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Hailed by The New York Times as ""a master of the British Mystery,"" award-winning author Elizabeth George is cherished by readers on both sides of the Atlantic. Her first collection of short stories is an extraordinary offering that deftly explores the lengths to which people will go to get...

This multi-layered novel concerns complex social relationships in a provincial Victorian neighborhood and the struggle to hold fast to personal integrity in a materialistic environment.

The New York Times bestseller from Margaret George—a captivating novel about history's most enthralling queen, the legendary Elizabeth Tudor. England’s greatest monarch has baffled and intrigued the world for centuries. But what was the Virgin Queen really like? Lettice Knollys—Elizabeth's...

The Charles Dickens Non-Fiction Collection contains all of Charles Dickens' major published works of non-fiction. Although lesser known than the novels for which he is remembered, Dickens' eye for detail and character observation is seen just as clearly in his travelogues, essays, and letters, giving us an insight into Dickens and 1800s London, America, and Europe.

An age of bloody civil war and dictatorship is at an end. In its turbulent aftermath, an ambitious young lawyer, Marcus Tullius Cicero, is beginning to make a name for himself. But does he have what it takes, and can this new era of peace and prosperity truly last? When he defends the accused in a prominent murder trial, Cicero's path crosses with that of Sulla, the former dictator and a war hero of the Republic. Soon, Cicero will discover that beneath Rome’s civilised and sophisticated veneer lies corruption, cruelty and vice.

New to wealth and to London high society, American heiress Cora Dove discovers that with the right man, marriage might not be such an inconvenience after all. . . . Cora Dove and her sisters’ questionable legitimacy has been the lifelong subject of New York’s gossipmongers and a continual...

In If I Had a Father, Arthur Gervaise, a talented sculptor from London, grapples with the realization of his deep love for a woman, only to discover it too late. Unbeknownst to him, his estranged father is secretly striving to support him from the shadows. Meanwhile, an elderly man desperately searches for his missing daughter, convinced that Arthur holds the key to her disappearance. The unwavering devotion of these two fathers to their adult children forces everyone around them to confront and redefine their own perceptions of fatherhood. - Summary by Devorah Allen

In the aftermath of WWII, an alien virus struck the Earth, endowing a handful of survivors with extraordinary powers. Originally published in 1987, the newly expanded saga contains additional original stories by eminent writers.

Michael Hudson trascorre le lunghe giornate in carcere divorando libri che gli sono stati dati dalla bibliotecaria della prigione, una giovane donna di nome Anna che ha un debole per il suo miglior studente. In un luogo in cui è difficile trovare speranza, il potere dei libri può essere una luce nel buio. Ad alcuni detenuti, come Michael, il lavoro di Anna sta cambiando la vita. Legge avidamente i libri che lei gli passa finché viene improvvisamente rilasciato dopo che un detective privato ha manipolato un testimone nel suo processo.

A sweeping, gorgeously written novel of Lewis and Clark's legendary expedition, named one of the best novels of the year by The Boston Globe, Salon, The Los Angeles Times, and The Christian Science Monitor. Brian Hall’s compulsively readable novel vividly re-creates Lewis and...

For most of his life, Dennis Cooper believed the person he had loved the most and would always love above all others was George Miles. In his first novel in 10 years, Dennis Cooper writes about George Miles, love, loss, addiction, suicide, and how fiction can capture these things, and how it fails to capture them. Candid and powerful, I Wished is a radical work of shifting forms.

The Mysteries of London – Volume I, Part 1 introduces readers to a thrilling world of crime, poverty, and corruption in mid-19th-century London. Serialized as a Penny Dreadful, this wildly popular novel reveals the dark secrets lurking behind the city’s wealth and power.

The Mysteries of London – Volume I, Part 2 continues the serialized novel that captivated Victorian England. Packed with scandal, deception, and intrigue, this gripping tale exposes the hidden lives of London’s rich and poor, weaving together shocking mysteries and dramatic twists.

New York Times bestselling author Wally Lamb weaves an evocative, deeply affecting tapestry of one Baby Boomer's life—Felix Funicello, introduced in Wishin’ and Hopin’—and the trio of unforgettable women who have changed it, in this radiant homage to the resiliency, strength, and power...

When high school teacher Caelum Quirk and his wife, Maureen, move to Littleton, Colorado, they both get jobs at Columbine High School. In April 1999, while Caelum is away, Maureen finds herself in the library at Columbine, cowering in a cabinet and expecting to be killed. Miraculously, she...

The battle between democracy and tyranny is joined, and the American Revolution has begun over a century ahead of schedule. A cosmic accident has shifted a modern West Virginia town back through time and space to land it and its 20th century technology in Germany in the middle of the Thirty Years War. History must take a new course as American freedom and democracy battle against the squabbling despots of 17th century Europe.

With a pimp for a daddy and a professional booster for a mother, a life of crime was the family business, so Tara had no choice but to major and graduate with a degree in hustling. At the age of nine, Tara had learned every lesson her true-to-the-game parents ever taught her. By 18, she had found her niche: boosting the best merchandise from the best boutiques in the city and flipping it on the streets for cash - keeping the very best pieces for herself, of course. Tara became known as one of the baddest boosters on the East Coast, second only to her mother.

A spellbinding novel of romantic obsession by Agatha Christie, written under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott. Agatha Christie, famous for her ingenious crime novels, also wrote about crimes of the heart. Written under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott, Christie’s tales of romantic suspense further...

1984 by George Orwell.Written more than 70 years ago, 1984 was George Orwell’s chilling prophecy about the future. And while 1984 has come and gone, his dystopian vision of a government that will do anything to control the narrative is timelier than ever…A startling and haunting novel, 1984 creates an imaginary world that is completely convincing from start to finish. No one can deny the novel’s hold on the imaginations of whole generations, or the power of its admonitions—a power that seems to grow, not lessen, with the passage of time.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://...

I.L. Peretz, the acknowledged "Father of Yiddish Literature", captured the essence of Eastern European Jewish life. He wrote of the magical quality of kindness, and the bitter fruits of blind faith.