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After a scandal ends her apprenticeship with Michelangelo in 1559, artist Sofonisba Anguissola accepts an invitation from King Felipe II to become lady-in-waiting and painting teacher to his teenag

This novel, set in 1979 China, is the story of those affected by the execution of a 28-year-old counterrevolutionary.

Full of danger, full of suspense and full of heart these are five interconnected narratives, each rooted in the sixties and each haunted by the Vietnam War.

Tudor England is a precarious place for booksellers Kate Gough and her brother John, who offer forbidden translations of the Bible.

In 1799, the artificial island of Dejima lies in Nagasaki Harbor as Japan's outpost for the Dutch East Indies Company.

As gentrification encroaches on historic Harlem, Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts untangles the myth and meaning of its storied legacy.

Esi Edugyan won wide acclaim for her stunning novel Half-Blood Blues'a Man Booker Prize finalist and winner of the Scotiabank Giller Prize.

The lives of three women on turn-of-the-twentieth-century San Miguel are shaped by ambition and circumstance, including the wife of a Civil War veteran who hopes to recover her health, her rebellio

Arriving in Paris on the eve of the Munich Appeasement in 1938, Hollywood star Frederic Stahl is unwittingly entangled in the region's shifting political currents when he discovers that his latest

Pledging her loyalty to the North at the risk of her life when her native Virginia secedes, Quaker-educated aristocrat Elizabeth Van Lew uses her innate skills for gathering military intelligence t

Luca and Isolde continue their journey searching for evil in medieval Christenndom.

Set in a ninth-century, Alfred the Great-like kingdom-seemingly random events ultimately connect Erling raiders with Anglycyn and Cyngael princes.

Based on the chilling true story of the last execution in Denmark's history, this award-winning, mesmerizing novel asks a question that plagues a small Danish town: does a fifteen-year-old boy dese

A young Canadian marches over the Pyrenees and enters into history by joining the International Brigades—men and women from around the world who volunteered to fight against fascism in the Spanish

When Prudence is given an unexpected dirigible, she does what any sensible female would do--names it the Spotted Custard and floats to India in pursuit of the perfect cup of tea.