historical fiction

Presents an illustrated adaptation of Homer's "Odyssey" designed for younger readers, and includes a selection of related activities.

Captain Diego Alatriste, having taken a job as a mercenary aboard a Spanish galleon, engages in bloody battles while traveling to the empire's outposts, and deals with his seventeen-year-old prot?g? ??igo's desire to leave his side and seek his own fortune.

Marguerite de Valois is considered the most beautiful woman in the French Court in 1565 and is in love with Henri of Guise, but her mother, Catherine de Medici, and brothers have other plans, forcing Marguerite to marry Henry of Navarre, and leading Marguerite and her new husband into a hostage situation in the midst of the Massacre of Saint Bartholomew.

Uhtred, having helped the Saxon king Alfred defeat the Danes, heads for Dunholm intending to free his stepsister who is being held prisoner in the Danish stronghold, and along the way falls in with Guthred, the self-proclaimed King of Northumbria, who has much to learn from Uhtred about battle, politics, and the ways of a monarch.

A fictionalized account of the life of twelfth-century French queen Eleanor of Aquitaine, covering her childhood, years as consort and wife to the pious King Louis VII of France, relationship with Henry of Anjou, rivalries, children, and more.

Collects Anne Rice's "Pandora," in which an ancient vampire shares her experiences since her days as one of the living during the time of Christ before being changed into the undead; and "Vittorio, the Vampire," in which a five-hundred-year-old vampire relates how he was seduced, at the age of sixteen, by Ursula, a supernatural creature who saved him from being killed.

Offers a fictionalized account of the life of Mary Stuart, who, at six days old, became Queen of Scotland, and spent her childhood in France before returning to her birth country to claim her right to the throne.

Joan of Kent, a high-spirited girl in fourteenth-century England, is sent to the court of King Edward III where she plots to create a scandal with Edward, Prince of Wales, in retaliation for her father's downfall and death, but she finds herself growing to love Edward, and is faced with a terrible dilemma when she learns he returns her feelings.

Arn Magnusson has risen in the ranks of the Knights Templar during his twenty-year exile to the Holy Lands and has become known as a man of compassion, strength, and faith, but nothing can lessen the pain of separation from his beloved Cecelia who is confined to a cloister back home. When Arn finally becomes a free man he is uneasy about the fate that awaits him and uncertain whether Cecelia still lives.

Elizabeth Woodville, a beautiful and ambitious woman, catches the eye of a newly crowned boy king, secretly marries him, and ascends to royalty while fighting for her family's success.