SUMMARY: It starts off simply enough. Jack is hired by Christy Pickering, whose 18-year-old daughter is dating sinister and shady Jerry Bethlehem, a man twice her age.  Christy neither likes nor trust...

Americans call the Second World War “The Good War.” But before it even began, America’s wartime ally Josef Stalin had killed millions of his own citizens—and kept killing them during and after the ...

EDITORIAL REVIEW: I used to think my sister and I were just two nice southern girls who'd get married in a few years and settle down to a quiet l...

Blood-Dark Track

From Publishers WeeklyThis spirited, dramatic history of the most important invention of the second millennium celebrates railroads as the central innovation of the industrial revolution, ...

SUMMARY:In a new Detective Inspector Horton mystery, Inspector Andy Horton's holiday peace is shattered when, stepping out across an abandoned golf course on the Isle of Wig...

SUMMARY: Todd Strasser is the author of such popular and diverse titles as the middle-grade series, "Help, I'm Trapped...," "The Wave," and the contemporary YAs, "Give a Boy a Gun" and "Boot Camp." Hi...

SUMMARY: Driven by the ghosts of the Darakyon, Achaeos has tracked the stolen Shadow Box to the marsh-town of Jerez, but he has only days before the magical box is lost to him forever. Meanwhile, the ...

SUMMARY: In a fantasy world as rich and real as our own, Richard Rahl and Kahlan Amnell stand against the ancient forces which besiege the New World - forces so terrible that when last they threatened...

SUMMARY: An epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expansion, Blood Meridianbrilliantly subverts the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the "wild ...