The latest Amelia Peabody mystery/adventure is a chronicle of one of the missing years -- 1907-1908 -- shedding new light on an already exceptional career, a remarkable family . . . and an unexpected terror. Ousted from their most recent archaeological dig and banned forever from the Valley of the Kings ... more »

Like the Israelites of old, mankind is prone to worship false gods, and persistently sets up the brazen image of a sham hero, as its idol. I should like to write the history of the world, if for no other reason than to assist several well-established heroes down from their pedestals. Great Charlemagne ... more »

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vous présente cinq romans d'Alexandre Dumas: 1. Joseph Balsamo: Mémoires d'un médecin 2. Le collier de la reine 3. Ange Pitou 4. La comtesse de Charny 5. Le chevalier de Maison Rouge Ils font tous partie de la série Marie Antoinette. more »

Que le lecteur se transporte avec nous à trois lieues au delà de Rome, à l'extrémité de la via Appia, au bas de la descente d'Albano, à l'endroit même où la voie antique, vieille de deux mille ans, s'embranche avec une route moderne âgée seulement de deux siècles, laquelle contourne les tombeaux, et ... more »

The tragedy of September 11, 2001 left us each trying to fill a uniquely unfamiliar void in our spirit with something that will make us whole again. Somehow we need to feel the experience in a way that following the news coverage just doesn't accomplish.Brian W. Vaszily found a way, and shares it with ... more »

An Endless Exile is the story of the eleventh century hero, Hereward the Wake, the only Englishman to have defied and defeated William the Conqueror. Torfrida is thirty-two years old, cynical, secretive, confident of her own wisdom and learning. Yet even she is taken by surprise when Hereward is brutally ... more »

The life of Virginie Gautreau, the notorious beauty of Madame X, John Singer Sargent's most famous and scandalous portrait, provides inspiration for this absorbing and intriguing novel. Madame X caused an immediate furor when Sargent unveiled it at the 1884 Paris Salon. The subject's bold pose, provocative ... more »

Continuing the epic adventure begun in the bestselling QUICKSILVER! It is the late 1600s on the high seas. A group of Barbary galley slaves plot amongst themselves as they ply the oars of a pirate ship. These ten men -- unfortunates from around the world impressed into servitude -- have heard whispers ... more »

A lush historical epic, The Fourth Queen is the story of one woman's struggle for power and love in the court of the eighteenth-century Emperor of Morocco. Poetically intense and sensual, it marks the debut of a gifted new author. Beautiful Helen Gloag is determined to escape the cycle of poverty and ... more »

The year 1400 opened with more than usual peacefulness in England. Only a few months before, Richard II - weak, wicked, and treacherous - had been dethroned, and Henry IV declared King in his stead. But it was only a seeming peacefulness, lasting but for a little while; for though King Henry proved himself ... more »

In 1815, twelve American sailors washed up on the shore of North Africa. Captured and sold into slavery, they were then dragged along on an insane journey through the bone-dry heart of the Sahara-a region no Westerners had ever explored. Rain was expected once every six years and it was so hot that cadavers ... more »