Harcourt Childrens Books. 04/01/1999. 181 pgs. In this story set in a futuristic Utopian society, a boy named Gemm is labeled a deviant. Viewed as a threat to his society, Gemm is told he must undergo a mysterious cure or both he and his twin sister will be "recycled." When Gemm chooses to take the cure, he is transported back in time to the year 1348--at the onset of the Black Plague. Gemm, now a Jewish 16-year-old named Johannes, finds himself living in Strasbourg, a town rife with anti-Semitism. As Gemm/Johannes struggles to preserve his religious faith, he must also confront the horrors of the plague. Originally published at $16.00 You save 94% off the cover price!

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Houghton Mifflin. 10/01/1998. 256 pgs. Originally published at $16.00 You save 94% off the cover price!

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Putnam Pub Group. 07/01/2001. Reissue. 389 pgs. A young woman in 14th-century France--a wet nurse in a small town--devises an innovative way to keep her fellow townspeople alive during a siege by the English. This unusual novel, which is populated with dwarfs, murderers, witch-hunters, and corrupt priests, provides a piercingly realistic look at a particular society at a particular time in history. Originally published at $25.95 You save 96% off the cover price!

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Bantam Books. 09/01/1999. Reprint. This extraordinarily powerful and poignant time-travel novel won both the 1992 Nebula and the 1993 Hugo Awards. Academic politics, the Christmas holidays, and a devastating flu epidemic conspire to trap Kivrin, a mid-21st-century undergraduate Oxford historian, in 14th-century England during the outbreak of the bubonic plague. As the reader follows the parallel narratives of Kivrin's experiences in the past and of her mentor's attempts to locate and rescue her, it becomes clear that, even in the future, the ravaging effects of both disease and small-mindedness are difficult to defeat. Originally published at $7.99 You save 87% off the cover price!

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Lucent Books. 09/01/1989. Illustrated. 64 pgs. Originally published at $18.69 You save 95% off the cover price!

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Pub Group West. 03/01/2003. 214 pgs. This 1988 novel by a Welsh writer takes place during the 14th century, when the Black Plague swept Europe. Set in a poverty-stricken Welsh town that helplessly watches the plague advance, it also tells the parallel story of a young Egyptian who is traveling to Europe to seek revenge against an insult to his family. The two plot strands converge in an ironic ending in a novel that brings to life the complex canvas of the middle ages. Originally published at $19.95 You save 93% off the cover price!

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Berkley Pub Group. 06/01/2003. Reissue. 464 pgs. This novel about idealism and its attendant disappointments begins in the fifth century B.C.E., when a scholarly writer named Manlius devoted his life to upholding the ideals of civilization against creeping barbarism--a resolve that includes armed force. The story continues into the 14th century, during the time of the Black Plague, when an agent seeking out ancient manuscripts for Pope Clement VI (of the Avignon Papacy) comes across Manlius's Neoplatonist manuscript ("The Dream of Scipio"), and inspired by his own high ideals tries to circumvent another plague, that of anti-Semitism. Finally, a historian in occupied France during World War II who has studied Manlius's manuscript is forced to work as a censor for the Germans. Each of these three sections also includes a love story, and each is a subtle illustration of Plato's ideas about harmony and order. Originally published at $14.00 You save 86% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 10/17/2006. 320 pgs. Physicist Sharon Nagy and her mathematician boyfriend Tom Schwoerin uncover evidence of an alien crash-landing in Germany during the 14th-century Black Death. Originally published at $25.95 You save 93% off the cover price!

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