SUMMARY: The acclaimed author of Vinegar Hill returns with a story of two unlikely romances—one historical, the other modern-day—separated by thousands of miles and well over a cen...
SUMMARY: Go forward in time: it's nearing the end of the century. Do you see a dramatically altered New Zealand? In GENESIS, Bernard Beckett, one of our most provocative writers fo...
EDITORIAL REVIEW: Mia Montrose is a 21st century woman with a doctorate in ancient languages, Ashlee Granville is a 19th century clairvoyant, entering into marriage. Lillet de Lac ...
Now it can be told: The origin of the S.C.E.!In the twenty-fourth century, the U.S.S. da Vinci and its S.C.E. team led by Commander Sonya Gomez roam the galaxy, solving the tec...
From BooklistStarred Review Through the adventures of Robert Fortune, a nineteenth-century plant hunter, the reader learns a delicious brew of information on the history of tea cu....
From Publishers WeeklyLt. Eve Dallas, a top homicide cop for the New York Police and Security Department (the law enforcement agency for a mid 21st-century New York City), faces on...
SUMMARY: Beautiful, elusive, and refined, Etta Place captivated the nation at the turn of the last century as she dodged the law with the Wild Bunch, led by Butch Cassidy and the S...
From Publishers WeeklyIn this absorbing, well-crafted biography, British historian, lecturer and TV consultant Williams charts the rise of 18th-century England's most celebrated se...
First written down in the eighth century AD, these early Irish stories depict a far older world -- part myth, part legend and part history. Rich with magic and achingly beautiful, ...
SUMMARY: New from a gifted writer ( VICTORIA THOMPSON) who brings mystery to 17th-century France.As the Four Musketeers race to save Porthos s servant from the gallows, they run af...