Fiction - Fantasy - Historical

Jesse is a brutally honest look at the Deep South and the mob mentality that guided so much thought in the '60s. And it raises the question: Are we that much different today?" -David Squires, a former editor, The New York Times, former assistant...

Jane Moone is hired to identify the witch who cursed a sheep. But her client, Kate Grazier, has already decided who did it -- Dorcas Whiting, the hedge witch who happens to be Jane's father's sweetheart. Dorcas would never harm an innocent sheep and...

It's May Day, a time of joyful song and dance. But Jane Moone is called at sunrise to view a sorrowful sight - Lucy Quirk, strangled in the maypole's tangled ribbons. Lucy came to Ayreford to re-unite with her long-lost father. The prominent cunning...

"Thorndike press large print basic"--Title page verso.Author: Rachel CuskISBN-10: 1432890387ISBN-13: 9781432890384Publisher: Thorndike Press Large PrintLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/29/2021Pages: 246Format: Library BindingWeight: 0.79lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.51w x 0.63dLarge Print

August 1763. A brig bound for New York suddenly diverts its course into shallow Nantucket waters near the entrance to the Old Harbor, which has recently shoaled over. The fever ship, local history books tell us, laden with sick and dying Irish immigrants to...

There is no aspect of life that magic does not touch, including death.Raised to follow in her mother's footsteps, groomed to be a proper hedgewitch, Macaria longs to blossom and bloom both into womanhood and her magic. But deep inside, doubts have begun to...

The survivors of the shipwrecked eighteenth-century vessel Glen Carrig fight for their lives amidst a vast continent of weeds. Mysterious wrecks, horrific monsters, and swashbuckling adventure!Author: William Hope HodgsonISBN-10: 9386780569ISBN-13: 9789386780560Publisher: Alpha EditionLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/16/2017Pages: 144Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.42lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.34d

My name is Erzs bet, Countess Dolingen of Gratz, and I am a vampire. I am also Vlad Dracula's one true love. For centuries, we shared a love that consumed us whole. But betrayal can turn the greatest of passions bitter in the hearts...

George Alfred Henty (8 December 1832 16 November 1902) was a prolific English novelist and war correspondent. He is best known for his historical adventure stories that were popular in the late 19th century. At the end of the thirteenth century, the oppressed people...

Amid the Thracian wilderness in 1200 B.C., the warrior Angelus discovers that a confederacy of Achaean tribes plan to attack Troy, the glorious city not far from his own city of Talmarus. Before he can warn his people of the coming invasion, however, a...

What happens when a struggling author and student is being followed by the cops at the end of his probation? He takes a "Haiku Holiday," and spends a week at home in his underwear drinking beer, smoking cigars, and writing haikus. Will he pass...

Kate MacKenzie is a young, recently widowed biology teacher in modern-day Seattle. When her grandfather suffers a heart attack, she rushes home to his bedside in Colorado. She wonders whether to stay in the Northwest or move back to the Rockies and take over...

In this epochal historical novel, Professor Modey takes another look at both the European slave trade to Africa and plantation slavery in the New World, both are old subjects. He dramatizes an imaginary journey of apology and shows how a delegation from fundamentalist groups...

When Feline, the High Sorcerer, tries to locate the spirit of his sister sorceress, Porpoise, he is shocked to discover that her soul has been split in two. Half of her lives as an undead dark witch on the northern moors, while the other...

The epic fantasy trilogy continues in Book 2, ECHOES OF CHAOS.Every war has its sacrifice. As her city falls into anarchy, Airene the Finch must find the mythical secret to defeating a daemon god - before he escapes his crumbling chains... Oedija is breaking.The...

It is 1194, and the devil is indeed loose-In Sherwood Forest.Ransomed from captivity, a Christian king rides through royal forest, intent upon reclaiming his realm. Yet Sherwood already has a king-the Pagan outlaw known as Robyn Hood.The Old Religion is regaining its strength through...

For Queen and country. Robyn Hood and his band of outlaws seek to raise the magical trine of the Old Religion against the tyranny of Church and Crown. Yet their forest kingdom roils with conflict, much of it from within... Marion has fled the...

"It is a king's decision," said Brion."It will not be you who deceives and delivers the lamb to the butcher's block," retorted Eimhir.True evil is a persistent and tenacious beast. Its desire for existence is eternal and insatiable. It needs to infect only one...

You can't outrun your pastThe night his father died, everything changed for Prince Daren. Forced to flee and leave behind his former life after being accused and found guilty of treason and conspiracy against the throne, he's determined to forget his past and start...

This is a novel in which the main character is writing a book while developing a relationship with a woman and her family who on a mystical level somehow influence the storyline. It is a multi-faceted book with other narratives and remembrances of the...

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Author: V. E. SchwabISBN-10: 1250344190ISBN-13: 9781250344199Publisher: Tor BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/11/2024Pages: 544Format: Hardcover

A comet comes crashing into the Earth and the seas rise and the Giants and Others awake.Author: Jian Mu ZhaoISBN-10: 1990814441ISBN-13: 9781990814440Publisher: Bsc1337 Publishing Inc. CanadaLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/29/2024Pages: 190Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.43lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.40d

The discovery of long-lost mail delivers a marriage proposal, a missing person, and a magical mystery.A road trip with Gabe and her friends leads Sylvia to discover more about her mother's veiled past yet throws up several questions, too. The stack of unopened letters...

John, the Long Arm, leads a life as a bounty hunter at the Three Heads. His name has spread far and wide across the north while plenty of gold weighs down his pockets. Just when everything seems to be going well for him, a...

The Golden Pen; The key to the American dream In "The Golden Pen," Jan Havel Smith, embarks on a quest to uncover his mother's roots in Central Europe while conducting research on the Austro-Hungarian Empire his ticket for a Nobel or pulitzer prize. His...

For fans of Sarah Penner's The Lost Apothecary and Alix E. Harrow's The Once and Future Witches, this lush, atmospheric novel from the author of Where Ivy Dares to Grow blends witchcraft, queer love, a vibrant Edinburgh setting, and Scottish folklore for a propulsive...

A dazzling new work of literary fiction from the author of The Essex Serpent, a story of love and astronomy told over the course of twenty years through the lives of two improbable best friends.Thomas Hart and Grace Macaulay have lived all their lives...

Nikolaos was not human. He was Näcken, tethered to the river and cursed by an uncontrollable passion that drowned those who came near. Guised as a young man but older than anyone knew, he hid his torment over who he was. Näcken. Most knew...

"While a dragon may be worshipped, she may never be truly tamed."With scales of glorious gold, young dragon Anekh Sun is taken from the banks of the River Nahr to the palace of the Ophar in the God's Land of Gifah. But life as...

Roy Anderson is about to make the worst decision of his life and leave his family for selfish reasons on Thanksgiving day, 2001. But, thanks to the prayers of his son, an angel sends Roy back in time to 1941 with no memories. There,...

Once upon a time, the world was but a stage for the exploits of the Shadowmen... The Vampires haunted the rooftops of Paris... Count Zaroff hunted the Serpent Men in the streets of New York... The Queen of Atlantis killed to save her mythical...

Join us again for this fourth volume and meet the most villainous cast to ever grace the pages of popular literature, spreading evil from the foggy underworld of London to the seedy taverns of Mars, and from the flowery banks of the Seine to...

Everyone trembled at the mere mention of the name of Anne of the Isles. The blood of Jo l Braz the warlock ran in her veins. She was a priestess and a sorceress. Woe betide any man whose path crossed hers ... The White...

This collection of nine proto-science fiction tales, translated and edited by renowned science fiction writer and scholar Brian Stableford, ranges from Louis-S bastien Mercier's 1768 opening tale, in which the hero communicates with the dead through a beam that anticipates a modern-day laser, to...

In the years immediately following World War I, a young anthropologist named Jesse O'Keefe ventures into the Andean backwoods to find a culture worthy of study. There he stumbles upon the Rixtirra, a complex society fixated on locating a legendary Mountain Made of Light...

After news of grave robbing and murder in D n Ringall, the ancient stronghold of Clan McKinnon on the Isle of Skye, Rosalie realises it is time to share her family's secrets. Descendants of the mystical Ethne M'Kynnon, Rosalie tells of a violent rift...

Book 1 of the Dion Chronicles Provincial and naive-and the most powerful mage in the realm-young Dion is an innocent adrift in a world of intrigues and treacheries, with foul, hungry demons lurking just beyond its borders. And now she has been called upon...

An unlikely pair of brave adventurers - the Dutch explorer Gerard van Oost and the Yoruban warrior Oludara - travel the wilderness of sixteenth century Brazil. They aim to protect both the new colonies and the native inhabitants from dangers human and supernatural. Along...

Dyslexia-Smart: tailored for dyslexic readers but can be read by anyone. This second volume describes the contest in detail. Now, all Peter's preparations will be put to the test against the champion of Sloronia - the neighbouring nation that has thrown down the challenge....

'Gulliver's Travels' is now best known as a tale to delight children. And indeed, Jonathan Swift's story of Lemuel Gulliver and his adventures among tiny people, great giants, flying islands and talking horses is the very stuff of fairy tales. It has charmed the...

It is Christmas 1914. As Europe descends further into the Great War, Christopher Flyte is sent home in disgrace from his school. He returns to the sleepy English village of Alton. There he meets the mysterious traveller, Bailey - a master storyteller who fills...

Alan Shaw is at it again.From homeless urchin to world-class adventurer, Alan has tackled magic, myths and machines, lost love and made one fatal mistake. In an effort to come to terms with what he has done, Alan heads into the East and disappears...

This is the life-story of Jesus of Nazareth, from childhood to the crucifixion, told by his adopted sister Deborah. Together with her husband, Judas, Deborah learnt the sacred mysteries of the Jewish faith and her understanding of the incredible events that were to unfold...

The Big House is a children's book with much to say to adult readers. On one level it is a charming and absorbing fantasy novel with a fairy hill, a Brounie and an enchanted piper all drawn from Celtic myth and legend, set in...

Tros of Samothrace is the Purple Pirate The epic saga of the ancient world-Tros of Samothrace-draws to a conclusion in this sixth-and final-volume. Julius Caesar has been assassinated and Queen Cleopatra of Egypt finds herself in a perilous position and desperate for allies to...

Tros and the Roman Empire turn to the Egypt of the Pharaohs In this, the fifth volume of the saga of Tros, king of Samothrace, sea captain and adventurer, our hero finds himself once more enmeshed in the web of intrigue that surrounds the...

In ancient Egypt during the magnificent eighteenth dynasty the Pharaoh Akhenaten and his queen, the strong and beautiful Nefertiti, are engaged in a dramatic battle against the wealthy, corrupt and dangerously powerful priests of Amun. Haunting and full of surprises, Akhenaten: Son of the...

The dramatic and passionate story of Hatshepsut, Queen of Egypt during the Eighteenth dynasty. Ambitious, ruthless and worldly, Hatshepsut established Amun as the chief god of Egypt, bestowing his Priesthood with unprecedented riches and power. This is a story of vision and obsession, of...

While traveling in Venice in 1837, Lucy Klaereon, in order to save her family's honor and her immortal soul, decides to commit suicide by drowning herself in the Grand Canal. Unfortunately for Lucy, she is rescued. Her rescuers believe they can separate her from...