historical fiction

Steve and Nancy try to cheer up Mike after the events of season 1 of 'Stranger Things.'.

Clare's world is turned upside down when she finds a box full of her great-grandmother's letters from Germany to her grandmother, Annelise, who left for America during World War II. When she discovers the realities of her family's sacrifice, she's faced with an impossible choice.

Anthony Bridgerton is a playboy London bachelor who shocks everyone when he announces plans to marry. His fianc?'s sister, Kate, objects and attempts to stop the betrothal. Her schemes drive Anthony crazy, but he is more troubled by the erotic dreams he has been having about Kate. Kate wants to protect her sister, but she soon finds her heart falling for Anthony and can't resist him when he kisses her.

When the handsome duke Simon Bassett and lovely Daphne Bridgerton develop a scheme for "pretending" their engagement to keep other suitors away, they are drawn together despite many hardships, and their scheme may not last.

Before the events of "A Christmas Carol" changed Ebenezer Scrooge's heart, there was Scrooge and Marley. The two men meet as youths, Ebenezer and Jacob, at the Professor Drabb's Academy for Boys. Soon Jacob begins turning the innocent Ebenezer's heart to extortion and ambition, and as the boys grow into men they develop a fledgling shipping business of dubious legality, dealing in the soon-to-be-outlawed slave trade. The only thing that could possibly save Scrooge's soul is the affections of his sister Fan's best friend, Belle Fairchild.

Elizabeth Schuyler was accustomed to socializing with the elite, but Alexander Hamilton was like no one she'd ever met before. The two are quickly married, and she stands beside him through the war. But it is after the war, her true spirit shines through as she endures betrayal, scandal, tragedy, and heartbreak. Through it all, she stands beside her husband, even in death, she fiercely fights to preserve his legacy.

In England during the Black Death, a young Latin tutor falls in love with unusual woman named Agnes, and they get married. Soon, they move to Stratford-upon-Avon, and Agnes becomes a rock of stability for her playwright husband as his career in London takes off. But tragedy strikes when their young son Hamnet dies.

A pair of children visiting Edinburgh, Scotland, learn the story of Greyfriars Bobby, a terrier so devoted to his master that he followed his master's body to Grayfriars Churchyard in 1858, and remained nearby for the next fourteen years, until he also died and was buried at his beloved master's side.

The letters and thoughts of Thomas Jefferson, members of the Corps of Discovery, their guide Sacagawea, and Captain Lewis's Newfoundland dog, all tell of the historic exploratory expedition to seek a water route to the Pacific Ocean.

"Oscar Fran?ois de Jarjeyees, female commander of the royal guard, is at the center of events of Marie Antoinette's involvement in the scandalous Affair of the Diamond Necklace and her passion for Count Fersen of Sweden cause chaos at the court of Versailles"--Back cover.