CK - Historical 5

Continuing the Tender Ties Historical Series, Every Fixed Star brings readers more of the dramatic, fictionalized account of Marie Dorion: the real-life woman who was the first mother to cross the R……続きを見る

Lloyd Brackett sets out alone to capture an Indian, wanted for shooting dead two men. Lloyd knows he has to bring Joe Skookum in, dead or alive, but he'd rather not have to kill him – he's a great g……続きを見る

A.D. 1305. An hour before dawn. London's Smithfield prison. In a dank cell, the outlaw William Wallace waits to be executed at first light. He is visited by a Scottish priest who has come to hear hi……続きを見る

This is an electronic edition of the complete book complemented by author biography. This book features a table of contents linked to every chapter. The book was designed for optimal navigation on t……続きを見る

Bloody Rain is a short story set on a sailing ship in the 1880s. The Queen Charlotte was anchored fore and aft off the Calcutta wharves in the Hoogly River, waiting for cargo. She was a fine, three ……続きを見る

A crime of passion brings on a harrowing criminal investigation in a divided land Set in the exotic and turbulent world of Syria in the 1930s, Night Falls on Damascus tells the story of a French-Syr……続きを見る

The town was locked up tight. Hired killers made it unhealthy to ask questions and most people rode clear of Daranga. But three Justice Department men had died violently in the Rio Blanco country an……続きを見る

A Death in Summer is the fourth entry in the Quirke Mysteries, an enthralling literary crime series set in 1950s Dublin from John Banville, writing as Benjamin Black. Now major TV series: Quirke, st……続きを見る

Book 7, American Family Portrait series. In the darkest days of World War II, four messengers arrive at the Morgan house in San Diego, one after the other. Just like the Old Testament account of Job……続きを見る

Background: There is no more well known or revered Canadian landscape painter than Tom Thomson. And yet the circumstances of Thomson’s death and burial in 1917 make any fictional murder mystery pale……続きを見る

From the Father of Modern Nautical Fiction. The legend of the Flying Dutchman goes back at least to medieval times, and probably earlier than that. In its basic form, it is about a ghost ship that c……続きを見る

"One of the best novelists since Jane Austen…The Hundred Days may be the best installment yet." ーPhiladelphia Inquirer Napoleon, escaped from Elba, pursues his enemies across Europe like a vengeful……続きを見る

Adelphos is the story of a growing personal crisis enveloping Beccles Ede, a final-year student in General Arts at a Montreal university in the winter of 1962-3. Haunted by memories of his Olde-Worl……続きを見る

After the Civil War, Confederate Col. Clay Fitzgerald escapes to Ireland. But Ireland is embroiled in a civil war of its own--the Fenian Rebellion. Clay wants to avoid the conflict, but after witnes……続きを見る

The year is 1916 and subversive young Bartholomew Bandy is leaving behind hearth & home, religion & boiled cabbage, to fight in the Great War, where the blank, expressionless face he developed for a……続きを見る

Though not as well-known as the writers she influenced, Sarah Orne Jewett nevertheless remains one of the most important American novelists of the late nineteenth century. Published in 1884, Jewett’……続きを見る

After being crushed at Waterloo, Napoleon escapes his enemies with the help of his battlefield double, a humble rabbit farmer. But with no fight left in him, he soon surrenders to the English ……続きを見る

Arthur and his sister Phemie live in a dreary crumbling house by the seaside with their Uncle. Arthur is a selfish spoiled boy frustrated by his surroundings and Phemie is a sweet gentle girl able ……続きを見る

Ninfa, Tomas and four-year-old, Gloria have fled war torn El Salvador to “the land of the free and the home of the brave” -- by swimming and wading the Rio Grande River illegally. They encounter ded……続きを見る

Venice, July, 1613: A suspicious drowning in the Lagoon and a deadly assault on a bridge shatter the dreams of Captain Lorenzo Contarini and his fiancée, la Signorina Caterina Zanchi, members of two……続きを見る

The Sea-Wolf is a 1904 psychological adventure novel by American novelist Jack London about a literary critic and survivor of an ocean collision, who comes under the dominance of Wolf Larsen, the po……続きを見る

From a wide-eyed innocent boy on a Maryland farm to a determined young man in command of a warship during one of the most critical battles of World War II, the first Allied invasion of Europe agains……続きを見る

A Tale of Two Cities is a classic novel by Charles Dickens set in the time of the French Revolution. If focuses on the plight of the French peasantry demoralized by the French aristocracy in the yea……続きを見る

A young girl called Tozi stands at the bottom of a pyramid, waiting to be led to the top where her heart will be cut out... Pepillo, a Spanish orphan who serves a sadistic Dominican friar, is aboard……続きを見る

Blind Landing is a detective mystery aviation thriller about the latest super jumbo aircraft that crashes at London Airport after a non-stop flight from Sydney. The story is woven around an aviation……続きを見る

The quaint, old-fashioned little town faces eastward to the blue Pacific, whose billows, when the wind blows from any point between north and east, come tumbling in across the shallow bar in ceasele……続きを見る

Great Expectations is Charles Dickens' thirteenth novel. It is the second novel, after David Copperfield, to be fully narrated in the first person. Great Expectations is a bildungsroman, or a coming……続きを見る

Vengeance is the fifth entry in the Quirke Mysteries, an enthralling literary crime series set in 1950s Dublin from John Banville, writing as Benjamin Black. Now major TV series: Quirke, starring Ga……続きを見る

The new moon, a gleaming scimitar, cleft the gauzy mists above a rugged spur of the Cumberland Mountains. The sky, still crimson and amber, stretched vast and lonely above the vast and lonely landsc……続きを見る

Great-grandfather has witnessed so much change in his life. When he was a boy the horse and buggy was the mode of transportation. He has lived to see aviation progress from a few barnstorming pilo……続きを見る