A Secret Kept
by Tatiana de Rosnay | 
The Inquisitor
by Catherine Jinks | 
Panama
by Eric Zencey | 
The Blind Assassin
by Margaret Atwood | 
Alias Grace
by Margaret Atwood | 
A Northern Light
by Jennifer Donnelly | 
An Instance of the Fingerpost
by Iain Pears | 
Behind the Scenes at the Museum
by Kate Atkinson | 
Burial Rites
by Hannah Kent | 
The Buried Book
by D. M. Pulley | 
The Quincunx
by Charles Palliser | 
Doc
by Mary Doria Russell | 
The Luminaries
by Eleanor Catton | 
The Weight of Water
by Anita Shreve | 
Stone's Fall
by Iain Pears | 
The Forgotten Seamstress
by Liz Trenow | 
Tallgrass
by Sandra Dallas | 
The Persian Pickle Club
by Sandra Dallas | 
The Observations
by Jane Harris | 
An Acquaintance with Darkness
by Ann Rinaldi |
The only thing I felt was a strong hand around my neck, another around my waist, and -- before I could cry out -- I smelled the thick, sweet scent of a mandrake-soaked cloth. Unforgiving hands clapped it against my face, and all went dark. Alaïs, the king of France's sister, is abducted while on her mission for the wily Eleanor of Aquitaine, the former Queen of England, to retrieve hidden letters that, in the wrong hands, could bring down the English king. In exchange, the French princess was to receive long-heldand dangerous information. Now Alaïs, along with help from the very intriguing leader of the Knights Templar, must unravel a tangled web of family secrets and lies. Filled with intrigue and peopled with compelling legendary figures, The Canterbury Papers is an "electrifying journey into the past" (Booklist).