historical fiction

Beth Morgan flees from her own wedding after realizing she is not in love with her future husband, and Quaid Blair, whom Beth's father hired to track her down, finds Beth and teaches her what real love is.

In 1876, on the eve of the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, twenty-year-old Vesper Holly and her friends clash yet again with the archfiend Dr. Helvitius, whose evil schemes plunge them into danger in the wild Pennsylvania countryside.

In eighteenth-century Japan, fourteen-year-old Seikei, a merchant's son in training to be a samurai, helps his patron investigate a series of murders and arson in the capital city of Edo, each of which is associated in some way with a popular geisha.

Stranded on an island during a mapping expedition in 1924, a seventeen-year-old Inuit girl writes about her life on the tundra and the changes brought about by the Europeans who settled Canada.

A fictional re-creation of the lives of Claudius and Gertrude, King and Queen of Denmark, in the years before the action of Shakespeare's "Hamlet" begins.

Presents nearly thirty reviews and essays on African-American author Toni Morrison's novel "Beloved" by such writers as Margaret Atwood, Rosellen Brown, Stanley Crouch, and Morrison herself, and includes a scholarly introduction.

A novel based on the work of Dr. Jean Marc Itard who spent the years shortly after the French Revolution working with a "savage" boy whom he called Victor, trying to prove he was not an idiot and to teach him how to live in human society.

A sixtieth anniversary edition of the classic novel "Gone With the Wind," the story of Scarlett O'Hara, a young woman whose strength of character carries her through the deprivations of the Civil War, but whose infatuation with Ashley Wilkes keeps her from recognizing her true love.

Ned Halloran, orphaned by the death of his parents and left alone after his sister moves to America, enrolls at St. Edna's in Dublin, a school governed by scholar and rebel Patrick Pearse, and soon becomes involved in Ireland's fight for freedom--a battle that is supported by his sister and other Irish patriots across the sea.

In 1943, during the German occupation of Denmark, ten-year-old Annemarie learns how to be brave and courageous when she helps shelter her Jewish friend from the Nazis.