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At midnight, December 31, 1925, citizens of the newly proclaimed Turkish Republic celebrated the New Year. For the first time, they had agreed to use a nationally unified calendar and clock.

When an illegal immigrant falls from the sky, NYPD Homicide Detective Nikki Heat's investigation into his death quickly captures the imagination of her boyfriend, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist

"The Lottery," one of the most terrifying stories of the twentieth century, created a sensation when it was first published in the New Yorker.

This volume chronicles the history of European civilization from 1300 to 1564.

Three teens live in the Walled City, a lawless labyrinth run by crime lords and street gangs.

Barrington Jedidiah Walker is seventy-four and leads a double life. A husband, father, grandfather--he is also secretly gay.

Waiting to be rediscovered in the British Library is an ancient manuscript of the early Church.

In 1915, Jean Dartemont heads off to the Great War, an eager conscript. Soon, however, the vaunted "war to end all wars" is just an unimaginable, unceasing slaughter.

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