historical fiction

Laura Ingalls travels with her family from the big woods of Wisconsin to the prairies of Kansas, where they build a house, meet neighboring Native Americans, and face the challenges of frontier life.

When an English girl comes to stay at Molly's during World War II, she and Molly learn to bridge their differences and ultimately enjoy a wonderful, mutual birthday party.

1918 was not a time when a young girl had a child without being married, and when this situation happened in Dottie's grandmother's household, it brought about events that would shape Dottie's life forever. Touching the lives of many people along the way, Dottie would be sent halfway across the country as a Train Child from New York City to the farms of Iowa.

Maya Laor leaves her home in Israel to study astronomy at the University of Virginia after the tragic death of her boyfriend in a suicide bombing.

Boston 1963. A city on edge. On street corners, newsboys hawk the shocking headline: KENNEDY IS DEAD. In the city's underworld, a mob war rages. But what terrifies Bostonians most is the mysterious killer who has already claimed a dozen victims, a muderer whose name is indelibly linked to their city: the Boston strangler.

Two young people attempt to break through the despair of back-alley life in post-war Pittsburgh and make their dreams come true in New York City.

Features historical mysteries from today's best American and British authors. Death of a place seeker/Lynda S. Robinson; Archimedes' tomb/Steven Saylor; Solomon's decision/Sharan Newman; Murder at anchor/Edward Marson; The hangman's apprentice/Leonard Tourney; Suffer a witch/Miriam Grace Monfredo; The lullaby cheat/Kate Ross; Anything in the dark/Edward D.Hoch; Bertie and the boat race/Peter Lovesey; The high constable and the visiting author/Maan Meyers; Look to the lady/Alanna Knight; Mrs. Hudson's case/ Laurie King; Exit centure stage/M.J.Trow; Decision of the umpire/Troy Soos; Uncle Charlie's letters/Anne Perry; Killing the critic/Gillia Linscott; Portrait of the artist as a young corpse/Barbara Paul; The Mamur Zapt and the Kodaker's eye/Michael Pearce; Storm in a teas shoppe/ Carola Dunn; The enemy/Ken Kuhlken; The soldier and his dead companion/Nicholas A. DiChario.