historical fiction

Captain Richard Sharpe is given responsibility for a poorly trained and ill-equipped Irish battalion of the King of Spain. Britain's hopes of victory in Spain depend on Sharpe's ability to combat an elite French guard headed by the vengeful Brigadier General Guy Loup.

Logan Pryce and his father spend a day in the big city of Sherman, but despite his eagerness to leave "boring" Maple Ridge, Logan is glad to return to quiet, familiar surroundings after the hustle and bustle of the city.

Even though it is now 1901, the people of Buxton, Canada (originally a settlement of runaway slaves) and Chatham, Canada are still haunted by two events of half a century before--the American Civil War, and the Irish potato famine, and the lasting damage those events caused to the survivors.

When each student in Maple Ridge is asked to contribute fifty cents for the schoolhouse's repair, Logan attempts to sell a single buggy wheel that he found and repaired.

Thirteen-year-old Billie Sims, a white girl in 1960s Alabama, and her black friend Jarmaine, get caught up in the Freedom Rides passing through her town on the way to Birmingham. Along the way, change comes to Billie, her family, and her town in big and small ways.

Fourteen-year-old Matilda, an apprentice bonesetter and practitioner of medicine in a village in medieval England, tries to reconcile the various aspects of her life, both spiritual and practical.

In the late nineteenth century, a young Nez Perce girl relates how her people were driven off their land by the U.S. Army and forced to retreat north until their eventual surrender.

During the hard times of 1932, a poor shoe shine man gives a child his cap, gloves, and an angel made from a spool, then receives a wonderful gift in return.

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.