From the first name in heart pounding thriller fiction.
Ellis Jackson woke up hugging a twelve-bore shotgun. In the next room, his mistress and his best friend lay naked on the bed, their heads blow……続きを見る
As the the bicentennary of the French Revolution draws near, Dickens' historical novel serves as a timely reminder of nineteenth-century reactions to that great upheaval. Set between 1757 and 1793, ……続きを見る
The Pale Mare has ridden through a time that is not a time, through a space that is not a space, carrying Dubhghall mac Cu to a forest outside Nottingham just before the news of the death of Richard……続きを見る
The story traces the life of David Copperfield from childhood to maturity. David was born in Blunderstone, Suffolk, near Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England, in 1820, six months after the death of his ……続きを見る
著者:Jack Whyte
出版社: Little, Brown Book Group
発売日: 2013年07月04日
A throne will be claimed
Heroes will fall
A destiny will be fulfilled
Merlyn Britannicus returns to his home of Camelot to keep a sacred promise: to lead Arthur Pendragon to the throne.
But between ……続きを見る
‘One of only two novels I've ever loved whose main characters are not human’ BARBARA KINGSOLVER
For fans of The Essex Serpent and The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock.
‘By far my favourite book of of the yea……続きを見る
Great Expectations traces the growth of the book's narrator, Philip Pirrip (Pip), from a boy of shallow dreams to a man with depth of character. From its famous dramatic opening on the bleak Kentish……続きを見る
Jim Bowie, the descendant of Highland Scots, grew up riding alligators and working the field on the Texas frontier. Taught three languages and a sense of honor, he went on to live a life filled with……続きを見る
Long Ago In China is a story of love and greed during the Tang Dynasty in China. The Empress Wei Ling has ordered the assassination of nine children from two previous wives of the Emperor so that he……続きを見る
In the year 1800, toward the close of October, a foreigner, accompanied by a woman and a little girl, was standing for a long time in front of the palace of the Tuileries, near the ruins of a house ……続きを見る
When Wisconsin Territory botanist Calvin Scholz receives a mysterious package from an old friend who recently came to an untimely demise, it sparks a wild adventure. The mid-1840s is a danger……続きを見る
著者:. Amanda Quick
出版社: Little, Brown Book Group
発売日: 2011年12月20日
A sparkling Regency mystery by #1 New York Times bestselling author Amanda Quick, this is the perfect escape for the summer . . .
Imogen Waterstone has always prided herself on being a thoroughly in……続きを見る
著者:Jane Kirkpatrick
出版社: Random House Publishing Group
発売日: 2009年09月30日
Set in turn-of-the-century Florida, this frontier saga traces the life of Ivy Cromartie Stranahan, the first English-speaking teacher in the region, as she struggles to teach school in the Seminole ……続きを見る
Written in conjunction with the Golden Age of Northumbria Project of 2007-08 in Berwick-upon-Tweed and the surrounding area, this anthology contains new stories on old themes and some completely ori……続きを見る
It is 1950 and the Federation of Malaya is in the throes of the Malayan Emergency. The British are struggling to defeat the communist terrorists and deal with rising nationalism in the colony. Ferda……続きを見る
著者:Patrick O'Brian
出版社: W. W. Norton & Company
発売日: 2011年12月05日
"Jack's assignment: to capture the Indian Ocean islands of Réunion and Mauritius from the French. That campaign forms the narrative thread of this rollicking sea saga. But its substance is more begu……続きを見る
An inspiring story about the village of hope or Nadezhda. This story is set into the center of one of the worlds greatest historical regions but one of the least known. This region has the honor of ……続きを見る
Among the Piney Woods is one of 10 short stories that can be found in Patrick G Whalen's "Civil War Short Stories, Volume I." This collection of Christian Historical Fiction stories is set upon the ……続きを見る
The Clippie Girls is a compelling story of love, loss and heartbreak in the Second World War, by the author of the Fleethaven Trilogy, Margaret Dickinson.
Rose and Myrtle Sylvester look up to their ……続きを見る
著者:Nick Brown
出版社: Hodder & Stoughton
発売日: 2013年06月20日
Syria, 262 AD.
Imperial agent Abascantius has failed his superiors and now faces the unwelcome prospect of a return to the legions. With only hours to work with, he will need resourcefulness and rut……続きを見る
Phineas Magnetron is an eccentric Nineteenth Century inventor and former Union soldier who sustained a war injury which has unaccountably bestowed upon him a strange gift he doesn't completely under……続きを見る
著者:Charles Dickens
出版社: Random House Publishing Group
発売日: 2004年11月23日
“Facts alone are wanted in life.” The children at Mr. Gradgrind’s school are sternly ordered to stifle their imaginations and pay attention only to cold, hard reality. The effects of Gradgrind’s tea……続きを見る
著者:Patrick O'Brian
出版社: W. W. Norton & Company
発売日: 2011年12月05日
"The relationship [between Aubrey and Maturin]...is about the best thing afloat....For Conradian power of description and sheer excitement there is nothing in naval fiction to beat the stern chase a……続きを見る
著者:Noëlle Sickels
出版社: St. Martin's Publishing Group
発売日: 2000年01月01日
In 1886 Philadelphia, Hanna Willer begins employment as a maid-of-all-work for Isabelle Martin, the pregnant wife of a prosperous shopkeeper. Hanna, fresh from her rural home, is a quietly observant……続きを見る
著者:Charles Dickens
出版社: Random House Publishing Group
発売日: 2010年12月09日
**Two classic Charles Dickens novels now available together in one convenient eBook.
A Tale of Two Cities**
Contains an afterword by Stephen Koch.
With his sublime parting words, "It is a far, far b……続きを見る
The follow-up to Tangled Threads, Margaret Dickinson's Twisted Strands follows the dramatic highs and lows of the Hardcastle family as they endure the upheaval caused by war.
It is 1914, and Eveleen……続きを見る
Leo Tolstoy's grand masterpieceーa timeless saga of family, love, and loss in Russia surrounding the War of 1812.
“The greatest of all novelists...what else can we call the author of War and Peace?”……続きを見る
Hard Times is novel no.10 of Charles Dickens. It was first published in 1854. This book tells about English society and is aimed at emphasizing the English social and economic pressures of that time……続きを見る
"BULLY" HAYES! Oh, halcyon days of the sixties and seventies, when the
Pacific was not, as now, patrolled by men-of-war from lonely Pylstaart,
in the Friendlies, to the low-lying far-away Marshalls ……続きを見る
著者:Laurie Sheck
出版社: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
発売日: 2009年06月23日
What if Mary Shelley had not invented Frankenstein’s monster but had met him when she was a girl of eight, sitting by her mother’s grave, and he came to her unbidden? What if their secret bond left ……続きを見る