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Triumphant heroes and brilliantly wicked villains do battle on the island of Mistmantle in the first book of a new heart-stopping adventure series in the great tradition of Watership Down...

An absorbing study of heroes who broke the rules to turn a challenge into victory.

Soon to be a show on Hulu! In Low Chicago , a gang of criminals scattered throughout the past threaten the stability of the world in George R. R. Martin's...

Mississippi Roll: A Wild Cards Novel is an adventurous journey along Ol' Man River, featuring beloved characters from the bestselling shared-universe science fiction superhero series, edited by #1 New York...

Readers seeking spiritual enlightenment, as well as those interested in comparative religion, will find a concise, clearly written introduction to one of the world's great and ancient faiths in this...

Whether you are shopping for a first home, renting a new apartment or are searching for smart and affordable ways to redecorate or reorganise, RIGHT AT HOME is the book...

The eighteenth novel in Cherryh's Foreigner space opera series, a groundbreaking tale of first contact and its consequences Alpha Station, orbiting the world of the atevi , has taken aboard...

Charlie Fox really didn't care who shot dead her ex-army comrade, Kirk Salter during a bodyguard training course in Germany. But when old flame Sean Meyer asks her to go...

Meet the cast of Jubilee Terrace, one of the most popular soap operas on British television. When one of the cast members dies suddenly of a heart attack, those in...

Greek myths are wonderful stories, full of brave heroes, terrifying monsters, powerful gods and goddesses, battles and great adventures

"Our women are serving actively in many ways in this war, and they are doing a grand job on both the fighting front and the home front." -- Eleanor Roosevelt,...

Sweet Dreams Aren't Just for Little Princes When you look at your little boy, what do you imagine he will grow up to be? A teacher? A doctor? An artist?...

John Hodgman-New York Times bestselling author, semifamous personality, deranged millionaire, increasingly elderly husband, father, and human of Earth-has written a memoir about his cursed travels through two wildernesses- from the...

Cartography is both a science and an art; as such, it provides marvellous waypoints for changes in different cultures through history. But it can also be a weapon, or at...

This text provides an account of Cook's South Sea voyages, in which Cook plunged south to discover Antarctica and then veered north to discover Hawaii. In Anne Salmond's narrative, Cook's...

Showcasing the work of ten talented contemporary artists, this full-color volume is a breathtaking collection of some of the best Celtic artwork available, representing a variety of styles and influences....

In "The Voice, the Word, the Books", F. E. Peters leads readers on an extraordinary journey through centuries of written tradition to uncover the human fingerprints on the "Hebrew Bible",...

In this book from the critically acclaimed, multimillion-copy bestselling Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the incredible life of Nelson Mandela, South Africas first Black president and his fight for...

Modern Women is a celebration of some of the influential and inspiring women who have changed the world through their lives, work and actions. From suffragettes to scientists, activists to...

Do you yearn for a tranquil retreat in busy surroundings, a healing sanctuary, or a convenient stage for entertaining, dining and family gatherings? A garden in town can provide any...

Reverend Charles Dodgson (aka Lewis Carroll) and Dr Arthur Conan Doyle meet with the editor Mr Bassett. Mr Bassett viciously rejects not only Doyle's work, but also that of up-and-coming...

To many outsiders, mathematicians appear to think like computers, grimly grinding away with a strict formal logic and moving methodically--even algorithmically--from one black-and-white deduction to another. Yet mathematicians often describe...

How has computer science changed mathematical thinking? In this first ever comprehensive survey of the subject for popular science readers, Arturo Sangalli explains how computers have brought a new practicality...

A great deal of Holocaust survival stories revolve around disguise--many Jews were forced into impersonation by the desperateness of their plight. Imagine if a person, by the accident of birth,...

#1 New York Times Bestseller Edith Hahn was an outspoken young woman in Vienna when the Gestapo forced her into a ghetto and then into a slave labor camp. When...

"Nureyev: His Life," the first full-scale biography of the legendary Russian dancer, traces Nureyev's remarkable climb out of poverty in the war-torn Soviet Union to become one of our century's...

Challenges the belief that the Neandertal was the first true human species, revealing the existence of humans fifty thousand years earlier, and considering why the Neandertal species died out.

This self-help resource demonstrates how some of life's most important and joyous lessons can come from life's hardest knocks.

Shalimar the Clown is a masterpiece from one of our greatest writers, a dazzling novel that brings together the fiercest passions of the heart and the gravest conflicts of our...

Longlisted for the 2014 National Book Award The astonishing story of aunique missionary project and the America it embodied from award-winning historian John Demos. Near the start of the nineteenth...

In this provocative and illuminating book, Marianna Torgovnick explores the psychology of our profound attraction to cultures we call "primitive." Whether located in Africa, the South Pacific, or the American...