AD 1346. King Edward III seeks to take the crown of France by right of conquest. On the battlefield of Crecy, immortal knight Richard of Ashbury confronts a mysterious knight with inhuman strength fighting beneath a banner as black as death. To find his enemy, Richard assembles a company of veteran men-at-arms and deadly English archers. Together, they must invade France and bring a mighty French army to battle. But Richard’s hunt for the murderous...

In 213 B.C., as the forces of both Rome and Hannibal's army from Carthage are still reeling from the losses at the Battle of Canae, the second Punic War rages on. With more and more of Rome's Italian allies switching allegiance to Carthage, the stakes continue to increase. When the major Sicilian city of Syracuse defects to Hannibal, Rome sends all that it has to retake the city. Now, outside the nearly impregnable city walls, a vast Roman Army besieges...

Returning to his village after escaping the Roman army, Spartacus is betrayed by his jealous king and forced into life as a gladiator before executing a daring overthrow and assuming leadership over an army of escaped slaves.

Told in alternating voices, seventeen-year-old Jane rails against her family's Vietnamese culture and struggles with a perpetually angry father, whose traumatic journey to the United States as an eleven-year-old refugee is revealed in flashbacks.

"On the eve of the invasion of Russia, half-French, half-English Matthieu Carrey finds himself in the ranks of Napoleon's five hundred thousand strong army. With Tsar Alexander seemingly ill-prepared, a French victory seems certain. The Grande Armee will obliterate everything in its path. Carrey's purpose is less clear. Blackmailed into becoming a spy in the emperor's army, he hopes to follow his lover, a French actress who has gone to work in the...

"[Simone] Gorrindo's prose is inviting and fluid, and her storytelling is intimate and vivid...[an] engaging, evocative memoir." —The New York Times Book Review
"A hopeful, unifying memoir." —People
"A haunting, beautifully written celebration of found sisterhood." —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"A fearless, engaging, and important memoir." —Library Journal...

AD 1440, Brittany. Scores of children have gone missing from the countryside. The commoners know who is to blame. But they dare not speak up, for they suspect their very own lord, the Marshal of France and Lieutenant-General of Brittany, the Baron Gilles de Rais. As Richard investigates the monstrous crimes, he is haunted by the recent crushing defeats at the hands of Joan of Arc. But what is the strange connection between the Maiden of Orleans and...

Aboard the battleship the USS Utah with their Navy pilot fathers during WWII when the ship is attacked by the Japanese, Frank and Stanley find their friendship--and dreams--in jeopardy when Stanley is seen as the "enemy" because his mother is Japanese American.

World War II tail gunner Gene Moran fell four miles through the sky without a parachute and lived. Captured by the Germans, he survived a harrowing eighteen months as a prisoner of war. When Gene returned home, he kept those memories locked up for nearly seventy years. His children knew little of their dad's war story. But when John, a young history teacher, learns of Gene's amazing fall, he's desperate to learn more. Finally, Gene agrees. So begins...

Part murder mystery, part courtroom drama, this gripping true account of the only mutiny in U.S. Navy history follows Commander Alexander Slidell Mackenzie who, while leading a training cruise, ended the lives of three innocent young men and was put on trial for his own life.