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It is 1982.  In the Vatican, priestly vultures gather around the dying Pope, whispering the names of possible successors.  In a forgotten monastery...

“Grand, robust, a rich and big novel.”—Alice Walker, The New York Times Book Review “In [Jane Pittman], Ernest Gaines has created a legendary figur...

For anyone who loves the historical novels of Sara Gruen, Geraldine Brooks, and E. L. Doctorow, a barnstorming tale of an irrepressible, brawling...

In the spirit of Loving Frank and The Paris Wife, acclaimed novelist Melanie Benjamin pulls back the curtain on the marriage of one of America’s mo...

Over 50,000 clues, over 160,000 solutions—more clues, more solutions than any other book in America. Completely alphabetical, comprehensive, up to...

Over 50,000 clues, over 160,000 solutions—more clues, more solutions than any other book in America. Completely alphabetical, comprehensive, up to...

With more than 85,000 entries—no other portable French and English paperback dictionary offers you so much at so reasonable a price. Newly revise...

With 736 pages and more than 70,000 entries—no other portable Italian and English paperbound dictionary offers you so much a so reasonable a price....

No other portable Spanish & English paperbound dictionary offers you so much for your money. With 736 pages and more than 80,000 entries, it i...

Many seek happiness in wealth, fame,  relationships, even drugs—and, of course, they fail. How can we be happy? In his most inspirational bestselli...

History is just an assassin's bullet away…. In 1961 Professor Mikhal Lammeck, a specialist in the history and weaponry of assassins, has come to Ha...

Internationally bestselling author Julia Navarro riveted readers around the world with her provocative novel The Brotherhood of the Holy Shroud. No...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER  “As feline collaborators go, you couldn’t ask for better than Sneaky Pie Brown.”—The New York Times Book Review  It’s mi...

A killer is placing his cross hairs over the American heartland....The pair of frozen corpses were found under a tarp in the machine shed of an emp...

"The claim of The Black Poets  to being... an anthology is that it  presents the full range of Black-American poetry,  from the slave songs to the ...

The assassination of Julius Caesar sets the stage for a riveting tale of political intrigue, epic battle, and righteous retribution in this thrilli...

Fifteen-year-old Lynda Mann's savagely raped and strangled body is found along a shady footpath near the English village of Narborough.  Though a m...

A collection of pulse-pounding tales featuring forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan—including the untold story of her first case! The #1 New ...

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE SACRAMENTO BEENew York Times bestselling author Laurie R. King, beloved for her acclaimed Mary Russe...

“You can attain an understanding with which to win against ten thousand.”Toward the end of his life, the great samurai warrior Miyamoto Musashi set...

A man must return to the hometown he disowned in this “sweet, deft, and sentimental coming-of-age-at-34 story” (New York Daily News) from the New Y...

A new anthology celebrating the witches and sorcerers of epic fantasy—featuring stories by George R. R. Martin, Scott Lynch, Megan Lindholm, and ma...

At once a captivating mystery, a love letter to classic literature, and a sharp-eyed examination of marriage, The Book of Secrets is a gripping nov...

New epic fantasy in the grand tradition—including a never-before-published Song of Ice and Fire story by George R. R. Martin! Fantasy fiction has p...