Fiction - Sagas

Whitby, 1879. Following the death of her parents in the Tay Bridge disaster, twenty-three-year-old Lena Carnforth expects to inherit at least half of her father's thriving shipping and merchant business. But, though leaving her comfortably off, her father leaves the entire business to his...

In the quiet of the Wiltshire countryside, Maggie Hatherall, full of life despite her advancing years, is worried about what she is going to do with her two-hundred-year-old home. Newcomer Lucia Grey has escaped a bad marriage but her ex is reluctant to let...

In the quiet of the Wiltshire countryside, Maggie Hatherall, full of life despite her advancing years, is worried about what she is going to do with her two-hundred-year-old home. Newcomer Lucia Grey has escaped a bad marriage but her ex is reluctant to let...

An exquisitely wrought debut novel about sisterhood through three generations in Ireland and America It is 1921 in Ireland. When their mother dies in childbirth, Moira and Julia O'Leary are left to rear their infant sister, Ann, while their father, a sheep farmer, despairs....

"When I was seven I told my father that I wanted to grow up to be invisible." As a young woman of mixed race, Nellie Kincaid is about to encounter the strange, unsettling summer of her fifteenth year. Reeling from the recent separation of...

This passionate West Country smuggling saga set in the early 19th-century is an intriguing departure for Tudor mystery writer Fiona Buckley. Exmoor, 1800. When farmer's daughter Peggy Shawe meets the charismatic Ralph Duggan, son of a so-called 'free trader', it's love at first sight....

August, 1914. The comfortable lives of the aristocratic Barsham family are set to change forever with the onset of World War I. Over the next four years, the strength of character of the four Barsham siblings, Gina, Millie, James and Ned, will be tested...

London, 1920. When 14-year-old Victoria Keats is thrown out of her home by her violent father, it seems likely she will starve, until two strangers provide her with no-strings-attached help. As Vicki's life improves, she can't help but fixate on the mystery of these...

Gigi Marino has known a lot of loss, but she's also, in her fifties, finally found the love of her life. She desperately wants to settle into her retirement years-to be able to focus her attention on her husband, Douglas, enjoying the time and...

Lia Battelli's life changed the day she met the daughter that she'd given up twenty-three years ago. After a lifetime of guilt, she's desperate to live her life in a way that honors her daughter. In order to do this, she'll accept the gifts...

Grief and fear are exhausting. And Arianna was not prepared. Her parents had given her everything. But they hadn't taught her how to survive tragedy-not the kind that could rock a young girl's world. The only thing she wants now is to escape-to take...

Jelena Preseren has finally found love and happiness with her new husband Ashinji Sakehera and his family, but her peaceful life is about to be turned upside down. In the coming months, Jelena's and Ashinji's lives undergo profound changes which tests them both in...

Soon To Be A Major Motion Picture From Academy Award(R)-winning Director Barry Levinson With this stunning literary portrait of ill-fated love played out amid the romantic squalor and violent underpinnings of contemporary Dublin and New York, Denis Hamill has crafted a work of greater...

A wedding. A farewell-and an unexpected arrival. A Christmas unlike any other on Tullagulla Station!As another year of drought draws to a close in outback Queensland, Australia, Grace Lansdowne attempts to put her worries aside to host a festive country event for her family...

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall... In America, kings are not born, they are made. Men with ambition build their own empires and it is their heirs who carry the torch of tradition, generation by generation. The Vasser Hotel Empire rose...

"A swift dramatic story of the Donati family in actual events affecting the history of California's Napa Valley, from the late 1800s through the 1970s-the generational saga at its best."-Publishers Weekly "VINTAGE is spellbinding, an American saga in the Galsworthy tradition-enthralls the reader from...

This controversial political mystery examines the issues of race and socio-economic conditions that exist in our country today. Told through the words of Wirth Dunhill, a confused Republican Senator from Boston; Glea, his enigmatic wife; and Moorehouse, his radical brother; the novel mirrors the...

Aging logger Daniel Hobgood looks back on a life lived in pursuit of a dream. Born the son of a struggling pulpwooder, he fought against the odds to rise above the path that folks thought he ought to follow. Always looking for a better...

High school students, Samuel and Sarah, hid their love for one another from their disapproving parents until they were sure their unborn child was safe, but gave into the pressures placed on them and gave the baby boy up for adoption after he was...

An absorbing novel, The Record Shows tells the story of a woman in love with a man with ties to the world of organized crime. Author Janet Pacella weaves a fascinating tale of emotional and moral conflict. When Mary Connally reexamines her life after...

Vincent Michelson, his sister Janice, and brothers Corbin and Ellis are preparing for their traditional Christmas celebration at their mother's home when an unexpected interruption comes-the siblings receive the disturbing news that their father has died. What follows is an odd chance meeting that...

Precisely as its title so unapologetically indicates, Scarlett O'Hara Can Go to Hell is not a Sunday stroll through myths of southern ladies waiting for heroic southern men to fill their lives with romance and adventure. If anything, it's the exact opposite mesmerizing tale...

In 1962, after fleeing her charming, adulterous husband, Suzanne McTavish, desperately needs a job. Few exist in tiny Barkerville, tucked in the forests of Oregon's Cascades. Old Mr. Wilke at the White Water Bar & Grill wants pretty girls tending his bar-and much more....

Faith Green's comfortable existence as owner of Boutique Magnifique begins unraveling when her beloved mother is seriously injured and confined to a nursing home for rehabilitation. When well enough to leave, but still unfit to live alone, Mimi is moved to Harmony Hall, a...

Ida's shadow rose erect, and her black-eyed gaze, calm as the eye of the hurricane, rested on Geneva's face. 'Who's the father?" Geneva gripped the sheets more tightly, her eyes blurring, her mind struggling to imagine the consequences of answering her question. Victor was...

A historic gold coin marches across history and the world from the time of Julius Caesar to modern America--cursed in death, war, betrayal, hate and finally embraced by love and honor.Author: Jack CasserlyISBN-10: 0595356281ISBN-13: 9780595356287Publisher: iUniverseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/17/2005Pages: 324Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.05lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w...

AMERICAN FAMILY is Tom Gannon's confession--a story of secrets and sins, set in 1950's America. Haunted by memories of his heroic father, Joe; his complicated grandfather, Hank; his stoic mother, Mary; and his boldly courageous sister, Liz, he weaves an engrossing tale--a classic narrative...

The Buenavida Dilemma is a rich account of the history and life experiences of Hispanics in the Southwest and Western United States from the 1850s through today. Using five generations of the Buenavida family, the author describes the social and cultural events and issues,...

Could you find your way without so much as a trail of breadcrumbs? A tragic 1925 accident plunges nine-year-old Edna Modene into the role of orphan. Famished Heart is the moving story of her journey to find her place in the world after shattering...

Scarred from Vietnam, Steve is invited to a wedding in Mexico where he meets Miracle, a young Mexican woman who is asked to be his guide. After a series of misunderstandings they come to care deeply for each other, this spark evolves into the...

Author: Vincent Mountjoy-Pepka, Kira Mountjoy-PepkaISBN-10: 0595194761ISBN-13: 9780595194766Publisher: iUniverseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/01/2002Pages: 152Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.52lbsSize: 8.68h x 6.44w x 0.38d

War. Heartbreak. How much can one family lose?The McKay family's idyllic life in Iowa is about to implode. A mysterious rosary found by soldier John McKay in war-torn Iraq foreshadows an obscure prophecy. As the rosary's mystique grows globally, his sister, Janey McKay, is...

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have...

Author: Shirley MannISBN-10: 1785769375ISBN-13: 9781785769375Publisher: ZaffreLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/23/2020Pages: 432Format: Paperback

Author: John Sir GalsworthyISBN-10: 0786180765ISBN-13: 9780786180769Publisher: Blackstone AudiobooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/01/2005Format: CDWeight: 1.08lbsSize: 6.32h x 6.96w x 1.99d

Be sure you've read Book II of THE BURNINGSOUL SAGA!Rorke Burningsoul, Wanderer of Weltyr, is dead.Since Rorke Burningsoul escaped the Nightlands, his life has been adventure without rest. Why should he be surprised when the airship set to whisk him and his four lovely...

Auschwitz, 1941: It was her father's job to save the lives of the SS. But she chose to risk everything and save the lives of prisoners. In Nazi-occupied Poland, Sofia cannot look her father in the eye. Sofia's mother, her papa's cherished wife, is...

Harvest of Fear is a gripping historical novel that brings to life a family, a farm, and a racial war - in Africa. Johan Steenkamp brings ardent, impetuous Marie home to his flourishing farm in Rhodesia. There is a leopard roaming the bush and,...

GRACE ARISING is the third full-length novel in The White Sails Series. The burgeoning 1840s New Holland wool market is irresistible to entrepreneurial souls prepared to brave the open oceans. Having survived unimaginable tragedy together, Grace and Seamus Fitzwilliam plan a fresh start aboard...

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER - The second volume of The Passenger series, from The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Road - An intimate portrait of grief and longing, as a young woman in a psychiatric facility seeks to understand her own existence. "The...

In the aftermath of a heartbreaking accident, Kirsty is shocked to discover that she has inherited a vineyard in Western Australia from Ed James, a lonely old man she befriended at the library. But there is a condition to his legacy: Kirsty must give...

Could there be a spy on the island? And can the Wrens prevent disaster striking before it's too late? Find out in this compelling and heart-warming Second World War saga by Vicki Beeby.Following a humiliating experience involving the man she thought she'd marry, Iris...

An unforgettable journey through the lush landscape of India to the heart of what it means to be a mother and daughter.What if you discovered everything you knew about yourself as a lie?When pregnant Jaya loses her mother, then her baby son Arun in...

Could there be a spy on the island? And can the Wrens prevent disaster striking before it's too late? Find out in this compelling and heart-warming Second World War saga by Vicki Beeby.Following a humiliating experience involving the man she thought she'd marry, Iris...

An unforgettable journey through the lush landscape of India to the heart of what it means to be a mother and daughter.What if you discovered everything you knew about yourself as a lie?When pregnant Jaya loses her mother, then her baby son Arun in...

Prepare to be swept away by an utterly heartrending saga of one woman's fight to find happiness.Readers are captivated by Tania Crosse's beautifully written tale of love and loss.⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Totally in love with this book! Highly recommend!" Sayury⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Crosse writes with passion . ....

A death in the present-a killing in the past--a possible new future.After twenty years away, Jo Devereux flies home to Ireland for her mother's funeral -- the mother she hasn't spoken to for more than two decades.Every minute there reminds her of all the...

A kidnapping gone wrong. A chronically ill child. And a union nobody sees coming...except the barrel of a gun. Quin Hedger is a rare breed. He's a doctor who grew up on a ranch, with four brothers, a pious mother and a father who...

1877--Rossburg, Pennsylvania--Golden Age of the Lumber Barons--Sawmill worker and Scottish immigrant Ian Douglas loses his sister and mother to an influenza epidemic and blames it on poverty. This sets him on a determined quest for wealth. Over the course of events, he falls in...

"I was hungry, seeing myself starving for want of something I could not define. I sought it constantly, sought it at every turn, searched every face I met for hints of it, looked everywhere I could conceive. I lost time trying to slake this...