The Untold Story of the Men Who Risked All for the Greatest Rescue Mission of World War II.
An Incredible True Story of Combat and Chivalry in the War-Torn Skies of World War II
From Normandy to the Battle of the Bulge to the End of World War II, One American Officer's Riveting True Story
NYPD chases a ruthless murderer with an uncontrollable lust for money and blood,
Cross confronts the deadliest and most personal case of his career.
This is not a test---every New Yorker's worst nightmare is about to become a reality.
There she sits, the girl on the train. What she sees, gazing out the window, will change everything.
Amelia Peabody, that indomitable product of the Victorian Age, embarks on her first Egyptian adventure armed with unshakeable self confidence, a journal to record her thoughts, and of course, a sturdy umbrella.
The Story of the Lafayette Escadrille, the American Heroes Who Flew For France in World War I
Murder & mummification face Lizzie & Deisel
With SF under siege and every cop a suspect, the Women's Murder Club risk their lives to save the city and each other.
Lucas Davenport thought that he was just looking out for his daughters interest when he offer to help.
The Epic Story of the USS Laffey and World War II's Greatest Kamikaze Attack
For the rich and powerful of New York city, sometimes money is thicker than blood.
Everything you need to know about the world but never learned.
Who killed the dead sea?...Where was the garden of Eden?...What's so bad about the badlands?
The author of the critically acclaimed national bestseller Don't Know Much About History now takes us on a fascinating, breathtaking and hilarious grand tour of the planet Earth—opening our eyes and imaginations to a wide, wild, and wonderful world we never knew.
Who killed the dead sea?...Where was the garden of Eden?...What's so bad about the badlands?
The author of the critically acclaimed national bestseller Don't Know Much About History now takes us on a fascinating, breathtaking and hilarious grand tour of the planet Earth—opening our eyes and imaginations to a wide, wild, and wonderful world we never knew.
Colin Blakeney, 21st Century inventor of the technology that will give the world the transporter and the holodeck, is the victim of a treacherous attack that beams him out of this world--and into forever.
Three hundred years after Blakeney's disappearance, the crew of the Enterprise Spot a stray transporter beam in deep space. Little do they know that this beam contains a mystery for the ages!
Three hundred years after Blakeney's disappearance, the crew of the Enterprise Spot a stray transporter beam in deep space. Little do they know that this beam contains a mystery for the ages!
The President's son and daughter are abducted, and Detective Alex Cross is one of the first on the scene. But someone very high-up is using the FBI, Secret Service, and CIA to keep him off the case and in the dark.A deadly contagion in the water supply cripples half of the capital, and Alex discovers that someone may be about to unleash the most devastating attack the United States has ever experienced. As his window for solving both crimes narrows,...
The ancient Egyptian myth of Isis and Osiris - the story of a goddess's search for and reassembling of her brother/husband's dismembered body has haunted humanity's imagination since the dawn of time. Over the centuries this tale of love and betrayal, of death and resurrection, has made its way from the fertile Nile valley to affect cultures throughout the world. The Cult of Isis flourishes even to this day in many corners of the globe, five thousand...
First of the widely celebrated and sumptuously illustrated series, this book reveals in intimate detail what life was really like in the ancient world. Behind the vast panorama of the pagan Roman empire, the reader discovers the intimate daily lives of citizens and slaves--from concepts of manhood and sexuality to marriage and the family, the roles of women, chastity and contraception, techniques of childbirth, homosexuality, religion, the meaning...
Running low on cash and unlucky in love, Stone Barrington is not having a good week. After a night at Elaine's, his luck seems to improve when he's hired to do a little discreet decetive work in the balmy paradise of Key West. But despite its clear blue skies, palm-lined streets, and gingerbread mansions, Key West proves to be more dangerous than Stone had anticipated. Drugs, furs, and a mysterious death from the past may...
Stone's trip to Venice is cut short by a phone call from California. A celebrity murder has Los Angeles in an uproar and threatens one of his former girlfriends.