The mysterious loss of a large portion of the treasure of the Incas has never been completely cleared up. By torturing the natives to whom the secret had been entrusted, the Spaniards made two or three discoveries, but there can be little doubt that these finds were only a small proportion of the total ... more »

»Die Unberührten« erzählt die Geschichte von Antonia und Balthasar, zwei Bauernkindern aus dem Rheintal, die 1924, während der großen Depression, zur Kinderarbeit nach Amerika verkauft werden. Auf der Schiffspassage lernen sie sich kennen und bleiben fast sieben elende Jahre unzertrennlich. Sieben Jahre ... more »

From Harry Turtledove, bestselling author and critically acclaimed master of the short story, comes a classic collection of science fiction tales and what-if scenarios. In narratives ranging from fantastic to oddly familiar to eerily prescient, this compelling volume illustrates Turtledove's literary ... more »

My dear lads: Although so long a time has elapsed since the great civil war in England, men are still almost as much divided as they were then as to the merits of the quarrel, almost as warm partisans of the one side or the other. Most of you will probably have formed an opinion as to the rights of the ... more »

Morgan McCall was long, lean, and mean--and he didn't care who knew it. It took a hard man to tame a city of sin on the plains with nothing more than his fists and a rawhide whip. Kate Stewart was the lawman's worst nightmare. She was soft as silk, with more curves than his coiled whip. But she had more ... more »

E-book extras: Bernard Cornwell On: The Origin of Richard Sharpe; Sharpe's Adventures; Sharpe's Trafalgar. Denmark, 1807. Richard Sharpe is on a secret mission to Copenhagen to help protect the prized Danish fleet from Napoleon Bonaparte's ambitions. (Sharpe's Prey is the chronological sequel to Sharpe ... more »

June 1967. As Vincent Torelli stepped off the plane at Bien Hoa Air Base, South Vietnam, he was almost overwhelmed by the stench in the hot, humid air. He still had a hard time realizing he was in Vietnam. Drafted into the armed forces five months earlier, he ended up becoming a Military Policeman, assigned ... more »

Bestselling historical novelist Bernard Cornwell returns to the battlefields of the Iberian Peninsula with Sharpe's Havoc , where the lieutenant and his men bravely fight the French invasion into Portugal. It is 1809, a few years after Lieutenant Richard Sharpe's heroic exploits on the battlefields of ... more »

Product Info English translation of La dame de Monsoreau. more »

Gaynell McGowan, forced to spend the summer of 1963 in her little town of Beulah, Alabama, returns home from college to face a provincial purgatory until classes resume in the fall. But history is about to strike Beulah like a deadly tornado. A federal order to integrate the high school shakes the town ... more »

Book III of the Battle Cry of Freedom Trilogy: The Union Army has burned the Shenandoah Valley, leaving the people filled with hatred for anyone who has northern ties. Even so Nathan Wendall falls in love with a fine northern woman, Sally Dartland, who has recently moved to the valley after her family ... more »

Product Info English translation of Louise de la Vallière. The adventures of D'Artagnan. more »