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 »

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 »

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 »

Sie spielte mit dem Feuer. Er wollte Rache. Sie ist die Nichte des mächtigen Kardinals ... Man schreibt das Jahr 1640. Während in ganz Europa Glaubenskriege und Herrscherkämpfe toben, stößt in Frankreich ein Mann in das Zentrum der Macht vor: Richelieu, Kardinal und Erster Minister Ludwigs XIII: Er wird ... more »

E-book extras: Stephensonia/Cryptonomica: ONE: Cryptonomicon Cypher-FAQ (Neal addresses Frequently Anticipated Questions and other fascinating facts); TWO: Mother Earth Motherboard (Neal's landmark nonfiction account of, among other techno-feats, the laying of the longest telecommunications cable on ... more »

AN EPPIE 2002 FINALIST AWARD WINNER! England, 1264: as Simon de Montfort and his fellow Barons challenge Henry III's arrogance,the country moves inexorably towards civil war. In the little town of Lewes in Sussex, Judith, daughter of Belaset, seizes the opportunity to strike one last blow against de ... more »

The Great War has ended -- no longer must archaeologist Amelia Peabody fear for her family. Until her son, Ramses, encounters a mysterious, veiled goddess, and a suspected thief dies a brutal death. Can Amelia defeat a devilish adversary without endangering innocent lives? more »

Teresita is not an ordinary girl. Born of an illiterate, poor Indian mother, she knows little about her past or her future. She has no idea that her father is Don Tomas Urrea, the wild and rich owner of a vast ranch in the Mexican state of Sinaloa. She has no idea that Huila, the elderly healer who takes ... more »

In 1942 Hitler led the world's most savage military machine. Stalin ruled Russia while America was just beginning to show its strength in World War II. Then, in Harry Turtledove's brilliantly imagined Worldwar saga, an alien assault changed everything. Nuclear destruction engulfed major cities, and the ... more »

She lived and breathed history, but when Margaux finds herself a hundred years into the past, she knows it's more than an episode of Deja Vu.  First it was days, then weeks, then decades. And it's getting worse the more she thinks about it. Somehow, Margaux Pennington is reliving pieces of time ... more »