historical fiction

Maisie Dobbs, a one-time maid who was encouraged by her employer to seek an education, becomes a private investigator after serving at the front as a nurse during World War I, but her first case brings back disturbing memories of the war when her inquiries lead her to The Retreat, a convalescent refuge for ex-soldiers from which no one ever seems to emerge.

Story of the last years of the great general Sulla and Pompey, the young scion of a powerful rural family amid the events of the Roman Republic.

"1833. A near-fatal carriage accident has deposited an unconscious young woman on the doorstep of Hardwick Manor and into the care of young Lord James Ellerby. But when she finally awakens, it is with no memory of who she is or where she came from. Beth, as she calls herself, has no identity; the only clue to her circumstances is a recurring nightmare of a hummingbird, blood dripping from its steel beak"--Jacket flap.

In thirteenth-century China, after trying to save his widowed mother from a horrendous second marriage, twelve-year-old Haoyou has life-changing adventures when he takes to the sky as a circus kite rider and ends up meeting the great Mongol ruler Kublai Khan.

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

As Queen Victoria lies dying and with her family in danger, a group of friends races to track down the anarchists responsible for George's death, even as Montmorency seeks to teach a new generation to forgive.

A reprint of the nineteenth-century novel in which young Scottish adventurer Quentin Durward seeks fame and fortune in the service of France's Louis XI.

Randal, a half-Saxon, half-Breton orphan boy in Norman England, is left to take care of himself in Arundel castle, and he slowly makes his way to squirehood, and eventually knighthood, due to his bravery, and lives an exciting life before a fee is demanded of him.

Fifteen-year-old Molly runs away from her grandmother's house to go in search of her father, a miner, and sets off a chain of events that leads to a greater understanding between the various races and classes of people living in nineteenth-century Montana.

In 1611 Japan, English orphan Jack Fletcher continues his difficult training during his first year at samurai school while Dragon Eye, the ninja who killed his father, seeks him out to obtain a navigational logbook, and Jack's only hope of survival rests on his success in an ancient ritual.