Crowned at nine months, married at sixteen, widowed at eighteen, implicated in the murder of her second husband, and executed for treason, Mary Stuart lived a life that could not havebeen better imag
One man links The Deer Hunter, Blade Runner, The Italian Job,Don’t Look Now, The Wicker Man and The Man Who Fell to Earth. Producer Michael Deeley, an urbane Englishman in Hollywood, had to fig
Considered one of the great dystopian novels—alongside Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange and Aldous Huxley's BraveNew World—Ira Levin's frightening glimpse into the future continues to
Communist humor is the strangest, funniest, most enchanting and meaningful legacy of the eighty years of communism in Russia and Eastern Europe. The valiant and sardonic citizens of the former Commun
From Los Angeles to London, from Slovenia to Taiwan, honeybees are dying. What is behind the catastrophe?Writers and beekeepers Benjamin and McCallum have traveled across Europe and North America inv
"THE PERFECT BEDTIME STORY FOR KIDS!" WHO or WHAT is hiding under Markey's bed? Mommy, There's A Little Boy Under My Bed! provides an excellent opportunity for parents and educators to teach kids abou
While investigating a murder crime scene, San Francisco police find a letter addressed to one of their detectives, the clever and highly-respected Inspector Deuteronomy Saint Claire, who is at odds w
Featuring a hooker-gone-straight, the street-smart Agnes Lynn declares vengeance on the Russian "Mafiya" when her best friend turns up dead and mutilated. She soon finds herself enmeshed in grim plo
A veteran of the war in Iraq, where he suffered extreme injury, and a refugee from a sad Kentucky family history, Tommy McLain places his faith in a beat-up blue Chevy and his future in the city of C
Outlines a short-term program of low-GI menus and fitness exercises to counsel readers on how to improve eating habits and achieve sustainable weight loss, in a guide that demonstrates the immediate b
Rudyard Kipling, a major figure of English literature, used the full power and intensity of his imagination and his writing ability in his excursions into fantasy. Kipling is considered one of Englan
Documents the lesser-known course of World War I as it was fought in Africa, tracing Britain's elimination of German naval bases in the region, the tragic and costly land war that extended beyond the
A new edition of a classic work by the author of If He Hollers Let Him Go pits the pioneering African-American sleuthing team of Grave Digger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson against the forces of racism a
A latest mystery featuring the detective partnership of Arthur Conan Doyle and his forensic investigator mentor takes them from the heart of old Edinburgh to the depths of London's most violent street
The Pope is dying. A civil war of the cloth erupts: a secret group start a bloody campaign to ensure their cardinal takes his seat in the Vatican. They call themselves the Remnant, and they will take
The shocking and explosive hardboiled classic: From murderers to prostitutes, corrupt politicians and racist white detectives, Coffin Ed Johnson and Gravedigger Jones, Harlem's toughest detective duo
A historical mystery in the vein of The Alienist, in which a young woman in Gilded Age New York must use a special talent to unravel a deadly conspiracy. Amelia Matthew has done the all-but-impossib
The new novel in the acclaimed Highland Bookshop mystery series finds a true-crime author murdered in the charming seacoast town of Inversgail-can the women of Yon Bonnie Books discover the killer's i
The dramatic story of George Washington's first crisis of the fledgling republic. In the war's waning days, the American Revolution neared collapse when Washington's senior officers were rumored to
The latest Lydia Chin/Bill Smith mystery takes the acclaimed detective duo into the Deep South to investigate a murder within the Chinese community. The Most Southern Place on Earth: that's what the
Kendra Donovan's adventures in nineteenth-century England continue when she is called upon to investigate the murder of a spymaster. February 1816: A race through the icy, twisting cobblestone stree
The riveting story of the history-making mission to reach the bottom of all five of the world's oceans - the ultimate frontier of our planet. Humankind has explored every continent on earth, climbed
A masterful collection of ghost stories that have been overlooked by contemporary readers--including tales by celebrated authors such as Charles Dickens, Sir Walter Scott, Mark Twain, and Edith Wharto
In the third installment of his acclaimed illustrated anthology series, master of crime fiction Lawrence Block has gathered together the best talent from popular fiction to produce an anthology of sho
An intimate portrait of Jane Austen and Dorothy Wordsworth—two women torn between revolutionary ideas and fierce conservatism, artistic creativity and emotional upheaval.Jane Austen and Dorothy Wordsw
In the new Somershill Manor Mystery, Oswald de Lacy brings his family to a secluded island castle to escape the Black Death, but soon a murder within the household proves that even the strongest fortr
An impassioned defense of progress and innovation—and an argument for social responsibility from engineer, businessman, and former CEO of BP Lord John Browne.Today's unprecedented pace of change leave
Since the time of the ancient Greeks we have been fascinated by accounts of the Amazons, an elusive tribe of hard-fighting, horse-riding female warriors. Equal to men in battle, legends claimed they c
Once a rising star in the field of archaeology, Marah Chase is now a black-market treasure hunter, her services available to the highest bidder. But when she’s caught “rescuing” relics in Syria before
In A Forest in the Clouds, John Fowler takes us into the world of Karisoke Research Center, the remote mountain gorilla camp of Dr. Dian Fossey, a few years prior to her gruesome murder. Drawn to the
Today, the figure of Sherlock Holmes towers over detective fiction like a colossus—but it was not always so. Edgar Allan Poe’s French detective Dupin, the hero of “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” anti
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky is one of the most successful composers that Russia has ever produced, but his path to success was not an easy one.A shy, emotional child, intended for the civil service by hi
In 1869 Russian scientist Dmitri Mendeleyev was puzzling over a way to bring order to the fledgling science of chemistry. Wearied by the effort, he fell asleep at his desk. What he dreamt would fundam
George Murray Levick was the physician on Robert Falcon Scott’s tragic Antarctic expedition of 1910. Marooned for an Antarctic winter, Levick passed the time by becoming the first man to study penguin
The tale of a tormented creature created in a laboratory began on a rainy night in 1816 in the imagination of a nineteen-year-old Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, newly married to the celebrated Romantic
All politicians adopt a public persona that they believe contributes to electoral success. Though they might reflect the character of the politician, they reveal only a part of the man. What we know l
Every summer is designed as a dream for six twenty-something seasonaires chosen by Lyndon Wyld, the founder of her namesake clothing line. This summer takes these influential brand ambassadors to the
