historical fiction

British captain Richard Sharpe must lead untrained, unequipped ceremonial troops in a fight to the death when his old foe, French Brigadier General Guy Loup, attacks him while he heads a battalion of the king of Spain's household guard.

Nitta Sayuri, a young Japanese woman who was taken from her home at the age of nine and sold into slavery as a geisha, discovers a rare opportunity for freedom when the outbreak of World War II forces an end to the only life she has ever known.

Follows the life of Rory Larkin, who is determined to fight his way from New Zealand back to his native Ireland to help in the Irish struggle for independence in the days before World War I.

A historical novel based upon the lives of socialite Katherine Dexter, one of the first female graduates of M.I.T., and her husband, Stanley, heir to the McCormick fortune; telling the story of their lives after Stanley was institutionalized at Riven Rock with a psycho-sexual disorder that made him violent toward women.

Story of a family who settled in America's eastern frontier told in the voices of three generations of mountaineer storytellers.

In 1881, after sixteen-year-old Bin-daa-dee-nin, an Apache fugitive, prays for help to survive in the mountains of New Mexico, he encounters a unique horse, and the path of his life with that horse crosses the life path of fourteen-year-old Sarah Chilton.

As the war between North and South drags on, the twins share their experiences and points of view as the brother goes off to battle and sister remains home.

Tells of the last days of King Arthur, his faithful magician and his animal teachers. Sequel to The Once and Future King.

Relates the fortunes of a shipwrecked family as they imaginatively adapt to life on an island abundantly inhabited by animal and plant life.

Critically wounded during a Civil War battle in Franklin, Tennessee, Confederate soldier Bushrod Carter is taken to a field hospital where he meets Anna Hereford with whom he becomes friends.