SUMMARY:'He should have seen it coming. His life had been one mishap after another. So he should have been prepared for this one...' Julian Treslove, a professionally unspec...
Amazon.com ReviewIn The Fighting Agents, W.E.B. Griffin retells the story (previously told in Behind the Lines) of Wendell Fertig, a U.S. Army officer who promoted himsel...
From Publishers WeeklyA mixture of visionary progressivism and repugnant racism, Abraham Lincoln's attitude toward slavery is the most troubling aspect of his public life, one that...
SUMMARY:The Doctor finds himself transported back in time to a legendary lost island in the Pacific. There he encounters an expedition attempting to exploit the island's sin...
The Eternal Husband and Other Stories brings together five of Dostoevsky’s short masterpieces rendered into English by two of the most celebrated Dostoevsky translators of our time...
Product DescriptionTranslated with an Introduction by Andrew George. About the AuthorAndrew George is Reader in Assyriology at SOAS (the School of Oriential and Africa...
From Publishers WeeklyA Moorish slave cast out of her Spanish home by war, Awa is captured by a necromancer who forces her to learn his skills. When she eventually flees, she disco...
Product DescriptionEdinburgh 1827. In the starkly-lit operating theatres of the city, grisly experiments are being carried out on corpses in the name of medical science. But elsewh...
From Publishers WeeklyLouisiana-born Horack's novel (after The Southern Cross collection) offers a stylish, fast-paced, historical narrative based on an 1816 slave insurrection. Sp...
SUMMARY: In celebration of the 100th anniversary of Ayn Rand's birth, this newly revised collection of her early fiction ranges from works written from 1926 through 1940, and inclu...