historical fiction

On the eve of the Jewish expulsion from Spain, Amalia Riba, a mapmaker's daughter, must decide between converting to Christianity and being safe, or staying a Jew and risking everything.

Nineteen-year-old Sarah masquerades as a man during the Civil War, serving as a nurse on the battlefield and a spy for the Union Army, escaping from the Confederates, and falling in love with one of her fellow soldiers. Based on the life of Sarah Emma Edmonds.

Jack and Hoshi are two soldiers on opposite sides who meet on the Kokoda Track in 1942 and who share with each other photographs of their families while they both wait for death after being mortally wounded.

A kidnapped 13-year-old boy discovers that he is on a slave ship and is to play music for the human cargo.

Tells the story of the uncoventional affair between Fanny Van de Grift, who ran away with her children to escape her philandering husband, and Robert Louis Stevenson, who was trying to escape the pressures from his family to become a lawyer.

Cornelius Allen, a wealthy plantation owner, marries off his daughter Clarissa and sets with her his other daughter Sarah, a slave girl, but when both are sent back to the Allen homestead, trouble starts to break up the family.

Callimachus, the royal librarian of Alexandria, takes his young apprentice Philip on a journey to visit all seven of the great wonders of the world including the Great Pyramid, Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the Colossus of Rhodes, and the statue of Zeus at Olympia.

Twelve-year-old Tom Higgins is determined to learn his father's moonshining business even though Prohibition forbids its production; but when a preacher arrives in the small Virginia community, the lines are drawn between the law and morality and the long and respected way of life of the Higgins family.

Anton, who is known as a fool for his inability to read and write, comes up with a plan to save a family and two other Jews after the Nazi's come to their Polish village.

Lieutenant Commander, expert navigator, and mathematical genius Tommy has spent his military career battling the enemy and challenging military procedure, and now in the aftermath of the battle for Okinawa he must now face the battle of Ten-Go, a Japanese kamikaze naval offensive.