Cecelia Holland

Cecelia Holland's historical fiction is well known for its immersion in exotic cultures, and Until the Sun Falls, one of her most successful books, takes the listener into the heart of the Mongol horde during the conquest of Russia and eastern Europe in the thirteenth century.

The summer of 1940 found 60-year-old firebrand Leon Trotsky living in exile in Mexico, still agitating with his pen and raging against the death he felt certain Stalin was bound to deliver....

The 1849 Gold Rush in California brought to a boiling point the new state's wild and unruly politics. Before long, there was mob rule in the muddy streets of San Francisco....

"I wish I had a little girl like you, Julie," Mary Todd Lincoln often told Julie Taft, and for the first year of the Lincoln presidency, 16-year-old Julie had the run of the White House....

The explosive conflict between workers and capital in 19th century America first erupted nation-wide in 1877 when rapid industrialization led to spontaneous grassroots strikes and riot in many cities around the country....

Against the background of the Protestant Reformation and conflicts between England and Spain, this novel relates the rise of the House of Orange and the beginnings of Dutch....

One of today's foremost historical novelists, Cecelia Holland explores the strange and enduring mystery of Stonehenge, one of the true wonders of the ancient and modern world....

In the far future, an Earth-born woman must negotiate with a fearsome mutant race....