In the bustling queue for London's hottest show, a man drops dead with a silver dagger in his back, leaving Inspector Alan Grant to untangle a seemingly impossible murder witnessed by many but seen by none.
Born in a Dublin brothel, Henry Smart fights and loves through Ireland's turbulent 20th century. He is an unforgettable witness to history, all told in Roddy Doyle's unique voice.
From a concubine to empress, Tzu Hsi navigates the violent end of the Qing Dynasty, battling invaders, rebellions, and personal losses to protect a crumbling empire and her loved ones.
A notorious Cynster rake demands payment in passionate kisses from a veiled lady desperate for his help, unknowingly falling for the woman he's always bickered with.
In Elizabethan England, two sisters discover love and ancient secrets while navigating a magical forest and a mysterious bear, in a fresh retelling of a classic fairy tale.
A young governess arrives at a windswept Cornish estate. She becomes entangled in the master's dark past, a spoiled child's secrets, and a forbidden love that threatens to expose a dangerous truth.
A disgraced vicar's daughter, pregnant and seeking refuge in a mysterious London manor, finds her past colliding with her present when a former suitor, now with his own secrets, reappears within its walls.
A single, iconic photograph of a Depression-era migrant mother connects the lives of two women—one who took the picture, the other who lived its hardship—and uncovers a modern-day professor's family secret.
In 1940s California, Mildred Pierce goes from divorced waitress to successful restaurateur, but her triumphs are undone by dangerous men and her devotion to her manipulative daughter.
A heartbroken pilot-in-training faces cosmic life-forms and mechanical failures on a star-climbing vessel, all while dealing with his beloved's sudden engagement to another.
Disguised as boys, a Chinese-American musician and a runaway slave form a strong bond on the treacherous Oregon Trail of 1849, risking everything to escape their pasts and find freedom amidst the California gold rush.
An Arab-Israeli surgeon's life falls apart when his wife is identified as a suicide bomber, forcing him to face a terrible truth about the woman he loved.
In prehistoric Utah 120 million years ago, a female raptor named Raptor Red faces loss, struggles for survival, and undertakes a dangerous migration, all seen through her intelligent, predatory eyes.
Idealistic lawyer John Adams, audacious Ben Franklin, and dashing George Washington start a revolution against British tyranny, turning colonial grievances into a fight for American independence.
Disguised as a boy, a vengeful daughter rides across the Arizona Territory, hunting her father's murderers and a legendary gold mine, only to find allies along the trail.
Edward Rutherfurd's 'The Forest' spans the Norman conquest to the present, blending the history and legends of England's New Forest with stories of royalty, outlaws, and the lasting passions of its people, all linked by a crime that echoes through centuries to Jane Austen's Bath and beyond.
Robert Olen Butler's Pulitzer-winning collection uses the voices of Vietnamese immigrants and ghosts to show the lasting effects of war and memory after the Vietnam War.
Jack, Annie, and their enchanted dog Teddy are whisked to the 1800s Great Plains where a buffalo hunt with a Lakota boy turns into a thrilling race against a thousand stampeding buffalo.
An Englishwoman's search for a lost film of the 1937 Nanking Massacre pulls her into a dangerous world of reclusive scholars, criminals, and dark romance in modern Japan.
Abandoned by their mother, four siblings embark on a desperate, cross-country journey to find a place to belong, only to uncover a deeper history that reshapes their understanding of family and home.
Obi Okonkwo, a Western-educated Nigerian, struggles with bribery and the societal rules against his forbidden love, eventually giving in to the corruption he swore to fight.
In a boisterous quest to "be somebody," the amoral and hilariously scheming Duddy Kravitz hustles his way through 1940s Montreal, leaving a trail of comedic chaos and hard-won lessons in his wake.
In the sweltering summer of 1948, a charming war veteran with a suitcase full of cash and a set of butcher knives carves a path of doomed romance and chilling mystery through a sleepy Virginia town.
