by Tracy Chevalier

[A] delicately perceptive little novel....Chevalier draws the reader into the world of the painting, into the mood of the masterpiece she explores: moving, mysterious, at times almost unbearably poignant. Sometimes...Read More

Publication Date: Jan 2001

by Adriana Trigiani

Known and loved around the world for her sweeping Big Stone Gap trilogy and the instant New York Times bestseller Lucia, Lucia, Adriana Trigiani returns to the charm and drama...Read More

Publication Date: May 2005

by Philippa Gregory

Fabulous historical novel set in the court of King Henry VIII. Mary Boleyn attracts the attention of the young king and becomes his mistress; when he tires of her, she...Read More

Publication Date: Sep 2007

by Philippa Gregory

Three women who share one fate: the Boleyn InheritanceANNE OF CLEVES: She runs from her tiny country, her hateful mother, and her abusive brother to a court ruled by the...Read More

Publication Date: Aug 2007

by Arthur Golden

The 'memoirs' of one of Japan's most celebrated geishas describes how, in 1929, as a little girl, she is sold into slavery, her efforts to learn the arts of the...Read More

Publication Date: Nov 2005

by Mary Doria Russell

In September 1943, fourteen-year-old Claudette Blum and her father flee across the Alps into Italy with thousands of other Jewish refugees seeking safety, only to find an open battleground among...Read More

Publication Date: Dec 2005

by Diana Gabaldon

Claire Randall is leading a double life.  She has a husband in one century, and a lover in another...In 1945, Claire Randall, a former combat nurse, is back from the war...Read More

Publication Date: Jul 2005

by Pamela Aidan

A concluding installment to the best-selling trilogy follows Darcy's journey of self-discovery after Elizabeth Bennet's rejection of his marriage proposal, a period during which he hopes to renew his suit...Read More

Publication Date: Jan 2007

by Pamela Aidan

A first installment of a trilogy based on Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice is told from the perspective of Darcy, begins with his observations of the Bennet family during a...Read More

Publication Date: May 2006

by Charles Frazier

One of the most acclaimed novels in recent memory, Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain is a masterpiece that is at once an enthralling adventure, a stirring love story, and a luminous...Read More

Publication Date: Sep 1998

by Philippa Gregory

Two sisters competing for the greatest prize: the love of a kingWhen Mary Boleyn comes to court as an innocent girl of fourteen, she catches the eye of Henry VIII....Read More

Publication Date: Jun 2002

by Sarah Dunant

In 15th-century Florence, a young woman named Alessandra welcomes an arranged marriage to a cultured man over 30 years her senior because he promises her the freedom to pursue her...Read More

Publication Date: Nov 2004

by Diana Gabaldon

New York Times bestselling author of OutlanderDiana Gabaldon mesmerized readers with her award-winning Outlander novels, four dazzling New York Times bestsellers featuring 18th-century Scotsman James Fraser and his 20th-...Read More

Publication Date: Aug 2005

by Michael Chabon

During the rise of Nazism, Joe Kavalier escapes from Prague and immigrates to America, where he hopes to make enough money to bring the rest of his family with him....Read More

Publication Date: Aug 2001

by Ursula Hegi

Stones from the River' is a daring, dramatic and complex novel of life in Germany. It is set in Burgdorf, a small fictional German town, between 1915 and 1951. The...Read More

Publication Date: Mar 1997

by Ken Follett

On the release of The Pillars of the Earth Publishers Weekly extolled, 'Follett risks all and comes out a clear winner.' A departure for the bestselling thriller writer, the historical...Read More

Publication Date: Sep 2007

by Jean M. Auel

Prehistoric couple Ayla and Jondalar, along with their animal entourage, abandon their isolated life and rejoin Jondalar's tribe, the Zelandonii. Ayla has trouble adjusting to Zelandonii ways, and some of...Read More

Publication Date: Jul 2003

by Jean M. Auel

Auel manages to make all her characters fascinating and for the most part convincing, no easy feat, since unlike the foundling Ayla they speak with hand gestures, make abstractions rarely,...Read More

Publication Date: Nov 1984

by Ellis Peters

When Shrewsbury Castle falls during a war between King Stephen and the Empress Maud, Brother Caedfael makes another grim discovery--a strangled corpse lying among the dead--and vows to find the...Read More

Publication Date: Mar 1994

by Ariana Franklin

The national bestselling hit hailed by the New York Times as a 'vibrant medieval mystery...[it] outdoes the competition.' In medieval Cambridge, England, Adelia, a female forensics expert, is summoned by...Read More

Publication Date: Feb 2008

by Karen Harper

Assigned as a lady in waiting to the queen of France, the sister Henry VIII, beautiful but sheltered Mary Boleyn is drawn into the treacherous secrets and illicit love affairs...Read More

Publication Date: Feb 2006

by Sandra Gulland

Since completing high school history, few of us have managed to keep straight the details of the French Revolution. Beyond suggestions of eating cake and the effectiveness of the guillotine,...Read More

Publication Date: Aug 1999

by Alison Weir

I am now a condemned traitor . . . I am to die when I have hardly begun to live.Historical expertise marries page-turning fiction in Alison Weir’s enthralling debut novel,...Read More

Publication Date: Nov 2007

by Gregory Maguire

Gregory Maguire's chilling, wonderful retelling of Cinderella is a study in contrasts. Love and hate, beauty and ugliness, cruelty and charity--each idea is stripped of its ethical trappings, smashed up...Read More

Publication Date: Oct 2000

by James Patterson

Hugh De Luc, an innkeeper barely able to keep his inn from the nobles who rule France, joins the Crusades in an attempt to get out from under the royal...Read More

Publication Date: Feb 2004

by Isabel Allende

An Orphan raised in Valparaiso, Chile, by a Victorian spinster and her rigid brother, young, vivacious Eliza Sommers follows her lover to California during the Gold Rush of 1849.  She...Read More

Publication Date: Sep 2000

by Tracy Chevalier

In a novel of manners and social divisions set against the backdrop of turn-of-the-century England, two girls from different classes become friends, and their families' lives become intertwined in the...Read More

Publication Date: Sep 2002

by Jean M. Auel

This novel of awesome beauty and power is a moving saga about people, relationships, and the boundaries of love. Through Jean M. Auel's magnificent storytelling we are taken back to...Read More

Publication Date: Jun 2002

by John Shors

In seventeenth-century Hindustan, the reigning emperor, grieving over the death of his beloved wife, commissions the construction of the Taj Mahal as a monument to their lasting relationship, in an...Read More

Publication Date: Jun 2006

by Jean M. Auel

Ayla and Jondalar set forth into the land of the Mamutoi. Although Ayla finds warmth andfriendship, she must choose between Jondalarand Ranec as her mate.

Publication Date: Nov 1986