On a warm Autumn afternoon, Denmark's largest amusement park, Tivoli Gardens, is devastated by a terrorist attack that leaves more than 1,200 dead. No one claims responsibility for the attack, and sev
Ever since their father's untimely death five years before, Wyatt Smith and his inseparably close twin sister, Lucy, have scraped by alone on their family's isolated ranch in Box Elder County, Utah. T
Doug Horolez is a talentless boy hopelessly in love with his only friend, E. Summerson. That’s the good news. When E.’s sister is murdered in the woods behind town, Doug, to prove his devotion, joins
A Son of War presents Melvyn Bragg’s second installment in what the Sunday Telegraph calls one of the finest literary sagas of postwar Britain.” Continuing the story of the Richardson family begun in
From the time he founded Solidarity in 1980 to the historic moment in December 1990 when he took the oath of office as the first freely elected president of Poland in half a century, Lech Walesa had a
Winner of the prestigious Azorin Prize for Fiction, the best-selling novel about love, sacrifice, and Picasso's mistress, Dora Maar.A writer resembling Zoe Valdesa Cuban exile living in Paris with her
For forty years John Hadden, father and son, fought at the dinner table over politics, art, and the problem of America. One was haunted by what he had witnessed during his long CIA career, from Berlin
Acclaimed Novelist Andrei Makine Celebrates True Patriotism in This Time of False HeroesJean-Claude Servan-Schreiber enlisted in the French army at the outset of World War II and quickly rose to the r
The mothers of some of the most illustrious Jewish men in recent history?Albert Einstein, Marcel Proust, Sigmund Freud, Woody Allen, the Marx Brothers?are chatting in heaven. The subject: their respec
Eight years apart in age, John F. and Robert F. Kennedy were wildly different in temperament and sensibility. Jack was the leader?charismatic, ironic, capable of extraordinary growth and reach, yet al
The Colonial Conquest is the first volume of Alessandro Spina's epic, The Confines of the Shadow, a sequence of novels and short stories that map the transformation of Libya, particularly the coastal
The Fascinating Story of Eight Children of Third Reich Leaders and their Journey from Descendants of Heroes to Descendants of CriminalsIn 1940, the German sons and daughters of great Nazi dignitaries
Winner of the prestigious Azorín Prize for Fiction, the best-selling novel about love, sacrifice, and Picasso's mistress, Dora Maar.A writer resembling Zoé Valdésa Cuban exile living in Paris wi
On India's frontier with Tibet, peace is just a façade and security a myth.The sleepy Himalayan hill station of Mussoorie, near India's border with Tibet, is home to an eclectic mix of residents inclu
The night world of Old Town, Portland, has gone mad in the grip of gentrification, and at the center of it all is Lucky Supreme, a seedy tattoo parlor, whose proprietor is a street-bred artist with a
From the suburbs of Seattle to the villas of Jordan and the refugee camps of the West Bank, Where Jasmine Blooms is an emotional journey of love and selfhood, telling the story of the Mansours, a spra
The award-winning More, by one of Turkey’s leading underground writers, is the world’s first novel about the refugee crisis.The illegals climbed into the truck, and, after a journey of two hundred mil
In Unlocking the Past, Martin Jones, a leading expert at the forefront of bioarchaeology?the discipline that gave Michael Crichton the premise for Jurassic Park?explains how this pioneering science is
Includes works from Samuel Johnson's "Life of Richard Savage" to Joseph Conrad's "The Secret Sharer," including fiction by Maria Edgeworth, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Mrs. Gaskell, George Eliot, George
Junky-on-the-run Nile Nightengale sees a chance for redemption when he nurses a human victim of poachers back to health and joins forces with her to take down an illegal ring of animal-parts sellers.
