Fiction - Sagas

A popular novel about a homesteading family; the author's only book.Author: Ira S. NelsonISBN-10: 1931832366ISBN-13: 9781931832366Publisher: RiverbendLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/01/2003Pages: 309Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.85lbsSize: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.90d

"Dramatically engaging and unsettling." - Kirkus Reviews​"Multifaceted, complex, and satisfyingly realistic. - Midwest Book Review​"A well-crafted account of sacrifice and betrayal, triumph and forgiveness." - Blue Ink Reviews​"A well-researched, well written and interesting portrait." - Indie ReaderGerman immigrants Karl and Marta Meyer are loyal...

DON'T MISS THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING SADIE SINK OF STRANGER THINGS! Dear Zoe is a remarkable study of grief, adolescence, and healing with a pitch-perfect narrator who is at once sharp and naive, world-worried and self-centered, funny and heartbreakingly honest. Fifteen-year-old Tess DeNunzio...

A remakable story of God's constancy and provision for all lovers of history, romance and faith... Based on historical characters and events, Love to Water My Soul recounts the dramatic story of an abandoned white child rescued by Indians. Among Oregon's Paiute people, Shell...

Barbara Mutch's stunning first novel tells a story of love and duty colliding on the arid plains of Apartheid-era South Africa When Cathleen Harrington leaves her home in Ireland in 1919 to travel to South Africa, she knows that she does not love the...

"This is a story intimately and compassionately toldagainst the sensuous background of everyday life in Bombay." --Washington Post Book World "Bracingly honest." --New York Times Book Review The author of Bombay Time, If Today Be Sweet, and The Weight of Heaven, Thrity Umrigar is...

Edwardian England. Agnes Ashford knows that her duty is threefold: she needs to work on cataloguing the archive of the titled Bryant family, she needs to keep the wounds of her past tightly under wraps, and she needs to be quietly grateful to her...

The Master of Harmlessness...who came and told us something about our real selves. "In April, I woke up one morning, out of the blue, and there was a sort of voice in my head, not exactly a voice, but sort of a telepathic thing,...

This future she knows for certain-the great sun city will be her undoing. Amidst a power struggle between Pharaoh and the priesthood of Amun, Queen Nefertiti helps the ill-prepared new Pharaoh, Amenhotep, enact his father's plan to regain power for the throne. But what...

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Christms Box and A Christmas Memory comes a story tracing the lives of a family through reflective diary entries on love, loyalty, and forgiveness. April 3, 1912. "Is this life, to grasp joy only to...

New York Times BestsellerThe fourth installment of Bernard Cornwell's New York Times bestselling series chronicling the epic saga of the making of England, "like Game of Thrones, but real" (The Observer, London)--the basis for The Last Kingdom, the hit television show.The year is 885,...

From the award-winning author of The Danish Girl and The Rose City, Pasadena tells the story of Linda Stamp, a fishergirl born in 1903 on a coastal onion farm, and the three men who change her life: her jealous brother, Edmund; Bruder, the orphan...

A Classic Love Story of a Fearless Lordand the Woman Who Tamed Him Darkly handsome and rich beyond imagining, the bold English conqueror was called "the Black Lyon" for his lion like ferocity. He had no match among enemies, or women . . ....

In Rise to Rebellion, bestselling author Jeff Shaara captured the origins of the American Revolution as brilliantly as he depicted the Civil War in Gods and Generals and The Last Full Measure. Now he continues the amazing saga of how thirteen colonies became a...

Searingly hot in the summer, bitterly cold in the winter, the ancestral estate of the Golovlyov family is the end of the road. There Anna Petrovna rules with an iron hand over her servants and family-until she loses power to the relentless scheming of...

Harry Turtledove hailed Island in the Sea of Time as "one of the best time travel/alternative history stories I've ever read," and Jane Lindskold called Against the Tide of Years "another exciting and explosive tale." Now the adventures of the Nantucket islanders lost in...

The doctor's office is cool, white, sterile. But the doctor's words are searing: blood tests prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that Margaret and Arthur Crawfield's beloved, dying son is not their child. Now they must face Peter's death and the shock of...

Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time Winner of the Pulitzer Prize when it was first published in 1918, The Magnificent Ambersons chronicles the changing fortunes of three generations of an American dynasty. The protagonist of...

In 1899, in the south Indian village of Chevathar, Solomon Dorai is contemplating the imminent destruction of his world and everything he holds dear. As the thalaivar, or headman, of Chevathar, he seeks to preserve the village from both catastrophe and change, and the...

A legend begins in Dune: The Duke of Caladan, first in The Caladan Trilogy by New York Times bestselling authors Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson. Leto Atreides, Duke of Caladan and father of the Muad'Dib. While all know of his fall and the...

On a frontier torn by war and renegades, they carried a cargo more valuable than gold... Miners dug for fortunes. Soldiers died on open plains. And a few brave men drove the wooden freight wagons into the wild land. Now, master Western novelist Ralph...

Kate is only eighteen when she meets Tom Harper, one of America's biggest pro-football stars.They share an idyllic and glamorous first love.But the bullet that suddenly ends Tom's career also ends their life together.A failed suicide attempt will leave him mentally and physically disabled...

The Cynsters are back in a brilliant new series from USA Today and New York Times bestseller Stephanie Laurens Fans adore Laurens's irrepressible fictional family of sexy scoundrels and passionate ladies and their amorous Regency Era exploits. In Laurens's sensational new Cynster historical romance,...

From Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson, Dune: The Lady of Caladan is a brand new novel in the internationally bestselling Dune series. Lady Jessica, mother of Paul, and consort to Leto Atreides. The choices she made shaped an empire, but first the Lady...

In Rise to Rebellion, bestselling author Jeff Shaara captured the origins of the American Revolution as brilliantly as he depicted the Civil War in Gods and Generals and The Last Full Measure. Now he continues the amazing saga of how thirteen colonies became a...

Two schoolboys, Dick and Doc, are cousins who resemble each other because their mothers are twins. As Dick is also related to Tarzan through his father, they become known as the Tarzan Twins. Invited to visit Tarzan's African estate, they become lost in the...

The Road is a novel written by the renowned American author, Jack London. It is a story of a young man named Joe who embarks on a journey to find his place in the world. Joe is a drifter who has lost his way...

From Barbara O'Neal, beloved author of How to Bake a Perfect Life and The Lost Recipe for Happiness, comes another magical, heartfelt novel--perfect for fans of Kristin Hannah and Susan Wiggs. After tragedy shatters her small community in Seattle, the Reverend Elsa Montgomery has...

In Legacy of Silence, New York Times bestselling author Belva Plain creates an unforgettable story of a remarkable family--and a deception that reaches across continents, oceans, and generations. Caroline Hartzinger flees wartime Europe with a shattered life and a devastating secret. Pregnant and unwed,...

"Laura Pedersen delivers . . . Throughout, you can't help but think how hilarious some of the scenes would play on the big screen."--The Hartford Courant "There could be no doubt left in anyone's mind that my life had all the makings of a...

"Deservedly compared to her countrywomen, Binchy and Pilcher, Willett is an equally gifted storyteller."--Booklist The Keep - that beautiful, ancient family home where the Chadwick family had lived for generations - is still a haven from the heartbreaks and storms of life. Jolyon Chadwick,...

Follow Five Generations of One Remarkable Indian Family on a Quest for Enlightenment.Author: Bem Le HunteISBN-10: 0060573686ISBN-13: 9780060573683Publisher: HarperOneLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/17/2004Pages: 416Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.71lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.40w x 0.99d

The wrong woman rocked his world. Is fate rewriting his future? The Gansett Island Series, Book 4 Since he won the Academy Award for best original screenplay a few years ago, Grant McCarthy's personal and professional lives have fallen apart. Abby, the woman he...

Opposites attract, and Helmut Holk and Christine Arne, the appealing married couple at the center of this engrossing book by one of Germany's greatest novelists, could not be less alike. Christine is a serious soul from a devout background. She is brooding and beautiful...

This sweeping family saga now moves to the lives and loves of the Cherrells in the early 30s, cousins by marriage to the Forsytes. An old English family, their one constant in an age of change and uncertainty is their ancestral home, Condaford Grange....

"We all set our sights on the Great American Novel. . . . [Thomas Maltman] comes impressively close to laying his hands on the grail." --The Boston Globe The intertwining story of three generations of German immigrants to the Midwest--their clashes with slaveholders, the...

Stephan has lived the lifestyle of a Dominant for five years. After several rebellious teenage years, it gave him the stability and control he had been seeking after his parent's death. As president of a not-for-profit foundation, he knows what his future holds and...

Was the "Blood Countess" history's first and perhaps worst female serial killer? Or did her accusers create a violent fiction in order to remove this beautiful, intelligent, ambitious foe from the male-dominated world of Hungarian politics? In 1611, Countess Erzs bet B thory, a...

The acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Ellen Foster, Kaye Gibbons paints intimate family portraits in lyrical prose, using as her palette the rich, vibrant colors of the American South. Sights Unseen shows the author at her most passionate and heartfelt best --...

The debut novel of author Sharon Jackson, Nobility is a look at the power of wealth, beauty, and privilege to corrupt-and the strength of a heart to overcome its own inner darkness.Elyse Aubrey Encott had everything she could have ever wanted. Born to an...

The BRAND NEW gripping historical novel from Bestselling author AnneMarie Brear Wakefield 1870On the banks of the River Calder, Meg Taylor struggles to care for her younger siblings and sick mother whilst her father is away working as a boatman on the canals. The...

The debut novel of author Sharon Jackson, Nobility is a look at the power of wealth, beauty, and privilege to corrupt-and the strength of a heart to overcome its own inner darkness.Elyse Aubrey Encott had everything she could have ever wanted. Born to an...

Amy Feldman is at the epicenter of a storm as she confronts the indifference of her husband, Josh, whose personal demons and career obsession threaten to shatter their marriage.Fueled by her determination to liberate herself from the ghosts of the past and an unfulfilling...

September 1942Having done her duty as an ATS girl, Lance Corporal Ruth Cox is moving on to new challenges and has signed up to work as a gunner girl, helping to keep the skies clear of enemy planes and safe for our brave boys...

As the war reaches London, they'll band together...War strikes close to home for chief librarian Cordelia when her flat is bombed, and her beloved Robert is called up and sent abroad. Fortunately, her colleagues Mavis and Jane can help see her through hard times.The...

Maya's back with her final adventure. Rouge refugees have entered the fortified Fortress and have brought havoc and chaos to the growing population. Maya must do whatever is necessary to protect herself and her people from extinction, even if that means accepting Niju's help...

Marcus Machado, or Marquito, as his friends call him, is a young man who, along with his dog Arrow, find themselves in a sport called dog agility, giving them a new beginning after facing the traumas within his family.Alongside his canine partner, Marquito travels...

Maya's tale is not one for the faint of heart. This is the second book in the series, showing how she has changed from the battered person she needed to be to stay alive and into a warrior for her people. She travels across...

The Story of Burnt Njal is an epic tale of love, loyalty, and betrayal set against the stunning backdrop of Iceland in the 10th century. George Webbe Dasent has done an incredible job of translating the Icelandic Njals Saga into English, capturing the spirit...

*Shelf Unbound finalist for 2023 Best Indie Book Award.*American Fiction Awards 2023 finalist in the category of family saga.*Shortlisted for Chanticleer International's 2023 Laramie award in Americana fiction.*Literary Titan Gold Book Award, May 2023.*Longlisted for Chanticleer International's 2023 Best Series Award (as part of...