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 MoreHistory told through the eyes of female rulers and leaders in Rival Queens. Swept away by descriptions of Buenos Aires and learning some important social history in On Argentina. Soaked in the quiet perspective of living season by season in A County Life.
Read MoreAn artist and architect professor are attempting to restart their lives in the English town of Boscastle in Water, Stone, Heart. The weight of physical and mental imprisonment in a world rife with corruption in Little Dorrit. Seeking one's Personal Legend in the timeless classic The Alchemist.
Read MoreRelentless ambition in the life of Mary Anne Clark, a story inspired by du Maurier's great-great-grandmother. A strange, wonderful, and relatable tale of man’s experience on Mars in The Martian Chronicles. The question of legitimacy is revealed on a deathbed in The Dead Secret.
Read MoreA high-stakes attempt at a prison break in A Torch Against the Light. Navigating war and ancient evils in A Reaper at the Gates. A face-off with the Nightbringer and a looming apocalypse in A Sky Beyond the Storm. The love story of John of Gaunt, son of Edward III, and his third wife, Katherine.
Read MoreThe battle between the church and the king is recounted in Time and Chance. A midwife in the 1950s speaks honestly about the depravity of humankind while offering a beacon of hope in The Midwife, Shadows of the Workhouse, and Farewell to the East End. A blind French girl and a German soldier try to survive while maintaining a sense of humanity in All the Light We Cannot See.
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 MoreA study of debutante balls in The Season. Dunkirk is the setting for To Die But Once. The 9th-century land of the Saxons comes alive in the telling of England's formative history through the eyes of Utred in The Last Kingdom. Mary Anning explores the British coastline for fossils in Remarkable Creatures. A female journalist is killed during the Blitz in The American Agent.
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.
Read MoreA Darker Shade of Magic is a world where magicians with a rare, coveted ability to travel between parallel Londons: Red, Grey, White, and, once upon a time, Black. The Hobbit is recognized as a timeless classic with the creation of the spectacular world of Middle-earth and the adventures of a reluctant hero.
Read MoreKlara and the Sun asks whether one needs a heart to feel. Is folklore, science, magic, or myth at work in Once Upon a River? The Daughter of Doctor Moreau reimagines an HG Wells classic set in the Yucatan. Ethan Frome, a tale of despair in a bleak New England winter. Murder and Egyptology collide in The Snake, the Crocodile, and the Dog.
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