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This book sparked shocking conspiracy theories about a historical incident. Here's why...The novel follows John Rowland, an alcoholic former US Navy officer who works as deckhand on the Titan. "She was the largest craft afloat and the greatest of the works of men. In...

The struggle to develop a 2,000-acre pristine university research forest into an ultra-exclusive golf enclave becomes a conflict involving Native Americans who believe the land is theirs, unscrupulous and corrupt people who envision huge profits, and people who live near it and want to...

Paul Doherty's twenty-second medieval mystery featuring Sir Hugh Corbett is a gripping and gruesome tale of murder and mayhem sure to appeal to fans of C. J. Sansom and Bernard Cornwell. 1312. Sir Hugh Corbett, Keeper of the Secret Seal, has returned from the...

London, England...1952. The country is quickly recovering from the ravages of World War II, but a certain group of people won't let the hatred die. The fight continues. Murders are being committed throughout Europe as a result of a particular heroic action taken during...

"Captivating." --The Washington PostNamed a Best Book of Summer by Good Morning America - BuzzFeed - PopSugar - BookRiot - LifeSavvy - CT PostFrom "a master of historical fiction" (NPR), Karin Tanabe's A Woman of Intelligence is an exhilarating tale of post-war New York...

A family's secret, a ruthless fanatic, and a covert arm of the American government--all are linked by a single puzzling possibility: What if everything we know about the discovery of America was a lie? What if that lie was designed to hide the secret...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFour presidents of the United States have been assassinated--in 1865, 1881, 1901, and 1963--each murder seemingly unrelated. But what if those presidents were all killed for the shocking same reason: a clause contained in the United States Constitution? This is the...

International Bestseller#1 U.K. BestsellerThe Wall Street Journal BestsellerLos Angeles Times Bestseller In the summer of 1909, Sigmund Freud arrived by steamship in New York Harbor for a short visit to America. Though he would live another thirty years, he would never return to this...

From the Orange Prize-nominated author of The Observations comes an absorbing, atmospheric exploration of one young woman's friendship with a volatile artist and her place in the controversy that consumes him. Jane Harris's Gillespie and I presents a strongly voiced female protagonist evocative of...

"Crichton's ultimate adventure."--San Francisco Chronicle "Pirates Latitudes has the loot: Gore, sex, action....A lusty, rollicking 17th century adventure."--USA Today "Riveting....Great entertainment....The pages and minutes fly by."--Cleveland Plain Dealer #1 New York Times bestselling author, the incomparable Michael Crichton ("One of the great storytellers of...

It is 1951, and Jean-Luc Gu駻y has arrived in Indochina to investigate the murder of his brother, Olivier, whose body was found floating in a tributary of the Saigon River. As an avid reader of detective fiction, Gu駻y is well aware of how such...

Kent, England, 1762. Bloody smuggling wars are raging on England's southern coast. It's a time of daring men and bold women, and deadly skirmishes between rival gangs and the law.John Smith, a man both hanged and drowned, returns to his home village, swearing vengeance...

Vengeance. Treason. Faith. Set during one of the most tumultuous eras of European history, an explosive group of individuals-a prostitute bar maiden, a fresh-faced squire and his knight, a substance-abusing bard, five revolutionists, and two fugitives-find themselves trapped in an inn during a catastrophic...

In Robert Goddard's third novel, a bestseller in the United Kingdom and now back in print, is a masterful exercise in suspense set in Victorian-era England. On a mild autumn afternoon in 1882, thirty-four-year-old husband and father William Trenchard sits smoking his pipe in...

Capturing the grandeur of a gracious, splendid Europe of wealth and Old World sensibilities, this glorious, complex novel has become a touchstone for a great writer's entire literary achievement. From the opening pages, when the high-spirited American girl Isabel Archer arrives at the English...

In "one of the great espionage novels of our time" (#1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Child), a young woman goes on the run after discovering a dark truth at the heart of the CIA's operations in postwar Berlin, only to be murdered...

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER "A feverishly paced action adventure" (The New York Times) about a long-lost Shakespeare work and a killer who reenacts the Bard's most bloody murders On the eve of the Globe's production of Hamlet, Shakespeare scholar and theater director Kate Stanley's eccentric mentor...

In the small town of Amagansett, perched on Long Island's windswept coast, generations have followed the same calling as their forefathers, fishing the dangerous Atlantic waters. Little has changed in the three centuries since white settlers drove the Montaukett Indians from the land. But...

Someone has discovered a Nazi weapon of incredible power. And their intentions aren't good. In the final days of World War II, a mysterious German U-boat was seen by a United States naval vessel in the Atlantic Ocean, just north of South America. Before...

Betrayal. Murder. Revenge. Just another day in medieval Italy. The year is 1377. Angelo Anchioni has served in the Hospitaller Order for fourteen years. Determination, diligence and skill have made him a squire, but he remains unaware of the evil that those closest to...

The bodies of an elderly colonel and his comely young wife are discovered on the staircase of their stately plantation home, their blood still dripping down the wooden balustrades. Within the sheltered walls of Cottoncrest, Augustine and Rebecca Chastaine have met their deaths under...

The international bestseller takes you on a fast-paced, nail-biting thrill ride from the Great Pyramids in Cairo, to behind the Nazi lines in Berlin, to the very seat of democracy as our hero tries to unravel a plot that could kill FDR and Winston...

WHAT IF THE GODS WERE REAL?That's the question Dr. Dan Kotler-Archaeologist and FBI Consultant-finds himself struggling to answer after a Druidic tomb is unearthed in the mountains of Egypt. Why did the Druids build a site in Egypt, thousands of years ago? And what...

When an ancient map of Antarctica is found to be a forgery, it reveals an enigma of history and a terrifying modern-day threat.For the past two years, Gail McCarthy has been a constant source of danger and chaos in the lives of Dan Kotler...

At the peak of his career and popularity, Russian icon Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky died mysteriously. Rumors were that he died of cholera - unlikely, as Tchaikovsky's house staff was well aware that water should be boiled. There are other possible scenarios of the untimely...

When a brash and beautiful American newspaper reporter, Lily Nordby, falls into a forbidden love affair with Tokido Okamura, a sophisticated Japanese diplomat whom she suspects is a spy, at the Golden Gate International Exposition, a brilliant Mayan art scholar, Woodrow Packard, tries to...

"L'Amour is popular for all the right reasons. His books embody heroic virtues that seem to matter now more than ever."--The Wall Street Journal Edge-of-your-seat thrillers from the greatest Western author ever. There will never be another Western writer like Louis L'Amour. A legendary...

The secrets of the past are treacherous...and irresistible.A Renaissance-era female artist and an American scholar. Linked by a centuries-old mystery...2016: Scholar Zari seizes the chance to return to Europe as a consultant for an art dealer. Overwhelmed by her job, she has little time...

The first Sebastian Foxley Medieval Mystery by Toni Mount. The narrow, stinking streets of medieval London can sometimes be a dark place. Burglary, arson, kidnapping and murder are every-day events. The streets even echo with rumours of the mysterious art of alchemy being used...

The story begins with the 1672 lynching of the Dutch Grand Pensionary Johan de Witt and his brother Cornelis by a wild mob of their own countrymen, considered by many as one of the most painful episodes in Dutch history, described by Dumas with...

"A must-read for lovers of World War II fiction!" - Don McKale, Third Reich/Hitler expert and author of Nazis After HitlerIn 1938, as the Third Reich is just beginning its reign of terror, hundreds of Jewish orphans are hidden away in Austria, in the...

BODYGUARD OF DECEPTION: A NOVEL OF SUSPENSE VOLUME ONE OF THE WORLD WAR TWO TRILOGY By Samuel Marquis #1 Denver Post Bestselling, Award-Winning Author Praise for Bodyguard of Deception "Bodyguard of Deception grabbed my attention right from the beginning and never let go. The...

Author: E. Lebron MatthewsISBN-10: 1941165214ISBN-13: 9781941165218Publisher: Edwin Lebron MatthewsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/03/2014Pages: 260Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.73lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.59d

Buenos Aires, 1977. In the darkest days of the Videla dictatorship, G mez, a gay high-school literature teacher, tries to keep a low profile as one-by-one, his friends and students begin to disappear. When Esteban, one of G mez's favorite students, is taken away...

"It's impossible to say this too strongly: this steampunk-horror-historical-thriller crossbreed is an amazing book."--Booklist (starred review)The Civil War has ended but not because the South surrendered, instead it's on hold while both sides face a new enemy-the chewers, dead men who've come back to...

A WW2 spy story. 1943. Kurt Muller and a young colleague parachute into southern Germany to rescue a British-Canadian agent. The Allies have won the battle of the Atlantic, and German forces are retreating on all major fronts. The war in Europe is effectively...

There's a touch of Angela Carter about Beatrice Hitchman's beguiling debut--a sly, erotic thriller concerned with doubleness and duplicity.--The GuardianSumptuous . . . part Moulin Rouge, part Alfred Hitchcock.--GraziaMesdames et Messieurs, presenting La Petite Mort, or, A Little Death . . . A silent...

1946 Vienna. When a shadowy organization fails to assassinate Mason Collins, they go after his colleagues, his friends, and the love of his life. Mason knows the only way to stop the killings is to cut off the head of the snake.Armed only with...

"...immediately became engrossed in this exciting, thoughtful, eye-opening, and heartfelt tale." - Jon Michael Miller, Readers Favorite "Filled with action and intrigue, Apricots is a thoroughly engaging blockbuster of a novel where the breakneck pace of the plot and the absorbing narrative never lets...

Scotland, 1295. The kingdom is on the verge of rebellion. John Balliol wears the crown, but even his powerful Comyn kin cannot break King Edward of England's insatiable desire to conquer the northern realm.For Christina Bruce, neither man is worthy of being called King...

"An Imperfect Time" is an epic story depicting the fate of people involved in the grim history of the twentieth century in Poland. From the pogrom in the village near Pinsk to the reality of the Third Republic, the author takes us on a...

An unconventional woman and a man shrouded in mystery walk a tightrope of desire as they race against a killer to find a top secret invention in this New York Times bestselling novel from Amanda Quick. Former trapeze artist Amalie Vaughn moved to Burning...

454 AD. Northern Italy.Dux Ambrosius Aurelianus has served the Roman Empire with distinction.His bucellarii, a small band of irregular soldiers, have helped to bring a fragile peace to the beleaguered empire in the west. But, with the empire now at peace, his master, Flavius...

"Can I interest you in saving America?" That's the text message Peter Fallon receives from a Wall Street bigwig. It's not a challenge he can turn down, especially since the country is in the midst of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression....

The Lost Order continues renowned New York Times bestseller Steve Berry's Cotton Malone series with another riveting, history-based thriller.The Knights of the Golden Circle was the largest and most dangerous clandestine organization in American history. It amassed billions in stolen gold and silver, all...

American archaeologist Nina Wilde and her husband, ex-SAS bodyguard Eddie Chase, search for King Midas's legacy in the latest thrilling adventure in Andy McDermott's globe-spanning series. For Nina Wilde and her ex-SAS husband Eddie Chase, locating the legendary lost city of Atlantis was just...

In the midst of a World War, the true enemy was unseen. It came with a handshake or a breath and it left behind 60 million dead. Spanish Flu would devastate the world. Dr. Alan Keener is a young doctor fresh out of medical...

Jonathan Steel's partner, Theo King, has been kidnapped. In his pursuit of the kidnappers, Steel discovers a conspiracy by a wealthy media mogul to go back in time to the last days of the life of Jesus of Nazareth. All leads converge on ancient...

Dr Ava Curzon is Lara Croft meets Evelyn Salt - the first real challenger to Dan Brown's Robert Langdon. "Rollercoaster crypto-thriller ... a ride that thrills and educates ... move over Lara Croft " (Daily Express - Five Star - Pick of the Week)...

In this historical thriller inspired by true events, a British espionage plot spirals out of control-with devastating consequences. It's the aftermath of WWI and imperialist powers jostle for influence in Tehran, capital of Persia and heart of the Middle East. James Malcolm is a...