The story of young Lord Merrik Haraldsson and Laren, a slave girl determined to buy her freedom the only way she knows how. But when she's accused of murder, he must protect her, t...
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. Benedict (_The Mormon Way of Doing Business_) has taken a complicated court case centered on eminent domain and turned it into a page-turner w...
SUMMARY: When one of her baristas unwittingly serves a poisonous latte to a prominent figure on the fashion scene, Clare Cosi must uncover some jolting secrets to save her shop.
SUMMARY:Simon Winchester, New York Times bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman, examines the legendary annihilation in 1883 of the volcano-island of Krakatoa, w...
SUMMARY: One of America's most powerful and thought-provoking novelists, #1 New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult brilliantly examines belief, miracles, and the complex co...
SUMMARY:Erix, a slave girl, is the only one to witness the arrival of a band of explorers and mercenaries, who under the banner of their god, Helm, are determined to conquer...
From Publishers WeeklyIn this enchanting first novel, Dilloway mines her own family's history to produce the story of Japanese war bride Shoko, her American daughter, Sue, and thei...
From BooklistEntomologist E. O. Wilson calls honeybees 'humanity's greatest friend among the insects.' Cornell professor and ardent beekeeper Seeley (The Wisdom of the Hive, 1995) ...
SUMMARY: A stroke of the pen and history is changed. In 1938, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, determined to avoid war at any cost, signed the Munich Accord, ceding part...