historical fiction

In 1932, in Sydney's deadly Razorhurst neighborhood, where crime and razor-wielding men rule, two girls with contrasting lives who share the ability to see ghosts meet over a dead body and find themselves on the run from mob bosses.

In Battle Creek, Michigan in 1907 people come in search of the magic pill to prolong life or the profit from manufacturing it. They find Dr. John Harvey Kellogg and his dietary wisdom.

Twelve-year-old Jeremiah "Jem" Coulter knows that Goldtown, California, has seen the last of the gold rush. But the flecks of gold he and an old prospector, "Strike," find in their played-out claim on Cripple Creek spur Jem's hope of striking it rich.

Twelve-year-old Jeremiah "Jem" Coulter is caught in the middle of a riot when the Midas mine runs out of gold and the owner decides to reclaim an abandoned mine that is now being worked by Chinese miners.

The year is 1664, and Benny Wand, a young thief and board game hustler, is arrested in London for illegal gaming. Deported to the city of Port Royal, Jamaica -- known as "the wickedest city on earth" -- Wand is forced by his depleted circumstances to join a raid on the Spanish city of Villahermosa. The mission is a perilous success, and Wand attracts the attention of the mission's leader, an up-and-coming Welsh seaman, Captain Henry Morgan, whose raids on Spanish strongholds are funded by the British government. While embarking on a campaign in the Caribbean, Morgan formsan unlikely friendship with Wand through their shared love of chess. Yet as Morgan becomes morally corrupted by the increasingly sordid attacks, he slowly transforms into Wand's greatest enemy. To defeat his former ally, Wand embarks on a strategic battle of wits with Morgan, only to discover that if he wants to break free of his friend, he's going to have to help him in the most savage and unexpected way possible.

A fictionalized account of the untold story of Albert Einstein's first wife, a brilliant scientist in her own right, whose contributions to the theory of relativity were not given a voice at a time when only one genius was allowed in the marriage.

In 1943, during the German occupation of Denmark, ten-year-old Annemarie learns how to be brave and courageous when she helps shelter her Jewish friend from the Nazis.

Lieutenant Colonel Richard Sharpe comes out of retirement to find his friend Don Blas Vivar, Captain-General of the Spanish colony of Chile.

Jessie, a young girl living in the Oklahoma dust bowl during the Depression, tries to tame a wild dog and help her father recover from a nervous breakdown.