historical fiction

While her father and uncle, chemists at South Carolina College, try to get scientific equipment to safety, seventeen-year-old Emma hides with the rest of her family and others in their basement as Confederate soldiers bomb and loot Columbia.

A collection of stories about American Girl Kit Kittredge, who tries to help her family during the Great Depression.

A dog's-eye view of the Mayflower voyage and first Thanksgiving at Plymouth Colony traces the experiences of John Goodman's two dogs as they endure a brutal crossing and first year in the new world before sharing a first harvest with the Wampanoag Indians.

In 1920s Minnesota, life is hard for nineteen-year-old Owen Jensen and his family after their father dies but gets considerably worse when Owen becomes involved in the deaths of a sheriff and deputy.

It's London, 1855, and the Crimean War is raging. Thomas De Quincey confronts a killer who is targeting members of high society and evidence indicates the killer's ultimate victim will be Queen Victoria. De Quincey, and his daughter Emily, as well as Scotland Yard detectives Ryan and Becker, race to protect the queen. Along the way they discover long-buried secrets that impact the murders.

In the West Virginia town of Way Down Deep in the 1950s, a foundling called Ruby June is happily living with Miss Arbutus at the local boarding house when suddenly, after the arrival of a family of outsiders, the mystery of Ruby's past begins to unravel.

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.

When 15-year-old Francis and two younger children lose their way in the wilderness of the Southwest, they face capture at the hands of dangerous men.

"International bestselling author Ken Follett has enthralled millions of readers with The Pillars of the Earth and World Without End, two stories of the Middle Ages set in the fictional city of Kingsbridge. The saga now continues with Follett's magnificent new epic, A Column of Fire. In 1558, the ancient stones of Kingsbridge Cathedral look down on a city torn apart by religious conflict. As power in England shifts precariously between Catholics and Protestants, royalty and commoners clash, testing friendship, loyalty, and love. Ned Willard wants nothing more than to marry Margery Fitzgerald. But when the lovers find themselves on opposing sides of the religious conflict dividing the country, Ned goes to work for Princess Elizabeth. When she becomes queen, all Europe turns against England. The shrewd, determined young monarch sets up the country's first secret service to give her early warning of assassination plots, rebellions, and invasion plans. Over a turbulent half century, the love between Ned and Margery seems doomed as extremism sparks violence from Edinburgh to Geneva. Elizabeth clings to her throne and her principles, protected by a small, dedicated group of resourceful spies and courageous secret agents"--.

When aspiring magician Maxine's family moves from New York City to Texas for her father's new job running a Nazi POW camp, Max hopes her tricks are enough to keep her busy. But when eleven Nazis escape the camp during one of her magic shows, Max gets a little more chaos than she expected.