This coming-of-age story features an aspiring singer-songwriter, a Trobairitz, from Provence in the 12th century.

“You should be grateful, my girl. You have no dowry, and I am doing everything I can to get you settled. You are hardly any man’s dream.” Alina’s brother Milos pulled his face into a perfect copy of Aunt Marci’s sour expression, primly pursing his mouth. He got her querulous tone just right.

Maybe Alina’s aunt was right. She could not possibly hope to become a musician, a trobairitz—impoverished as she was and without the status of a good marriage. But Alina refuses to accept the life her aunt wants to impose on her. At the first opportunity, she and her brother embark on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land to pray for their father’s soul and to escape from their aunt and uncle’s strictures. Their journey east takes them through the Byzantine Empire all the way to Jerusalem, where Alina is embroiled in political intrigue, theft, and murder.

John Kelly and Margaret Marrey were politically active Irish crafts persons in the shoe and weaving trades. they were optimistic that new leaders in London were on a path to freedom for Ireland. Instead, the winds of English politics shifted against them. In the dead of night, John fled the country to avoid prison. Margaret was stuck in Drogheda by the restrictions Victorian society placed on women. She resisted and persevered. Their love survived fifteen months of separation. They were married for the rest of their live, and made their dreams come true in America.

In the midst of a war that has torn families and loyalties apart, seventeen-year-old Annabelle finds herself facing battles of her own. With her father away fighting for the Confederacy, she steps up to help her mother and younger siblings run their struggling plantation, all while grappling with the ever-present fear that life as she knows it may soon crumble.
One fateful day, she stumbles upon a wounded Union soldier, Eli, barely clinging to life. Despite everything she’s been told about the enemy, her heart won’t let her turn away. Hiding him in the barn, she and her family nurse him back to health, forging an unlikely bond. As the days pass, her guarded heart begins to soften, and she soon finds herself questioning everything she once believed.
But in a world divided by war, love can be just as dangerous as the battlefield. When secrets become impossible to keep, Annabelle must choose between the life she’s always known and the one her heart longs for.

In a quiet Southern mill town at the turn of the twentieth century, young girls spin, stitch, and sort from dawn until long past dark. Their names aren’t recorded. Their stories aren’t kept. Until one day, a girl dares to write down the name of someone who should never have been forgotten.

What begins as a single stitched name becomes a secret circle of remembrance; girls keeping ledger books of those who fall, those who vanish, and those who are still standing. But memory alone isn’t enough. As the thread of truth winds from one mill to the next, women across the South begin to listen. And once the names are spoken, change follows.

The old ways are dying, and a mighty empire is reaching out across the sea.
Britannia, 42AD. The wild island at the fringe of the known world is in chaos.

Cunobelin, High King of the Britons, is dead. His heirs, warrior princes Togodubnos and Caratacos, have spurned the careful alliances that kept the irresistible might of the Roman Empire from Britannia’s shores for so long.

In this land of warriors, druids and kings, riven by conflict, orphan boy Cullen must fight for survival within a tribe he despises. Captured by the Catuvellauni after a brutal raid on his own Atrebates tribe, he must find his purpose swiftly if he is to avoid the murderous attentions of the chief druid.

As the Britons turn inward, jostling for dominion, avaricious eyes look on from across the Narrow Sea. The mighty legions gather…

This is the epic story of Britain on the cusp of the Roman conquest, of a clash of civilisations and the last cries of resistance from a doomed way of life.

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It’s 1878 and Eva Carmichael is excited to begin her new life in Australia. Her parents and five of her siblings are with her on board the Loch Ard from London, which after three months at sea is just one day’s sail from Melbourne. But late into that last night, the Loch Ard strikes rocks and sinks and all perish except Eva and a midshipman, Tom Pearce. These teenagers face a gritty struggle for survival on the wreckage-strewn shore of a remote gorge. Yet, after a dramatic rescue by a local farmer, the two young people find they must then tackle grief and growth as overnight they become inspirational but unwilling heroes across Australia and around the world.

Some stories are lost to the ravages of time… this one will not be

Emelin Lambert is an eleven-year-old orphan in medieval England, who has an incredible gift in illuminating manuscripts. She's also quick-witted, mouthy, and nearly always in trouble.

One terrible day, her last relative is killed and Emelin ends up being in possession of a manuscript that belongs to Geoffrey Chaucer. She cannot stay safely in her home with the manuscript so she begins a grim wintery journey to what she hopes will be safety.

Along the way Emelin meets a boy named Wolf who rescues her from a violent thief. Together, Wolf and Emelin flee to Reading Abbey.

The journey makes Wolf deathly ill and Emelin learns that she cannot always depend on others. She will have to fight alone, so she battles the adult world, and she battles fear. She puts her gift to work with the hope that her skills might help her and Wolf survive.

In 1898, Elliot is 12 when his friend Isaac gives him Alice’s old book. But Alice is dead and, when Elliot opens the book, he finds notes and drawings that Alice has pencilled in around the margins. Isaac says the marks are just scribbles but Elliot’s curiosity is triggered and he wonders if they’re actually clues. Step by step, Elliot unravels Alice’s notes. He doesn’t know what they’re pointing at until he’s caught up in a battle against the Coopers who are on a mission to cheat Isaac’s and Alice’s families of their properties near the Hawkesbury River in NSW. But there’s another battle going on too, inside Elliot, and it becomes a challenge he was not prepared to face again.

In April 1975, Saigon was a dangerous place. US forces had left Vietnam two years prior, and the northern and southern governments were functioning as two countries following the Paris Peace Accords of 1973. But by early 1975, communist forces had begun making their way southward to depose the S. Vietnamese government and "unify" the country. Knowing his family could face execution if they stayed, Chau Nguyen, a Lt Col and S. Vietnamese C-130 pilot, hatched a daring plan to save his family - his wife, Mai and their two children, Mai's parents, and her three younger brothers. Uncommon Cargo is based on the true story of the Nguyen family's race to escape South Vietnam and reach freedom. It would not be without heartache, tragedy, and despair but it is also a story of love, strength of family, and determination. Much has been written about the American war experience in Vietnam, but little chronicles the lives of the families who survived it. Uncommon Cargo is the story of one that did.

A young woman in Edwardian England is expected to behave with propriety, especially if she is the daughter of a vicar. But Harriet Loxley’s family is not as staid as you might imagine and when Harriet leaves Nottingham for London to pursue her studies it is with her family’s support. What she doesn’t tell them is that she also intends to seek out the Women’s Social and Political Union and the notorious Christabel Pankhurst.

Harriet’s fight for the vote plays out against the background of her family’s ups and downs in the Nottingham lace industry and her own struggle to realize her potential in a society that sets limits on women.

‘A smartly plotted historical novel offering an intriguing insight into the Suffragette movement and what they were fighting for. Highly recommended!’ – The Wishing Shelf

Sir Francis Burdett, the 5th Baronet of Bramcote, has, for the most part, been forgotten by history. He was a member of the English House of Commons for 48 years, from 1796 to his death. For most of his career in Parliament, he was a “radical reformer” and the champion of the Westminster rabble that he represented. In addition to parliamentary reform, he championed free speech, prison reform, the Catholic emancipation, and the elimination of flogging. He survived an affair with Lady Oxford, a duel with James Paull, and two prison sentences. For several days in 1810, there were riots (and deaths) in the streets of London, as the government attempted to imprison Sir Francis in the Tower of London. This may have been as close as the English ever came to a French-style Revolution. The book takes the form of “an interview with a dead man.” The answers, for the most part, reflect his letters and speeches -- on the hustings and in the House of Commons.

How significant is love? Is your life worth risking for it? John, a biracial Canadian lawyer living in the Victorian era, faces a difficult decision when he travels to Texas to settle his father's estate and encounters a woman named Virginia. Upon learning of his deceased grandfather's will, John Livingston defies his father's wishes and travels to Texas to sell the inherited plantation. In Texas, John rescues Virginia, a woman he meets, but their love is threatened by Harrison Connell, a plantation owner who wants her. John and Virginia's adventure to Canada is threatened by Harrison Connell's pursuit, leaving John to weigh the value of love against his life.