historical fiction

American adventurer Jonathan Blair enters the grim world of coal mining in nineteenth-century England in an attempt to find a missing cleric who was engaged to marry the daughter of Blair's sponsor, the wealthy Bishop Hannay.

Creates a microcosm of America by chronicling four centuries in the life of a fictional family on Maryland's Eastern Shore, beginning in 1611 when its patriarch arrives from England with Captain John Smith and showing how the family is shaped by historical events and its fellow countrymen and -women of other races and ethnicities.

Kevin meets a gypsy girl while touring with his parents in medieval shows and they travel back to medieval times.

Margaret of Ashbury, a fourteenth-century English midwife with healing powers, sets out across Europe with her friends herbalist Mother Hilde and alchemist Brother Malachi to rescue her new, third husband from an evil alchemist holding him for ransom.

As a young Irish immigrant boy travels by steam-engine across the American prairie to a new life, memories of the old country pull at his heart.

The arrival from Philadelphia of her spiteful nemesis Sally Biddle and the return of her corrupt ex-fiance Richard Baldt spell trouble for seventeen-year-old Miss Jane Peck, who has survived on her own in Shoalwater Bay, a community of white settlers and Chinook Indians in 1850s Washington Territory.

Stella loves books so much, she starts her own library, but then a storm threatens to destroy everything.

After being sold to a cruel couple in New York City, a slave named Isabel spies for the rebels during the Revolutionary War.

"Set in 1954, this compelling historical novel tells the story of a young girl's struggles and triumphs in the aftermath of World War II. The war is over, but the threat of communism and the Cold War loom over the United States. In Detroit, Michigan, twelve-year-old Marjorie Campbell struggles with the ups and downs of family life, dealing with her veteran father's unpredictable outbursts, keeping her mother's stash of banned library books a secret, and getting along with her new older 'brother,' the teenager her family took in after his veteran father's death. When a new girl from Germany transfers to Marjorie's class, Marjorie finds herself torn between befriending Inga and pleasing her best friend, Bernadette, by writing in a slam book that spreads rumors about Inga. Marjorie seems to be confronting enemies everywhere--at school, at the library, in her neighborhood, and even in the news. In all this turmoil, Marjorie tries to find her own voice and figure out what is right and who the real enemies actually are."--Amazon.

The story of Bass Reeves who was born a slave and later became one of the most respected federal marshals in Oklahoma and Texas.