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The Awakening

The Awakening


Jude Deveraux



About the Author Jude Deveraux is the author of forty-one New York Times bestsellers, including MOONLIGHT IN THE MOR...
The Devil Who Tamed Her

The Devil Who Tamed Her


Johanna Lindsey



From Ophelia Reid may be the most beautiful woman in England, but she is also the most ill-tempered and self-centered. A...
The Duchess

The Duchess


Jude Deveraux



From Publishers Weekly Mutual deception lies at the heart of this agreeable romp set in 1883 Scotland. American money (Cl...
The Heiress

The Heiress


Jude Deveraux



From Publishers Weekly No one is richer than the Maidenhall heiress. Miserly merchant Perkin Maidenhall is to Elizabethan...
The Maiden

The Maiden


Jude Deveraux



About the Author Jude Deveraux is the author of forty-one New York Times bestsellers, including MOONLIGHT IN THE MOR...
The Princess

The Princess


Jude Deveraux



About the Author Jude Deveraux is the author of forty-one New York Times bestsellers, including MOONLIGHT IN THE MOR...
The Temptress

The Temptress


Jude Deveraux



About the Author Jude Deveraux is the author of forty-one New York Times bestsellers, including MOONLIGHT IN THE MOR...
The Velvet Promise

The Velvet Promise


Jude Deveraux



About the Author Jude Deveraux is the author of forty-one New York Times bestsellers, including MOONLIGHT IN THE MOR...
Velvet Angel

Velvet Angel


Jude Deveraux



About the Author Jude Deveraux is the author of forty-one New York Times bestsellers, including MOONLIGHT IN THE MOR...
The War of the End of the World

The War of the End of the World


Mario Vargas Llosa



Review "A modern tragedy on the grand scale . . . As dark as spilled blood."--Salman Rushdie, The New Republic"A vast, fant...
I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive

I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive


Steve Earle



Amazon.com Review : Steve Earle's heartbreaking debut novel features a morphine addict who performs illegal abortions, a ...
Keewaydinoquay, Stories from My Youth

Keewaydinoquay, Stories from My Youth


Keewaydinoquay Peschel, Lee Boisvert



Keewaydinoquay, Stories from My Youth...
An American Girl, and Her Four Years in a Boys' College

An American Girl, and Her Four Years in a Boys' College


Olive San Louie Anderson



An American Girl, and Her Four Years in a Boys' College...
London: The Novel

London: The Novel


Edward Rutherfurd



Amazon.com Review Edward Rutherfurd belongs to the James Michener school: he writes big, sprawling history-by- the-pound...
The Letters of Heloise and Abelard: A Translation of Their Collected Correspondence and Related Writings (The New Middle Ages)

The Letters of Heloise and Abelard: A Translation of Their Collected Correspondence and Related Writings (The New Middle Ages)


Bonnie Wheeler, Mary Martin Mclaughlin



Review “Heloise and Abelard have been extraordinarily well served by this latest translation of their celebrated c...
Inventors & Inventions (Great Lives from History)

Inventors & Inventions (Great Lives from History)


Alvin K. Benson



From This addition to the Great Lives series offers 409 essays covering significant inventors (27 of them female) worldw...
The Feast of the Goat

The Feast of the Goat


Edith Grossman, Mario Vargas Llosa



Amazon.com Review Mario Vargas Llosa, a former candidate for the presidency of Peru, is better placed than most novelists...
In his own right: the political odyssey of Senator Robert F. Kennedy

In his own right: the political odyssey of Senator Robert F. Kennedy


Joseph A. Palermo



From Publishers Weekly During the last years of his life from his Senate election in 1964 to his murder in 1968 Robert F....
How to Abduct a Highland Lord

How to Abduct a Highland Lord


Karen Hawkins



Review "Fun, sexy, and delightful!" -- Victoria Alexander About the Author Karen Hawkins is the USA Today bestse...
More than a Mistress

More than a Mistress


Mary Balogh



From Publishers Weekly In her assured hardcover debut, Balogh (One Night for Love) serves up two Regency-era characters d...
The Kommandant's Girl

The Kommandant's Girl


Pam Jenoff



From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. With luminous simplicity, Jenoff's breathtaking debut chronicles the life of a you...
Red Sky in Morning: A Novel of World War II

Red Sky in Morning: A Novel of World War II


Patrick Culhane



From Genre renaissance man Max Allan Collins is wearing a new hat these days as Patrick Culhane, author of adventure-cri...
Minister to the Cherokees: a Civil War autobiography

Minister to the Cherokees: a Civil War autobiography


Barbara Lee Cloud, James Anderson Slover



Review "An interesting and useful primary source, particularly for its account of his work among the Cherokees and homest...
Frontiersman: Daniel Boone and the Making of America (Southern Biography Series)

Frontiersman: Daniel Boone and the Making of America (Southern Biography Series)


Meredith Mason Brown



From Publishers Weekly This is the fourth biography of Boone since 1992—it's the most readable and balanced, and, ...
Just Imagine

Just Imagine


Susan Elizabeth Phillips



Amazon.com Review With the Civil War over, Kit Weston, a.k.a. Katherine Louise of Risen Glory Plantation, South Carolin...
Five Fists Of Science

Five Fists Of Science


Matt Fraction, Steven Sanders



Five Fists Of Science...
The Eden Hunter

The Eden Hunter


Skip Horack



From Publishers Weekly Louisiana-born Horack's novel (after The Southern Cross collection) offers a stylish, fast-paced, ...
Five Past Midnight

Five Past Midnight


James Thayer



Amazon.com Review It's remarkable that practicing lawyers such as Seattle's James Thayer find the time, not to mention t...
Principles of Sedimentology and Stratigraphy

Principles of Sedimentology and Stratigraphy


Sam Boggs



From the Publisher A concise treatment of the fundamental principles of sedimentology and stratigraphy, including the pro...
Eternity

Eternity


Jude Deveraux



About the Author Jude Deveraux is the author of forty-one New York Times bestsellers, including MOONLIGHT IN THE MOR...
Petty Magic: Being the Memoirs and Confessions of Miss Evelyn Harbinger, Temptress and Troublemaker

Petty Magic: Being the Memoirs and Confessions of Miss Evelyn Harbinger, Temptress and Troublemaker


Camille Deangelis



From Publishers Weekly Readers who endure the extensive Lake Wobegon–style exposition that launches DeAngelis's se...
Cockroach

Cockroach


Rawi Hage



From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. With a surprising degree of humor, Hage's second novel (after IMPAC Dublin-winner ...
Wild Ginger

Wild Ginger


Anchee Min



From Publishers Weekly A happy ending is relative to what precedes it in this case, it stands in contrast to a horrific, ...
Becoming Madame Mao

Becoming Madame Mao


Anchee Min



Amazon.com Review Many writers have engaged in the project of rescuing female figures from history, but few have tackled...
The Last Empress

The Last Empress


Anchee Min



Amazon.com Review Power is a here-today, gone-tomorrow concept in Chinese history, especially for women. In her previous ...
Empress Orchid

Empress Orchid


Anchee Min



From Publishers Weekly Talk about story arc: poor girl from rural China auditions for a job as royal concubine, winds up ...
The Warsaw Anagrams

The Warsaw Anagrams


Richard Zimler



Review "A gripping, heartbreaking and beautiful thriller."     Simon Sebag-Montefiore"...
Acts of Faith

Acts of Faith


Philip Caputo



From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. Caputo's ambitious adventure novel, set against a backdrop of the Sudanese wars, m...
Spell of the Highlander

Spell of the Highlander


Karen Marie Moning



Review "This series just keeps getting better! Spell of the Highlander is the seventh of the Highlander books and is ever...
Two Spies and a General

Two Spies and a General


Richard Andrew Barrs



About the Author Since the age of 12, I have had a fascination with history. At first, my interest was directed toward Wo...
The Real Fidel Castro

The Real Fidel Castro


Leycester Coltman



Amazon.com Review Who is the real Fidel Castro? Some would characterize the longtime Cuban ruler as a ruthless dictator, ...
The Last Town on Earth

The Last Town on Earth


Thomas Mullen



Amazon.com Review Wow. This stunning book succeeds on so many different levels--as an engrossing story, a character study...
Red Azalea

Red Azalea


Anchee Min



From This is an honest and frightening memoir of growing up in Communist China during the Cultural Revolution of the 196...
Profiles in Humanity: The Battle for Peace, Freedom, Equality, and Human Rights

Profiles in Humanity: The Battle for Peace, Freedom, Equality, and Human Rights


Warren I. Cohen



From Publishers Weekly Cohen (America's Failing Empire) profiles a diverse group of reformers who risked everything to im...
Quatrain

Quatrain


John Medler



Quatrain...
Sir Francis Drake (Great Explorers)

Sir Francis Drake (Great Explorers)


William W. Lace



Sir Francis Drake (Great Explorers)...
The Nobel Peace Prize: What Nobel Really Wanted

The Nobel Peace Prize: What Nobel Really Wanted


Fredrik S. Heffermehl



Review "This highly original and well argued critical examination of the record of the Norwegian Nobel Committee represents...
Bismarck. A Life

Bismarck. A Life


Jonathan Steinberg



From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. For over two decades the study of Otto von Bismarck (1815–1898) has been str...