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 »

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 »

On the 24th of February, 1810, the look-out at Notre-Dame de la Garde signalled the three-master, the Pharaon from Smyrna, Trieste, and Naples. As usual, a pilot put off immediately, and rounding the Chateau d'If, got on board the vessel between Cape Morgion and Rion island. Immediately, and according ... 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 »

Si le lecteur veut bien nous suivre avec cette confiance que nous nous flattons de lui avoir inspirée, depuis vingt ainsi que nous lui servons de guide à travers les mille détours du labyrinthe historique que, dédale moderne, nous avons entrepris d'élever, nous allons l'introduire dans le jardin du Palais ... 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 »