By Ariana Franklin

ISBN-10: 0425225747

ISBN-13: 9780425225745

The follow-up to Mistress of the artwork of dying- within the nationwide bestselling sequence hailed as "the medieval solution to Kay Scarpetta and the CSI detectives."

When King Henry II's mistress is located poisoned, suspicion falls on his estranged queen, Eleanor of Aquitaine. The king orders Adelia Aguilar, specialist within the technological know-how of dying, to investigate-and confidently stave off civil struggle. A reluctant Adelia unearths herself once more within the corporation of Rowley Picot, the hot Bishop of St. Albans...and her baby's father. Their discoveries into the crime are stunning- and omens of larger hazard to return.

By Margaret Frazer

ISBN-10: 0425243478

ISBN-13: 9780425243473

From the pages of the nationwide bestselling Dame Frevisse mysteries...

A competition OF MURDER...

In the early summer season of 1438, Joliffe and his fellow avid gamers have arrived in Coventry for the theatrical competition of Corpus Christi Day. hired via one of many city's wealthy and robust service provider guilds, they plan to offer of the various performs in an effort to extravagantly depict all of God's tale in a parade of pomp and pageantry.

But while they arrange to accomplish the Nativity, Joliffe can be referred to as directly to play a sensible guy off the level besides. whilst the service provider grasp Kydwa is going lacking and is presumed lifeless, the crafty Bishop Beaufort calls on Joliffe's talents as a undercover agent to discover the mysteries of Coventry's elite. As suspicion falls on his personal partners, Joliffe is drawn into the devilish machinations of a mystery sect of heretics bent on destroying the Church. The gamers could be pressured to give the harrowing of Hell, yet will Joliffe have the capacity to resolve a confession of corruption sooner than Coventry's darkish enigmas unharness a medieval bloodbath of the innocents?

PRAISE FOR THE JOLIFFE MEDIEVAL MYSTERIES

"If you're an historic secret fan...you'll are looking to rush out and get this glorious sequence ... Entertains and confounds with its intricately plotted secret and richly specific writing..." - The Romance Readers Connection

"Brings the interval to lush life... Such richly imagined mysteries come round too rarely." - Roundtable Reviews

By Lin Enger

ISBN-10: 1616203757

ISBN-13: 9781616203757

“A deeply relocating, gripping novel approximately one man’s quest for redemption and his family’s selection to benefit the reality . . . Layered with which means, this awesome novel merits to be learn greater than as soon as. The excessive Divide proves Enger’s chops as a masterful storyteller.” —Ann Weisgarber, writer of The Promise

In 1886, Gretta Pope wakes one morning to find that her husband is long gone. Ulysses Pope has left his kin at the back of at the a long way fringe of Minnesota’s western prairie with simply the briefest of notes and no reason behind why he left or the place he’s headed. It doesn’t take lengthy for Gretta’s younger sons, Eli and Danny, to trigger after him, following the scant clues they could locate, leaping trains to get the place they should pass, and finishing up within the rugged badlands of Montana.

Gretta has no selection yet to look for her sons and her husband, prime her to your doorstep of a girl who turns out rationale on making Ulysses her personal. in the meantime, the lads locate that the nearer they arrive to Ulysses’ path, the better the perils that confront them, until eventually every one is confronted with a decision approximately whom he'll protect, and who he'll become.

Enger’s breathtaking portrait of the big plains panorama is matched by way of the wealthy expanse of his characters’ emotional terrain, as pivotal historic events--the bloody turmoil of expansionism, the close to overall death of the bison herds, and the subjugation of the Plains Indians--blend seamlessly with the intimate tale of a family’s sacrifice and devotion.

“Lin Enger units out from the conventions of the normal Western and brings the reader into new emotional territory, that of the soul of an exquisitely drawn American kin. instructed with being concerned endurance and special language, The excessive Divide is a unique to wander off in.” —James Scott, writer of The Kept

“The excessive Divide, a unique a few relatives at risk, is haunting and stressful yet leavened by means of enormous heat and humanity. Lin Enger writes with sturdy grace a few man’s quest for redemption and the human potential for forgiveness.” —Benjamin Percy, writer of pink Moon

By Tom Bullough

ISBN-10: 0141972211

ISBN-13: 9780141972213

It really is 1867 and iciness in Ryazan, a urban at the banks of the Oka River in primary Russia. Konstantin is ten years outdated. His days are jam-packed with desires of flight - to Moscow, even to the silent stars. yet then, sooner or later, he catches chilly within the freezing woods close to his domestic and his personal international turns into silent. Left deaf through scarlet fever, his outlook is determined. basically his fascination with a newly mechanised age and his dazzling visions of humanity's destiny appear to supply him any kind of hope.

Konstantin, Tom Bullough's amazing, inspirational novel, tells the extreme tale, in response to a real-life personality, of the 1st guy to bare how go back and forth into house could be attainable. it's a tale of guy, nature, and the unlimited energy of the mind's eye.

By Amy Stewart

ISBN-10: 0544409612

ISBN-13: 9780544409613

From the New York instances best-selling writer of The Drunken Botanist comes a charming novel in line with the forgotten actual tale of 1 of the nation's first girl deputy sheriffs.
Constance Kopp doesn't rather healthy the mildew. She towers over so much males, has little interest in marriage or household affairs, and has been remoted from the area for the reason that a relatives mystery despatched her and her sisters into hiding fifteen years in the past. at some point a belligerent and strong silk manufacturing unit proprietor runs down their buggy, and a dispute over damages becomes a warfare of bricks, bullets, and threats as he unleashes his gang on their family members farm. whilst the sheriff enlists her assist in convicting the boys, Constance is pressured to confront her previous and shield her kin — and he or she does it in a fashion that few girls of 1914 might have dared.

"A clever, romping event, that includes essentially the most memorable and robust woman characters I've noticeable in print for a very long time. I enjoyed each web page as I the Kopp sisters via a too-good-to-be-true (but quite often true!) story of violence, braveness, stubbornness, and resourcefulness." — Elizabeth Gilbert

By Candice Ransom

ISBN-10: 0876144601

ISBN-13: 9780876144602

ISBN-10: 0876148151

ISBN-13: 9780876148150

ISBN-10: 1575051842

ISBN-13: 9781575051840

Sam Deal and his horse, Ginger, support an African-American lifesaving group rescue shipwreck sufferers off the coast of North Carolina in 1896.

By Jonathan Odell

"Compelling, tragic, comedian, gentle and mystical... Combines the ancient importance of Kathryn Stockett's The Help with the knowledge of Toni Morrison's Beloved." --Minneapolis big name Tribune

Rich in temper and surroundings, The Healing is a warmhearted novel concerning the unbreakable bonds among 3 generations of lady healers and their strength to revive the physique, the spirit, and the soul.

In Antebellum Mississippi, Granada Satterfield has the combined fortune to be born at the similar day that her plantation mistress's daughter, Becky, dies of cholera. Believing that the baby possesses a few of her daughter's spirit, the Mistress Amanda adopts Granada, dolling her up in Becky's clothes and giving her a unique position within the family members regardless of her husband's protests. but if The grasp brings a lady named Polly Shine to aid quell the debilitating plague that's sweeping in the course of the slave quarters, Granada's lifestyles adjustments. For Polly sees anything within the younger lady, a spark of "The Healing," and a household conflict of wills starts off, one who will convey the 2 nearer yet that may eventually result in a superb tragedy. And seventy-five years later, Granada, nonetheless dwelling at the deserted plantation lengthy after slavery ended, needs to revive the buried stories ahead of background repeats itself.

Inspirational and suspenseful, The Healing is the type of historic fiction readers can't positioned down--and can't wait to suggest as soon as they've finished.

"A notable rite-of-passage novel with an unforgettable personality. . . . The therapeutic transcends any clichés of the style with its beautiful, every now and then virtually lyrical, prose; its company take hold of of background; bright scenes; and very important, totally learned humans, relatively the slaves with their many colors of colour and modes of survival." --The linked Press

From the Hardcover edition.

By Linda Lael Miller

ISBN-10: 067179793X

ISBN-13: 9780671797935

A trip with Bavia's royal relations was once purported to be the stuff goals have been made from for Annie Trevarren, an American lady out of the country. in its place it used to be becoming a catastrophe. First Annie impetuously crawled onto a fort roof and needed to be rescued through Crown Prince Rafael St. James himself. Then her dearest pal, the prince's sister, Phaedra, balks at an prepared marriage ceremony. The peasants insurgent. The throne totters. Worst of all, Annie is wasting her center.
Alas, Prince Rafael isn't any knight in shining armor. His former mistress has moved into the citadel, and his infamous mood is flaring. but if destiny brings Annie and her prince jointly in a secluded cottage, she will be able to see his stern gaze melt. And his fleeting caresses...is Rafael seducing her? A destiny with him is very unbelievable -- yet a lifestyles with out him is unthinkable. Rafael could intend to supply her a lesson in ardour, yet she'll educate the smug prince a greater one: not anything is a better ruler than love!

By Diana Gabaldon

ISBN-10: 044024644X

ISBN-13: 9780440246442

#1 big apple occasions bestseller

In her now vintage novel Outlander, Diana Gabaldon advised the tale of Claire Randall, an English ex-combat nurse who walks via a stone circle within the Scottish Highlands in 1946, and disappears... into 1743. the tale spread out from there in seven bestselling novels, and CNN has known as it "a grand event written on a canvas that probes the guts, weighs the soul and measures the human spirit throughout [centuries]." Now the tale maintains in Written in my very own Heart's Blood.

1778: France broadcasts warfare on nice Britain, the British military leaves Philadelphia, and George Washington's troops go away Valley Forge in pursuit. At this second, Jamie Fraser returns from a presumed watery grave to find that his ally has married his spouse, his illegitimate son has came upon (to his horror) who his father quite is, and his cherished nephew, Ian, desires to marry a Quaker. in the meantime, Jamie's spouse, Claire, and his sister, Jenny, are busy determining up the pieces.

The Frasers can purely be grateful that their daughter Brianna and her kin are secure in twentieth-century Scotland. Or no longer. actually, Brianna is looking for her personal son, who was once abducted by means of a guy made up our minds to benefit her family's secrets and techniques. Her husband, Roger, has ventured into the prior looking for the lacking boy... by no means suspecting that the thing of his quest has now not left the current. Now, with Roger out of how, the kidnapper can specialise in his actual objective: Brianna herself.

Written in my very own Heart's Blood is the bright subsequent bankruptcy in a masterpiece of the mind's eye in contrast to the other.

By Helene Wecker

ISBN-10: 0062110837

ISBN-13: 9780062110831

In The Golem and the Jinni, a likelihood assembly among legendary beings takes readers on a blinding trip via cultures in turn-of-the-century New York.

Chava is a golem, a creature made from clay, dropped at existence to by way of a disgraced rabbi who dabbles in darkish Kabbalistic magic and dies at sea at the voyage from Poland. Chava is unmoored and adrift because the send arrives in manhattan harbor in 1899.

Ahmad is a jinni, a being of fireplace born within the historical Syrian wilderness, trapped in an outdated copper flask, and published in ny urban, notwithstanding nonetheless no longer fullyyt free

Ahmad and Chava turn into not going acquaintances and soul pals with a magical connection. extraordinary and compulsively readable, Helene Wecker's debut novel The Golem and the Jinni weaves strands of Yiddish and heart japanese literature, ancient fiction and magical fantasy, right into a wondrously artistic and unforgettable tale.