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History professor Nick Journey and federal agent Meg Tolman return in Silver Cross, the thrilling sequel to B. Kent Anderson's Cold Glory. When her friend is murdered, Tolman rushes to North Carolina to investigate. She finds a vast conspiracy hanging on a letter from Napoleon III to Confederate president Jefferson Davis, pledging French aid to the Confederacy for the "Silver Cross." The letter was lost when confederate spy Rose Greenhow drown...

From the legendary "father of the Western" comes two of his classic novels collected together in a single, tall Premium Edition. Original.

The 11th installment in Modesitt's Imager Portfolio fantasy series and the third part in a story arc which began with "Madness in Solidar " and "Treachery's Tools.

From #1 "New York Times-"bestselling author Kenyon comes a sweeping new epic saga sure to appeal to her millions of fans! The first historical fantasy title in her Deadman's Cross series.

A twisty, cold-case mystery custom made for fans of Sara Shepard, PLL and Veronica Mars! The edge-of-your-seat plot, sinister backstory and smart, brave and irreverent main character made this whodunit unputdownable."-Justine Magazine In To Catch a Killer, a contemporary mystery by debut author Sheryl Scarborough, a teenage girl uses forensic science to solve the cold-case murder of her mother. Erin Blake has one of those names. A name that is...

First in an urban fantasy trilogy. After Evangeline Hollis spends a night with a darkly seductive man, she's branded with the Mark of Cain. Thrust into a world where sinners are marked and drafted to kill demons, Eve's former one-night stand, Cain, is now her mentor--and his equally sexy brother Abel is her new boss. Tall Premium Edition.ooks.

The Bags of Tricks Affair is the latest charming historical mystery in Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Bill Pronzini's detective series.A conman always has a bag of tricks, ready to fool the unsuspecting, and almost everyone is unsuspecting until they get taken. When that happens, they turn to Carpenter and Quincannon, Professional Detective Services, to recover their money and what's left of their dignity, and perhaps even to save the...

Loren D. Estleman's most popular characters, PI Amos Walker and hit man Peter Macklin, are together in one story for the first time in Black and White Ball!Detroit hit man Peter Macklin forces private eye Amos Walker to furnish protection for Laurie, Macklin's estranged wife, while Macklin tracks down the party who has threatened to kill her. The man Walker's client suspects cannot be ignored, as his own grown son, Roger Macklin has inherited ...

A great new stand-alone science fiction novel from Carrie Vaughn, author of the Kitty Norville series.Polly Newton has one single-minded dream, to be a starship pilot and travel the galaxy. Her mother, the Director of the Mars Colony, derails Polly's plans when she sends Polly and her genius twin brother, Charles, to Galileo Academy on Earth.Strange, unexplained, dangerous coincidences centered on their high-profile classmates begin piling up....

A stand-alone fantasy tale from Seanan McGuire's Alex-award winning Wayward Children series, which began in the Alex, Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Award-winning, World Fantasy Award finalist, Tiptree Honor List Every Heart a DoorwayBeneath the Sugar Sky, the third book in McGuire's Wayward Children series, returns to Eleanor West's Home for Wayward Children in a standalone contemporary fantasy for fans of all ages. At this magical boarding school, ...

One of NPR's Best Books of 2017!A groundbreaking anthology of science fiction from Iraq that will challenge your perception of what it means to be "The Other"History is a hostage, but it will bite through the gag you tie around its mouth, bite through and still be heard."-Operation DanielIn a calm and serene world, one has the luxury of imagining what the future might look like.Now try to imagine that future when your way of life has been deva...

Finalist for 2017 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult LiteratureFor the first time, Jo Walton's critically acclaimed, genre-defying trilogy Thessaly-The Just City, The Philosopher Kings, and Necessity-is available in softcover, in a single-volume trade paperback omnibusThe goddess Athena thought she was creating a utopia. Populate the island of Thera with extraordinary men, women, and children from throughout history, and watch as the mortals f...

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance, Book Two of the Stormlight Archive, continues the immersive fantasy epic that The Way of Kings began.Expected by his enemies to die the miserable death of a military slave, Kaladin survived to be given command of the royal bodyguards, a controversial first for a low-status "darkeyes." Now he must protect the king and Dalinar from every common peril as well as the d...

Soon to be a show on Hulu! Mississippi Roll: A Wild Cards Novel is an adventurous journey along Ol' Man River, featuring beloved characters from the bestselling shared-universe science fiction superhero series, edited by #1 New York Times bestselling author George R. R. Martin.Now on its final voyage, the historical steamboat Natchez is known for her super-powered guest entertainers. But after the suspicious death of a crewmember, retired NY p...

George Beahm, a former U.S. Army major, draws on his experience to discuss the military science of the sprawling Star Wars universe: its personnel, weapons, technology, tactics and strategy, including an analysis of its key battles to explain how the outmanned and outgunned rebels ultimately prevailed against overwhelming forces. Contrasting the military doctrine of the real world with the fictional world of Star Wars, the author constructivel...

The explosive sequel to The Human Disguise, The Double Human is an-action packed police thriller set in post-apocalyptic Florida.Tom Wilner is a cop. At least what passes for a cop in this shattered world. Plague and nuclear war have left most of the United States uninhabitable. Many have fled to safer zones, forcing what's left of the government to wall off cities in an attempt to control mass migration. The city of Miami is just one of these...

In a future America, the Bill of Rights has been revoked, and replaced with the Moral Statutes. There are no more policeNinstead, there are soldiers. There are no more fines for bad behaviorNinstead, there are arrests, trials, and maybe worse. Seventeen-year-old Ember Miller is old enough to remember that things weren't always this way.

A riveting energy thriller of one man's heroic effort to save an Earth terribly changed

The story of The First Formic War continues in Earth Awakens.Nearly 100 years before the events of Orson Scott Card's bestselling novel Ender's Game, humans were just beginning to step off Earth and out into the Solar System. A thin web of ships in both asteroid belts, a few stations, a corporate settlement on Luna. No one had seen any sign of other space-faring races, everyone expected that First Contact, if it came, would happen in the futur...

In an extraordinary novel, Pohl has cast the events surrounding the explosion at Chernobyl into a monumental work of speculative fiction. Based on careful research, Chernobyl takes readers into the lives, homes and heartbeats of the people who were there.