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Novice Threads

by Nancy Jardine

1840s Scotland. A thirst for education. Shattered dreams. Fragile relations. After being sent to school, the most exhilarating thing that’s ever happened to her, young Margaret Law sharpens her newly-acquired education on her best friend, Jessie Morison, till Jessie is spirited away to become a scullery maid. But Margaret’s dreams of becoming a schoolteacher are shattered when her parents’ tailoring and drapery business collapses and she must find a job. Salvation from domestic drudgery – or never-ending seamstress work – comes via Jessie whose employer needs a tutor for his daughter. Free time exploring Edinburgh with Jessie is great fun, but increasing tension in the household claws at Margaret’s nerves. She worries about her parents' estrangement, and the mystery of Jessie's unknown father. When tragedy befalls the household, Margaret must forge a new pathway for the future ...

Meera of Karmana Vol 1

by Nitin Antoon

Meera of Karmana is a very simple easy to read book about Meera who is lucky enough to find a spiritual angel who helps her with her Quest.

8 Canterbury Tales

by Albert Seligman

These eight Edmund Dulac illustrations were published in WR Hearst's 'The American Weekly' magazine in 1942. Dulac illustrated 13 series for the American Weekly between 1924-1951. John Erskine provides his interpretation of the Tales (in a family friendly manner) and his essay about the Canterbury Tales from his 1928 'The Delight of Great Books' is included with additional historical illustrations. There is a further reading section which includes illustrated editions from the early nineteenth century to the present. The American Weekly illustrations are Dulac's largest single body of watercolors, and are now available for the first time. Please check our other Amazon listings for the entire collection.

True Grace

by Karen Osborne

Set in 1924 Harlem during the Renaissance and Roaring Twenties, True Grace follows Grace—an immigrant, mixed-race woman with roots in the Congo, England, and Jamaica—fighting to keep her family together. Inspired by real events, she battles racism, misogyny, and ruthless systems with grit and hope.

The Thirteenth Child

by Mark deMeza

Inspired by the true story of the author’s ancestors, this enthralling WWII novel tells of the Kisch family’s heart-wrenching struggle against Nazi oppression. When the Nazis invade the Netherlands in 1940, the Jews of Amsterdam know nothing of the Final Solution and the Holocaust. As the measures imposed by the cruel SS become ever more repressive, sister and brother, Rachael and Hendrik, join the Dutch Resistance. Meanwhile, their parents, Franck and Elizabeth, strive to keep their younger brother, Hannes, safe, but time is against them all, as every day more and more Jews are being deported to unknown camps in Eastern Europe. Will the family be able to stay together and survive? Readers moved by Schindler’s List, The Tattooist of Auschwitz and The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas will be gripped.

One Summer at Helgeveld Farm

by John Blois

"A compulsively readable feel-good novel and an impressively written debut." — Kirkus Starred Review Dec. 2025 Across a busy Chicago street in 1949, a familiar silhouette brings Will Parlor back to the summer of 1917 when he worked on a Dutch-owned farm. This chance sighting reopens a story of loss, love, and promises made in youth. Set in a country still rumbling after the Civil War, One Summer at Helgeveld Farm travels alongside the sweeping changes in the turbulent landscape of early twentieth-century America.

Dear Nora

by Karen Berkey Huntsberger

Army nurse Nora Russell, reeling from a broken heart, boards a troop ship in Boston, destination unknown. Assigned to a hospital in Wales treating shell shock patients, she experiences the consequences of war. Then she meets a British psychiatrist who intrigues her. Nora wonders if she can love again. Back home, Nora’s mother tries to remain positive with her children away at war. But, she has promised to tell Nora everything. She soon faces the challenge of her older sister’s cancer battle and a nephew missing in action. Nora’s best friend Louise doesn’t understand why everyone leaves her—her parents are gone, her husband’s in the infantry. Raising a toddler alone, she needs to find a job to keep her sanity. Then she receives a dreaded telegram. Told in letter form, the intertwining stories of three women’s lives reveal the courage needed to endure the darkest days of WWII.

Thunders Over Idle Land

by R. F. Whong

A dual-timeline novel about riddles, pirates, treasures, and kung fu. A mesmerizing tale about betrayal, revenge, redemption, and transformation by Whong, named a Featured Author by the Minnesota Anoka County Library in 2025 and by the Suffolk Virginia Authors Festival in 2026. Amazon reviews: “A captivating read that takes you deep into a world filled with raw emotion and vivid imagery.”

Fatally Inferior

by Lyn Squire

Award-winning author Lyn Squire has done it again with an extraordinary follow-up to Immortalised to Death. Set in Victorian England amidst the furor triggered by Charles Darwin’s revolutionary theory, Fatally Inferior plunges Dunston Burnett, the series’ unassuming but sometimes insightful amateur sleuth, into a cauldron churning with secrets and lies. An abduction—the victim mysteriously vanishing from a locked-tight country house. A birth—the newborn torn from its mother’s arms. These seemingly independent incidents converge in a vile act of vengeance: a hellish torture for the victim; the perfect revenge for the perpetrator. Will Dunston ever be able to expose the heart of this dark, confounding mystery?

Becoming the Twilight Empress

by Faith L. Justice

In a tumultuous time of violence, betrayal, and ruthless evil, can one charismatic young woman survive the bloodshed? Ravenna, A.D. 408. Placidia's her emperor brother accuses their powerful foster father of treason, the naive imperial princess tries to reason with her sibling to no avail. After the man is lured out of sanctuary and brutally executed, she flees the toxic court to avoid a forced marriage… but to dubious safety. Braving increasing peril on journey to Rome, Placidia barely survives impassable swamps, imperial assassins, and bands of barbarians. With the city under Gothic siege, a starving populace, and violent mobs threatening civil disorder, the daughter of Theodosius the Great must navigate fraught politics to become a vigilant leader… or face an early death. Can she rise above an empire descending into chaos?

The Legend of Sheba

by Tosca Lee

Her name is legend. Her story, the epic of nations. The Queen of Sheba. In the tenth century BC, the young Queen of Sheba has inherited her father’s throne and all its riches. But now new alliances to the North threaten the trade routes that are the lifeblood of her nation. Solomon, the brash new king of Israel famous for his wealth and wisdom, will not be denied the tribute of the world—or of Sheba’s queen. With the future of her nation at stake, the new queen undertakes the journey of a lifetime in a daring bid to challenge the king. But neither ruler has anticipated the clash of agendas, gods, and passion that threatens to ignite—and ruin—them both. An explosive retelling of the legendary king and queen and the nations that shaped history. “A dramatic and unforgettable portrait." ―Library Journal, starred review

This book contains scenes of: sexual violence

Everything We Thought We Knew

by Carolyn Niethammer

April knows she was born in a 1970s commune, but secrets surround the details of her birth. When she demands to know the details, the truth leaves her stunned and angry at the decades-long deception. Ignoring society’s rules comes with a cost. Would you want to know the truth if it changed everything you knew about your life? You’ll step through a magic mirror into life at the Bella Vida commune and keep turning the pages as the full story reels out. Everything We Thought We Knew, historical fiction with family drama.

The Venial Sins of Miss Bubb

by K Minko

Chastity Bubb is the perfect Victorian daughter: devout, dutiful, and entirely without curiosity. She pines for a curate. She wins prizes for penmanship. She dreams of cucumbers. Then her father installs her in a hidden closet with an ear-trumpet. Is Chastity as ignorant of the funny goings-on around her as she seems? Or is she giving us a masterclass in tactical innocence? The Venial Sins of Miss Bubb is a wickedly comic tale of secrets and forgivable sins.

Half Sword

by Christopher Matson

Simon the fool, Simon the halfwit, Simon the lost is pursued across medieval Europe by a sinister league of conjurers, the Apostles of Light. Having erased his past, they will stop at nothing to steal his future. When he seeks shelter among the Knights of Palermo, a dubious band of wandering rogues, Simon attracts a mysterious young woman whose fate is somehow interwoven with his own. Caught in a struggle for power between the shadowy Apostles, his adopted Knights, and a secretive cabal of powerful women, Simon explores his own dark past to find a road to survival. With only a broken sword and his own shattered memories, Simon must thread this maze of warring factions to discover who he was and why he is inexorably drawn to the haunted ruins of twelfth-century Rome.

The Munich Girl

by Phyllis Edgerly Ring

Anna Dahlberg grew up eating dinner under her father’s war-trophy portrait of Eva Braun. Fifty years after the war, she discovers what he never did—that her mother and Hitler’s mistress were friends. Plunged into the world of the ''ordinary'' Munich girl who was her mother’s confidante—and a tyrant’s lover—Anna uncovers long-buried secrets and unknown reaches of her heart, to reveal the enduring power of love in the legacies that always outlast war.

Love and Conductivity

by Erin Nieto

An immersive, captivating love story, inspired by a real, early 20th-century correspondence. Set against the backdrop of post-WWI America, an epistolary courtship unfolds as a harmonious convergence of poetry and science. Yet, beneath the surface lies an electrifying tension, where genuine connection proves both thrilling and daunting. Told in rich detail, this enchanting story is about longing, lightning, and life’s most unexpected journeys. Perfect for fans of The Correspondent and The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. If you like your love stories intelligent, wistful and heartfelt, this is the one to add to your cart today!

The Sacred Vein

by Brian Young

When historian Ammon Lundquist inherits his ancestor's coded journal, he teams with non-binary forest ranger Aspen Rhoades to find a legendary treasure hidden in Utah's Uinta Mountains. Pursued by a ruthless conspiracy willing to kill for the secret, they discover the real treasure isn't gold—it's a sacred chamber containing knowledge from a forgotten civilization. Now they must choose: exploit the find or become its guardians.

Fire Between Two Skies

by R. F. Whong

New Release! A political thriller, a historic epic... Packed with action and adventure, this dual timeline historical fiction is about sin, forgiveness, redemption, and transformation. By Whong, named a Featured Author by the Minnesota Anoka County Library in 2025 and by the Suffolk Virginia Authors Festival in 2026.

Searching for Eternity

by Elizabeth Musser

Following his father’s dubious disappearance, adolescent Emile de Bonnery is forced to leave his native France for Atlanta, Georgia, never suspecting what awaits him in the South of 1964—culture shock, racism, and friendship with a strange girl named Eternity Jones. He brings with him to America an odd collection of “treasures” used by his father during the French Resistance. With the aid of these “treasures.” Emile and Eternity find themselves on a journey through abuse, betrayal, and prejudice that will ultimately lead them into a spiritual quest for healing. Spanning four decades, Searching for Eternity twists and turns through the secret tunnels of the French Resistance in Lyon, France, the racial tensions of the 1960s in the American South, and the trial of Klaus Barbie, the infamous “Butcher of Lyon”, in the 1980s.

Finding Angus

by L.K. Johnson

Isabelle Border has lost her family to a deadly Typhoid outbreak. Heartbroken and alone, she travels to London in search of a new life and a purpose that will heal her heart. Angus, an old Irish Wolfhound, wanders the dark London alleyways, lost and alone, until his destiny unexpectedly entwines with Isabelle's. Together they embark on a remarkable journey to inspire the animal welfare movement in America and endure an unforgettable voyage on the RMS Titanic.

The Lindisfarne Series Books 1-3 Box Set

by Johanna Craven

It's 1715, and twenty years after fleeing the Holy Island of Lindisfarne, Eva Blake and her siblings return to their dilapidated family home in an attempt to piece together their tattered lives. But a new Jacobite Rising is gaining momentum, and as outsiders from London, the Blakes find themselves under suspicion from the villagers. When conflict with the locals comes to a head, Eva escapes to the nearby island of Longstone, where the reclusive Finn Murray keeps a makeshift shipping beacon burning on the shore. Alone on Longstone, Eva and Finn find themselves drawn to each other, despite his attempts to keep her at a distance. But long-buried secrets are beginning to resurface, and Eva can’t help but fear she has made a grave error in opening her heart to Finn. All she knows is her life is in danger, and she must confront the past if she is to survive.

Secret Marriages: Edward IV, Eleanor & Elizabeth

by J.P. Reedman

Eleanor Talbot, newly widowed after the Battle of Blore Heath, meets Edward, Earl of March. It is a time of trials when the Lancastrians and Yorkists fight for supremacy...and the throne of England. The Talbots are staunch Lancastrians; Edward is the Son of York. The Battles of Mortimer's Cross and the bloodbath of Towton lead to Edward taking the crown. A secret marriage is hatched between the young King and Eleanor, but the ''secret queen'' is never announced to the Council. King Edward’s womanising reaches new heights as, within a short time, his eye falls on another widowed beauty, Elizabeth Woodville, whom he also marries in a private, hidden ceremony. Mortified by all that has happened, Eleanor seeks atonement in religion, but will her past catch her up? Will the secret remain secret?

The Tin Face Parade

by Joly Braime

October 1907, East London. A mask maker works painstakingly to rebuild injured faces out of painted copper alloy, until he is brutally murdered at his workbench. The police suspect a burglary gone wrong, but when a much more high-profile killing shocks the city just weeks later, one man is convinced the two crimes are connected. Somehow it falls to Harry Catcliffe, a dissolute young industrialist with a gift for being in the wrong place, to try and discover the truth. Reluctantly paired with an unhinged ex-marine on a quest for revenge, Harry's investigation takes him from the great country houses of Surrey to the carbolic-scented back alleys of Limehouse, as he realises that the most difficult masks to see through are the ones made of flesh and blood.

Red Snow in Winter: A WWII Espionage Thriller

by Max Eastern

In the final weeks of World War II, a young American intelligence officer is caught in a web of deceit that stretches from the Pentagon to the war-ravaged streets of Europe. Lieutenant Julius Orlinsky, a veteran of clandestine operations in Prague, is thrust back into the field when a seemingly routine assignment leads to murder and attempted murder. The mystery deepens as Orlinsky's dangerous assignment uncovers a family's tragedy in Prague, one that could expose a betrayal by the first woman Orlinsky has ever loved. This debut historical novel, based on years of research, is the winner of the 2025 Christie Award for Best Mystery & Thriller from the Historical Fiction Company.

Hidden in Plain Sight, a British Military Agent's Story

by Shirley Read-Jahn

When World War Two splits Fred Read-Jahn and his English bride, Molly, she is forced to face the Blitz alone while he carries out secret missions on an epic journey from London to Moscow, travelling through North America, Canada, and much of Asia to the USSR. Only recently has it been released that he was working as an undercover intelligence agent for MI-19.