Historical Fiction

It's tough surviving in Hell. But sometimes Hell can be a haven....

Annabel, once the daughter of a wealthy merchant, is trapped in indentured servitude to Lord Ranulf, a recluse who is rumored to be both terrifying and beastly....

Joy McCullough's bold novel in verse is a portrait of an artist as a young woman, filled with the soaring highs of creative inspiration and devastating setbacks. McCullough weaves Artemisia's heartbreaking story with the stories of the ancient heroines, Susanna and Judith....

Fifteen-year-old Laura lives apart from her family for the first time, teaching school in a claim shanty 12 miles from home. She is very homesick but keeps at it....

Set during the Civil War, against a backdrop of grand estates, unimaginable riches, and deadly secrets, three teenagers enter a torrid love triangle that will span eternity....

When eighteen-year-old aspiring scientist Elinor Dashwood discovers her beloved father slumped over the desk of his office study, she knows his death means dire straits for the Dashwood women....

In an alternate Victorian world controlled by clock towers, a damaged clock can fracture time - and a destroyed one can stop it completely....

It's 1817. The happy chaos of the Yuletide season has descended upon the country estate of Shackleford Park in full force, but lady's maid Kate Darby barely has the time to notice. Matt Harlow is also rather busy. Falling in love would be a disaster for either of them....

Roland Inness desperately needs meat for his starving family, but he takes the wrong deer on the wrong nobleman's land....

The kingdom of Goredd: a world where humans and dragons share life with an uneasy balance, and those few who are both human and dragon must hide the truth....

Determined to avenge his brother's death, Halfdan knows he must first gain experience as a warrior. He joins a Danish army gathering for an invasion of Western Frankia....

When high school dropout Ashur Yonan receives an unexpected invitation to join a shadowy organization known as the Academy, he is plunged into an ancient conspiracy that threatens the entire world.

World War II is drawing to a close in East Prussia and thousands of refugees are on a desperate trek toward freedom, many with something to hide. Among them are Joana, Emilia, and Florian, whose paths converge en route to the ship that promises salvation, the Wilhelm Gustloff....

Summer, 1944. As Allied soldiers prepare to land in France, Marc and his friends must destroy a battalion of German tanks that could halt the invasion in its tracks....

After solving the case of Truly Devious, Stevie Bell investigates her first mystery outside of Ellingham Academy in this spine-chilling and hilarious stand-alone mystery from New York Times best-selling author Maureen Johnson....

Isa de Smit was raised in the vibrant, glittering world of her parents' small art gallery in Amsterdam, a hub of beauty, creativity, and expression, until the Nazi occupation wiped the color from her city's palette....

Bizarre murders are discovered in the castle of Prince Vlad the Impaler, otherwise known as Dracula. Could it be a copycat killer...or has the depraved prince been brought back to life? Find out....

The Librarian of Auschwitz is the incredible story of a girl who risked her life to keep the magic of books alive during the Holocaust....

Seventeen-year-old Audrey Rose Wadsworth was born a lord's daughter, but she leads a forbidden secret life....

Ten concentration camps. Ten different places where you are starved, tortured, and worked mercilessly. It's something no one could imagine. But it is what Yanek Gruener has to face....

Eighteen-year-old Gu Miyoung has a secret - she's a gumiho, a nine-tailed fox who must devour the energy of men in order to survive. Because so few believe in the old tales anymore, and with so many evil men no one will miss, the modern city of Seoul is the perfect place to hunt....

Audrey Rose and Thomas are on the hunt for the depraved, elusive killer known as the White City Devil. A deadly game of cat-and-mouse has them fighting to stay one step ahead of the brilliant serial killer - or see their fateful romance cut short by unspeakable tragedy....

One bright spring morning in the woods of France, a soldier, blinded by the war, is found by a little girl named Coco, and her older sister Marcelle....

The number one New York Times best-selling series that started with Stalking Jack the Ripper and Hunting Prince Dracula continues in this third bloody installment! A luxurious ocean liner becomes a floating prison of madness and horror when passengers are murdered one by one....

This bittersweet Pride & Prejudice remix follows a trans boy yearning for the freedom to live openly, centering queerness in a well-known story of longing and subverting society’s patriarchal and cisheteronormative expectations....

Irene Adler is no ordinary young lady. She's at the top of the ranks in the All Souls cohort, a competitive preparatory class reserved for Oxford's brightest minds. But her peers and professors don't know she's a lady at all. To them, she is Isaac Holland. Keeping up her disguise gets trickier when All Souls students start dying, one by one. Determined to find out who's responsible for the deaths, Irene—as Isaac—teams up with fellow classmate and roommate Sherlock Holmes to track down clues

Nastia is no traitor. She is a fearless pilot, the daughter of revolutionaries, and now, as the Second World War descends on Russia, she must fight to defend the glorious Motherland. But all is not as it seems and when the battles begin, secrets are revealed and everything that Nastia once knew is challenged.

In this Jazz-Age mystery, eighteen-year-old Piper Sail must explore the dark underbelly of 1920s Chicago to solve the disappearance of her best friend.

In The Secret Investigator of Astor Street, Piper Sail investigates a suspicious death, determined to find the truth and prove that she’s destined to be more than a 1920s Chicago society girl. This is a sequel to The Lost Girl of Astor Street.

Ever since the dust storms arrived and turned her world upside down, ambitious Stella Fischer spends her mornings hiding moonshine in laundry stacks for delivery before returning home to help her sisters—Lavinia and Mattie—run their family home turned boarding house, hoping to make enough money to finally escape to Hollywood.

Rosa Capistrano has been attending posh North Phoenix High School to boost her chances of a college education and a career in journalism, thanks to the groundbreaking Brown v. Board of Education verdict for desegregation. But though she’s legally allowed to be there, it’s still unsafe for Mexican Americans. That’s why she’s secretly passing as Rosie, a white girl. All she has to do to secure her future is make sure her Mexican home life and her white school experience never intersect.

Британский военный самолет терпит крушение в захваченной нацистами Франции. У первой из девушек есть шанс выжить, а вот вторая провалила миссию еще до ее начала: почти сразу Джули, известную под кодовым именем Верити, арестовывает гестапо. Будучи секретным агентом, захваченным на вражеской территории, она оказывается перед страшным выбором: раскрыть свое задание или подвергнуться жестокой казни.

Индейский мальчик из племени черноногих по прозвищу Бегущий Орел и Том – белый мальчик, оставшийся сиротой, становятся закадычными друзьями. В один из дней приятели с сотней других индейцев отправились на охоту к Скалистым горам. И там неожиданно все пошло совсем не так, как задумывалось.

Incapace di sopportare l'infelicità del figlio, il professor Rivlin tenta di riallacciare i legami con la famiglia dell'ex nuora. Iniziano cosí le sue indagini, e le sue visite, per venire a capo di un enigma che lo fa macerare nell'ansia. Il professore ebreo, tuttavia, non riuscirà a risolvere il mistero da solo, e gli arabi, temuti e amati, arriveranno ad aiutarlo.

Fumana ama così tanto la nebbia che a volte, quando si immerge in quel bianco opalescente, sembra ci sia qualcuno - o qualcosa - ad aspettarla. Le piace pure pescare con il nonno, la notte, sul sandolo, una lanterna a illuminare il buio della palude. E poi, da un certo punto in avanti, inizia a piacerle anche Luca: dopo aver fatto il bagno con lui alla pozza delle monache, torna a casa senza sapere bene che cosa le si agita dentro, e perché. La notte in cui è nata, la gente di Voltascirocco se la ricorda ancora, sembrava che l'Adige volesse portarsi via tutto il Veneto.