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Selected stories from an age of Revolution and Exploration.  | | Boyle,
T. Coraghessan
Water Music
Ned Rise, thief extraordinaire, and Mungo Park, intrepid Scottish explorer, travel through West Africa in the 1790's in this wildly inventive tale, full of hilarious scenes, each more improbable than the last.
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 | | Bradbury,
Malcolm
To the Hermitage
Diderot's trip to Russia to "enlighten" Catherine the Great during the Age of Reason and a novelist's trip to a Diderot conference during the postmodern 1990's alternate as dual narratives in this clever novel.
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 | | Brooks,
Geraldine
Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague
Young widow Anna Frith narrates the events of 1665-1666, as the residents of Eyam in Derbyshire follow their pastor's lead and quarantine themselves when the plague appears in their midst. Harrowing and moving.
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 | | Clavell,
James
Shogun
Shipwrecked in feudal Japan, Captain Blackthorne is drawn into dangerous political intrigues among rival warlords. An action-packed swashbuckler that paints a sweeping panorama of a society in turmoil.
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 | | Conde,
Maryse
I Tituba, Black Witch of Salem
This insightful and moving portrayal of the 1692 Salem witch trials told from the point of view of accused witch Tituba, a slave and healer from Barbados was written by an acclaimed Guadeloupean author.
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 | | Cornwell,
Bernard
Sharpe's Tiger, India 1799
Thrilling adventure set in India where wily Private Richard Sharpe uses his wits to survive the British siege of Seringapatam, a vicious sergeant, and the Tippoo's tigers. There are many more in this series!
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 | | Coyle,
Harold
Savage Wilderness
Sweeping saga of frontier warfare in the French and Indian War seen from many points of view as France and England battle for supremacy in the New World. Written by a master of military thrillers.
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 | | Donati,
Sara
Into the Wilderness
Independent Elizabeth Middleton leaves her comfortable life in England to join her father in frontier New York in 1792 and start a school, but finds much more to inspire her, including love. First in a series.
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 | | Drabble,
Margaret
The Red Queen
On the plane to Seoul, Dr. Babs Halliwell reads the memoir of an 18th-century Crown Princess of Korea. The horrific events in Lady Hong's life resonate with Babs, ultimately giving her own life new direction.
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 | | Fast,
Howard
April Morning
Lexington is in a ferment. The British are coming! Fifteen-year-old Adam Cooper joins the militia, standing with his father as the first volleys are fired. Revolutionary fervor boils in this coming-of-age tale.
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 | | Fitzgerald,
Penelope
The Blue Flower
Friederich von Hardenberg's love and courtship of simple, young Sophie becomes the transforming muse for the German Romantic poet known as Novalis.
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 | | Gabaldon,
Diana
Outlander
Clare Randall steps through a Scottish stone circle and emerges 200 years earlier in the midst of the 1743 Jacobite uprising. This fun, swashbuckling romantic-adventure is the first in a series.
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 | | Galbraith,
Douglas
The Rising Sun
Five ships leave Edinburgh in 1698 to establish a Scottish colony in Central America. The trials and adventures of this daring but ill-fated expedition are narrated by naïve young Roderick Mackenzie.
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 | | Harris,
Joanne
Holy Fools
Gypsy player Juliette is betrayed by the conniving, charismatic Blackbird, and joins a Brittany abbey, where 50 sisters eke out a living. Accusations of witchcraft force Juliette into a final death-defying act.
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 | | Harrison,
Kathryn
Poison
Against the backdrop of the terror of the Spanish Inquisition, we follow the lives of two women seeking happiness: Francisca, daughter of a poor silk grower, and Queen Maria, barren wife of King Carlos II.
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 | | Jennings,
Gary
Aztec
The sights and sounds of the Aztec world just before the arrival of the Conquistadores come vividly alive in this action-packed tale narrated by Mixtli Dark Cloud, first a scribe and then a mighty warrior.
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 | | Liss,
David
Conspiracy of Paper
Tough Jewish outsider Benjamin Weaver tracks down thieves and debtors for a living in 18th-century London's burgeoning world of stock speculation as he investigates the mysterious death of his estranged father.
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 | | Mantel,
Hilary
A Place of Greater Safety
The French Revolution, from idealistic inception through the Reign of Terror, as seen through the lives of its creators: Danton, the orator, Desmoulins, the journalist, and Robespierre, the rigid puritan.
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 | | McCann,
Maria
As Meat Loves Salt
During the English Civil War, jealous and violent Jacob Cullen finds an outlet for his rage in Cromwell's army where he becomes obsessed with fellow soldier Chris Ferris and seeks love and redemption.
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 | | Nguyen,
Kien
Le Colonial
In 18th-century Vietnam, three French missionaries become embroiled in a civil war that threatens the nation. A richly-detailed account of a complex culture that challenges the Jesuits' faith and their vows.
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| | Oxnam,
Robert
Ming, a Novel of Seventeenth-Century China
Star-crossed lovers Meihua and Longyan must each choose loyalty to the corrupt Ming Dynasty rulers or to the Manchu invaders in this exciting tale of tumult and exile in Confucian China.
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 | | Pynchon,
Thomas
Mason & Dixon
Pynchon imagines how a mismatched pair of men created the line dividing the U.S. into North and South in this complex and sprawling novel, full of real and fictional characters, paranoia, and caffeine.
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| | Rogers,
Jane
Promised Lands
A story of two would-be utopias where idealists struggle against harsh realities: first, Australia's Sidney Cove, being settled by British convicts in 1788, and second, a progressive school, 100 years later.
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 | | Rufin,
Jean-Christophe
The Abyssinian
Fueled by his desire to win the hand of the French consul's lovely daughter, a physician embarks on a diplomatic mission for Louis XIV, traveling from Cairo to Abyssinia (now Ethiopia) to Versailles and back.
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 | | Stephenson,
Neal
Quicksilver
Scientific luminaries clash over the true origin of calculus and the 'King of the Vagabonds' rescues a woman from a Turkish harem in this ambitious and richly detailed first volume of the Baroque Cycle.
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 | | Stevenson,
Jane
The Winter Queen
Former slave and African prince Pelagius van Overmeer studies theology in 17th-century Holland where he becomes advisor and friend to Elizabeth of Bohemia, also a royal in exile.
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 | | Sundaresan,
Indu
The Twentieth Wife
Legendary love story of how Mehrunnisa, daughter of Persian refugees, becomes the beloved wife of Emperor Jahangir of India and one of the most powerful women of her time. Continued in The Feast of Roses.
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 | | Thom,
James Alexander
Long Knife
Epic adventure of Colonel George Rogers Clark, who leads a small army west from Virginia to win the land between the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers for American settlers from the British and the French, 1777-1809.
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 | | Thomas,
Chantal
Farewell, My Queen
Madame Laborde, reader to Queen Marie Antoinette, recalls the tumultuous and terrifying final days at Versailles in 1789 as the Revolution comes to power and the opulent, artificial life of the court collapses.
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 | | Tremain,
Rose
Restoration
Robert Merivel, a glove-maker's son, is studying medicine, but revels in being a clown. When brought to Court as physician to King Charles II's dogs he's in paradise, but many reversals of fortune lie ahead.
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