historical fiction

Kiana Sheridan leaves behind her teaching job and her boring boyfriend when she sets out to research her African-American heritage as part of her doctoral dissertation, and is puzzled when she encounters resistance from family members who, for some reason, want to sabotage her efforts.

Unsettling words from his dying father set twelve-year-old William on a mission to eighteenth-century London where, in the course of searching for his father's mysterious business partner John Diamond, he encounters an odd assortment of characters, some of whom seem determined to kill him.

Worried that conditions in Egypt are getting worse, a pharaoh asks his eight children to bring him stories that will reveal which one best understands the nature of power and rulership.

A novel about the love of a university student and a high school girl set in Buenos Aires shortly after the bombing of the Jewish association AMIA in 1994 and the problems that occur as a result of the differences in their ages, background, and religion.

Contains four stories by Mexican author, Carlos Fuentes, which deal with the history of his country.

In Spain in the 1800s, a poor and ignorant girl falls in love with a blind man and although he becomes sighted, a tragic ending befalls them.

Aurora del Valle, raised in the privileged class of Chile by her grandmother, is tormented by nightmares and half-memories of events set in San Francisco's Chinatown. Disillusioned in her marriage, Aurora sets out to rediscover the missing years of her early childhood.

Sixteen-year-old Amelia Kintz misses her snug little house in Germany after her family moves to a dirty shanty in an Ohio immigrant settlement in 1855.

A historical novel that focuses on a young woman of mixed heritage, Carmen Rangel, and her participation in the events that lead to Mexico's independence from Spain. After the ideals of the revolution are betrayed, Carmen takes up arms for Texas's independence from Mexico.

The triumphs and tragedies of the working class Pairetos clan and the wealthy Contreras family become intertwined through the lives of three generations of women in the politically turbulent country of El Salvador in the decades between the 1930s and the 1970s.