Histórico

All That I Am: A Novel

de Anna Funder

All That I Am is a masterful and exhilarating exploration of bravery and betrayal, of the risks and sacrifices some people make for their beliefs, and of heroism hidden in the most unexpected places.

When eighteen-year-old...

Restoration

de Olaf Olafsson

A searing novel of love and war, betrayal and redemption.

Having grown up in an exclusive circle of wealthy British ex-pats in Florence in the 1920s, Alice Orsini shocks everyone when she marries the son of a...

Harry Houdini Mysteries: The Dime Museum Murders

de Daniel Stashower

New York City in 1897 and young escapologist Harry Houdini is struggling to get the recognition he craves from the ruthless entertainment industry. When toy tycoon Branford Wintour is found murdered in his Fifth...

Caprice and Rondo

The House of Niccolò #7

de Dorothy Dunnett

With the bravura storytelling and pungent authenticity of detail she brought to her acclaimed Lymond Chronicles, Dorothy Dunnett, grande dame of the historical novel, presents The House of Niccolò series. The...

The Final Storm: A Novel of the War in the Pacific

de Jeff Shaara

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

With the war in Europe winding down in the spring of 1945, the United States turns its vast military resources toward a furious assault on the last great stepping-stone to Japan—the...

Niccolo Rising

The House of Niccolò #1

de Dorothy Dunnett

With the bravura storytelling and pungent authenticity of detail she brought to her acclaimed Lymond Chronicles, Dorothy Dunnett, grande dame of the historical novel, presents The House of Niccolò series. The...

Race of Scorpions

The House of Niccolò #3

de Dorothy Dunnett

With the bravura storytelling and pungent authenticity of detail she brought to her acclaimed Lymond Chronicles, Dorothy Dunnett presents The House of Niccolò series. The time is the 15th century, when intrepid...

Gemini

The House of Niccolò #8

de Dorothy Dunnett

Scotland, 1477: Nicholas de Fleury, former banker and merchant, has re-appeared in the land that, four years earlier, he had brought very close to ruin in the course of an intense commercial and personal war...

From Sea to Shining Sea

de James Alexander Thom

"Splendid...Thom tells the story with humor and eloquence, and a thumping good tale it is, too."

THE WASHINGTON POST

In one generation, the Clark family of Virginia fought for our nation's independence, and explored,...

Gillespie and I

de Jane Harris

From the award-winning author of The Observations comes a beautifully conjured and wickedly sharp tale of art and deception in nineteenth-century Scotland.

As she sits in her Bloomsbury home with her two pet...

By the King's Design

de Christine Trent

Strong-willed Annabelle Stirling is more than capable of running the family draper shop after the untimely death of her parents. Under her father's tutelage, she became a talented cloth merchant, while her brother...

Three Cheers for Me

de Donald Jack

The year is 1916 and subversive young Bartholomew Bandy is leaving behind hearth & home, religion & boiled cabbage, to fight in the Great War, where the blank, expressionless face he developed for annoying the...

Blindspot: A Novel

de Jill Lepore & Jane Kamensky

BONUS: This edition contains a Blindspot discussion guide.

Stewart Jameson, a Scottish portrait painter fleeing his debtors in Edinburgh, has washed up on the British Empire's far shores—in the city of Boston,...

The Crown

The Crown #1

de Nancy Bilyeau

JOANNA STAFFORD, a Dominican nun, learns that her favorite cousin has been condemned by Henry VIII to be burned at the stake. Defying the rule of enclosure, Joanna leaves the priory to stand at her cousin’s...

The Monsters of Templeton

de Katherine Howe

"A fresh present-day story infused with an original take on popular history. Forget broomsticks and pointy hats; here are witches that could well be walking among us today. This debut novel flows with poetic...

Quanah Parker

de Bill Dugan

After winning the Mexican War, white Texans turned their attention to expanding control over the vast lands of west Texas. To dominate this huge and forbidding land, they had to subdue everything, man and beast,...

Figures in Silk: A Novel

de Vanora Bennett

Two sisters discover passion during the War of the Roses—one in the arms of the king, the other in the world of silk

From the author of the acclaimed novel Portrait of an Unknown Woman comes an epic tale of...

Baker Towers

de Jennifer Haigh

Bakerton is a community of company houses and church festivals, of union squabbles and firemen's parades. Its neighborhoods include Little Italy, Swedetown, and Polish Hill. For its tight-knit citizens -- and...

Jesus and Ventress: Best Friends

de Edward Kendrex

Jesus is a mild-mannered Jew and a lawyer learning his ministry. Mary Magdalene, the daughter of an innkeeper, is his childhood friend. But in this story, occurring at the height of Roman power in 26 A.D., the...

The Exile of Sara Stevenson: A Historical Novel

de Darci Hannah

In 1814, Sara Stevenson, the well-bred but high-spirited daughter of celebrated Scottish lighthouse designer Robert Stevenson, falls in love with a common sailor, Thomas Crichton. On the day of their clandestine...