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When Sam Houston organizes an attack into Mexico, the gloryseeking Texans are overwhelmed. Captured, they face the terrible Diezmo--a game of chance that ensures every 10th man will be killed.

Simon St. Bride has been in Canada fighting the War of 1812--but the war is over now, and Simon is ready to come home. Before he leaves, however, Simon must defend a young woman's honor.

Cassius Howard is a skilled slave, once his master's favorite. But his master Hoke is now little more than a fragile old man, depressed about an ever-shrinking plantation and losing a son to war.

Lionel Walk, etter known as Train, is a young black caddy at an elite Los Angeles golf course.

Haunted by the horrors ofWorldWar I, Dr. James Delaney's personal life is a nightmare. But everything changes when he returns home one day to find his three-year-old grandson on his doorstep.

This sequel to Donald McCaig's Civil War novel "Jacob's ladder" delivers a saga of Reconstruction America from Lee's 1865 surrender at Appomattox to Custer's 1876 massacre at Little Big Horn.

Presents Martin Dressler, son of an immigrant cigar maker, who, in dedicating his life to the American dream, becomes a symbol of it.

In 1912 England, 19-year-old Harriet Morton leads a dreary existence. Her ballet class is her only joy.

Deemed an illegitimate child by her royal Polish family, Amandine is abandoned as a baby at a French convent. As she grows, Amandine struggles to accept her orphaned state.

While investigating a brazen murder, Coroner of the Verge Sir John de Wolfe discovers a sinister plot to topple the crown, even as King Richard is away fighting the French.

Charlotte Randolph is a beautiful, privileged southern woman who, through the circumstance of war, is coerced to spy for the Confederacy.

Desperate to keep his vast estates in the family, the Duke of Belcraven chooses his illegitimate daughter, Beth Armitage, as bride for Lucien de Vaux, his only heir.

Handsome rancher Drake Kincaid faces a dilemma. He must take a bride before his rapidly approaching 30th birthday, or he will lose his ranch to his conniving uncle.

James presents a dramatic slave narrative set on a 19th-century Jamaican sugar plantation.

Photographer Dylan Cooper, returning home after the war, discovers that his wife Grace, believing that he had been killed, has vanished and, building a quiet life in a small fishing village, is onl