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Bellona is a city at the center of the United States. Something has happened there … the population has fled. Madmen and criminals wander the streets.

When Lilliet Berne is finally offered an original role at the Paris Opera, she realizes with alarm that it's based on a hidden piece of her past.

Cat Mateo, a once-stray teenager, owes her rescue to Detective Stride. But Cat holds something else to her chest: a secret, the sheer power of which she could not possibly comprehend.

After years of absence, Ruth leads her niece Cora on an odyssey across the entire state of New York. Where is Ruth taking them? Where has she been? And who--or what--is she hiding?

Practicing nurse and regular contributor to the New York Times Theresa Brown invites us to experience not just a day in the life of a nurse but all the life that happens in just one day in a busy t

Romania, 1989. Three friends are enjoying comfortable lives, but one of them works for the secret police and is reporting on the whole group.

The award-winning and critically acclaimed Wireless Theatre Company strives to keep radio theater alive and well.

Upon learning that he's the Antichrist, sixteen-year-old James Salley must discover how to navigate a world in which everything he's ever believed is wrong--and if it's possible to be the hero of a

By the end of the Civil War, nearly half a million slaves had taken refuge behind Union lines in what became known as "contraband camps." This book probes what the camps were like and how former sl

Thomas De Quincey--opium eater, celebrity journalist, and professional doppelgänger--is embedded in our culture.

In 1812, when rugged English soldier Gabriel Forrester learns he has inherited a Scottish estate, he resists giving up the battlefield--until he meets raven-eyed Fiona Blackstock.

December, 1941: Manila is invaded, and Pappy Gunn is ordered to fly key military command out of the country, leaving his family at home.

John Kaag, a disillusioned philosopher, stumbles upon a trove of rare books on an old estate that once belonged to the Harvard philosopher William Ernest Hocking.

Native American Black Elk is known to millions from the book Black Elk Speaks. Yet the man himself faded from view, even though he witnessed momentous events in the American West.

A forty-year-old skeleton is found encased in a concrete slab at a recently decommissioned nuclear energy site.