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Selected stories from an age of Romance and Rebellion.  | | Banks,
Russell
Cloudsplitter
Based on the life of the abolitionist John Brown, who led the raid on Harper's Ferry, Virginia, Banks delivers a complex, riveting account of slavery in America.
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 | | Bell,
Madison Smartt
The Stone That the Builder Refused
Rousing battle scenes and intrigue abound in this final book of an epic trilogy about Toussaint Louverture, the Haitian leader of history's only successful slave revolt.
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 | | Berger,
Thomas
Little Big Man
A look at the old West with 111-year-old Jack Crabb, aka Little Big Man, who travels from a wagon train in the 1840s to Custer's Last Stand in 1876, struggling between two cultures but belonging to neither.
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 | | Brennert,
Alan
Moloka'i
While Rachel contracts leprosy as a child, she does not allow the disease to prevent her from life and love in this strange, surprising depiction of turn-of-the-century Hawaii.
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 | | Carey,
Peter
The True History of the Kelly Gang
The notorious Australian outlaw tells his own story in this rollicking, free-spirited outback tale that brings the revered and reviled Kelly to vibrant life though his daring audacity and pure country voice.
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 | | Clark,
Walter Von Tilburg
The Ox-Bow Incident
This gripping story of vigilantes and rustlers on the 1880s American frontier raises intriguing questions about human nature, mob violence, and the nature of justice that are startlingly relevant today.
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 | | Donati,
Sara
Fire Along the Sky
The next installment of the epic Bonner family wilderness saga continues in 1812 in New York's upstate frontier and features an early American family's struggle for survival.
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 | | Faber,
Michel
The Crimson Petal and the White
In this saucy rendition of Dickens' London, Sugar, a misfit hooker with a heart of gold, seeks to pull herself up from the muck through an affair with a wealthy patron.
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 | | Fowler,
Karen Joy
Sarah Canary
When the mysterious, addled Sarah Canary stumbles into a Chinese railway work camp, Chin Ah Kin crosses 1873 Washington Territory with the strange woman in a journey that will test their strength and sanity.
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 | | Fowles,
John
The French Lieutenant's Woman
In this postmodern masterpiece, paleontologist Charles Smithson, engaged to a proper English lady, finds himself fascinated with Sarah Woodruff, a beautiful woman ostracized for her affair with a Frenchman.
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 | | Fraser,
George MacDonald
Flashman: From the Flashman Papers, 1839-1842
The first in Fraser's wry, much-loved adventure series introduces Flashman, a splendidly arrogant Victorian soldier, as he and his British compatriots attempt to influence 1840's Afghanistan.
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 | | Gaffney,
Elizabeth
Metropolis
A German immigrant falls in love with a girl in an Irish gang and becomes a suspect in the investigation of the P.T. Barnum American Museum arson in this atmospheric tale set in old New York.
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 | | Goldman,
Francisco
The Divine Husband
In late 19th century Central America, Maria de las Nieves Moran, half Irish-American, half Mayan, echoes the mixed fortunes of her troubled land in her involvement with four very different men.
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 | | Hansen,
Brooks
The Chess Garden
When Dr. Uyterhoeven journeys from his Dayton, Ohio home to South Africa to minister to victims of the Boer War, his strange letters home tell a fanciful tale of living chess pieces in the Antipodes.
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 | | Hensher,
Philip
The Mulberry Empire
In 1839, 50,000 British forces invaded Afghan in the First Afghan War. Three years later a single British survivor, Alexander Burnes, rode out of the Afghan mountains. This is his story.
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 | | Highland,
Frederick
The Ghost Eater
This exciting naval adventure set in Dutch-controlled Sumatra during 1875 features the American Ulysses Drake Vanders who is commissioned to guide a riverboat into the remote jungle to rescue missionaries.
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 | | Holman,
Sheri
The Dress Lodger
During the Industrial Revolution in Britain, 15-year-old Gustine becomes a streetwalker to help care for her ailing baby while she aids a doctor locate corpses for his student's autopsy studies.
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 | | Jiles,
Paulette
Enemy Women
When headstrong 18-year old Adair Colley is falsely accused and imprisoned in the Missouri Ozarks during the Civil War, she falls in love with her interrogator, escapes from jail and sets out for home.
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 | | Kneale,
Matthew
English Passengers
This British expedition to Tasmania is all at once a rugged seafaring yarn, an indictment on the ravage of colonialism and a rich literary novel of ideas.
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 | | Matsuoka,
Takashi
A Cloud of Sparrows
Swordplay, action and intrigue abound in this tale of a vigilante strike against the Akaoka throne that sends Lord Genji and his Christian missionary visitors on a desperate journey for survival.
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 | | McMurtry,
Larry
Lonesome Dove
Life on the American frontier is compellingly captured in this great, wide-ranging cowboy epic telling the story of a cattle drive from Texas to Montana.
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 | | Min,
Anchee
Empress Orchid
Once Orchid is chosen as one of the Emperor's concubines, she must fight her way into the heart of her husband while establishing her own power in this portrait of a the largely vilified last empress of China.
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 | | Rambaud,
Patrick
The Battle
Take a ringside seat to the rise of modern warfare and the unmaking of one of France's most enigmatic men as Napoleon faces his first major defeat in Essling. First of a trilogy.
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 | | See,
Lisa
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
While women's lives in China were highly constrictive, nu shu, a secret language between women in the Hunan province, allowed lifelong friends Lily and Snow Flower to communicate their feelings freely.
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 | | Schuyler,
Nina
The Painting
In Japan, unhappily married Ayoshi paints memories of her lover on mulberry paper and secretly smuggles the artwork to Europe transforming the life of Jorgen, a young Dane working in Paris.
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 | | Shaara,
Michael
The Killer Angels
This Pulitzer-Prize-winner realistically recreates the Battle of Gettysburg through the voices and insights of military leaders on both sides of the War between the States.
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 | | Styron,
William
The Confessions of Nat Turner
From his jail cell waiting for his execution, preacher Nat Turner, the leader of the first slave revolt in the US, compellingly tells his life story and the larger story of slavery in America.
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 | | Tremain,
Rose
The Colour
Newlyweds Joseph and Harriet Blackstone move to the rough, wild lands of New Zealand to stake their claim with other speculators hot on the trail of 'the colour': gold.
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 | | Walker,
Margaret
Jubilee
Vyry, biracial daughter of a houseslave, is a strong and intelligent young woman who struggles to make a life of her own in Reconstruction-era Georgia. Inspired by the author's own great-grandmother.
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 | | Waters,
Sarah
Fingersmith
London orphan Sue Trinder grows up a scamp amongst a family of thieves where she is pressed to help a con man marry and summarily discard a wealthy woman, in this sensual, atmospheric Victorian page-turner.
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