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Attractive twenty-something Aisling Grey is dispatched to Paris by her uncle to deliver a priceless dragon statue to a rich and eccentric female collector.

While on a singles tour of Europe, Seattle's own Pia Thomason is looking for a man and trying not to think about her 40th birthday. Too bad her choice of suitors is less than appealing.

Madden explores surprising parallels between the Roman and American republics.

An extremely successful author named Kloster and an unnamed, up-andcoming writer have one thing in common--they've both employed a typist named Luciana.

In this harrowing war saga, Kershaw recounts the incredible story of the U.S. Navy's deadliest World War II submarine, the USS Tang.

Teenaged Isobel "Belly" Conklin, whose life revolves around spending the summer at her mother's best friend's beach house, reflects on the tragic events of the past year that changed her life forev

Belly spends the summer she turns sixteen at the beach just like every other summer of her life, but this time things are very different.

In 1990, $300 million worth of paintings are stolen from a museum in Boston, and are never recovered.

A policewoman is left for dead in an alley, and when she recovers she points the finger at an El Salvadorian immigrant with gang ties. But all the evidence is pointing the other way.

The ruthless Batu Khan has forged an empire across Mongolia and central Asia.

Adams was a brilliant observer of the world and its politics.

During the United States Civil War, a condemned man has many thoughts as he stands on a bridge, awaiting hanging. And other western short stories.

Bligh's own extraordinary account of a journey of two years and three months from Plymouth to Tahiti and back.

Presents the first three sections: the Ages of Gold, Silver, and Bronze.

Presents the final two sections: the Age of Heroes, and the Iron Age.