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Seventeen-year-old Ruby Thomas has an unusual skill: the ability to throw a ball as hard as the greatest pitchers.

This historical novel follows young Isabella of Castile in her dramatic and turbulent ascent to power as she transforms from the defiant, passionate daughter of an exiled widow into the famed warri

In the year 1348, Tomas, a disgraced knight, comes upon a girl orphaned by the Black Plague who tells him that the disease is only part of a greater cataclysm--that the fallen angels under Lucifer

Caterina Pellegrini is a native Venetian, and like so many of them, she's had to leave home to pursue her career elsewhere, mostly abroad.

Set at a moment of profound artistic, cultural, and societal change--Paris in 1878--The Painted Girls is ultimately a tale of two remarkable girls rendered uniquely vulnerable to the darker impulse

In spring of 1858 Thompson Grey, a young farmer, travels to his father's estate seeking funds to expand his holdings.

A haunting historical novella, Lowcountry Spirit tells the story of three slave girls with mystical powers living on an eerie island off the coast of Georgia.

Educated, engaged, and the youngest in a prominent family, Whitney has everything she and her father have ever wanted.

In 1940 a Jewish boy in Poland escapes the Nazi soldiers who killed his family and is rescued by a Greek geologist.

Roots begins with a birth in an African village in 1750 and ends two centuries later at a funeral in Arkansas.

This epic historical novel tells the story of four families who are divided by ethnicity but united in shaping the destiny of Russia.

In 1915, Jean Dartemont heads off to the Great War, an eager conscript. Soon, however, the vaunted "war to end all wars" is just an unimaginable, unceasing slaughter.

A bold English adventurer; an invincible Japanese warlord; a beautiful woman torn between two ways of life, two ways of love--all brought together in an extraordinary saga of a time and a place afl

Left penniless after the death of her father, Amaryllis Duvane is forced to work as a servant in the home of her wealthy relations.

Stephen Moran comes of age with the young country that he crosses on the Union Pacific, just as the railroad unites the continent.