by Anita Mason (2008)
"1519. Shipwrecked on the tropical coast of Mexico, Geronimo is taken ashore by the natives. His life as a Spanish gentleman in the colonies is over. To survive in the new world, he must abandon everything he knows and learn to love as they do." "After ten years working the land as a slave in a culture centered on blood sacrifice to fantastical gods, he receives an astonishing message along with a bag of treasure with which to buy his freedom. Hernan Cortes has fled Cuba and wants Geronimo to join his voyage of exploration: the ship waits nearby." "Geronimo has eight days to decide if he will return to a life of old world customs long forgotten and a new adventure with his Spanish brothers. What he doesn't know is that Cortes' vision goes far beyond exploration: together with his beautiful mistress and interpreter, Marina, he will stop at nothing to find the rumoured empire of gold." "Actions paced and evocative, The Right Hand of the Sun is a majestic tale of political manipulation, destruction and love, and an elegiac story of the end of one of the greatest empires on earth."--Jacket.
Gloria Whelan
In Japan, as a provincial governor, his wife, and daughter Yuki, followed by 1,000 attendants, travel the historic Tokaido Road to the Shogun's palace in Edo, Yuki keeps up with her lessons by writing poems describing the journey.
Judy Nunn
This legendary story of disaster and depravity is told in alternating chapters with the story of the Galloway family, station owners, and the story of Darwin itself, from the day it was bombed by Japanese fighter planes during WW2 and nearly flattened, to that extraordinary Christmas Day in 1974 when Darwin was again devastated by 'fury from the sky': this time in the form of Cyclone Tracy. Following the course of a priceless 16th century locket and the fortunes of the Galloway clan, Judy Nunn tells a breathtaking story of disaster, courage and passion and that Top End spirit that never says die.
Lynne Hansen
Twentieth-century teenager Mindy Gold, seventeenth-century minister Jonathan Hartthorne, and twenty-second-century "time cop" Jasper time travel to 1775 Philadelphia, where they face rabble-rousing Whigs, smallpox outbreaks, and carnivorous pigs as they search for an alien and its captive.
Caroline Lawrence
In 80 A.D., ten-year-old Roman sleuth Flavia and her friends sail from Corinth to Rhodes to try to stop a mysterious man who is kidnapping children and selling them into slavery.