Fiction - Sagas

The IDEALIST begins with a boy's imaginary quest to rescue his father from the czar's prison. Out of his imagination emerges Georg-Karl Russano, a Socialist journalist and champion of human rights. His father, disillusioned by the Russian Revolution, becomes his bitter enemy. Alessandra, his...

What do Rock and Roll and Bagels have in common? Not much unless you're a lovesick writer and musician working in a Bagel bakery making a last ditch effort to snag the fabled Brass Ring.Combines the insider rap and comedy of "High Fidelity" along...

In this "memoir" by Elizabeth I, legendary historical novelist Jean Plaidy reveals the Virgin Queen as she truly was: the bewildered, motherless child of an all-powerful father; a captive in the Tower of London; a shrewd politician; a lover of the arts; and eventually,...

THE SICILIANS: A Novel in the Fate and Other Tyrants Trilogy The Sicilians is the saga of a people, a novel of murder and revenge, passion and power. Populated by princes and peasants, tyrants and rebels, priests and sinners, heroes and cowards, this epic...

As the war continues, the library girls face their greatest challenge yet... With the echoes of war reverberating around London, Cordelia, Mavis, and Jane are delighted to be blessed with some good news: the King and his Queen will be making a visit to...

Throughout his life, Henry Anderson, born in 1891, never lost sight of his dream, which was to own a cattle ranch in Mexico with a beautiful hacienda. From a small farm in rural South Texas to a dusty border town in Arizona, Henry then...

A touching novel about first love, family bonds, and rekindled relationships from the New York Times bestselling author and beloved Nantucket storyteller Nancy Thayer.Author: Nancy ThayerISBN-10: 0593724046ISBN-13: 9780593724040Publisher: Ballantine BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/22/2025Pages: 336Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.25lbs

Lest we forget... A poignant tale of love and loss for fans of Nadine Dorries and Katie Flynn. It's 2003 and at over 100 years old, Selma Dixon is the last link to the hidden truth behind her village's refusal to honour its war...

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...

Author: Kristena Prater, Salodius ByrdISBN-10: 1958711705ISBN-13: 9781958711705Publisher: Bright Communications LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/12/2024Pages: 304Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.27lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d

In Quo Vadis, Henryk Sienkiewicz masterfully weaves a tale of love and faith set against the backdrop of ancient Rome. This epic novel explores the clash between the burgeoningChristian faith and a decadent empire, capturing the timeless struggle for freedom and spiritual redemption.Author: Henryk...

Jehanne d'Arc's journey began as a ten-year-old girl living in Domremy, France with her family. Like many families, they endured the Hundred Year War ravaging across their kingdom. Her life suddenly changes when she meets an angelic being in the forest and is told...

A deeply poignant novel about the resilience of the human spirit when two women face unforeseen catastrophes.Jane is at the height of her career, confident, fearless, and commanding. Her daughter Meg is loyal, hardworking, and a tad eccentric.Both women consider their lives to be...

A deeply poignant novel about the resilience of the human spirit when two women face unforeseen catastrophes.Jane is at the height of her career, confident, fearless, and commanding. Her daughter Meg is loyal, hardworking, and a tad eccentric.Both women consider their lives to be...

The Lakota word, Sunka Wakan, means horse. The English translation is Sacred Dog. This story is about the epic life of one such sacred dog whose fight for survival in the brutal high deserts of Nevada leads him on an unbelievable journey.Live the incredible...

Before Putin and his poison, madness had a name, and death was his countenance - Ivan the Terrible.Following the carnage of Ivan the Terrible's sack of Novgorod in 1570, artist Petr Safronov must lead the remnants of Novgorodian society to the outcast lands beyond...

Before Putin and his poison, madness had a name, and death was his countenance - Ivan the Terrible.Following the carnage of Ivan the Terrible's sack of Novgorod in 1570, artist Petr Safronov must lead the remnants of Novgorodian society to the outcast lands beyond...

While most use their summer breaks for pleasure, third grade teacher Cindy Moore is using her summer vacation to tie up some loose ends concerning her grandmother's estate. When Cindy enters the storage unit that holds her grandmother's belongings, she is merely looking for...

Rachel Norris wants to forge a new life and career. And she wants to forget her past. When Rachel qualifies as nurse, she does so because she wants to help others and make a difference. But she is also running from a past life...

Simon Pennington Paris Sleuth is hired by Mrs. Duchesney to find her favorite author, Jamie Litton, a reclusive mystery writer whose best friend Ben Foulof is a spy on the run. Her assignment was meant to be a fun, harmless adventure for the summer,...

The second book in an emotional and heartwarming WWII Series. For fans of Ellie Dean and Annie Groves. Dover, 1940 With the Battle of Britain raging overhead and German guns firing across the Channel, the people of Dover suddenly find themselves on the front...

Author: Ginny BellISBN-10: 1838771433ISBN-13: 9781838771430Publisher: ZaffreLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/23/2021Pages: 400Format: Paperback

From the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of North and South, "the best historical novelist of our time" (Patricia Cornwell). In the late nineteenth century, Newport, Rhode Island-with its giant marble mansions, lavish dinner parties, and vicious social climbing- is a summer playground of...

A page-turning novel about a Black teen from the Rio slums and an upper-class white girl who are brought together by fate and betrayed by families who threaten to tear them apart--from one of the most gifted American writers of the twentieth century and...

In every generation, a fantasy novel is published that captures something essential and enduring about life that no other book has expressed in quite the same way. Here unfolds a journey of discovery-in a story that surprises us on every page. . . .THE...

How long can the shadows of the past hang over one family?Philip Richards puts little value on his life. He avoids close relationships and blames himself for the sexual abuse his sister suffered at the hands of their grandfather. To drown his sorrows and...

The Magic of the Highlands Makes Everything Seem PossibleKristin Hart, a young industrial engineer for a shampoo and body products company, shows up in her Vermont factory one dreary day to find an intriguing, mysterious Scotsman sitting at her desk.Malcolm MacDowall, the nephew of...

From the bestselling author of The Shop Girls of Harpers and The Mulberry Lane Series.Oxford St, London, 1913.The shop girls of Harpers Emporium on Oxford Street are happy in their work and their lives are moving on at quite a pace.United by the suffragette...

Author: Michele BrouderISBN-10: 1914476239ISBN-13: 9781914476235Publisher: Michele BrouderLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/06/2024Pages: 474Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.52lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.06d

Warwick Deeping's Sorrell and Son is a poignant tale of unwavering devotion and resilience. Follow Captain Sorrell's struggles and triumphs as he raises his son alone after WorldWar I, navigating societal challenges and personal sacrifices. A moving exploration of love, duty, and the enduring...

As she starts to piece together the past, Killigrew Clay begins to face new problemsPrimmy Tremayne's daughter, Skye, has always been fascinated by her family's romantic and turbulent history. Travelling from her home in America to Cornwall, she is eager to meet the older...

Ithaca, Greece, 13th Century B.C. in a faux Regency setting.Odysseus Halstead, the Duke of Ithaca, is looking for a wife, and he has chosen Lady Penelope Auckland, only child of Earl Icarius Auckland. The two are very much falling in love, and Odysseus believes...

From multi-award-winning historical fiction author Ashley E. Sweeney comes a family saga about the Irish immigrant experience spanning New York, Chicago, and Colorado so compelling that, USA Today best-selling author Kelli Estes says, "I read this story in one sitting." Thirteen-year-old Mary Agnes Coyne,...

Everything is changing at the Quality Street factory, can the plucky girls in the line make this a Christmas to remember? The Quality Street girls are gearing up for Christmas, but with the factory now making gas masks, as well as the nation's favourite...

After the death of his godfather, Mikel, a would-be revolutionary, inherits the Basque signet ring, a priceless family heirloom that has fascinated and eluded him since he was a child. How did his grandfather-- an indentured Basque peasant-- acquire such a valuable ring? Different...

He thought she was the one...until she walked away. Now she's back and he wants her more than ever.As a former Marine, Xander Kingston's writing keeps him sane. Bonus? His thrillers made him one of Hollywood's most desired screenwriters-and also introduced him to a...

The beginning of a brand-new trilogy from bestselling author Kay Brelland, featuring the Silvertown Explosion, the rise of women's football, and East End suffragettes.She is her family's only hope. 1916. East London. When sixteen-year-old Clover Cooper's mother, Iris, calls her home from work one...

He's a grumpy Coast Guard focused on a life of service. She's a feisty musician searching for stardom. Nothing about them fits, and yet attraction burns wild when they end up in the same house for the summer. I had one last summer with...

Author: Pearlie Chandra SinghISBN-10: 146534697XISBN-13: 9781465346971Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/26/2011Pages: 298Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.84lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.67d

In the 1880s, William Bonney is a legendary outlaw of the American frontier-you might know him better as Billy the Kid. Scheduled to hang as a convicted murderer, Billy is represented in Lincoln County, New Mexico, by attorney Ira Leonard. But in a life...

The cataclysmic conclusion to the international bestselling Brethren trilogy 1295 A. D. The Christian empire in the Holy Land lies in ruins. Returning to Paris, Knight Templar Will Campbell is at a crossroads. He has sworn to uphold the principles of the Anima Templi,...

The incredibly buzzy debut that everyone is talking about -- a love story about two people pulled apart by the same force that draws them together: music. It's a Friday night in a campus bar in Berkeley, fall of 2000, and Percy Marks is...

From the author of Bitterroot Landing--hailed by the Richmond State as "a splendid contribution to Southern literature"--comes a stunning story woven around the themes of innocence and miracles in everyday life. When the granddaughter of the founder of an isolated religious community in South...

France, 1939: A talented singer, Ruth Lacroix has left Maine to live with her aunt and uncle, dreaming of performing at the Casino de Paris. But with the outbreak of war, and the heartbreaking news that her cousin has been killed by German forces,...

There's nothing like a death in the family to stir up old loves, rivalries and hatreds . . . In a world of winners and losers; friends and lovers; horses and dogs, Bramble, Felicity and Helena are sisters - but three very different women....

Author: Lilian HarryISBN-10: 0752834428ISBN-13: 9780752834429Publisher: OrionLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/02/2000Pages: 480Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.55lbsSize: 6.90h x 4.30w x 1.30d

From Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Amazon Bestselling Author Natasha Madison comes new A billionaire, marriage pact, opposites attract, workplace romance.What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. Unless you end up married!ZoeyWhen I first met him, I got butterflies in my stomach.I thought...

"With chilling detail and deep compassion, Mattison Casaus chronicles how family trauma can be passed down through generations. Using beautiful symbolism, Casaus forges a family pistol, a treasured heirloom, which they assume is what protects them, but it almost destroys them." -Enrique R. Lamadrid,...

Immerse yourself in the Harpers Emporium in the roaring 20s - a time of prosperity, optimism, and change... London 1926 Kitty Wilson, who, after losing her father, rejects the unsuitable suitor her mother has chosen. Abandoned by her mother, Kitty faces the challenges of...

The storm has passed, but the hard work is just beginning... Gansett Island has withstood the fury of Hurricane Ethel, and now the cleanup is underway for many islanders, including McKenzie Martin, who barely escaped the storm with her life and that of her...