Fiction - Sagas

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

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...

'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...

Tina Edwards loved her childhood and creating fairy houses, a passion shared with her father, a world-renowned architect. But at nine years old, she found him dead at his desk and is haunted by this memory. Tina's mother abruptly moved away leaving Tina with...

With every New York Times bestseller, Luanne Rice illuminates yet another of the secret wonders of the heart. Her unforgettable evocations of family, friendship, and loves lost and won in such novels as The Edge of Winter, Sandcastles, and Summer of Roses give voice...

This is the story of a family, a very extended and decidedly non-nuclear family with multiple explosive secrets. Family members interact with powerful governmental, financial, and religious forces at a time of seismic cultural shifts in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. The...

When friendship becomes love, two people must face their greatest fear - being hurt again...The powerful bestseller from the country's number one storyteller. Luke Hammond: handsome, rich, charismatic, cursed by private tragedy. Amy Atkinson: humble and kind with a good - but wounded -...

Author: Homer HickamISBN-10: 820010057XISBN-13: 9798200100576Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/09/2010Format: CDWeight: 0.61lbs

August 1763. A brig bound for New York suddenly diverts its course into shallow Nantucket waters near the entrance to the Old Harbor, which has recently shoaled over. The fever ship, local history books tell us, laden with sick and dying Irish immigrants to...

In this novel of the 1830s, a young woman challenges boundaries of language, religion, and culture to survive war and find love and a home on the Texas frontier. Sylvie Pensoneau, an orphan, knows she must take risks to create a life beyond the...

Ed McLauren has fought his whole life: to build the Lazy Ear ranch, to pass responsible range management legislation, and to expose the unscrupulous and greedy developers who seek to rob the N'Chi-lix-czin of their birthright. This time, Ed perseveres to speaks out in...

MASTERS AT ARMS begins the journey of three men, each on a quest for honor, acceptance, and to ease his unspoken pain. Their paths cross at one of the darkest points in their lives. As they try to come to terms with the aftermath--forging...

During her freshman year, Alex met one of the star college football players. David was handsome and quickly introduced her to passion and desire, before moving to Florida to play professional football. After her graduation, Alex landed a job as a TV reporter and...

A deeply involving and beautifully written novel of a Texas family and three generations of its women -- a story about mothers, daughters, sisters, and the bonds of trust that can bind or destroy a family Justine and Martha Claire Mayfield were born shortly...

Driving an ambulance in France after the fall of Dunkirk, an American nightclub singer races to evacuate a British pilot and a Jewish orphan across more than 4,000 miles towards a precarious freedom in this emotional, action-packed story of sacrifice, hope, and devotion inspired...

Based on a true story, Gold Coins on the Black Sea weaves the tale of a family over one hundred years, showing how the Balkan Wars and World Wars I and II impact the characters' survival and accomplishments. Their gripping stories are inspirational, emotional,...

The #1 bestselling author of Cooking for Picasso and The Godmothers returns with The Girl from the Grand Hotel, a dazzling historical novel that brings readers into the glamorous world of the first (and doomed) Cannes Film Festival and the deadly atmosphere of Europe...

Author: Peter RimmerISBN-10: 1838286799ISBN-13: 9781838286798Publisher: Kamba LimitedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/25/2022Pages: 300Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.97lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.67d

An epic novel of the construction of the Panama Canal, casting light on the unsung people who lived, loved, and labored there, by Cristina Henr?uez, acclaimed author of The Book of Unknown AmericansIt is said that the canal will be the greatest feat of...

The Next Generation. The Scent of Lemons Italian saga resumes as Nick Licata leads the mafia in Los Angeles. As his empire grows, so does his desire to initiate more family in the business. Loyalty to family and loyalty to truth become blurred and...

Nikolaos was not human. He was Näcken, tethered to the river and cursed by an uncontrollable passion that drowned those who came near. Guised as a young man but older than anyone knew, he hid his torment over who he was. Näcken. Most knew...

After thirteen years on the run, Violet McLaughlin returns to Carter's Crossing, South Carolina, in 1962, with her young daughter, Sassy. The Crossing is right outside of Beaufort and the turmoil of the Civil Rights movement will forever leave its scars on the young...

When the Lotus Blooms: WINNER OF FOUR LITERARY AWARDSFrom East Bengal to Tamil Nadu, 'When the Lotus Blooms' captures the mood and ethos of the rich landscape and diversity of India, while highlighting the universal and timeless circumstances of women and their struggle to...

Stolen Sons is a retreat to the bosom of the old South with its mansions, estates, plantations, beautiful women, gala balls, delicious foods, and life at a slower pace. Readers will delight in the courtship of Leila, aged twenty, and Louis, aged sixty, and...

Based on actual people and events, THEY HAVE CONQUERED is a fictional account of an extended Mennonite family living in turn-of-the-century Ukraine. In Part Two, Gerhardt and Maria enter Ellis island before going to work on their immigration sponsor's farm in Kansas. Moving on...

When Conor's dream for Castle Dysert is facing ruin by circumstances outside his control he refuses to be beaten. Surely there must be a way to save everything they've worked so hard for? Then, as all hope seems lost, a solution in the form...