Product DescriptionThe Queen of Storytellers is back - with a triumphant tale of one woman's struggle over adversity.In 1786 a fisherman's daughter from Cornwall called Mary Broad ...
SUMMARY: "Scotland, 1745. Against the bloody background of the Battle of Culloden, another war was waged and won--the price was honor, the victory, love." Scottish beauty Serena Ma...
Product DescriptionNearly two decades ago, Jean-Luc Picard took command of the U.S.S. EnterpriseTM NCC-1701-D. The captain knew it was an honor without equal. His new command...
From BooklistStarred Review Sybilla may have been born to wealthy parents, but her home life was never easy, and she ran away at 17. Ever since, Sybilla has been homeless and livi....
On the death of France's most glorious king, Louis XIV, in 1715, few people benefited from the shift in power more than the intriguing financial genius from Edinburgh, John Law. Al...
EDITORIAL REVIEW: *Amadeus* meets *Little Women* in this irresistibly delightful historical novel by award- winning author Stephanie Cowell. The year is 1777 and the four Weber sis...
From Publishers WeeklyAkashic's city-themed noir series (_New Orleans Noir_, etc.) finally reaches L.A., a prime locale for this subgenre. Of the 17 contributors, bestseller Michae...
SUMMARY: In this celebration of one of America's oldest towns (incorporated in 1720), Michael Cunningham, author of the best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning The Hours, brings us Pr...
From Publishers WeeklyFresh from his masterful The Summer of 1787, Stewart takes on one of the seamiest events in American history: the vengeful impeachment of Lincoln's succ...
The eighteenth-century picaresque masterpiece- now in a new editionA triumph of English satire, Humphry Clinker was published just three months prior to its author's death in 1771....