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An exhilarating search to recover the greatest work of art plundered during World War II. The gripping sequel to Florian's Gate.

Lucan has been orphaned and Zosine has been deserted, and London is a hostile place for two young girls without a home.

Kobo Abe, the internationally acclaimed author of Woman in the Dunes, combines wildly imaginative fantasies and naturalistic prose to create narratives reminiscent of the work of Kafka and Beckett.

Newspaper, magazine, and web editors are desperate for new voices, and anyone in any field can break in. So why not you?

A cat may look at a king, says an old proverb.

The Cave Painters is a vivid introduction to the spectacular cave paintings of France and Spain-the individuals who rediscovered them, theories about their origins, their splendor and mystery.

Competition for church members in Mount Oak has reached a furious peak. When tragedy strikes one of their hometown sons, the church women are drawn together through compassion.

A New York Times Notable Book. "A rich, seductive meld of characters real and fictive, of history and fancy." -New York Times Book Review.

While FBI Agent David Nadolski risked his career, his informant, Anthony Romano, risked his life to quash one of the biggest armed robberies of the twentieth century.

On September 5, 2003, illusionist David Blaine entered a small Perspex box adjacent to London’s Thames River and began starving himself.

Clara Gutierrez is an AI repair technician and a wanderer.

The war between the Heike and Genji clans in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries is among the most compelling and significant moments in Japan's history, immortalized in The Tale of the Heike

The birth of Dolly—the world's first clone—placed in our hands the secret of creation.

Unraveling a twenty-five-year tale of multiple murder and medical deception, The Death of Innocents is a work of first-rate journalism told with the compelling narrative drive of a mystery novel.

One of the great German writers of the 20th century draws from his own life to present a "brave, fearless, and honest" tale of one man's dark descent into depression and alcoholism (