The third volume in The Lymond Chronicles, the highly renowned series of historical novels by Dorothy Dunnett, Disorderly Knights takes place in 1551, when Francis Crawford of Lymo...
Examines the human quest for knowledge and discoveries as it discusses such men as Galileo, Adam Smith, Columbus, Marx, Napoleon, Magellan, Faraday, Freud, Marco Polo, and St. Augu...
From Publishers WeeklyIn May 2001, 26 Mexican men scrambled across the border and into an area of the Arizona desert known as the Devil's Highway. Only 12 made it safely across. Am...
North Carolina Bounty Hunter is on the trail of a small time crook who's jumped his bail. What he doesn't know is that his quarry has graduated to murder--and not only the cops, bu...
EDITORIAL REVIEW: Portia Townsend once nursed an intense crush on her childhood playmate, Gareth Lowell, until he shattered her hopes of a future together and blindly treated her l...
From the acclaimed author of Knockemstiff—called “powerful, remarkable, exceptional” by the Los Angeles Times—comes a dark and riveting vision of America that delivers literary ...
Product DescriptionThomas knows that Wicked can't be trusted, but they say the time for lies is over, that they've collected all they can from the Trials and now must rely on the G...
Jedra lives in the streets, Kayan in the temple. When misfortune throws them together, they discover psionic power greater than almost any other on Athas, a power potent enough to ...
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. All most people know of the Crimean War is the charge of the Light Brigade, but this war was both global and modern, insists noted historian a...
The final installment in Penguin Classics's landmark H. G. Wells seriesAlthough best known for his novels, it was in his early short fiction that H. G. Wells first explored ...