In his hugely popular Prospero's Cell, Lawrence Durrell brought Corfu to life, attracting tens of thousands of visitors to the island. With Reflections on a Marine Venus, he turns to Rhodes: ranging over its past and present, touching with wit and insights on the history and myth which the landscape

**One of Britain's premier royal biographers pens the first in a series of fiendishly clever and stylish historical murder mysteries** Lovers of historical mystery will relish this chilling Victorian tale based on real events and cloaked in authenticity. Best of all, it casts British literature's m

A desolate wasteland. A mission gone wrong. An impossible goal. A gripping new series of Ancient Rome Roman scout **Silus** is deep behind enemy lines in Caledonia. As he spies on a raiding party, he is abruptly discovered by an enemy chief and his son. Mounting a one man ambush, everything quickl

SUMMARY: CIA superagent Mitch Rapp s cover has been blown -- just when the world needs him more than ever....EXECUTIVE POWERReturning from a covert mission， Mitch Rapp was publicly hailed by the president for his role in the fight against terrorism. After years of working in the shadows， Rapp was

A prequel to The Rose Throne: Available May 14, 2013 Advance Praise: Another great story from one of my favorite authors. Orson Scott Card Young Prince Haikor faces a choice, to let his elder brother Aart who has no taweyr rule the kingdom, or to be as ruthless as his brother and take the crown fo

This captivating, breakout novel--told in alternating viewpoints--brings readers from the skies of World War II to the present day, where a woman is prepared to tell her secrets at last. Estranged from her family since just after World War II, Mary Browning has spent her entire adult life hiding fr

THIS IS THE END.... The dragons have gone home, the elves are safe. The Raven have kept their promises. But fate has not finished with them. As the war between the colleges rages on, an old enemy senses that his chance to revenge a bitter defeat has come. Tessaya, Lord of the Paleon Tribes, has wait

Using logic, strategy and plain hard work, I built my tech corporation, bit by bit. Never straying from my carefully plotted roadmap has brought me to the pinnacle of success. Nothing stops me or turns me from my path…until my beloved secretary Nancy suffers a stroke. An older lady who’s been lik

**From Catherine Coulter, the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of the FBI Thriller series, and J.T. Ellison, bestselling author and ITW Award winner, comes the first book in a brilliant new international thriller series featuring the new hero: American-born, UK-raised Nicholas Drummond.** S

### Amazon.com Review At first, readers may find Ursula K. Le Guin's collection _Changing Planes_ rather light, if not slight. However, as the reader continues through its sixteen stories (ten of which are original to this volume), the collection achieves considerable weight and power. A punny con

SUMMARY: A treasure worth killing for. Sam Spade, a slightly shopworn private eye with his own solitary code of ethics. A perfumed grafter named Joel Cairo, a fat man name Gutman, and Brigid OShaughnessy, a beautiful and treacherous woman whose loyalties shift at the drop of a dime. These are the

### Product Description *_WARNING: NOT TO BE READ AFTER DARK_** __**'You belong to the blade now. You'll belong to it until the day you die . . .'*The Spook, Tom and Alice travel to Ireland, fleeing from the war in the County. There, Tom must tackle a group of evil mages who are desperate to rid th

These are the tales of the last days be­fore the great dark­ness de­scend­ed. These are the tales of the Lost Lands, the coun­try that was once ours but which our en­emies now call Eng­land. These are the tales of Arthur, the War­lord'; the King that Nev­er Was, the En­emy of God and, may the liv­in