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Arthur Cathcart, market researcher and occasional finder of missing persons, had it all; life was good. Then in seconds, it was all gone. The world thought he was dead.

In the year 1348, Tomas, a disgraced knight, comes upon a girl orphaned by the Black Plague who tells him that the disease is only part of a greater cataclysm--that the fallen angels under Lucifer

Caterina Pellegrini is a native Venetian, and like so many of them, she's had to leave home to pursue her career elsewhere, mostly abroad.

Robert Macfarlane sets off from his Cambridge home to follow the ancient tracks, drove roads, and sea paths that crisscross the British landscape and its territories beyond.

Charlie Chaplin comes to life in this astonishing rags-to-riches saga of an irrepressible kid whose childhood was dealt from the bottom of the deck.

Wren MacAvoy works as a coal miner for a domed city once constructed to protect Earth's collision with a comet. But centuries later, society has become complacent even while the coal runs out.

As a fourteen-year-old, he was Malcolm Little, the president of his class and a top student. At sixteen, he was hustling tips at a Boston nightclub.

Private goes on the hunt for London's most feared killer since Jack the Ripper.

Peg Kehret shares the true story about when she was twelve and stricken with polio.

Set at a moment of profound artistic, cultural, and societal change--Paris in 1878--The Painted Girls is ultimately a tale of two remarkable girls rendered uniquely vulnerable to the darker impulse

Skewering everything from parenting values to pretentious menus to political convictions, this novel reveals the dark side of genteel society and asks what each of us would do in the face of unimag

Hannah Sugarman seems to have it all.

In 1943 a twenty-one-year-old novice pilot found himself in the sights of an ace German fighter pilot.

The Spanish conquest of the Americas in the sixteenth century was one of the most important and cataclysmic events in history.

When they found a dead man on the moon, clad in a red spacesuit and hidden in a rocky grave, they didn't know who he was, how he got there, or what had killed him.