“The Black Barber of Barkerville,” as Wellington Delaney Moses was known, came to British Columbia from San Francisco, looking for a new home and a place of peace. He was among the first black people to arrive in B.C., hoping that the...
Historical fiction
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Author:Gallaher, BillSummary: - Author:Bradford, Barbara TaylorSummary:
The prequel to Barbara Taylor Bradford's New York Times bestselling and dazzling saga A Woman of Substance. Opening five years before the start of A Woman of Substance, A Man of Honor begins with 13-year-old Blackie O'Neill facing an...
- Author:Marske, FreyaSummary:
Red White & Royal Blue meets Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell : debut author Freya Marske's A Marvellous Light unfolds in an Edwardian England full of magic, contracts, and conspiracies. Robin Blyth has more than enough bother in...
- Author:Laurens, StephanieSummary:
Fate brings Marcus Cynster together with Niniver Carrick, a woman he knows cannot be his bride, regardless of how he feels about her. But as Marcus soon discovers, his fated role is to stand by Niniver's side and, ultimately, to...
- Author:Whishaw, IonaSummary:
It's November, and Lane and Darling have escaped the chilly autumn in the Kootenays for a honeymoon at the posh and romantic Santa Cruz Inn in sunny Tucson, Arizona. But despite her very best intentions to relax, soon after their...
- Author:Collins, AnnSummary:
Can a marriage of convenience become a marriage of forever? After her father’s untimely death, grieving hotel heiress Julia Fairbanks is shocked by the stipulation in his last will and testament. She must marry within six months of his...
- Author:Snelling, LauraineSummary:
In A Measure of Mercy by acclaimed author Lauraine Snelling, 18-year-old Astrid Bjorklund's opportunity for formal medical study in Chicago doesn't arrive until shortly after her heartthrob Joshua Landseer returns to Blessing, North...
- Author:Frutkin, MarkSummary:
Plots, intrigue and love against the backdrop of imperial China. This is a unique novel of old China, the traditional landscape of mountains and rivers without end, and life in an imperial city rife with plots, intrigues, culture,...
- Author:Jaigirdar, AdibaSummary:
An acrobat, an actress, an artist, and a thief, four girls who seemingly have nothing in common, work together and plot a heist to steal the Rubaiyat off the Titanic.
- Author:McHugh, ClareSummary:
Clare McHugh tells the story of Victoria, the Princess Royal, from her younger years as the apple of her father Albert's eyes through her rise to power atop the mighty German empire to her final months of life.
- Author:Chisholm, P. F.Summary:
It’s September 1592, and the redoubtable Sergeant Dodd is still in London with dashing courtier Sir Robert Carey, dealing with the fall-out from their earlier adventures. Carey urgently needs to get back to Carlisle where he is the...
- Author:Raybourn, DeannaSummary:
A royal scandals connection to a brutal serial killer threatens London in this new Veronica Speedwell adventure from New York Times bestselling and Edgar® Awardnominated author Deanna Raybourn. Autumn 1888. Veronica Speedwell and her...
- Author:Smith, RaySummary:
Set in the small German city of Waltherrott, this novel is a madcap excursion from the 1980s back to 1848, the year of revolutions, then back to the time of the Black Death in the late 1340s. A startling comedy, 'A Night at the Opera'...
- Author:House, SilasSummary:
Young Irish American Saul Sullivan marries a beautiful Cherokee woman named Vine. As a mixed race couple, they weather a storm of prejudice, but eventually find acceptance with Saul's family. Then Saul must move away to another country...
- Author:Arudpragasam, AnukSummary:
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE - A young man journeys into Sri Lanka’s war-torn north in this searing novel of longing, loss, and the legacy of war from the author of The Story of a Brief Marriage. “A novel of tragic power and...
- Author:Jacobs, AnnaSummary:
Keara Michaels doesn't want to leave home in Ireland, but fate sends her first to Lancashire, then across the sea to Australia, pregnant and penniless. Mark Gibson runs away there when his wife dies and soon employs Keara in his...
- Author:Raybourn, DeannaSummary:
Veronica Speedwell returns in a brand new adventure from Deanna Raybourn, the New York Times bestselling author of the Lady Julia Grey mysteries. London, 1887. Victorian adventuress and butterfly hunter Veronica Speedwell receives an...
- Author:Follett, KenSummary:
Mack McAsh burns with the desire to escape his life of slavery in Scottish coal mines, while Lizzie Hallim is desperate to shed a life of sheltered subjugation to her spineless husband. United in America, their only chance for freedom...
- Author:Mantel, HilarySummary:
An extraordinary, epic novel set during the French Revolution, winner of the Sunday Express Book of the Year Award. A spellbinding, epic novel which recounts the events between the fall of the Ancient Regime and the peak of the Terror,...
- Author:Snelling, LauraineSummary:
Desiring a home, Cassie's promised herself to a rancher already living on the land she inherited, but is her heart leading her toward another?
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