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On January 17, 1913, Douglas Mawson, leader of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, was alone and near starvation--and one hundred miles from base camp.

Fourteen-year-old Carey and six-year-old Jenessa have lived in the woods with their mother for as long as they can remember.

In a devastated Europe at the end of World War II, the improbable relationship between fallen tyrant Hermann Göring and rising US Army physician Douglas Kelley becomes a hazardous quest into the n

They were the original power couple--outlandishly rich, impossibly attractive, and endlessly fascinating.

Pearl Petal and Ben Silverstein can't wait for their first official day as apprentices of Dr. Woo, veterinarian for imaginary creatures.

Mickey Haller gets the text, "Call me ASAP - 187," and the California penal code for murder immediately gets his attention.

Middle schooler Jamie Grimm dreams of being the best stand-up comic in the world-despite being in a wheelchair.

Sisters Rae and Sam grew up in the long shadow of their lawyer father. Estranged from her family, Rae now has a high-flying corporate law career in Atlanta.

Twenty-eight years ago, Charlotte and Samantha Quinn's happy small-town family life was torn apart by a terrifying attack on their family home. It left their mother dead.

Andrea Cooper thinks she knows everything about her mother, Laura.

Detectives Zach Jordan and Kylie McDonald, members of the elite task force known as NYPD Red, arrive at a crime scene in Central park to find the fourth victim in a string of brutal murders.

In 2006, Howard G. Buffett set out to help the most vulnerable people on Earth--nearly a billion individuals who lack basic food security.

Each the subject of innumerable biographies, Generals Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee have never before been paired as they are here. William C.

Human rights activist Lisa Shannon weaves together the stories of one family's tragic encounters with Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army in the Congo with tales from the family's rich and vibrant

Long ago, dragons were hunted to near extinction by the Order of St. George, a legendary society of dragon slayers.