historical fiction

In this retelling of H.P. Lovecraft's infamous story "The Horror at Red Hook," Charles Thomas Tester is a con artist who disguises himself as a street musician to hustle money on the streets of 1924 Harlem in order to provide for himself and his father. Desperate for money, he takes a job at the home of Robert Suydam, a wealthy man from Red Hook, only to become involved in the opening of a portal to another dimension and the summoning of an evil force.

Tatiana and Alexander have miraculously found one another in America after both of them fled their native Russia following World War II. Now they have a son, Anthony, and their love seems boundless; but the trials of the Cold War, in its infancy still, threaten to take away the peace that was already so fragile.

During the Korean civil war, sixteen-year-old Lee Haemi lives in a refugee camp in Busan, South Korea. Each night, she leaves her makeshift home to be with her childhood friend, Yun Kyunghwan, not knowing that Kyunghwan's older, wealthier cousin, Yun Jisoo, is determined to marry her. Both men are conscripted to go to war, and both returned injured. After the war, Jisoo asks Haemi to marry him, and seeing the marriage as the best way to protect herself and her family, she agrees. As he watches Haemi grow into a wife and then a mother, Kyunghwan finds himself working demeaning jobs while trying to rise through the modernization and upheaval after the war. When he reenters Haemi?s life, she is torn between her passions and her duties.

When Clara vanishes after the puppeteer Grisini and two orphaned assistants were at her twelfth birthday party, suspicion of kidnapping chases the trio away from London and soon the two orphans are caught in a trap set by Grisini's ancient rival, a witch with a deadly inheritance to shed before it is too late.

Two fifteen-year-old girls--one a slave and the other an indentured servant--escape their Carolina plantation and try to make their way to Fort Moses, Florida, a Spanish colony that gives sanctuary to slaves.

After being taught in a boarding school run by whites that Navajo is a useless language, Ned Begay and other Navajo men are recruited by the Marines to become Code Talkers, sending messages during World War II in their native tongue.

Collects no. 1-3 of "Rurouni Kenshin" in which Kenshin tries to stop legendary warrior Hitokiri Battosai and a slayer who has targeted officials of the Meiji government; and agrees to protect Takami Megumi, the daughter in a famous family of doctors.

In 1952, two brothers, aged nine and ten, enjoy a year filled with fun and adventure in the farmlands of northeastern Illinois.

For eleven year-old Hugo Ballard, flying on the Hindenburg is a dream come true. Hugo, his parents, and his four-year-old sister Gertie, are making the thrilling four thousand mile journey across the Atlantic in a zeppelin as big as the Titanic. But as the zeppelin gets ready to land, a blast rocks the Hindenburg and fire consumes the ship. The entire disaster lasts a mere thirty-two seconds, but in those few seconds, Hugo finds himself separated from his family and in a desperate race to escape the flames. The Hindenburg is doomed. And so, it seems, is Hugo. Will he survive this historic disaster?.