Le 1er mars, à dix heures du matin, un magnifique trois-mâts, ses grandes voiles carguées et prises aux bas ris, ses vergues de perroquet amenées, se tenait à la cape sous un grand hunier seul, avec trois ris pris, ses fausses fenêtres de poupe fermées, et tous ses soldats de quart, amarrés à un cordage ... more »

Peter Blood, an Irish physician and soldier in England in the 1680's, is wrongly convicted of treason and sentenced to indentured slavery in the Caribbean. He escapes and becomes the most feared pirate captain on the Spanish Main, but all the glory of his adventures cannot help him, for the woman he ... more »

Thirty years ago, Pulitzer Prize--winning author and journalist Philip Caputo crossed the deserts of Sudan and Eritrea on foot and camelback, a journey that inspired his first novel, Horn of Africa, and awakened a lifelong fascination with Africa. His travels have since taken him back to Sudan, as well ... more »

EPPIE Award Finalist--Best Western! Young Gincy Tate's father is murdered before he can fulfill a contract to supply the Army with remounts. In order to pay his debts and save the ranch, she must make the sale in his place. Afraid the lien-holder, whom she suspects of being the murderer, will foreclose ... more »

« Voir Naples et mourir », dit le Napolitain. « Qui n'a pas vu Séville n'a rien vu », dit l'Andalou. « Rester à la porte d'Avignon, c'est rester à la porte du paradis, » dit le Provençal. more » more »

An irresistible reimagining of the Robin Hood legend, Maid Marian brings to life the rollicking--and romantic--world of the Middle Ages. An orphan and heiress to a large country estate, Marian Fitzwater is wed at the age of five to an equally young nobleman, Lord Hugh of Sencaster, a union that joins ... more »

Continuing the epic adventure begun in the bestselling QUICKSILVER! It is the late 1600s on the high seas. A group of Barbary galley slaves plot amongst themselves as they ply the oars of a pirate ship. These ten men -- unfortunates from around the world impressed into servitude -- have heard whispers ... more »

Teresita is not an ordinary girl. Born of an illiterate, poor Indian mother, she knows little about her past or her future. She has no idea that her father is Don Tomas Urrea, the wild and rich owner of a vast ranch in the Mexican state of Sinaloa. She has no idea that Huila, the elderly healer who takes ... more »

Henri III et sa cour Drame en cinq actes, en prose Théâtre-Français. - 11 février 1829. A mon honorable ami le baron de Taylor Membre de la Légion d'honneur. Mon cher Taylor, C'est à vous que je dédie mon drame historique de Henri III et sa cour ; si je ne le faisais par amitié, je le ferais par ... more »

A mad run through 17th Century France with swordfights, rebellions, disguise, identity theft, and an extremely star-crossed love affair between a leading courtier of Louis XIII (Bardelys, known as The Magnificent) and the beautiful Roxalanne of Lavédan. Set in the same milieu as Dumas' Three Musketeers ... more »

It is 1810, and in Napoleon's determination to conquer Portugal -- and push the British back to the sea -- he sends his largest army yet across the Spanish frontier. But between the Portuguese border and Napoleon's seemingly certain victory are twoobstacles -- a wasted land, stripped of food by Wellington ... more »

A tale of time travel, true love, and Jane Austen New York actress C.J. Welles, a die-hard Jane Austen fan, is on the verge of landing her dream role: portraying her idol in a Broadway play. But during her final audition, she is mysteriously transported to Bath, England, in the year 1801. And Georgian ... more »