Fiction - Sagas

After the unfortunate death of the Halliburton family patriarch, Mrs. Halliburton is forced to support her children alone. Living in a man-favoring society, Mrs. Halliburton struggles to find adequate work that will not compromise her morals and still earn her a decent pay. Having...

An emotional historical saga from the bestselling author of The Forgotten Daughter and The Abandoned Daughter, Mary Wood.Author: Mary WoodISBN-10: 1509892613ISBN-13: 9781509892617Publisher: Pan PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/14/2020Pages: 432Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.03lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.97d

The Legacy of Skur is as grim a fairy tale as one could want. Volume One begins with Fane's quest of misfortune upon the mountain of Skur which ultimately leaves him imprisoned there. His sole companion has come from underground. And his only protection...

After generations of prosperity in the mining town of Brighton, Newfoundland, Jack and Angela McCarthy find themselves jobless. In order to keep his family together, Jack accepts a job in a gold mine in the wilds of northern Alberta.2015 DEWEY DIVA PICK Arriving in...

It is 1941, and the world is at war. Young Theresa Compton is left devastated after giving up her illegitimate child and joins the Special Operations Executive, an organisation of undercover agents working behind enemy lines. Her mission is to assist a Resistance group...

Author: Sandia LoweISBN-10: 1441566988ISBN-13: 9781441566980Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/15/2009Pages: 140Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.47lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.33d

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...

'Another brilliant, hard-to-put-down book' - 5 STARS, reader review Livia Blake has lost her husband far too soon and faces a crossroads. It's her friend Pearl Grayson, head of Bristol's nursing school, who suggests she would make an excellent district nurse. With training completed...

Kerak Castle, Jordan, 1184. With the deafening thunder of hooves and the cries of Saladin's approaching army growing louder, the castle walls tremble as it teeters on the edge of being besieged...In the treacherous landscape of 12th Century Jerusalem, a gifted silk weaver holds...

Jagged Waters is the third book in the Southern Skyes family saga, carving some exciting new names on the family tree. Spicy Irish miss, Mariah Malone, is a young convict unjustly condemned to New South Wales, Australia, to serve her life sentence. During the...

Part love story, part prison break, "From the Chrysalis" is a fictionalized account of the deadliest event in Canadian penal history, the Kingston Penitentiary Riot of April 1971. Liza's bad-boy cousin, the handsome, magnetic D'Arcy "Dace" Devereux is nothing but trouble. Falling in love...

The Soldier's Seed, the first book of the Southern Skyes family saga, captures the wide range of relationships between colonial, convict, and indigenous families during the tumultuous events that defined the early penal colonies of Australia.Nicholas Thomas, a soldier in the New South Wales...

Author: James DetteISBN-10: 0983371105ISBN-13: 9780983371106Publisher: Full Court PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/30/2011Pages: 404Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.30lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.90d

The secrets that bind a family can also destroy a family. The absorbing story of a guesthouse keeper and his wife who attempt to start over, from devastatingly talented debut author Kali Napier 'An intense tale of a family's heart-rending search for belonging' The...

SPAIN, AD 693L lia is no stranger to the games of war. But none of them have prepared her for the hardest game of all: that of love.L lia risked everything to survive the rebellion until Theo came back to her. Now it seems...

1653 - In the untamed wilds of Southern Africa, a fledgling colony fights against the unforgiving grip of nature and the specter of starvation. Amidst this crucible of hardship, a spirited, young woman emerges, seeking her place in a world where survival demands more...

In the tradition of Like Water for Chocolate and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, this exhilarating novel centered around a memorable immigrant family brings to vibrant life the soul and spirit of New York's legendary Lower East Side. Up from Orchard Street... ...where three...

For Jocie Brooke, the summer of 1964 certainly was eventful, but it's nothing compared to what's coming to Hollyhill, Kentucky, and the Brooke family next. The past is coming to call, threatening to destroy the relationships that everyone thought were so strong. Two people--one...

Author: Glenn ShapiroISBN-13: 9798998501500Publisher: Brandylion PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/01/2025Pages: 290Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.57lbsSize: 7.81h x 5.06w x 0.72d

From Ken Follett, the master of epic fiction, comes a rich novel of historical research and imagination, telling the deeply human story of one of the world's greatest mysteries: the building of Stonehenge. A FLINT MINER WITH A GIFT Seft, a talented flint miner,...

Part Sergio Leone, part Akira Kurosawa, part Quentin Tarantino, and Alejandro Jodorovsky and Carlos Castenada...BLOOD VENDETTA is a 1970s-style Acid Western, a Far West meets Far East tale of greed and revenge, and a darkly comic (and appropriately bloody) allegory of America's past, present,...

All three books in 'Wyrd Of The Wolf', a series of historical fiction by John Broughton, now available in one volume!Wyrd Of The Wolf: Among the upheaval of 7th century England, nobody is safe. Ealdorman Aelfhere believes that for his only daughter, sixteen-year-old Cynethryth,...

Manchester, 1940. War is raging and these girls will do everything they can on the home front - but is a happy ever after possible in such uncertain times? The minute war was declared, best friends Sally and Deborah volunteered for the home guard....

The BRAND NEW instalment in Rosie Clarke's 'Welcome To Harpers Emporium' Series Trouble's brewing and times are changing. If you play with fire you may just get burnt! London 1929 Torn between the love of his family life in London and a deathbed promise...

Author: Annie MurrayISBN-10: 1509805389ISBN-13: 9781509805389Publisher: Pan PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/24/2016Pages: 514Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.22lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 1.15d

Author: Heather ReyburnISBN-10: 0645123420ISBN-13: 9780645123425Publisher: Heather ReyburnLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/04/2021Pages: 294Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.71lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.66d

As a sixteenth century Himalayan mountain girl, Tara knew a husband would be chosen for her. One day, Mughals riding sleek Arabian horses arrived seeking a woman prophesized to be one of the sultan's wives. Fear and excitement mingle in Tara's heart as she...

With her eagerly awaited second novel, Tawni O'Dell takes readers back to the coal-mining country of western Pennsylvania. Set in a town ravaged and haunted by a mine explosion that took the lives of 96 men, Coal Run explores the life of local deputy...

'A lovely, romantic and historical read' - Linda's Book BagJune 1963, Clematis Cottage, Stoke St. Mary, HerefordshireI am really not sure why I am writing this. A foolish whim by a foolish old lady and it will probably sit in a box unread and...

A wonderful new novel from Liverpool's best-loved author. A tale of loss and love set in post-Second World War England and France. This is the story of a young Liverpool woman widowed in the Second World War before she can know the happiness of...

The Instant #1 BESTSELLER, nominated for a PULITZER PRIZE . . . Inspired by a TRUE STORY . . . Soon to be a MAJOR MOTION PICTURE!"An intense and emotional read!" - Rhys Bowen, New York Times bestselling author of In Farleigh Field and...

Manchester, 1941: Amid the heartbreak of war, can the girls band together to give their friend the wedding she deserves? Kept apart by war work, bombs and blackouts, Lorna and her beloved George cherish every precious moment together. George's vital role working for the...

THE GRIPPING STORY OF ONE WOMAN'S JOURNEY THROUGH GOLD RUSH CALIFORNIA TO FIND HER SON, AND HERSELF.Having lost everything, Juanita Castro de la Cruz rides alone into the chaos of California's Gold Rush, searching for her missing son. After four generations of stability on...

Set in turn-of-the-century Florida, this frontier saga traces the life of Ivy Cromartie Stranahan, the first English-speaking teacher in the region, as she struggles to teach school in the Seminole Nation and lead Indian families to Christ. Ivy is disliked by tribal leaders in...

Power is never given - it is taken. In a court where loyalty is a fragile illusion and betrayal lurks behind every corner, a prince must survive the father who seeks to break him, the enemies who conspire to erase him, and the past...

Don't miss the emotional next instalment in AnneMarie Brear's bestselling Waterfront Women series From rags to riches... but will happiness follow? Orphaned as a child, Fliss Atkins has spent her life working at her uncle's pub, The Bay Horse Inn, nestled along the banks...

In a world between wars, hardship and heartache bind a Ukrainian woman and an American man in this epic love story from the bestselling author of The Bronze Horseman. It is 1929, and on both sides of the Atlantic, the world is about to...

With the men missing in action, can the Bomber Girls find a way to bring them home? Pearl, Thea and Jenny fling themselves into making Fenthorpe as festive as it can be, looking forward to the Christmas dance. Disaster strikes when Pearl's husband, Greg,...

Once held captive. Can she ever escape him?HONG KONG 1950With the war now over, well-regarded obstetrician Dr Rowena Rossiter, of the Victoria Hospital for Women, is ready to plan her new life with her child and great love, Connor O'Connor. So, when UN Colonel...

War is frightening, but so is the man who would possess her.HONG KONG - 1941One sultry evening at the Victoria Hospital for Women, Dr Rowena Rossiter is off-duty and in search of fun. With the world on the brink of war, she meets two...

"A Houseful of Girls" by Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey encapsulates the quintessential essence of 19th-century British domestic fiction, immersing readers in the captivating world of a Victorian family saga. Set against the backdrop of the picturesque English countryside, this novel intricately weaves together...

International playboy and owner of a jewelry empire that spreads across three continents, Dmitry Rostoff holds a memory close to this heart that not even his best friend Vlad Albrecht knows. When Dmitry learns the Russian ballerina he had a passionate affair with died...

YESTERDAY'S PROMISE: A Hearthfire Scottish Historical Romance, Book 1In the year 1761--Scottish Highlands: Nineteen-year-old artist Katherine Mercer dreams of selling her paintings to help support her struggling family. Before she has the opportunity, Katherine learns she is to be sold-or practically so-given in marriage...

Six years after leaving behind his inheritance, and living under the alias of Travis Sweet a reputed gunslinger and bounty hunter, Tyrell Sloan returns to familiar ground with hopes of living the rest of his life in obscurity. It isn't long before he and...

The Byzantine Empire, one person's past, another's present, and still another's future. He came like a thunderclap into this golden kingdom. Woden, the warrior from the land of the steppe, one whose very name carried with it the stories of glorious battle, came into...

The story continues in The Forgotten Kingdom, the second book in the epic Lost Queen trilogy, already hailed as "Outlander meets Camelot" (Kirsty Logan, author of Things We Say in the Dark) and "The Mists of Avalon for a new generation" (Linnea Hartsuyker, author...

With nothing but a sword and a gritty determination to live, Woden, the son of a Germanic ex-slave from the land of the steppe, stumbles into the far reaches of the eighth-century empire of Byzantium. He quickly learns that a soldier's skills and the...

Max Wolinsky comes from a family of mostly upstanding salesmen. On the eve of his son's bar mitzvah he returns home to Philadelphia where he plans to put the finishing touches on a not-so-honorable business transaction and then disappear quietly back to Florida. Nothing,...

The Manchurian Tales is a sprawling, multi-generational family saga that starts in mid 19th century and ends with the closing of the 20th century. It is a story of an uhl mao zeh (Russian Korean) family that begins when a 17 year old Korean...

Crime and Punishment is considered the first great novel of Dostoyevsky "mature" period of writing. It focuses on the mental anguish and moral dilemmas of Rodion Raskolnikov, an impoverished ex-student in St. Petersburg who formulates and executes a plan to kill an unscrupulous pawnbroker...