Aymond was captured at the age of five by comanches, taken by raiding Apaches at eight and rescued unwillingly at twelve by US troopers. Placed in the care of Doc Bearman, a physician living in Lizard Sands, Texas, he is later sent to the University of Virginia. While returning home, Aymond comes upon the scene of a bloody massacre made to look like the work of Indians. Aymonds knows better and with the help of a young survivor sets out to bring ...

"FAST-PACED . . . PIERCY BREATHES LIFE INTO THE ACTUAL HISTORICAL FIGURES WHO SHAPED THE REVOLUTION."<BR>--San Francisco Examiner & Chronicle <BR>In her most splendid, thought-provoking novel yet, Marge Piercy brings to vibrant life three women who play prominent roles in the tumultuous, bloody French Revolution--as well as their more famous male counterparts. <BR>Defiantly independent Claire Lacombe tests her theory: if ...

Nineteen-year-old Oliver Huggins is in for the tutorial of his life. For twelve afternoons, Claire St. John, a beguiling British graduate student, will reveal to him the untold story of American Constitutional history. Her message: that the Constitution was illegally written, and that its authors' inability to agree on a name for the republic muddied the document's meaning for decades to come.<P>Through these "tutorials", de Grazia also ...

"In a powerful second novel, Maureen Earl puts a new and fascinating twist on an old story: the Holocaust as experienced by a boatload of Jewish refugees who are refused entrance to Palestine and are imprisoned by the British on the tropical island of Mauritius. Her clean, flowing style and expert storytelling turn what could have been just another grim historical footnote into an extremely readable and ultimately moving novel". -- New York Times ...

French writer Roger Grenier's stunning novel tells of a group of friends in the southwest of France whose lives are forever changed by the German Occupation. The moral failings of one of them, Charles Merlin, which at first seem trivial and personal, assume more sinister dimensions when he collaborates with the Nazis. The narrator of the novel, a member of the resistance, watches Charles's decline and gains a poignant education in his own ...

The story of America's first white woman to travel the Santa Fe Trail from Independence, Missouri, to Chihuahua, Mexico - a distance of 1,300 miles. ...

A turbulent relationship between rich and poor counterpoints the epic story of a great Midwestern city drifting towards decline and the chaos of the 60s. This sweeping novel of a star-crossed romance is by the author of "The Veracruz Blues". ...

Twelve stories from Israel's most respected writers confront the Holocaust in a collection of unusual passion and power, an affirmation of human courage and dignity. ...

Colorfully written, and rich in details of period costume, speech, food, customs, and more, this novel sweeps across Elizabethan England in a series of breathtaking adventures that takes the heroine from the action and spectacle of the Catholic-Huguenot Civil Wars to the horror of the Spanish Inquisition. ...

Powerful tale of rivalry and ambition, bitter hatred and enduring love, evoking the wealth and squalor of 18th century Glasgow. ...