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From the accession of the thrillingly unappealing James VI & I to his hapless heir, Charles I, to the ruthless Oliver Cromwell, Peter Ackroyd tells the story of the turbulent seventeenth centur

When four crewmen die in an explosion launching the Mars Transit Vehicle, the US decides to kill the manned mission to Mars. Tycoon John Axelrod decides to fund the project himself ...

Thirteen-year-old Meg envies her older sister Molly's beauty and popularity. Things get even more complicated the day Molly is rushed to the hospital. That's the day Meg's life changes forever.

Glamorous reporter Crystal French blows into Lochdubh and is promptly given a speeding ticket by Constable Hamish Macbeth. She then rakes up old local scandals, outraging the entire village.

In this volume, Will and Ariel Durant explore Europe's bumpy road toward the Enlightenment.

The "first" Afghan War was directed by Robert Grenier, the CIA station chief in Islamabad.

A bold English adventurer; an invincible Japanese warlord; a beautiful woman torn between two ways of life, two ways of love--all brought together in an extraordinary saga of a time and a place afl

In the next century, the United States and Russia have joined forces to form the International Peacekeeping Force.

From the acclaimed author of the international bestseller Einstein's Dreams comes a lyrical memoir of Memphis from the 1930s through the 1960s: the music and the racism, the early days of the movie

Master Sergeant Reed Beckham and his Delta Force Team, codenamed Ghost, are called in when a top secret Medical Corps research facility goes dark.

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.