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Presents a biographical fiction based upon the life of Bert Williams, who, after years of struggling on the stage, donned blackface makeup and became the most famous African-American entertainer of the early 1900s, and describes the effects of this "impersonation" to his own life and to the lives of his family.

A fictional account of the life of Esther, Queen of Persia. Orphaned at the age of ten, she crosses the Tigris to marry her cousin, who is well-established at court. She survives the intrigue of court life and wins the heart of the king and the freedom of her people, but at the cost of all she really wants from life.

A collection of comic strips by Lynda Barry which were inspired by a sixteenth-century Zen monk's painting of one hundred demons chasing each other across a long scroll.

Two boys grow into manhood as a new empire takes shape around the city of Rome, and as the pair are trained in the art of combat, they find themselves caught between two rival generals who are driving the empire to the brink of civil war.

Richard the Lionheart rides off on a Crusade to reclaim Jerusalem from the infidels, leaving his country vulnerable to an unknown power that has brought down the wall between worlds and threatens to destroy all of England.

"The Modern Library of the world's best books." An epic novel featuring the Russian role in the Napoleonic wars and providing a complex panorama of the life of the time.

A fictional account of the life of the Oglala Indian Chief Crazy Horse from birth to his victory over the whites at Little Big Horn to his violent death.

Prince Alexander is spirited away as an infant to escape the jealous rage of his uncle, the King of Cornwall, who murdered Alexander's father, but when he comes of age he must overcome the temptations of love, an enchantress and the Holy Grail in order to seek justice.

The fantasy epic of King Arthur and Camelot, telling the story of how Wart, the adopted son of Sir Ector, becomes the King of England when he is sent in search of a sword by his brother Kay, and is forced to pull one out of an anvil in the churchyard.