It didn't matter that the warrant was years old, or that Smoke Jensen had been cleared of all charges. A Texas bounty hunter named Bill Pike believed he could still collect a $10,000 reward for killing Jensen--and he intended to do just that. But when Pike and his men came calling, Jensen was nowhere ... more »

Giddy sugarplum or calculating bitch? Pretty Konstanze aroused strong feelings among her contemporaries. Her in-law's loathed her. Mozart's friends, more than forty years after his death, remained eager to gossip about her failures as wife to the world's first superstar. Maturing from child, to wife ... more »

The final thrilling chapter in the Tristan and Isolde trilogy . . . Isolde, heir to the throne of the queens, is now a sovereign in her own right. With the glories of the throne comes the responsibility of a queen, and Isolde knows she must return to her beloved Western Isle. She can no longer tolerate ... more »

In the 1935 Ozarks, Claudia begins to a new school with an optimistic name, New Hope. Having been jilted causes her to dedicate her life to her students. Her life, and that of two favorite students and their father, changes as they overcome their past-- her humiliation and his runaway wife. 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 »

In Gone for Soldiers , Jeff Shaara carries us back 15 years before the momentous conflict he has so brilliantly chronicled, to a time when the Civil War's most familiar names are fighting for another cause, junior officers marching under the same flag in an unfamiliar land, experiencing combat for the ... more »

4 cassettes 4 hours Read by Stephen Lang The story of Gods and Generals begins with Michael Shaara, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning classic The Killer Angels . A native of New Jersey, Michael Shaara grew to be an adventurous young man: over the years, he found work as a sailor, a paratrooper, a ... 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 »

September 1939. As Warsaw falls to Hitler's Wehrmacht, Captain Alexander de Milja is recruited by the intelligence service of the Polish underground. His mission: to transport the national gold reserve to safety, hidden on a refugee train to Bucharest. Then, in the back alleys and black-market bistros ... 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 »

The Valley of the Kings, 1907. Journey on a perilous adventure into antiquity with Amelia Peabody, fiction's most beloved archaeologist, and her captivating cohorts. Ape has it all -- exotic scenery, brazen tomb robbers, stolen treasures, vengeful gods, a mysterious cult -- and a ruthless, remorseless ... more »

It is 1613 and Heidelberg greets the dawn of a promising, magical age as it welcomes a beautiful English princess. But the promise is false and soon all of central Europe writhes in rebellion and war. Wind Time, Wolf Time follows the lives of two sisters and two brothers as they struggle to survive in ... more »