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Spencer offers a telling portrait of the founder of Islam, detailing Muhammad's development from a preacher of hellfire and damnation into a political and military leader who expanded his rule by f

This classic thriller of human triumph over an alien threat inspired the acclaimed 1956 film directed by Don Siegel.

Young Alvin Maker is born into an alternative frontier America, where folk magic is real and he himself is gifted with power.

In 1994, the Rwanda government began killing its Tutsi minority people and 800,000 were murdered. Gourevitch details the genocide's background and aftermath.

In this Pulitzer Prize-winning tale of China, farmer Wang Lung glories in the soil he works.

The Spartans of ancient Greece were a powerful and unique people, radically different from any civilization before or since.

From her hospital bed in Dublin, the elderly Dilly awaits the visit of her daughter, Eleanora, from London.

It was the first war we could not win.

For twelve-year-old Douglas, summer means new tennis shoes, dandelions for Grandfather's intoxicant, and the clang of a trolley on a hazy afternoon.

When Venetian detective Commissario Guido Brunetti is called to investigate a presumed suicide in Venice's elite military academy, his inquiries are immediately met with a wall of silence.

Ray Bradbury has dramatized his literary classic into an audio drama, produced by The Colonial Theatre on the Air, complete with a full cast, sound effects, and original music.

Recalling the classic warnings against militarism, Johnson explores the trend of militarism that is bankrupting the United States and creating conditions for a new century of virulent blowback.

This historical magnum opus covers 4,000 years of the history of the Jews as a people, a culture, and a nation, showing the impact of Jewish character and imagination upon the world.

Brady Steele watches in awe as a fireball comes crashing through the roof of his house. Fred, as Brady names his space rock, turns out to be one of the rarest meteorites ever found.

Enraged by the oil scandals of the Harding administration in the 1920s, Sinclair tells a gripping tale of avarice, corruption, and class warfare, featuring a cavalcade of characters, including sena