historical fiction

Henry VIII, anxious about the consequences of dying without a male heir, is denied permission to annul his marriage of twenty years and marry Anne Boleyn, but the power struggle between the Church and the Crown is mediated by astute politician Thomas Cromwell, who manages to get the king what he wants while keeping his eye on the prize of a free England.

A fictionalized account of the history of the Kelly gang, which traces the adventures of Australian outlaw Ned Kelly.

Eleven black students form a singing group and tour the world in an attempt to save their college from financial ruin. Includes a history of the Jubilee Singers, including photographs, song sheets, concert posters, and programs.

A Harvard freshman pieces together the strange story of a southern tragedy involving an ambitious planter who settled in Mississippi in 1833.

When his entire brigade is wiped out by the American colonists, a sixteen-year-old German drummer boy survives with the aid of a Quaker family and the local doctor. Yet, surrounded by war and by prejudices, he is not out of danger.

Amy Robsart and Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester and favorite of the Queen, try to keep their forbidden marriage a secret during the reign of Elizabeth I of England.

Sir Walter Scott's 1825 novel which dramatizes Scottish knight Simon Lockhart's acquisition, during the Crusades, of the medical talisman later known as the "Lee-penny.".

During London's social season, Nicola Sparks falls in love with a viscount, but one of his enemies tries to undermine her opinion of his character.

Since the deaths of her father, brother, and the first man she loved, Emily Jenkins has been struggling to support herself and her mother, blaming many of their problems on the recent construction on the power lines, but when a worker is struck by lightening and brought to Emily, she finds herself falling for the mysterious young man.

Civil War widow Cynthia May wins a job as a human computer at Washington's Naval Observatory where she becomes involved with handsome antic astronomer Hugh Allison, a man who is pursuing his ambition to project an image through time and space.