historical fiction

Thirteen-year-old Charlotte Doyle, the only passenger on a voyage from England to America in 1832, must take serious matters into her own hands when she learns that the captain is murderous.

In 1755, after the death of his father, fifteen-year-old Patrick Egan and his uncle accompany the military force of aide-de-camp George Washington and British General Braddock as it journeys to fight the French and their Indian allies at Fort Duquesne in the Ohio River Valley.

In 1876 William Johnson used his summer break from Yale to work alongside renowned paleontologist Othniel Charles Marsh on a journey across the United States in search of dinosaur fossils. But Marsh's paranoia gets the best of him, and he leaves William in Cheyenne, Wyoming when he becomes convinced the young man is working as a spy for Marsh's arch rival, Edward Drinker Cope. Stranded in a town writhing with crime, William joins forces with Cope and finds a treasure that puts his life at risk.

In 1900, out-of-work butcher Pat Crowe kidnaps and ransoms the teenage son of Omaha's wealthiest meatpacking tycoon. After receiving $25,000 in gold and releasing the boy, Crowe makes his way across America and beyond, bank-robbing, safe-cracking, burgling, and bond-jumping his way into the public eye. The manhunt that followed became the thrill of the nation.

Presents a two-in-one experimental novel about death, gender, morality, and art. In the first half of the book, a teen named Georgia struggles with the death of her mother, a feminist art critic obsessed with fifteenth-century Italian artist Francesco del Cossa. In the other half of the novel, the spirit of del Cossa observes twentieth-century Britain and remembers her own life disguised as a boy in order to practice her art.

Adela Damari, a Jewish girl living in Yemen, is in danger of being adopted by the local Muslim community--unless her ailing parents can find her a husband before they die. When she meets two cousins from faraway cities--a boy with whom she shares a secret, and a girl who introduces her to the rituals of henna--Adela finds herself embarking on a new adventure into the dangers of Israel.

In 1980s SoHo, an art critic, an exiled Argentinian painter, and a small-town young woman with big dreams find their lives intertwined as they ascend in the arts scene, face tragedy, and watch their relationships to art change with the evolution of New York City.

Follows the story of two girls as they forge a powerful friendship that carries them through horrific circumstances.

Ninety-year-old Jacob Jankowski finds himself haunted by memories of his past in the circus and the freaks, exotic animals, and other people he encountered as a performer.

In 1836, eunuch sleuth Yashim investigates a series of killings in the sultan's court, honing in on the Janissaries, the marginalized former imperial guards who have become ruthless mercenaries and may have committed the murders in an attempt to regain power.