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Once again, the author takes a remarkable shard of history and brings it to vivid life. In 1665, a young man from Martha's Vineyard became the first Native American to graduate from Harvard College. Upon this slender factual scaffold, she has created a luminous tale of love and faith, magic and adventure. The narrator of the story is Bethia Mayfield, growing up in the tiny settlement of Great Harbor amid a small band of pioneers and Puritans. Restless and curious, she yearns after an education that is closed to her by her sex. As often as she can, she slips away to explore the island's glistening beaches and observe its native Wampanoag inhabitants. At twelve, she encounters Caleb, the young son of a chieftain, and the two forge a tentative secret friendship that draws each into the alien world of the other. Bethia's minister father tries to convert the Wampanoag, awakening the wrath of the tribe's shaman, against whose magic he must test his own beliefs. One of his projects becomes the education of Caleb, and a year later, Caleb is in Cambridge, studying Latin and Greek among the colonial elite. There, Bethia finds herself reluctantly indentured as a housekeeper and can closely observe Caleb's crossing of cultures.

Former British Special Air Service officer Ben Hope is enlisted by his first love, world-famous opera star Leigh Llewellyn, to investigate her brother Oliver's death, and soon finds himself caught up in a mystery involving Mozart and a shadowy organization that may have killed the composer and is now gunning for him and Leigh.

The fourth novel in a six-volume series about the American past in which Caroline Sanford, fighting to control her own fate, must confront her two most formidable enemies, William Randolph Hearst and his protege, Blaise Sanford, Caroline's half-brother.

Gore Vidal dramatizes the U.S.'s centennial through the eyes of Charlie Schuyler, who returns to New York from exile and arranges for his widowed daughter to marry a rich man--and corruption seeps into Charlie's family even as it rages at the highest levels of the U.S. government.

A fictional memoir based on actual facts describing the early struggles and intrigues of the United States and of Aaron Burr.

The story of Billy Bathgate, a boy who has insinuated himself into the inner circle of the notorious Dutch Schultz gang to become apprentice and protege to one of the great murdering gangsters.

When Malinalli, a member of the tribe conquered by the Aztec warriors, first meets Cort?s, she -- like many -- believes that he is the reincarnated forefather god of her tribe. Naturally, she assumes that her task is to help Cort?s destroy the Aztec empire and free her people. The two fall passionately in love, but Malinalli gradually comes to realize that Cort?s's thirst for conquest is all too human. He is willing to destroy anyone, even his own men, even their own love.Throughout Mexican history, Malinalli has been reviled for her betrayal of the Indian people. However, recent historical research has shown that her role was much more complex; she was the mediator between two cultures, Hispanic and Native American, and two languages, Spanish and N?huatl.Bursting with lyricism and vivid imagery, Malinche finally unveils the truth behind this legendary love affair.

Blends fact and fiction in a historical novel about the love affair between Mamah Borthwick Cheney and architect Frank Wright, who was commissioned by Mamah and her husband Edwin in 1903 to design a new home for them.

Jack Handley returns to the exclusive Midwest course where he caddied as a young boy, where he shares his recollections about the historic summer of 1946, when he caddied for Ben Hogan during the PGA golf tournament.

Former child prodigy Benjamin Ziskind, pushed by his twin sister Sara into attending a singles' cocktail hour at a Jewish art museum, steals a Marc Chagall painting that once hung in his home, and begins investigating the provenance of the work in an effort to learn how it came to the museum, while urging Sara, an artist, to create a forgery to take its place.