historical fiction

Upon the death of her father in 1920, Spanish chocolate shop proprietor Maria "Puri" Purificaci?n learns she, along with siblings from her father's clandestine marriage to another woman, have inherited a share of a cacao plantation in Ecuador. During the boat ride to claim her inheritance, Puri and her husband Crist?bal are attacked and Crist?bal is killed. Knowing the attacker was aiming for her, Puri dresses and impersonates her husband for protection while she investigates who wants her dead and what to do with her inheritance.

Nicolaos is commissioned to find the assassin responsible for the death of Ephialtes, the politician who had turned Athens into a democracy days before, but with Pericles, Ephialtes former lieutenant, looking over his shoulder, and his twelve-year-old brother, Socrates, making frequent suggestions, Nicolaos wonders if he can solve the case and save democracy.

A graphic novel adaptation of Victor Hugo's classic novel about the hunchback Quasimodo and his love for the beautiful Gypsy, Esmeralda.

A graphic novel adaptation of the nineteenth-century French novel about Jean Valjean, a peasant who is released from prison, where he spent nineteen years for stealing a loaf of bread for his starving family, only to find himself threatened by people and events from his past.

"Emmaline Black has a secret. She can hear the rhythm of heartbeats. Not just her own, but others' too. It's a rhythm she's learned to control, and that can only mean one thing . . . Emma's a witch. In a world where a sentence of witchcraft comes with dire consequences and all children who have reached the age of thirteen are tested to ensure they have no witch blood, Emma must attempt to stamp out her power before her own test comes. But the more she researches, the more she begins to suspect that her radically anti-witch aunt and mother are hiding something"--Provided by publisher.

When the Ku Klux Klan's unwelcome reappearance rattles Stella's segregated southern town, bravery battles prejudice in this Depression-era tour de force from Sharon Draper, the New York Times bestselling author of Out of My Mind . Stella lives in the.

Banner Coleman, having learned of her fianc?'s betrayal on her wedding day, begins an affair with her parents' best friend, cowhand Jake Langston, and finds their relationship, as well as the sins of a man which were committed twenty years earlier, causing trouble in her Texas town.

Violet Mathers, abandoned by her mother and abused by her father, decides to travel to California and throw herself off the Golden Gate Bridge, but a bus accident in North Dakota puts her life on a new course when she is rescued by Austin Sykes and Kjel Hedstrom, a musical team who catch her up in their dreams of stardom during the Great Depression.

After getting kicked out of school for voicing opposition to the communist East German government, teens Hanna and Andreas hatch a plan to escape their country by swimming twenty-five hours across the Baltic Sea to democratic West Germany. In their quest for freedom, they will face icy waters, helicopter searches, stinging jellyfish, physical exhaustion, storms, and drowning.