmidt. . . . Schmidt Steps Back] is the most ambitious novel yet] in the Schmidt cycle."--Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Full of dark humor, compassion,...

From Mark Haddon, the bestselling author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, comes a dazzlingly inventive novel about modern family life. Richard, a wealthy doctor, invites his estranged sister and her family to join his family for a week at...

An unexpected inheritance is most people's dream, but not for Paula. Having put bad times behind her, she is now happy and secure in Western Australia with her own business. This is a complete contrast to her rootless childhood, and she has little interest...

New York Times bestselling author Tilly Bagshawe, who delivered the late beloved author's brilliance in Sidney Sheldon's After the Darkness, is back with a stunning tale of duplicity and vengeance in Sidney Sheldon's The Tides of Memory.The members of the formidable and captivating De...

A captivating saga set on the eve of WW2 in Liverpool, where life is about to change forever for one girl. As war breaks out so too does Molly Dearden... Molly is used to living in the shadow of her older sister, June. When...

An orphan leaves Dark Ages London to study medicine in Persia in this "rich" and "vivid" historical novel from a New York Times-bestselling author (The New York Times). A child holds the hand of his dying mother and is terrified, aware something is taking...

Bristow does "a grand job of storytelling" (the New York Times) in this memorable novel of the late eighteenth-century pioneers who settled the Louisiana wilderness, establishing a civilization of charm, luxury, and tragic injustice For his service in the king's army during the French...

Author: Barbara DavisISBN-10: 0451418778ISBN-13: 9780451418777Publisher: Penguin Publishing GroupLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/01/2013Pages: 384Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.85lbsSize: 8.30h x 5.70w x 0.90dReview Citation(s): Kirkus Reviews 09/01/2013Romantic Times 10/01/2013 pg. 48 - Excellent

"Final Lullaby is a courageous, poetic exploration of a controversial and emotionally-charged topic. At turns uncomfortable and celebratory, artistic and thought provoking, this is an important novel." -Brian Kaufman, author of Sins in Blue"Many of us are one bad death away from becoming a...

Freelance photographer Coty Fine falls in love with her traveling companion as they escape 1954 Hanoi. Spanning multiple decades, this four-part, cross-generational novel follows Coty and her progeny-strong women each--as they navigate their strained relationships and, assisted by the revelation of a once forbidden...

One of The New York Times Top 10 Books of the YearWinner of the An Post Irish Book of the Year, the Nero Gold Prize, and the Nero Book Award for FictionShortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Writers' Prize for FictionFinalist for the...

There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens: a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot, a time to kill and a time to heal, a...

Two women, living two hundred years apart but closer than sisters.Mary, miserable in her marriage to Thomas Carre, a merchant and privateer and living in the new family mansion in Georgian Guernsey.Lucy, separated from her husband after a tragic loss and now acting as...

Joy keeps to herself. Love only brings pain and it's not worth the risk. That's why she was the queen of one night stands. Was. Now she's in a new town and ready to start over. Maybe trust that not everyone in life lets...

Carly Graham had chosen the life she lived. And she liked it. She had the best friends a girl could ask for and a loving family that would help with anything. Falling in love was not something she'd longed for. Not since college. Until...

From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Carrie Ann Ryan comes a sexy new contemporary stand-alone series.Hazel Noble has survived horrors she wouldn't inflict on her worst enemy. Since then, she's healed, found herself, and connected with a group of women she's...

The story unfolds in the old Greenleaf Church where young Clay finds the hidden diary of Lamb Shepherd, a veteran of the Civil War. Through the stories, the boy immerses himself in those days of trial and tribulation, which profoundly affect him and his...

From bestselling Spanish author Paul Pen comes a haunting and hopeful tale of discovering light in even the darkest of places.For his whole life, the boy has lived underground, in a basement with his parents, grandmother, sister, and brother. Before he was born, his...

In the village of Lauscha in Germany, things have been done the same way for centuries. The men blow the glass, and the women decorate and pack it. But when Joost Steinmann passes away unexpectedly one September night, his three daughters must learn to...

At the height of World War II, three women must come together to fight for freedom, for the men they love--and for each other.When Hazel is given the chance to parachute into Nazi-occupied France, she seizes the opportunity to do more for the British...

Deborah Jorgenson is just four years old when she witnesses racism for the first time. Unfortunately, the hatred is directed at her. Born to Swedish parents in Minnesota in the early 1900s, Deborah believes her dark hair and skin come from a great-grandmother. When...

The Chameleon Sagas, Book IMan is not at the top of the food chain and hasn't been for a very long time.Shipton-under-Wychwood is a sleepy English village where Kate Henson arrives to study at theatre school. She meets the son of the local peerage,...

It's deal or no deal when a new threat forces two independent neighbours to face a past tragedy. Artisan cheese-maker GRACE ANDERSON lost her closest friend to suicide, then saw her father swindled out of prime dairy land. Abandonment and mistrust cemented her determination...

Bristol 1927Ten year old Magda Brodie's world is torn apart when her mother dies in the workhouse two weeks before Christmas.Her wastrel father arranges for her sisters to be sent to their grandparents in Ireland and for her younger brother to be adopted leaving...

Once upon a time, I fell for a dashing London restaurateur named Xavier.He left me with a broken heart... and a positive pregnancy test.Now, he's back in my life and determined to stay.He asks me just one question: will I move to London with...

Protecting my best friend's new sister-in-law Willow from a fan who wants to get too close is a no-brainer.Just requires me to do some checking around, to act as her shadow for a while, maybe even give her a place to stay so I...

A forbidden romance in occupied Norway...Narvik, 1940. After Laila awakens to the sight of warships in the fjord, it isn't long before she turns resistor to the brutal Nazi regime. She is horrified when local girls begin affairs with enemy soldiers, yet against her...

A Family Reunion with an edge of your seat twist. A seemingly perfect reunion until one fateful moment three lives are put in danger, the fallout could ultimately shatter the deep love and trust in this family, dividing them forever-and the cost could be...

In this family saga, love and loss are bound together by a country always at war.Finalist for the 2019 Whistler Independent Book Awards, and semi-finalist for the 2019 Kindle Book Awards.Lukia Mazurets, a Ukrainian farmwife, delivers her eighth child while her husband is serving...

Author Diana Stevan's sequel to the award-winning Sunflowers Under Fire. Lukia's story continues in Lilacs in the Dust Bowl, an inspirational family saga about love and heartache during the Great Depression.In 1929, when Lukia Mazurets, a widow and a Ukrainian peasant farmer, immigrates to...

An Inspirational Family Saga, that started with the Award-Winning Sunflowers Under Fire. On Miramichi Readers' List of Best Fiction for 2022.Wars, typhus, drought and family losses could not stop Lukia Mazurec. Will her children's indifference finally break her spirit?With the Great Depression ending and...