Historical Family Saga

In Dawson’s Fall, a novel based on the lives of Roxana Robinson’s great-grandparents, we see America at its most fragile, fraught, and malleable. Set in 1889, in Charleston, South Carolina, Robinson’s tale weaves her family’s journal entries and letters with a novelist’s narrative grace, and spans the life of her tragic hero, Frank Dawson, as he attempts to navigate the country’s new political, social, and moral landscape.

As WWII draws to a close, war widow Vera Larsen Trumbell knows all too well the sacrifices of those left on the home front. Working on her family’s farm has sustained Vera and her young children, but she now yearns for a sense of normalcy. The end of the war has been bittersweet for the Larsen clan, as they and the members of their small Wyoming town continue to pick up the pieces of their former lives.

Benjamin Church came to the Grange Hall expecting to meet someone else, but then the girl in the red dress looked across the dance floor and smiled.... Passing Through Perfect is a heart-wrenching Southern family saga that starts on the night Benjamin falls madly in love with Delia. Once he tastes the sweetness of her kiss, he envisions them spending the rest of their life together. He doesn't stop to consider that her daddy is a learned Pastor, and her mama a woman with a college degree; he knows only that she sets his heart to racing.

How do three sisters write a single suicide note? This is the riddle the Alter sisters - Lady, Vee, and Delph - pose at the outset of this darkly funny novel as they finalize their plans to end their lives collectively on New Year's Eve 1999.

Daring aviators take the skies by storm in this historical romance filled with unconventional women - and the men strong enough to love them.

Family of Women is the story of three generations of women. Bessie: scarred by a childhood of poverty in the slums of Victorian Birmingham and left a young widow with four children, is a hard, bullying woman who will go to disturbing lengths to keep her family under her thumb. Violet: one of Bessie's four children, marries young to escape, into the arms of a man whose life will be broken by war. Linda: grows up on a large housing estate in the 1950s with older sister Joyce and her beloved young sister Carol. Intelligent and energetic, she craves education and something more than the life she sees around her.

The Archers is an exciting action-packed adventure saga set in medieval England during the days of the Templar knights and the crusades. It is the tale of an Englishman who rose to become the captain of a company of archers and lead its survivors back to feudal England from King Richard's crusade - and forever change medieval and modern England and Britain. Many of the archers do not return as a result of disease and intense fighting, but some of the former serfs and free men do return - as battle hardened veterans determined to improve their lot in cruel and brutal feudal England.

New York Times bestselling author Belva Plain beguiles us once again with a novel that explores the bonds that sustain families—and the lies that can shatter them forever. Sweeping through the pivotal events of twentieth-century America, The Sight of the Stars chronicles four generations of one remarkable family as they journey through years of love, loss, sacrifice, and unimaginable betrayal.

Can she save her family and her name from destruction? As financial troubles wrack the Killigrew household, the passion and strength of the man Morwen loved so dearly ebb away. Into this turbulent landscape arrives a dynamic stranger from America. Randell Wainwright is determined to forge a stronger bond with one particular person - Morwen. As old hurts are renewed, bitter family quarrels rage and blackmail and tragedy threaten the foundation of her home, Morwen struggles to save her name and her family from destruction.

1920s Liverpool is the beautifully portrayed setting for The Sisters O'Donnell - a delightful saga about three young Irish women building new lives for themselves, from best-selling author Lyn Andrews. Perfect for fans of Anne Baker, Dilly Court and Nadine Dorries. Throughout County Tipperary the three sisters were known as the Sisters O'Donnell. They all have red hair but little else in common. Together they move to Liverpool in the 1920s to make a new life for themselves - although each sister intends to go about it in her own sweet way.

Meg Townsend y su hermana, Sylvie, buscan una existencia tranquila manejando la librería familiar. Meg se siente responsable de cuidar de su padre, Stephen, cuyo espíritu y salud son dañados de su tiempo como prisionero durante la Guerra Civil. Su único escape son las pinturas que crea y vende. Entonces el Gran Fuego barre el distrito financiero de Chicago. Las explosiones ardientes y el caos despiertan recuerdos de guerra para Stephen mientras huye del fuego y se separa de sus hijas. Días después, cuando el humo se ha despejado, Meg y Sylvie logran reunirse con él.

1912 in The Yorkshire Dales and Alice Bentham and her brother Will have lost their mother to cancer. Money is scarce and pride doesn't pay the doctor or put food on the table. Alice gets work at Whernside Manor looking after Lord Frankland's fragile sister Miss Nancy. Meanwhile Will and his best friend Jack begin working for the Lord of the Manor at the marble mill. But their purpose there is not an entirely honest one.

What if the villain of your childhood turned out to be someone really rather extraordinary? A disgraced politician, Sir James Hastings is living out his retirement in a secluded Surrey village. He is unmoved by his centenarian mother's death - a woman he emotionally buried upon her abandonment. Raised by his father, a charismatic war-hero turned racing driver, the young James, torn between self-blame and longing, eventually dismissed her.

1528: Escaping from her family's scandalous involvement with Anne Boleyn's circle, Thomasin Marwood is beginning a new life in the service of Queen Catherine of Aragon. Thomasin is trying to forget Rafe Danvers, the man who stole her heart and then betrayed her, and when a group of Venetians arrive at court, she is drawn to the sophisticated Nico. But a great danger is lurking. The dreaded sweating sickness has returned, which claimed the life of Catherine's first husband, Prince Arthur, many years ago.

Hamburg 1939. Der Krieg hat die Jugendfreunde Kurt und Fanni auseinandergerissen. Kurt, der als Jude mit einem Kindertransport nach England verschickt wurde, wächst nicht in einer fürsorglichen Familie, sondern im Heim auf. Als er im Mai 1940 als "feindlicher Ausländer" interniert werden soll, gelingt es ihm über einige abenteuerliche Umwege der Royal Air Force beizutreten. Er ahnt nicht, dass Fanni zur gleichen Zeit trotz einiger Zweifel dem insgeheim schon länger von ihr verehrten Blankeneser Kinderarzt Otto Casparius näherkommt. Eines Tages soll Kurt an einem Luftangriff auf seine alte Heimat teilnehmen.

Hamburg, 1919. John Casparius glaubt nicht mehr an das Gute im Menschen. Die grausamen Erfahrungen des Krieges verfolgen ihn, die einst so florierende Reederei, seit Jahrzehnten in Familienbesitz, ist durch die politischen Turbulenzen angeschlagen. Von Schuldgefühlen geplagt kreisen seine Gedanken darum, ins Wasser zu gehen. Nach einer durchgrübelten Nacht trifft er im Morgengrauen am Elbufer auf eine junge Frau. Es ist Leni Hansen, die wie eine Nixe in den Fluten badet. Ihre Natürlichkeit und Lebensfreude bezaubern John, und er spricht sie an.

1919: Der Krieg ist zu Ende, und Ursulas große Liebe Heinrich Dehmel kehrt nach Hause zurück. Sie planen eine gemeinsame Zukunft, doch Ursula, von ihren Freunden Ulla genannt, hat Zweifel: Wird sie als Ehefrau ihre künstlerische Eigenständigkeit wahren können? Lässt sich ihr Beruf als Gestalterin mit einer Familie vereinbaren? Schließlich überwiegen ihre Gefühle, und die beiden geben sich das Ja-Wort. Allmählich lassen sie die Schatten der Vergangenheit hinter sich, und Ulla taucht mit Vera und ihren Künstlerfreunden in die schillernde Welt der Zwanziger Jahre ein.

Can she win over her sweetheart's family? Emily had always been a trial as a child - pushy and rough - and Boots had always avoided her. But now she's an elegant and stylish young lady, and she and Boots are due to be married - and must face the challenge of his wartime injuries together. Can she draw on that steely toughness to rise to the challenge and do right by the love of her life and his family?

Happily married to the Reverend Simon Norwood, Fiona Norwood's happiness should be complete. But Fiona has a secret in her past, and she can never forget the baby girl she gave away at birth. Meanwhile, Debbie Hargreaves has known since she was a little girl that she was adopted. Her parents are kind and loving and she has a happy home life. Despite that, once she reaches her teenage years, Debbie determines to find out about her birth mother. But is the past sometimes best left alone?

Since following her heart and moving from her comfortable home in Scotland to the harsh mountainside of Ardtur, County Donegal, Hannah McGinley hasn’t had the easiest life. But surrounded by her two children and her loving husband Patrick she has found happiness. When her daughter returns home with news that her school may close as one of the teachers is moving away, Hannah feels compelled to take the vacant post. With the schoolmaster Daniel having lost his sight, Hannah knows that he won’t be able to manage the children alone.