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A novel about the darker side of love by the bestselling author of A Wrinkle in Time and the Crosswicks Journals. From the moment Henry Porcher first sees Ilsa Brandes, he worships her.

McPherson recounts how the Union navy's blockade of the Confederate coast, leaky as a sieve in the war's early months, became increasingly effective as it choked off vital imports and exp

The collected nonfiction of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Ironweed: "A great pleasure to read no matter what the subject" (Library Journal).

The firsthand account of the life of adventurer, scholar, war hero, and twenty-sixth president of the United States Theodore Roosevelt.There must be the keenest sense of duty, and with it must go t

The classic memoir of one of the Progressive Era's most important reformers and social activists.

Surviving a vicious massacre, the Aboriginal boy, Mandawuy is the last of his tribe.

Booker T. Washington's classic memoir of enslavement, emancipation, and community advancement in the Reconstruction Era.

Edgar Award Finalist: The "sensational" true story of two desperate housewives and the killing that shocked a Texas community (Los Angeles Times Book Review).

The horrifying account of the Charles Stuart case, in which ambition drove a man to murder his pregnant wife-and blame a fictitious African-American killer.

The true account of the man who murdered his family in their New Jersey mansion-and eluded a nationwide manhunt for eighteen years.

A rare antique draws Denver detective C. J. Floyd into a plot of murder, greed, and a mystery rooted in nineteenth-century Utah.

Denver-based detective C. J. Floyd discovers a government conspiracy when a Vietnam vet who went missing in action reappears after thirty-four years.

A drug dealer turned informant navigates New York's underworld in a tale that "maintains tension" from an Edgar Award finalist (The New York Times Book Review).

A collection of novellas and stories from Shamus Award winner Ken Bruen, author of the Jack Taylor series and the "godfather of the modern Irish crime novel" (The Irish Times).

From "the mistress of day-lit terror": A couple invites two indigent women into their Hollywood home-and lives to regret it (The New York Times).