fiction

Frank Hearn, a down-on-his-luck bootlegger, hunts down a double-crossing government thief who stole a shipment of top-quality booze, but when he discovers the thief has a $7,000 IOU from Babe Ruth, Frank develops a plan to take the money and make a better life for himself.

A Vietnamese man working as Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas's cook in 1934 Paris looks back on his early life in his native country while deciding whether or not to accompany the couple to America.

Rev. Jonah Dove returns home to World War II-era Harlem, troubled by his history of passing as a white man in college, and finds his life colliding with that of Malcolm Little, a teenage hustler from Michigan who is destined to rename himself Malcolm X.

Presents a novel based upon actual events described in the journals of Christopher Columbus that features a young Basque adventurer named Domingo Luca, who is asked to join Columbus on his journey to the new world.

Jean, a young French soldier, finds salvation through his pursuit of art and the love of a woman.

Hired to paint a family portrait of four beautiful but mysterious daughters in late nineteenth-century Paris, artist John Singer Sargent enters a world populated by an emotionally unstable mother, a strange spirit, and a malevolent doll.

Francis Osbaldistone is banished to Scotland, where he meets Robert Roy MacGregor, and when he joins Rob Roy in his attempt to overthrow the English, he learns how to fight for what he believes in.

Margot Harrington, an expert at book conservancy, discovers a volume of sixteen erotic drawings by Giulio Romano accompanying sixteen steamy sonnets by Pietro Aretino in a convent library. When published over four centuries earlier, the Vatican had insisted all copies be destroyed. This one--now unique--volume has survived.

Presents a fictionalized account of the tumultuous marriage between artists Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera as seen through the eyes of Frida's sister, Cristina.

A fictional account of Sir Ernest Shackleton's treacherous voyage to Antarctica--in which he and his crew became trapped in ice--told by Mrs. Chippy, a cat on the ship.