Historical Fiction

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A mystery that reverberates through families, friendships, and the corridors of power in New York and "captures the city’s dangerous, magnetic allure" (The New York Times). • Available to stream on Apple TV+ on May 12“As close to a...

(Available after August 30th, 2023) And now we take you back to the thrilling days of yesteryear with this debut, It Happened One Fight, a Golden Age of Hollywood Rom Com! Yes, maybe those movie characters never did much on-screen sizzling back in the...

"Lush and lavish, Sing Me Forgotten hit all the right notes."—Erin A. Craig, New York Times bestselling author of House of Salt and Sorrow"A deliciously magical feminist twist on the beloved classic The Phantom of the Opera."—Kester Grant, Sunday...

Dark secrets and hidden sorrows abound in Santa Montefiore’s spellbinding new novel set in war-torn Italy and the streets of New York.  New York, 1979.  It is Thanksgiving and Evelina has her close family and beloved friends gathered around, her heart...

A mythic love story set in Trinidad, Ayanna Lloyd Banwo's radiant debut is a masterwork of lush imagination and exuberant storytelling—a spellbinding and hopeful novel about inheritance, loss, and love's seismic power to heal."Roots the reader...

If you loved Hamnet, Maggie O’Farrell is back with Lucrezia’s story, and she’s back with a bang! Set during the Renaissance in Italy, The Marriage Portrait is a dramatic story of resilience and survival that will keep...

(Available after 3-20 days)Two of Maud Hart Lovelace's beloved Deep Valley books join the Harper Perennial Modern Classics library, next to other enduring favorites like A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, To Kill a Mockingbird and Lovelace's Betsy-Tacy books...

This heart-wrenching memoir from a Holocaust survivor reveals the terrible realities of life in Auschwitz—and how a courageous young stable boy survived against all odds to tell his story.​   “I couldn’t last much longer. But just as I was beginning to...

In a gripping novel set in present-day England under a Nazi regime, a sheltered teen questions what it means to be “good” — and how far she’s willing to go to break the rules.Nazi England, 2014. Jessika Keller is a good girl — a champion ice skater,...

Agnes Grey is a trenchant expose of the frequently isolated, intellectually stagnant and emotionally starved conditions under which many governesses worked in the mid-nineteenth century. This is a deeply personal novel written from the author's own...

Oscar François de Jarjeyes is a young noblewoman raised as a son by her father. As commander of Marie Antoinette's palace guard, Oscar is brought face-to-face with the luxury of King Louis XVI’s court at Versailles. Joined by her servant André, Oscar is...

Oscar François de Jarjeyes, female commander of the royal guard, is at the center of events as Marie Antoinette’s involvement in the scandalous Affair of the Diamond Necklace and her passion for Count Fersen of Sweden cause chaos at the court of...

War is brewing. Oscar François de Jarjeyes has never conformed to the image of an ideal French noblewoman. While the people of Paris are being bankrupted by the nobles’ extravagant spending, Oscar demotes herself to the French Guard, and mingles with...

France spirals towards a civil war, as nobles continue to ignore the people of France. Noblewoman Oscar François de Jarjayes is forced to reconsider her life as a soldier and a woman, her loyalties and her love. Marie Antoinette and the royal family seek...

Oscar François de Jarjayes is the commander of the French Royal Guards, but even this fearless noblewoman may have met her match. Enter Loulou de la Laurencie, Oscar’s mischievous young niece. Loulou was sent to Oscar's house to improve her manners, but...

Winner of the 2022 Middle East Book Award in Youth LiteratureIn the Remixed Classics series, authors from marginalized backgrounds reinterpret classic works through their own cultural lens to subvert the overwhelming cishet, white, and male canon. This...

Mesmerizing from the first page to the last, Kristin Hannah's Winter Garden is one woman’s sweeping, heartbreaking story of love, loss, and redemption. At once an epic love story set in World War II Russia and an intimate portrait of contemporary mothers...

First in the Donovan Legacy series, Captivated is a spellbinding novel of the ordinary magic found in extraordinary love from #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts.Screenwriter Nash Kirkland is in Monterey, California researching witchcraft...

Some houses hold secrets that are meant to be kept forever…   When Eliza Sullivan inherits an estate from a recently deceased aunt, she leaves behind a grievous and guilt-ridden past in New Orleans for rural England and a fresh start. Eliza arrives at...

(Available after 3-20 days)"The Widow of Rose House is close to perfection and any lover of historical romance will adore this debut." - Smart Bitches Trashy BooksIt’s 1875, and Alva Webster is ready for a fresh start. After three years of being...