historical fiction

A series of stories by Italian author Italo Calvino in which explorer Marco Polo diverts the aging Kublai Kahn from thoughts about the impending demise of his empire by describing the many amazing cities he has seen on his travels--diverse places that are, in the end, all the same.

Young Italian nobelman, Cosimo, rebels against the authority of his parents in the late eighteenth century by climbing into the trees where he proceeds to make a very full life for himself.

Presents the story of the Kashpaws and the Lamartines, two extended families who live on and around a Chippewa reservation in North Dakota and of Lipsha Morrissey, a young man who attempts to bring his wandering grandfather back to his long-suffering grandmother with a love medicine made from goosehearts.

Gene Forrester looks back fifteen years to a World War II year in which he and his best friend Phineas were roommates in a New Hampshire boarding school. Their friendship is marred by Finny's crippling fall, an event for which Gene is responsible and one that eventually leads to tragedy.

Private eye Toby Peters never expected to encounter heavyweight champion Joe Louis covered with blood and standing on a deserted beach next to the corpse of Peters's ex-wife's husband.

A successful lawyer remembers his boyhood in Nebraska and his friendship with an immigrant Bohemian girl named ?Antonia.

A successful lawyer remembers his boyhood in Nebraska and his friendship with an immigrant Bohemian girl named Antonia.

A young Japanese woman struggles to adapt to a new way of life in the aftermath of World War II and the dropping of the atomic bomb on her country.

A fictionalized account of the War of 1812 brings to life the events that were pivitol to the destiny of America and the figures that contributed to those events.

Two young cousins and their fathers become involved in events leading up to abolitionist John Brown's raid on the federal armory at Harper's Ferry, West Virginia, in 1859.