Kategoria BISAC: Fiction >> Historical - General

With the opening of Tony's West End theatre and a growing family, Tony and Geneva embrace the life they have long awaited. Yet for Tony, trouble emerges when his former mother-in-law contacts him, claiming that he is in possession of some missing jewels that belong to her. Did Tony's mentally unbalanced late wife position her mother to extort money from him?

In 1942, as war rages in Europe,...

As The Europeans opens, Eugenia and Felix, the -Europeans- of the title, are in Boston. Recently her marriage to a German prince has come apart, and she and her brother Felix are visiting relatives in the countryside near Boston, looking to arrange a wealthy second marriage for Eugenia. It's a satire on a certain level -- a masterly short novel (well, short for James) that shows what Rebecca West calles James's -clear sunlit charm-; for good reason it's become one of James's most popular novels.

A story of a boy growing up who is not afraid to love boys but who is also beginning to discover girls. Opportunities for adventures abound and are grasped with both hands - sailing in the Irish Sea - climbing mountains and saving maidens - playing cricket for Ireland - fighting French boys at a truly hilarious tennis tournament - student jobs in East Anglia - teaching tragic young Corbin to live and love again - London in the swinging sixties - the nudist and gay beaches of Mykonos; and there there is another David, a black boy who has been kidnapped by a...

"Metempsychosis" refers to the passing of the soul at death into another body, either human or animal. At its most basic, it refers to reincarnation, but the theory of past lives can have overwhelming consequences- especially when memories of these past lives seep into the life we currently live. Just ask a modern day, middle-aged New Mexico gentleman whose dreams threaten his reality.

According to his dreams, this unassuming man was once a printer in seventeenth century Paris and then a United States senator. Prior to both of these lives, he was an Anasazi sun priest in the eleventh...