164円 At the end of the 16th century, Spain had already found its literary hero in Cervantes, whose Don Quixote was so profound that the language is sometimes referred to as la lengua de Cervantes ("the language of Cervantes"). Fittingly, Cervantes died on April 23, 1616, the very same day Shakespeare ...

777円 In this national bestseller from the author of Reservation Road, a young woman, Haruko, becomes the first nonaristocratic woman to penetrate the Japanese monarchy. When she marries the Crown Prince of Japan in 1959, Haruko is met with cruelty and suspicion by the Empress, and controlled at every ...

777円 An inventive and vibrant historical novel about the woman who dared to be the equal of the Bard of Avon. Dramatizing a marriage born of passion and strained by ambition, Arliss Ryan's fascinating historical novel chronicles a love affair for the ages, and the story of a woman who dares to fulfill...

179円 A Lady of Quality is a novel published in 1896 by Frances Hodgson Burnett that was the second highest best-selling book in the United States in 1896. It was the first of series of successful historical novels by Burnett. Bonus : - Dynamic Table of Contents - Biography - Optimized text for The Kob...

450円 Promised Valley Rebellion, the first book in the Promised Valley series of four novels by Ron Fritsch, is a story of forbidden love. The farmers' king refuses to allow the marriage of the coming-of-age prince to the daughter of the farmer who saved the king's life in the last war with the hunters...

827円 Plato’s metaphysical Atlantis mystery plays out on an archaeological dig on the island of Santorini. It was the chance of a lifetime. A dream job in the southern Aegean. Apprentice to the great archaeologist Marcus Huxley, lifting a golden civilisation from the dead... Yet trading rural England f...

450円 Dismilis Canyon is a sandstone gorge in Franklin County, Alabama. Dismals Canyon is one of only a few places where insects called dismalites (Orfelia fultoni, a distant relative of Arachnocampa) can be found. The larval forms of these flies emit a bright blue-green light to attract food and mates...

1,326円 Madeline Deveridge is aware of the whispers behind her back, the rumours that she dispatched her husband to the next world and concealed her crime. But she has a far more pressing problem than her reputation as the Wicked Widow. It's impossible to believe that her late husband is haunting her and...

900円 "Do not be afraid, Miriam, for you have found favor with Elohim." Miriam's head spun with the implications of this, of what this would mean for her life, of what this would mean for her people. She couldn't take it all in. But she'd have the rest of her life to learn how to deal with it, if she a...

1,657円 Set in the turbulent Middle East, The Third Temple is a suspenseful chronicle of the lives of an aviation family, seen through the eyes of several generations and spanning decades.----The novel begins in future Israel, on the verge of collapse, with a Canadian journalist searching for his estrang...

496円 The Story of Viga-Glum. Sir Edmund Head I HAVE heard the question asked, "What interest can attach to the language and literature of a small and remote island, the inhabitants of which never exceeded 60,000 in number?" The population of Iceland has always been insignificant, and its ter...

1,122円 Originally published in 1861, this early work by Charles Reade is both expensive and hard to find in its first edition. It tells the story of a young scribe's travels through Europe and deals with conflicts between family life and the church. This is a fascinating work and thoroughly recommended ...