Ann Pedtke
The Mongoliad: Book One
In an alternate 13th century, the Mongol Horde has advanced into Europe, and the great Khagan, the Khan of Khans,…
Carla and the Vikings
Thirteen-year-old Catla lives in a small Anglo-Saxon village on the coast of England, where her future is laid out for…
Soundings: The Story of the Remarkable Woman Who Mapped the Ocean Floor
In 1948, Marie Tharp walked into the Lamont Geological Laboratory at Columbia University and demanded a job. At the time,…
Bring Up the Bodies
Editors' choice
It is 1535, and Henry VIII has become bored with Anne Boleyn. After upheaving the country and the Church in…
Empress of the Seven Hills
Kate Quinn returns with a gripping sequel to her bestselling debut Mistress of Rome. After the assassination of Emperor Domitian,…
My Name Is Not Easy
Luke has spent his whole life above the Arctic Circle, living with his extended family in their tiny Inupiaq village.…
The Seven Wonders
The twelve previous mystery novels in Steven Saylor’s bestselling Roma Sub Rosa series have made Gordianus the Finder one of…
A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionized the Cosmos
In mid-16th-century Poland, Nicolaus Copernicus, a reclusive canon of the Catholic Church, had labored for decades over an astronomical treatise…
Around the World
At the turn of the century, Jules Verne’s novel Around the World in Eighty Days inspired the public imagination. Many…
Ireland: A History
Irish history is often fragmented into single-period studies – examinations of early Christian Ireland, treatments of the Protestant Ascendancy, narratives…
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