Historical Fiction

From the celebrated author of The Nightingale and The Four Winds comes Kristin Hannah's The Women—at once an intimate portrait of coming of age in a dangerous time and an epic tale of a nation divided....

In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new development, the last thing they expected to find was a skeleton at the bottom of a well....

Two sisters, separated by years and experience, each embark on her own dangerous path toward survival, love, and freedom in WWII France.

Maine, 1789: When the Kennebec River freezes, entombing a man in the ice, Martha Ballard is summoned to examine the body and determine cause of death. As a midwife and healer, she is privy to much of what goes on behind closed doors in Hallowell....

When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby Jackson Island until he can formulate a plan....

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Leigh Bardugo comes a spellbinding novel set in the Spanish Golden Age....

Aging and reclusive Hollywood movie icon Evelyn Hugo is finally ready to tell the truth about her glamorous and scandalous life....

After Englishman John Blackthorne is lost at sea, he awakens in a place few Europeans know of and even fewer have seen—Nippon. Thrust into the closed society that is seventeenth-century Japan, a land where the line between life and death is razor-thin....

Early in the Great War, men left Britain’s factories in droves to enlist. Struggling to keep up production, arsenals hired women to build the weapons the military urgently needed....

This beautiful, illuminating tale of hope and courage is based on interviews that were conducted with Holocaust survivor and Auschwitz-Birkenau tattooist Ludwig (Lale) Sokolov - an unforgettable love story in the midst of atrocity....

From the Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of The Piano Tuner and The Winter Soldier comes a sweeping novel about a single house in the woods of New England, told through the lives of those who inhabit it across the centuries—a daring, moving tale of memory and fate....

1950s Philadelphia: fifteen-year-old Ruby Pearsall is on track to becoming the first in her family to attend college. But a taboo love affair threatens to pull her back down into the poverty and desperation that has been passed on to her like a birthright....

From the number-one bestselling author of The Nightingale and The Great Alone comes a powerful American epic about love and heroism and hope, set during the Great Depression....

Real Americans begins on the precipice of Y2K in New York City, when twenty-two-year-old Lily Chen, an unpaid intern at a slick media company, meets Matthew. Matthew is everything Lily is not: easygoing and effortlessly attractive, a native East Coaster....

On a bitter-cold day, in the December of his junior year at Harvard, Sam Masur exits a subway car and sees, amid the hordes of people waiting on the platform, Sadie Green. He calls her name....

When she is six, Marie-Laure goes blind and her father builds a perfect miniature of their neighborhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home....

Lady Tan’s Circle of Women is a captivating story of women helping other women. It is also a triumphant reimagining of the life of a woman who was remarkable in the Ming dynasty and would be considered remarkable today....

he New York Times best-seller with more than one million copies sold worldwide. Inspired by the incredible true story of one Jewish family separated at the start of World War II, determined to survive - and to reunite....

A discarded painting in a junk pile, a skeleton in an attic, and the greatest racehorse in American history: from these strands, a Pulitzer Prize winner braids a sweeping story of spirit, obsession, and injustice across American history....

On November 22, 1963, three shots rang out in Dallas, President Kennedy died, and the world changed. What if you could change it back? Maybe Jake Epping can....

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue is New York Times best-selling author V. E. Schwab’s genre-defying tour de force.

For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl....

In every life there is a turning point - a moment so tremendous, so sharp and breathtaking, that one knows one's life will never be the same. For Michael Stirling, London's most infamous rake, that moment came the first time he laid eyes on Francesca Bridgerton....

The Catenan Republic—the Hierarchy—may rule the world now, but they do not know everything. I tell them my name is Vis Telimus. I tell them I was orphaned after a tragic accident three years ago, and that good fortune alone has led to my acceptance into their most prestigious school....

For too long, Opaline, Martha and Henry have been the side characters in their own lives. But when a vanishing bookshop casts its spell, these three unsuspecting strangers will discover that their own stories are every bit as extraordinary as the ones found in the pages of their beloved books....

Determined to support her mother and sisters after her father's untimely death, Charlotte Mandeville covertly crafts satirical caricatures of high society. It not only puts money in her family’s bare pockets, but ensures the haut-ton cannot guard all the power and the secrets. Anthony Yorke has a guilty conscience and a brother to exonerate. When the key piece of evidence to clear his brother's name falls into the hands of a headstrong young woman, he is willing to do whatever is required to obtain it from her.

Having recently lost their parents to a tragic stagecoach accident, siblings Stella and Mark Crawford are now faced with braving the unknown as they set out in an effort to complete their journey to Wichita where they intend to finish what their father had started and take over the mercantile from a gent named Highram Jennings. Along the way, they meet up with Chase Broderick who is also on his way to Wichita with designs on accepting the invitation from a longtime friend to fill the vacant position of town sheriff as a first step to fulfilling his life’s dream of saving up enough money ...

2016 READERS' FAVORITE BRONZE AWARD WINNER for Christian Historical Fiction Pennsylvania 1873: When, in the harsh world of Pennsylvania coal country, Jim Farrell is hanged for murder, his wife and three daughters must turn their beautiful home into a boarding house in order to survive. But struggling beneath the shadow of shame becomes too much for eldest daughter, Kate. She resolves to clear her father’s name in spite of her mother’s admonition to “let it go,” and convinces her sisters to help. All too soon their dangerous quest rips the family apart. Will it also cost them the men...

Having done her duty as an ATS girl, Lance Corporal Ruth Cox is moving on to new challenges and has signed up to work as a gunner girl, helping to keep the skies clear of enemy planes and safe for our brave boys in blue. But on the way to her new barracks, Ruth meets handsome Sargeant Sam Johnson. Ruth isn’t looking for romance, and she knows she has a dangerous job ahead, but there is a connection between her and Sam that she can’t deny.

Callum leaned closer to her throat. “Why would you tease me this way? It’s torture.” “Torture? You know nothing about torture!” Her eyes narrowed, and she bit her bottom lip. “What do you think it’s like to keep such a secret from you? To have these feelings for you and be unable to say a word for fear I’d ruin everything? Not just for me, but for my sister.” His eyes bore into her. “You have feelings for me?” With that, she lifted up on her tiptoes and pressed her lips to his, letting her emotions break free for the first time in her life. If that didn’t answer his ...

From interdisciplinary writer and performer Jacob Wren comes Polyamorous Love Song, a novel of intertwined narratives concerning the relationship between artists and the world. Shot through with unexpected moments of sex and violence, listeners will become acquainted with a world that is at once the same and opposite from the one in which they live.

Coconut Dreams explores the lives of the Pinto family through seventeen linked short stories. Starting with a ghost story set in Goa, India in the 1950s, the collection weaves through various timelines and perspectives to focus on two children, Aiden and Ally Pinto. These siblings tackle their adventures in a predominantly white suburb with innocence, intelligence and a timid foot in two distinct cultures.

A young translator living in Toronto frequently travels abroad—to Hong Kong, Macau, Prague, Tokyo—often with his unnamed lover. In restaurants and hotel rooms, the couple begin telling folk tales to each other, perhaps as a way to fill the undefined space between them. Theirs is a comic and enigmatic relationship in which emotions are often muted and sometimes masked by verbal play and philosophical questions, and further complicated by the woman's frequent unexplained disappearances.

Tattooed and troubled are not the top qualities I am looking for in a man, but that is exactly what I found… Luke Whitmore, youngest of the billionaire Branson Brothers, is a troublemaker—just ask anyone in this small town. When an injured horse forces us together, we butt heads right away. But soon, his unexpected sweet side reels me in. The way he cares for the horse; I can’t help imagining him caring for me and my baby the same way. But Luke has a seedy past and his friends from that life won’t let him forget it. Can I have that kind of man around me and my baby? Can he leave his...

World War 1 Rages Overseas and at Home Deep in the trenches, far from home, Timothy Wainwright fights for his country and his sanity. His faith in God falters. Even if he survives, how can he stop his stepfather from marrying the girl Timothy loves to Tim’s worst enemy? Thousands of miles away in western Washington, Hope Farrell refuses to marry the man with whom her father is obsessed. He disowns her. War continues, Hope tirelessly cares for soldiers in her hometown, then victims of the deadly Spanish influenza. A battle front cry for help puts Tim to the supreme test: a reminder that ...

They say love lost is love forgotten. But some love endures. After a decade apart, two hearts reunite to face their shared past and embark on a journey to rediscover the real meaning of love. On the picturesque paradise of Pink Coral Island, childhood sweethearts Jenny Ormani and Christopher Drake find their love rekindled, but their path is not without its share of challenges. As they strive to restore and reopen a hotel that holds their dreams, they must confront the malevolence of vandalism and the threat of raging fires that seek to devour their aspirations. Complicating matters further...

Sequel to Joy’s Long Journey, (Gold Rush prospector finds child in desert. Only clue to her identity is a crocheted lace collar.) Gabriela O’Donnell is horrified at the prospect of marriage with a man she despises. She runs away from her scheming cousin's home and assumes a false name. Gabbie dares trust no one, even San Francisco’s rising star attorney, Gordon Rhys, who is fast capturing her heart. The courageous young woman lives in constant fear; compelled to flee time after time from those determined to force her into a life of misery. God opens ways of escape, but Gabbie’s ...

Stuck in a snowstorm with my secret crush from college. His charm has me questioning everything. I just needed a few days away from reality. It’s the perfect time to take a trip to the old cabin. But Aiden unexpectedly reenters my life. I haven’t seen him since he went into the military. And two tours did him real good! With the storm raging, we discover secrets from our past and I'm faced with a decision – to leave the life I've built and take a chance with Aiden or stay on this career path and become a cat lady with my best friends. Second Chance Weekend is a small town clean ...

A holiday party takes an unexpected turn after an anonymous gift surfaces during the white elephant exchange. The contents from the mysterious package trigger events that catapult Thom Bailey into an exciting thrill packed adventure that unlocks incredible secrets linked to his past.

On the rivers, canals, and streams of the Mekong Delta the brown water Navy carried the men of the 2nd brigade, 9th Infantry Division to battle along narrow canals and rivers to landings deep in the delta. The sailors came from all over the Navy to do a dangerous job in horrible conditions. Their small boats were heavily armed and armored, but the Viet Cong leaned their weaknesses. They brought in weapons that could penetrate the armor and built bunkers that could resist the boat’s weapons. Operating on narrow canals and rivers, sometimes no wider than 100 feet, the boats were especially ...