Historical Sagas

In the tradition of epic novels like Exodus and Cast a Giant Shadow, Isaac’s Beacon is a sweeping historical tale based on the real events of Israel’s founding - bringing alive the power and complexities of the birth of the Jewish state out of the ashes of the Holocaust. Best-selling author David L. Robbins, called “the Homer of World War II”, turns his mastery of the historical novel to another defining moment of the 20th century: the birth of the state of Israel.

Now a major Lifetime movie event—Book Three of the Dollanganger series that began with Flowers in the Attic—the novel of forbidden love that captured the world’s imagination and earned V.C. Andrews a fiercely devoted fanbase. They hide the shocking truth to protect their children. But...

Winner of the Governor General’s Literary Award and the Pulitzer Prize, and Shortlisted for the Booker Prize Born in 1905, Daisy Goodwill Flett drifts through the chapters of childhood, marriage, widowhood, remarriage, motherhood, and old age, bewildered by her inability to understand her own...

AD 865. The fierce Vikings stormed onto Saxon soil hungry for spoils, conquest, and vengeance for the death of Ragnar Lothbrok. Hundr, a Northman with a dog's name...a crew of battle hardened warriors...and Ivar the Boneless. Amidst the invasion of Saxon England by the sons of Ragnar Lothbrok, Hundr joins a crew of Viking warriors under the command of Einar the Brawler. Hundr fights to forge a warriors reputation under the glare of Ivar and his equally fearsome brothers, but to do that he must battle the Saxons and treachery from within the Viking army itself...

The daughter and granddaughter of prominent Manhattan lawyers, Meredith McKenzie is destined for the best of everything: top schools, elite social circles, the perfect marriage. Spending her childhood in Germany as her father prosecutes Nazi war criminals at the Nuremberg trials, Meredith soaks up the conflict between good and evil as it plays out in real time. When her family returns to the United States, she begins blazing her own trail, swimming against the tides, spurred on by her freethinking liberal grandfather, determined to become a lawyer despite her traditional, conservative father's objections.

Ulf is like a storm, slowly building up its power, he grows more dangerous with each passing moment. And like all storms, he will eventually break. When he does, he will destroy everything in his path. Ulf is one of a long line of famous Norse warriors. His ancestor Tyr was no ordinary man, but the Norse God of War. Ulf, however, knows nothing about being a warrior.

England, 1903. Giles, the new Earl of Stainton, is struggling to bring his family's estate back to order after the death of his father, and he has little time to spare for his young pregnant wife, Kitty. She lives in fear of her mother-in-law, who won't give up the reins of the household. Will she ever truly be mistress of Ashmore Castle? Perhaps if her coming child is a boy, that will change the balance of power...

“I will probably be clutching Flowers in the Attic in my gnarled hands on my deathbed.” —Gillian Flynn, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Gone Girl The twisted, beloved Dollanganger legend began two generations before Corrine Foxworth locked away her children in Flowers in the Attic...

Louis L’Amour has been best known for his ability to capture the spirit and drama of the authentic American West. Now he guides his readers to an even more distant frontier—the enthralling lands of the twelfth century. Warrior, lover, and scholar, Kerbouchard is a daring seeker of...

War and Peace is one of the greatest monuments in world literature. Set against the dramatic backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars, it examines the relationship between the individual and the relentless march of history. Here are the universal themes of love and hate, ambition and despair, youth and age, expressed with a swirling vitality which makes the book as accessible today as it was when it was first published in 1869.

Over seven decades, from 1940 to 2010, the pieds-noirs Cassars live in an itinerant state—separated in the chaos of World War II, running from a complicated colonial homeland, and, after Algerian independence, without a homeland at all. This Strange Eventful History, told with historical sweep, is above all a family story: of patriarch Gaston and his wife Lucienne, whose myth of perfect love sustains them and stifles their children; of François and Denise, devoted siblings connected by their family's strangeness; of François's union with Barbara; of Chloe, the result of that union.

The war is over; Hitler is dead - and yet his evil legacy lives on. Saffron Courtney and her beloved husband, Gerhard, only just survived the brutal conflict, but Gerhard's Nazi-supporting brother, Konrad, is still free and determined to regain power. As a dangerous game of cat and mouse develops, a plot against the couple begins to stir. One that will have ramifications throughout Europe....

As a child, Emma Malloy left isolated Coal River, Pennsylvania, vowing never to return. Now, orphaned and penniless at 19, she accepts a train ticket from her aunt and uncle and travels back to the rough-hewn community. Treated like a servant by her relatives, Emma works for free in the company store. There, miners and their impoverished families must pay inflated prices for food, clothing, and tools while those who owe money are turned away to starve.

A stunning, evocative novel set in Ireland and Canada, Away traces a family’s complex and layered past. The narrative unfolds with shimmering clarity and takes us from the harsh northern Irish coast in the 1840s to the quarantine stations at Grosse Isle and the barely hospitable land of the Canadian Shield; from the flourishing town of Port Hope to the flooded streets of Montreal; from Ottawa at the time of Confederation to a large-windowed house at the edge of a Great Lake during the present day.

Era um sofrimento atroz para Clara Kilcraig! Seu pai, o Chefe de uma das mais poderosas famílias da Escócia, obrigou-a a casar com o Duque de Strathnarn, a fim de unificar os Clãs, com o objetivo de garantir uma paz duradoura, pondo fim às lutas sangrentas que abalavam as terras da Escócia há muitos anos. Clara, sepultava em sofrimento, os sonhos de amor da sua juventude, casando-se com um orgulhoso Nobre, por ordem de seu pai, e por conseguinte o pai de Clara, também pouparia a vida do sobrinho do Duque, que estava cativo por sua ordem.

Melina Lindsay está nas nuvens quando descobre que deve ser a secretária da rica americana Lileth Schuster durante sua viagem ao Marrocos. Seu falecido pai sempre falou dessas belas terras com tanto carinho e afeição. Apesar de sua felicidade, o emprego de Melina não dura muito tempo: com inveja de sua beleza, a arrogante senhora Schuster decide despedi-la repentinamente. Sozinha e indefesa num país estrangeiro, Melina tenta dar a volta por cima, mas tudo parece ainda mais confuso quando um fugitivo aparece em sua varanda em busca de refúgio.

Lady Evelin era rica, bonita e apaixonada. Noiva do nobre Robert Broadmoor, ela logo iria se casar e teria tudo o que sempre sonhou. Que desilusão quando descobre que seu noivo quer se unir a ela não por amor, mas por dinheiro! Evelin resolve fugir para se esconder dos mexericos e cicatrizar sua desilusão. Decidida a não revelar sua identidade, a jovem se apresenta como a simples Sra. Winters e começa a trabalhar na mansão do duque de Castleforde.

No Castelo do Conde de Halesworth, o sol em raiosa cumplicidade sempre inundava de luz os cabelos de Janet. Os raios de sol, penetravam no seu corpo, aquecendo-lhe o coração gelado e cheio de tanta tristeza. Halesworth, amava-a profundamente e nada mais já importava, mas ela, não devia voltar aos braços dele, como se tudo não passasse de uma fatalidade, pois aquela tinha sido a primeira e a última vez que ela poderia estar nos seus braços. Para seu próprio bem não poderia esquecer, que as mulheres que entregavam o seu coração a ele, desapareciam para sempre.

No começo do século XIX, Napoleão se preparava para conquistar a Inglaterra e concretizar seu fantástico sonho de desfilar pelas ruas de Londres como o novo Imperador do Reino Unido. Foi naquela época de tensão e nervosismo que a família de Vernita, se viu perseguida em Paris. Escondidos numa casa de cômodos, os pais da moça morreram de tristeza e inanição e para sobreviver, Vernita foi costurar para Pauline Bonaparte, a belíssima e devassa irmã de Napoleão e é então que nos luxuosos aposentos da Princesa, que Vernita se apaixona pelo Conde Axel de Storvik, o jovem amante de Pauline!

London 1940. As the war rages in Europe, Rose Brown steps on board a ship bound for America, hoping to escape the danger. She's frightened, but her widowed mammy and three sisters in Ireland need the money she earns as nanny to the rich Townsend family. But while Rose plays with baby Sarah in the salty spray on deck, disaster strikes, and the ocean liner begins to sink. In the chaos, Rose and the baby are separated from the family.