Daughters of the Winter Queen begins the legacy of the current British throne. William Stoner leads a passive life as a farmer’s son turned English professor, enduring a loveless marriage and a difficult career. Living By Fiction, a collection of meditative essays about the spiritual process of writing.
Read MoreImmersed in the life of forest animals in Bambi. The tale of Joan of Arc and the formidable Yolanda of Aragon in The Maiden and the Queen. One family in Provence produced Four Queens who ruled in Europe. The determined reign of Joanna I in The Lady Queen. A dystopian YA about The 100 teens sent to Earth a century after a nuclear war.
Read MoreA Writer's Life explores the dedication, absurdity, and courage required to write. The Corinthian rescues a young heiress fleeing from a forced marriage. The lives of a French prince and a Cornish girl are intertwined in Avalon. The power of the presidential platform in The Bully Pulpit.
Read MoreThe construction of the cathedral is at the center of the story, which carries betrayal, revenge, and love in Pillars of the Earth. An unusual yet adventurous book in which three children step through A Wrinkle in Time.
Read MoreUtred’s struggle between a life with the English or a life with the Danes continues in Lords of the North and Sword Song. A female scientist exposes sexism with humor in Lessons in Chemistry. An epic battle for the throne of England after the death of Henry I leads to civil war When Christ and His Saints Slept.
Read MoreThe Signature of All Things explores themes of desire, ambition, and the pursuit of knowledge. Maisie Dobbs finds herself in danger in Gibraltar, A Dangerous Place, in Germany, The Journey to Munich, and back at home during the Blitz, In This Grave Hour. Llewelyn, Prince of Wales, cannot stop the power of Edward I in The Reckoning.
Read MoreFalls The Shadow focuses intently on Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester, a French Norman and a member of the English peerage who led the barons against Henry III. Among The Mad delves into the complexity of the mind, the people who have harrowing experiences, and still hold hope of recovery.
Read MoreIn Messenger Of Truth, the night before the opening of his new and much-anticipated exhibition at a famed Mayfair gallery, a painter falls to his death. Lady Audley's Secret is sensational. A villager scared by Zepplin raids has An Incomplete Revenge.
Read MoreThirteenth-century Wales is a divided country, ever at the mercy of England's ruthless, power-hungry King John in Here Be Dragons. A cozy mystery, Maisie Dobbs is a psychologist and investigator in Birds Of A Feather and Pardonable Lies. Unsettling Truths says you cannot discover lands already inhabited. The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt.
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