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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorPicture Maker
Penina Keen Spinka · 497 pages
Picture Maker is gifted with the ability to etch drawings that foreshadow the future. A towering saga of adventure and survival, love and loss. Picture Maker brings the 14th century to life...from the Iroquois Wars that marked a land forever, to the Norse Invasions, and through the bloody rise of Christianity, it is a stunning achievement from an award winning historical writer.
People of the Wolf
W. Michael Gear, Kathleen O'Neal Gear · 435 pages
As the Ice Age comes to an end, the climate is changing and game is scarce. Led by a youg shaman who receives a Dream from the spirit of the Wolf, a handful of courageous men and women dare to cross the fragile land bridge linking the Eurasian continent to the Americas to find an untouched, unspoiled continent. Set in what is now Alaska, this is the magnificent saga of the vision-filled man who le
The Mammoth Hunters
Jean M. Auel · 710 pages
Once again Jean M. Auel opens the door of a time long past to reveal an age of wonder and danger at the dawn of the modern human race. With all the consummate storytelling artistry and vivid authenticity she brought to The Clan of the Cave Bear and its sequel, The Valley of Horses, Jean M. Auel continues the breathtaking epic journey of the woman called Ayla. Riding Whinney with Jondalar, the m
The Revenant: A Novel of Revenge
Michael Punke · 291 pages
In this story of survival, Hugh Glass is an expert trapper and frontiersman. After being viciously mauled by a massive grizzly bear and abandoned and left for dead by his fellow trappers, Hugh is pushed to survive by one thing--revenge.
The Last Crossing
Guy Vanderhaeghe · 393 pages
Ordered by their father to find their missing brother, Englishmen Charles and Addington Gaunt set off to America, where guide Jerry Potts and a growing number of companions journey by wagon train and confront a number of personal demons.
The Last of the Mohicans
James Fenimore Cooper · 240 pages
In 1757, the third year of the French and Indian War, Hawkeye, a colonial scout, and his friends, Chingachkook, a chief of the Mohicans, and his son Uncas risk their lives to guide two English sisters through hostile territory and evade the evil Huron, Magua, who is determined to destroy them.
Sacajawea
Anna Lee Waldo · 1,424 pages
Lonely on the Mountain
Louis L'Amour · 194 pages
The rare letters Tell Sackett received always had trouble inside. And the terse note from his cousin Logan is no exception. Logan faces starvation or a hanging if Tell can’t drive a herd of cattle from Kansas to British Columbia before winter. To get to Logan, he must brave prairie fires, buffalo stampedes, and Sioux war parties. But worse trouble waits, for a mysterious enemy shadows Sackett’s ev
The Bronze Horseman
Paullina Simons · 637 pages
E-book exclusive: The author's tribute to her grandparents, survivors of Russia's twentieth century.An unforgettable epic of passion, betrayal, and survival set against the shimmering beauty and brutal terror of 1941 war-torn Leningrad.From the author of the international bestseller Tully comes an epic tale of passion, betrayal, and survival in World War II Russia. Leningrad, 1941: The European wa
Mr. Tucket
Gary Paulsen · 166 pages
Fourteen-year-old Francis Tucket is heading west on the Oregon Trail with his family by wagon train. When he receives a rifle for his birthday, he is thrilled that he is being treated like an adult. But Francis lags behind to practice shooting and is captured by Pawnees. It will take wild horses, hostile tribes, and a mysterious one-armed mountain man named Mr. Grimes to help Francis become the ma
The Abominable
Dan Simmons · 663 pages
"A thrilling tale of high-altitude death and survival set on the snowy summits of Mount Everest, from the bestselling author of The Terror. It's 1924 and the race to summit the world's highest mountain has been brought to a terrified pause by the shocking disappearance of George Mallory and Sandy Irvine high on the shoulder of Mt. Everest. By the following year, three climbers -- a British poet an
Forge
Laurie Halse Anderson · 320 pages
Separated from his friend Isabel after their daring escape from slavery, fifteen-year-old Curzon serves as a free man in the Continental Army at Valley Forge until he and Isabel are thrown together again, as slaves once more.
People of the Silence
Kathleen O'Neal Gear, W. Michael Gear · 568 pages
By A.D. 1150 the Anasazi had created an empire in the Southwest that would never again be equalled in North America. Master astronomers, traders, and architects, they built extraordinary roads linking thousands of square miles. Their Great Houses stood five stories tall and contained hundreds of rooms. Yet at the height of their civilization, cataclysm struck; the Anasazi began to destroy themselv
The Son
Philipp Meyer · 561 pages
Part epic of Texas, part classic coming-of-age story, part unflinching portrait of the bloody price of power, this is a novel that maps the legacy of violence in the American West through the lives of the McCulloughs, an ambitious family as resilient and dangerous as the land they claim. Spring, 1849. Eli McCullough is thirteen years old when a marauding band of Comanches takes him captive. Brave
Little House on the Prairie
Laura Ingalls Wilder · 335 pages
When Laura Ingalls and her family leave their little house in the Big Woods of Wisconsin, they head west for the open prairie skies of Kansas Territory. They travel for many days in their covered wagon until they find the perfect spot for Pa to build them a new home. Soon they are planting and plowing, hunting wild ducks and turkeys, and gathering grass for their cows. But just when they begin to
The Tenderness of Wolves
Stef Penney · 384 pages
1867. Winter has just tightened its grip on Dove River, an isolated settlement in Canada's Northern Territory, when a man is brutally murdered. A local woman, Mrs. Ross, stumbles upon the crime scene and sees tracks leading from the dead man's cabin north toward the forest and the tundra beyond. But soon she makes another discovery: her son has disappeared and is now considered a prime suspect. A
Ride the Wind
Lucia St. Clair Robson · 595 pages
A Comanche family adopts Cynthia Parker after kidnapping her in 1836, and she gradually becomes one of them, marrying her captor.
The Pearl Sister
Lucinda Riley · 510 pages
"From the breathtaking beaches of Thailand to the barely tamed wilds of colonial Australia, The Pearl Sister is the next captivating story in New York Times bestselling author Lucinda Riley's epic series about two women searching for a place to call home. CeCe D'Apliese has always felt like an outcast. But following the death of her father--the reclusive billionaire affectionately called Pa Salt b
Hell Is Empty
Craig Johnson · 312 pages
Transporting a confessed murderer only to learn that the man's crime falls under his jurisdiction and that the killer has escaped, Sheriff Walt Longmire taps insights from Indian mysticism and Dante's "Inferno" in a manhunt through the icy Cloud Peak Wilderness Area.
Soul of the World
David Mealing · 656 pages
These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901, Arizona Territories
Nancy E. Turner · 400 pages
A moving, exciting, and heartfelt American saga inspired by the author's own family memoirs, these words belong to Sarah Prine, a woman of spirit and fire who forges a full and remarkable existence in a harsh, unfamiliar frontier. Scrupulously recording her steps down the path Providence has set her upon—from child to determined young adult to loving mother—she shares the turbulent events, both jo