historical fiction

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The Greenlanders

a novel
2005
The family of Asgeir Gunnarsson, a wealthy Greenlander farmer, struggles to survive personal tragedies, famine, political upheaval, and harsh conditions.

The far side of the sky

2012
In 1938, Dr. Franz Adler, a renowned surgeon, flees the anti-Semitic violence of Europe with his daughter only to find starvation and disease in Shanghai. Franz struggles to keep the refugee hospital open and protect his family from a terrible fate.

The angel makers

2011
During World War I, Sari Arany, a herbalist in a small Hungarian village falls in love with on of the Italian POWs housed nearby, when her fianc? returns Sari poisons him. Soon other women in the village are coming to her for help in similar situations.

That anvil of our souls

a novel of the Monitor and the Merrimack
2005
Seven people find their lives forever changed as they face the decisive Civil War battle between the Monitor and the Merrimack.

My heart remembers

a novel
2008
Three Irish immigrant children, orphaned in a tenement fire, are sent on the orphan train to Missouri where they are adopted by different families, and although Maelle had vowed to one day reunite with her younger brother and sister, seventeen years later she is about to give up hope.

Lilah

a forbidden love, a people's destiny ; a novel
2006
In the Middle East more than four thousand years ago, Lilah, a young woman in exile, falls in love with Antinoes, a Persian warrior, and seeks out the blessing of her brother, Ezra, who does not want Lilah to marry outside her faith.

Equal of the sun

a novel
2012
A fictional account of Princess Pari Khan Khanoom Safavi as she tries to restore order after the sudden death of her father Shah, which incites resentment and dissent, but being in possession of a tapestry of secrets and information may be the biggest power struggle for her and her adviser, Javaher.

The man called Noon

2002
Ruble Noon vows to protect Fan Davidge's ranch from dangerous people who seek the gold that is buried there.

The turmoil

2003
In the early twentieth century, a small town is rapidly transformed into a bustling, money-making nest of competitors overrun by a group of greedy men.

Elizabeth, captive princess

two sisters, one throne
1999
Sibling rivalry continues between the daughters of King Henry VIII, Mary who holds the throne and Elizabeth who holds the people's hearts.

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