Fiction - Sagas

This assured debut novel from acclaimed Chilean author Andrea Jeftanovic explores the devastating psychological effects of the conflict in the Balkans on a family who flee to South America to build a new life. It is told from the perspective of the young Tamara,...

I'm in over my head, and Teale Delaney is the reason why.She's beautiful, sassy, and I can't stop thinking about her. If I let myself, I could fall in love. But I can't. I won't. It's to protect her, not me. Someone out there...

The Lean Dogs MC has long been a haven for the outlaws, the rebels, the ill-adjusted, and the outright monsters of Knoxville, Tennessee. They are a dark, dangerous brand of misfit, etched with ink, splattered with blood, and vilified by the town they call...

Just outside the wee village of Ballantrae, Scotland, lies Glenapp Castle, an abandoned manor with a tragic and mysterious past. When Eva and Andrew Campbell buy the fire-ravaged castle and its thirty-acre estate on a whim with plans to create an exquisite hotel by...

Daniel hated his brother. He knew it was wrong; knew his parents would be grieved if they discovered what was in his heart. But he had his fill of living in Taregan's shadow . . . Taregan the bold, the athletic, the courageous. How...

Step into the world of Dilly Court and uncover her utterly heartwarming and emotional historical romance! Clinging tightly to the penny in her palm, Flora's fortune was about to change... Flora is forever grateful for the day the Stewart family rescued her from her...

Sloane is a quick-witted storyteller, with a flair for the outlandish. From psych wards to grave robbers, she's witnessed some peculiar things in her nearly eighty years. But the story her daughter, Rynn, yearns to hear most, is the one story Sloane never tells....

As the small town of Hideaway Bay prepares for the wedding of Alice Monroe and Colonel Jack Stirling everything that can go wrong, does.Meanwhile, Della Rossi, the owner of the Hideaway Bay Olive Oil Shop, is busy with her social club and their genealogy...

Sailor Singapore Sammy Shay roamed the South Seas, desperate to find the father he neither knew nor loved. For reckless old Bill Shay had absconded with the only copy of a will that left all of his own father's worldly riches to Sammy alone....

1884 - When Betsan Morgan's mother succumbs to a devastating illness, she doesn't think her life could get much worse. But then her father moves in his new beau, an unserious flitty woman and coincidentally also the bargirl in the pub he works in,...

The Legend of Finn is the life tale of Finn Mac Cumhal, the greatest mythic hero of ancient Ireland. Finn's father, Cumhal of Clan Baiscne, is assassinated on the night of his birth. Cumhal was Lord Captain of the famed Fianna of Erin, a...

The Orphan Train Saga Continues with Patience, Paddy's story, Book Six in the saga.Paddy entered the world on June 5, 1909, as the seventh son of Irish immigrant parents with fiery red hair... While Paddy blends with his family, fitting into a society in...

The Jewish American novelist Henry Bech--procrastinating, libidinous, and tart-tongued, his reputation growing while his powers decline--made his first appearance in 1965, in John Updike's "The Bulgarian Poetess." That story won the O. Henry First Prize, and it and the six Bech adventures that followed...

WITHOUT THE DARKNESS, LIGHT HAS NO PURPOSE. WITHOUT THE VILLAIN, WHAT WOULD THE GODS DO? INDIA, 3400 BCE. A land in tumult, poverty and chaos. Most people suffer quietly. A few rebel. Some fight for a better world. Some for themselves. Some don't give...

The year is 1956. Because business is booming, a misanthropic entrepreneur and businessman, Steven Leroy Zienner, decides to open a fourth U.S. meat processing plant, this one in Mississippi. The larger-than-life Zienner is the 20th richest man in the United States, and has a...

An absolutely heartbreaking and uplifting wartime story of love, loss and friendship.1942.Determined to do her bit for the war effort, Yorkshire lass Evie Sinclair leaves her island home to become an Ack Ack Gunner Girl, defending Britain from Luftwaffe attacks.On the train steaming towards...

Book Three of The She-King series Hatshepsut has fulfilled her divine destiny and taken the Pharaoh's throne. But she knows her position is precarious. In all Egypt's long history, never has a woman ruled as king -- and Hatshepsut must use all the cleverness...

"I know," Satiah called. Her voice was musical, light, confident as a king's. "It's the Bull of Min you remember, Thutmose. You remember, and you fear." Conspiracy and treason simmer in the northern reaches of the Two Lands. Thutmose is crippled by guilt over...

Book Two of The She-King series The son of the god must take her rightful place on Egypt's throne. Hatshepsut longs for power, but she is constrained by her commitment to maat - the sacred order of righteousness, the way things must be. Her...

Red Rose and the Second Son recounts the saga of two precocious youths, Philip Parr and Elizabeth "Bess" Stanley, drawn together in the flames of adversity during the early half of the eighteenth century. Philip, the grandson of a great English landowner, seeks his...

Ballycreggan, Northern Ireland, 1955Erich Bannon is happy in the small Irish village he has thought of as home since he arrived as a terrified, traumatised seven year old, one of the last Jewish children to escape Berlin in 1939. Now at twenty-three, it feels...

A Second Chance for Love Fifteen years have passed with only the exchange of letters among three families connected by love and misfortune. Now remnants of these families reunite when May Rose follows Wanda, her reckless stepdaughter, to a West Virginia ghost town. The...

Some say the new woman in town is a troublemaker, but Winkler is already in trouble. Two years after the stock market crash, hard times have come to everyone. As the population declines and the mine threatens to close, May Rose and her friends...

The Series Finale In the final years of her life, May Rose leaves the boardinghouse and makes her home in the cottage on Wanda's farmland, where she's surrounded by old friends, the Watsons. They've always treated her like family, but in 1976 new challenges...

In 2093, over twenty years after the end of the Third World War, where a tyrannical United States was defeated by the European Defense Initiative, a secret organization called the Sicarii are at the height of its power. Led by the High Council, the...

A young Jo Deming will find an explosive stash of evidence at exactly the wrong time, and she may become just another lost butterfly in a weary and darkening world.We don't always see the butterflies in our midst and in our lives - the...

Poland, 1943-Heinrich Himmler orders the mass deportation of Gypsies to concentration camps. Sasha Karmazin, a Gypsy woman living in Warsaw, Poland, is torn from her family by the Gestapo and must leave behind her Polish husband, Henryk, and her two teenage sons, Karl and...

The beginning of a wonderful saga of love, crime and punishment.Author: Rosanna Lo PrestiISBN-10: 0595252893ISBN-13: 9780595252893Publisher: iUniverseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/29/2002Pages: 116Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.42lbsSize: 9.22h x 6.10w x 0.32d

The great saga of an American ranching family that gripped readers in the New York Times bestselling novel Hard Country and its sequel, Backlands, concludes in The Last Ranch, the final, mesmerizing novel in Michael McGarrity's powerful and richly authentic American West trilogy. When...

On a wintry day in St Petersburg, Katya - the Countess Ekaterina Polkonina - gives birth to a baby girl. But outside the cloistered confines of the Polkonin family palace, the Russian Revolution stalks the streets.All too soon, Katya's aristocratic world crumbles around her....

"WHERE PELICANS FLY" is a literary masterpiece that transports readers to a world of adventure, danger, and survival. From the very first page, we are captivated by the rich tapestry of storytelling the author has skillfully weaved. His ability to craft vivid descriptions, evoking...

1884 - When Betsan Morgan's mother succumbs to a devastating illness, she doesn't think her life could get much worse. But then her father moves in his new beau, an unserious flitty woman and coincidentally also the bargirl in the pub he works in,...

New Castle, the plantation home of the influential Richards family, is hurtling toward a cataclysm. It sizzles beneath the early spring heat, bubbling over with anger, resentment and the desires of the influential family, who tread uncaringly on the needs of others. Wilbur, the...

The Godolphin family runs a small-town bank, keeping the business in the family and earning them an enviable reputation. However, after the patriarch of the Godolphin passes away, he bequeaths the bank to his two sons, Thomas and George. Nearly polar opposites, the bank...

The Financier, a novel is the first volume of the Trilogy of Desire, which includes The Titan and The Stoic. Frank Cowperwood makes his first money by buying cheap soaps on the market and selling them to a grocer for profit. Cowperwood marries an...

At the great summer fair at the capital, a little less than a year ago, the Gylden Sirklene challenge--Sommerhjem's ancient way for choosing rulers--was called, forcing Regent Cedric Klingflug to step down. The governing of the country was turned over to an interim ruling...

His club brothers call him the Money Man. Vice President Kingston Walsh is one of the most trusted members of the Lean Dogs MC. He's thoughtful, quiet, and he's all business. Who better to serve as guardian of the club's skeletons? He never counted...

A story that ponder the question "What is truth?" Ultimately, what's uncovered is the notion that there's a definite discrepancy between the "actual" truth and multitude of "perceived" versions of the truth. In the end, the story concludes with a commonly accepted version the...

Not since V.C. Andrews' Flowers in the Attic has there been a family saga so dark and disturbing. Author Roxane Tepfer Sanford has captured readers from around the world with her debut Gothic novel The Girl in the Lighthouse. *Arrington, Book, #1 From the...

As a civil war looms in the United States, Robert Richards, the son of a wealthy plantation owner, is sent to live in England by his mother, in order to protect him from his father's abuse. There, he settles into a more peaceful life...

The battle continues between the new nation and the British.Freedom, lives, and property are at stake.Independence must be won at all costs. There is no turning back. Nestled within the mountains of North Georgia, Two Falling Waters is a magical place of beauty, much...

Dancing in the Wreckage opens with news that wealthy attorney Carson Strickland has died in a plane crash, and his will specifies that his son James Williams inherits everything. The problem is that none of Carson's colleagues or friends have ever heard of James...

Amy Barnes, a high school English teacher from Hawai'i, and Paul Rideau, a Vermont farmer, lead ordinary lives dedicated to their families and their work, but each nurses a quiet passion for creative expression-Paul in painting and Amy in poetry. When their personal worlds...

Mersey Square, Stockport, 1964. Can she love another woman's child? Jane Wilson has just got engaged to her childhood sweetheart Eddie. Although they had a rocky start and Jane is haunted by Eddie's previous relationship, she couldn't be happier that they're back together. But...

There are two sides to every love story--and every breakup. Get ready for an emotional roller coaster of family, marriage, and divorce that will have you both laughing and crying, from the bestselling author of Before We Were Strangers. After twenty-two years together, Danielle...

New Orleans is bustling with his music. Carl Lorenzio has brought his father's Dixieland hits to different heights. It's in the streets, in the magazines, in the airwaves, it's everywhere. Yet, there is a void inside him doubtful will ever again be satiated with...

'Tender and gallant...Beautiful and romantic.' Ashley Herring BlakeTo win her heart, she'll have to fight... Oxfordshire 1362 When Lily Barden discovers her best friend Johanna's hand in marriage is being awarded as the main prize at a tournament, she is determined to stop it....

From the pen of legendary historical novelist Jean Plaidy comes an unforgettable true story of royalty, passion, and innocence lost. Born into an impoverished branch of the noble Howard family, young Katherine is plucked from her home to live with her grandmother, the Duchess...

In this follow-up to Bech: A Book, Henry Bech, the priapic, peripatetic, and unproductive Jewish American novelist, returns with seven more chapters from his mock-heroic life. He turns fifty in a confusing blend of civic and erotic circumstances while publicizing himself in Australia and...

"A powerful, urgent novel that wields issues of gender and class like a blade. . . . This intergenerational novel asks hard questions about who we are, who we can become, and what awaits on the other side of our becoming. Thrity Umrigar is...