fiction

A fictionalized memoir in which British novelist Jane Austen reflects on her relationship with Mr. Ashford, the son of a baronet, who encourages her to write and with whom she falls in love; and includes author's notes and comments, a chronology of Austen's life, and Jane Austen quotations.

Through a series of dangerous and violent misadventures, teenage loser Alfred Kropp rescues King Arthur's legendary sword Excalibur from the forces of evil.

Colorful illustrations and text tell a story about the fourteenth-century Italian painter Giotto di Bondone and his famous fresco "Nativity.".

Presents a fictional account of a young girl, Dunia, who becomes a friend of the Grand-duchess Anastasia.

Based upon the true story of Marie Therese, the young princess wonders about her own fate after her father is sent to the guillotine, her mother is taken away, and she is imprisoned in the Tower of the Temple.

Cambridge historian Elizabeth Vogelsang is found dead and her son Cameron asks his former lover, Lydia Brooke, to ghostwrite the final chapters of his late mother's book, but in the process, they uncover disturbing secrets that may have cost Elizabeth her life.

Wordsworth scholar Jane Gresham, having grown up hearing stories that mutineer Fletcher Christian returned from exile on Pitcairn Island to live out his life in England, is inspired when a two-hundred-year-old corpse bearing South Pacific tattoos washes out of a hillside in the Lake District, to hunt for a rumored manuscript Wordsworth wrote about Christian's adventures, not realizing there are others who want the lost poem for personal gain and are willing to kill to get it.

Eliza Esmond, a bookish young woman who has grown up in the shadow of her prettier sister, is thrilled when she meets a man she believes to be the notorious poet Lord Byron on the doorstep of his publisher, and even more excited when he arranges an assignation, but the situation becomes tragic when it is discovered her lover is an imposter.

A fictionalized account of the childhood of Adolf Hitler in which a mysterious SS man witnesses Hitler's life from birth through his adolescence, witnessing the struggle between good and evil that will define Hitler's life in the future.

Susanna Shakespeare yearns to travel to London like her father, to experience the world of actors and poets and to follow her own dream of singing, a path followed only by men.