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Young Georg Rauch helped his mother hide dozens of Jews from the Nazis, but then came the day he was shipped out to fight on the Eastern front as part of the German infantry--in spite of his own Je

Master Sergeant Reed Beckham and Dr. Kate Lovato race to save humanity.

Martin Terrier is a hired killer who wants out of the game so he can settle down and marry his childhood sweetheart. After all, that's why he took up this profession.

All Francis Falbo has left is his childhood home, whose remaining rooms he rents to a cast of eccentric tenants.

Naples, 1932. At the high-class brothel in the center of town known as Paradiso, Viper, the most famous prostitute of all, is found dead after being suffocated with a pillow.

Tells the story of Edward VIII and his wife, Wallis Simpson, whose affair with Joachim von Ribbentrop embroiled the duke in a German plot to use him as a puppet king.

Assassination by drone is a subject of enduring fascination, yet few understand why it has become our principal way of waging war.

This volume chronicles the history of European civilization from 1648 to 1715.

Peter Ackroyd, one of Britain's most acclaimed writers, brings the age of the Tudors to vivid life in this monumental book in his History of England series, charting the course of English history f

Inspector Montalbano is stumped when two bombs explode outside empty warehouses, one of which is connected to a big-time drug dealer.

After her friend fatally stabbed his ex-girlfriend due to what psychiatrists later dubbed an acute psychotic break, Amy Butcher became obsessed with finding an explanation for the crime.

At the dusk of the twenty-first century, the splintery metaconsciousness of the solar system sometimes spams Earth's networks with plans for disastrously disruptive technologies.

From the bestselling author of Flags of Our Fathers, this spellbinding history of turbulent US-China relations from the nineteenth century to World War II and Mao's ascent explores a difficult cent

Left penniless after the death of her father, Amaryllis Duvane is forced to work as a servant in the home of her wealthy relations.

This collection of five stories set in "the Spookiest Town in America" includes "Long Way Home," "Mister Pockets," "Property Condemned," "Whistlin' past the Graveyard," and the new story "The Troub