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Commissario Guido Brunetti's hopes for a refreshing family holiday in the mountains are once again dashed when a gruesome discovery is made in Marghera.

On Lansdown Hill, near Bath, England, a battle between Roundheads and Cavaliers that took place over 350 years ago is annually reenacted.

From 1942 to 1944, twelve thousand children passed through the Theresienstadt internment camp on their way to Auschwitz. Only a few hundred of them survived the war.

James Patterson and Martin Dugard chronicle their quest to find out what happened to the boy-king.

Wayne Castine was found brutally murdered and the murderer remains at large.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

Dee Brown's meticulously documented account of the systematic destruction of the American Indian during the second half of the nineteenth century.

When the first Dutch Calvinist settlers arrived in South Africa, they believed that they had been chosen by God to rule over the world.

This National Book Award winning novel traces five days in the life of a man whose wife has recently left him for his best friend.

A truck crashes and spills its dangerous cargo on a treacherous road in the Italian Dolomite mountains.

The authors devoted five decades to the study of world history and philosophy, culminating in the masterful eleven-volume Story of Civilization.

A young marine in Vietnam has big ambitions to command a company, but two other soldiers stand in his way.

A young woman and her infant child are ruthlessly gunned down while returning to their car in the garage of a shopping mall.

Kathleen Krull turns the spotlight on the women who have wielded power, revealing their feats--and flaws--for all the world to see.

On November 20, 1820, the whale ship Essex was rammed and sunk by an angry whale.