Editors' Choice

The Courtesan and the Samurai

By Lesley Downer - Published 2010

Genres:

Epic

Hana is a true Samurai wife, enduring humiliation and beatings at the hands of her husband without complaint. Her first duty is loyalty. ...Read Review

Lovers’ Knot

By Donald L. Hardy - Published 2009

Genres:

Romance

Lovers’ Knot, Donald Hardy’s beautifully rendered and entertaining historical romance, is set in Cornwall, England, in 1892 and 1906. It artfully relates the story ...Read Review

The Man from Saigon

By Marti Leimbach -

Genres:

Adventure

An absorbing, often gripping novel of a young woman reporter on tour in war-torn Vietnam in 1967, The Man from Saigon is gritty, realistic ...Read Review

Beneath the Lion’s Gaze

By Maaza Mengiste - Published 2010

Genres:

Saga

1974, and Ethiopia is on the verge of revolution. Peasants starve in the drought-stricken countryside, while Emperor Haile Selassie remains sequestered in his palace, ...Read Review

The Hand That First Held Mine

By Maggie O'Farrell - Published 2010

Genres:

Saga

Lexie Sinclair’s passions run deep; we meet her at her parent’s home near Cornwall, England, just after the end of World ...Read Review

Bloodroot

By Amy Greene - Published 2010

Genres:

LiterarySaga

Byrdie Lamb was said to be one of those witches from Chickweed Holler, one who, as they say, had “the touch.” She gave ...Read Review

The King’s Daughter

By Penny Ingham - Published 2010

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

The King’s Daughter begins in 877 AD while King Alfred the Great of Wessex is fighting Norse invaders. He is supported by his ...Read Review

Books Burn Badly

By Manuel Rivas - Published 2010

Genres:

Literary

Rivas put the following words in the mouth of Polka the gravedigger, one of the most charismatic characters of Books Burn Badly: “Don’...Read Review

The Templar Knight

By Jan Guillou - Published 2009Published 2010

Genres:

AdventureSaga

The story begins in 1177. Exiled to the Holy Land ten years earlier, Arn Magnusson is now serving as Master of the Knights Templar’...Read Review

The Holy Thief

By William Ryan - Published 2010

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Moscow 1936. When the mutilated body of a young woman is found on the altar of a deconsecrated church, Militia Captain Alexei Dmitriyevich Korolev ...Read Review

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