historical fiction

A fictionalized account of the life of Judith Shakespeare in which she tries to cope with her famous father's life.

A companion to Herman Melville's "Moby-Dick, " in which Una Spenser tells the story of her life, and discusses her loving marriage to Captain Ahab before the white whale took his leg and drove him into madness.

A young Englishman, seeking to avenge the death of his father, becomes involved in the band of the Black Arrow and the events of the War of the Roses.

Philadelphia preacher Joshua Clay faces a test to his strength and faith when he accepts a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity in the 1930s to be the first African-American minister in years sent to do missionary work in South Africa, and arrives only to find himself restricted at every turn and witness to ruthless apartheid policies.

Abel, a young American Indian home from a foreign war, finds himself torn between his father's world on the reservation and the lure of industrial America.

Josef Schumacher, a pastor in Berlin, is saddened by the increasing influence the Nazi youth movement is having on the young people of his church, so he risks everything to counteract the lies of a Fascist government and the power of the Fuhrer.

In 1802, the British Admiralty assigns to Richard Bolitho the distasteful task of sailing via Boston to the Caribbean to hand over the island of San Felipe to the French.

A tiny footbridge in Peru breaks, and five people hurtle to their deaths. For Brother Juniper, a humble monk who witnesses the catastrophe, the question is: Why those five?.

A historical novel in which Ishaq, commissioned to design the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem, meditates upon the reasons behind the creation of the contested relic that holds such significance for the Christian, Muslim, and Jewish faiths.

In the opening days of World War II, Captain Alexander de Milja, a member of the Polish resistance movement, is given the job of smuggling the national gold reserve to the exiled government.