historical fiction

A fictional account of the life of Tsu Hsi, known as Empress Orchid, telling of her rise to power in China, and the political skills that allowed her to remain in a position of leadership for more than four decades.

Presents the life story of Miss Jane Pittman, who was born a slave on a Louisiana plantation before the Civil War and who lived to be 110 years old.

A story of a Chinese peasant and his passionate, dogged accumulation of land and more land, while weathering famine and drought and revolution.

Fictionalized accounts of actual events in the lives of some of the world's greatest scientists, including Newton, Galileo, Bohr, and Heisenberg.

In 1588 Ireland, fourteen-year-old Nora Donovan risks her life to rescue a boy and a stallion from a Spanish vessel shipwrecked on the beach.

In sixth-century Great Britain, a fifteen-year-old girl seeking knowledge of her lineage is drawn into battle to defend the homeland she never knew, aided by one of King Arthur's knights.

The United States is facing war once again in 1812, with James and Dolley Madison, Andrew and Rachel Jackson, and an assortment of other statesmen, heroes, and ordinary men and women ready to take a stand for the fledgling nation.

Noon and Herbie experience a change in their relationship when they find two young girls on their doorstep in 1950s Philadelphia. The girls grow to be loving sisters who fall for the same man, a developer who wants to run a road through their African-American neighborhood--a project whose opposition forces are led by Noon.

Alice Cole, sold as an indentured servant by her father, lives and works comfortably in the home of John Morton and his daughter Nabby, but when Nabby marries, Alice's contract is turned over to Nabby's cruel husband Mr. Verley whose abuse drives Alice to run away to Boston where she finds refuge with widow Lyddie Berry and her lawyer companion Eben Freeman, who stand by Alice when she learns she is pregnant and is then charged with a number of crimes.