2012
Arcadia
What is it really like to be raised in a commune, and what are the lifetime consequences? Those are the…
The Solitary House
Disgraced former policeman Charles Maddox works as a private investigator in 1850s London. He takes a surprising assignment from a…
The Flower Reader
The turbulent court of Mary Queen of Scots is the backdrop of The Flower Reader, which tells the tale of…
The Pope Who Quit: A True Medieval Tale of Mystery, Death, and Salvation
Benedictine Brother Peter Morrone (1210-1296) took his last name from a mountain in the rough Italian Abruzzi. He lived there…
Blue Moon Promise
After a man breaks into their house and she loses her job, Lucy Marsh weds a man she’s never met.…
The Heart’s Frontier
Emma Switzer and her Amish family are traveling in 1881 Kansas when bandits steal their wagon and goods. They walk…
The Berlin Crossing
In Brandenburg, in 1993, the deathbed urging of his mother spurs out-of-work teacher Michael Ritter to go in search of…
The Capture of the Earl of Glencrae
In June 1829, Angelica Cynster is attending a ball at Cavendish House when she is suddenly aware that a tall…
The Last Storyteller: A Novel of Ireland
In 1956, Ben MacCarthy travels around Ireland collecting stories for the Folklore Commission. His own life story is a mess…
The Flowers of War
In 1937, the Japanese capture Nanking, China. An expatriate American priest, Father Engelmann, hopes his church will be respected as…
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