Before Shelby Foote undertook his epic history of the Civil War, he wrote this fictional chronicle—"a landscape in narrative"—of Jordan County, Mississippi, a place where the traumas of slavery, war,...
Barrie works an indisputable magic on listeners of all ages in this classic tale of the "boy who wouldn't grow up." As a baby, Peter Pan fell out of his carriage and was taken by fairies to...
How to Turn Your Retirement Savings into Lasting Income
Margaret A. Malaspina
"Government lawyers have wrapped your retirement money in red tape. This concise, readable guide will help you unravel it." -John Rothchild, former columnist, Time and Fortune...
This 1872 sequel to Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland finds Carroll’s inquisitive heroine in a fantastic land where everything is reversed. Whereas the first book has the deck of cards as a theme,...
As the Civil War sweeps across the country, it finds the most wayfaring member of the Brannon family of Culpeper County, Virginia, working as a wharf rat at a port on the Mississippi River. Cory...
Amelia Peabody, that indomitable Victorian, embarks on her first Egyptian adventure armed with unshakable self-confidence, a journal to record her thoughts, and her sturdy umbrella. On her way, Amelia...
"No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own…." So...
THE THORN BIRDS is a robust, romantic saga of a singular family, the Clearys. It begins in the early part of the 20th century, when Paddy Cleary moves his wife, Fiona, and their seven children to...
When a dead German paratrooper lands in his street, Lev is caught looting the body and dragged to jail, fearing for his life. He shares his cell with the charismatic and grandiose Kolya, a handsome...
