Adventure
Black Water Born
Black Water Born integrates the elements of many different genres: At the beginning, it’s strongly inspirational; at the end, it’s…
Under the Northern Lights
In this second book of the Alaskan Quest series, Leah Kincaid is kidnapped by her husband’s identical twin brother, Chase,…
To the Ends of the Earth: A Sea Trilogy
Rites of Passage, the first novel of this trilogy, won the Booker Prize; Golding is also a Nobel laureate, a…
The Afghan Campaign
Editors' choice
Pressfield has penned an astonishing story about a young soldier coming of age during a brutal war. In the process,…
Queen of Swords
Sara Donati revives the sweeping, no-holds-barred historical sagas of the 1970s and 1980s in Queen of Swords, the fifth book…
Fort Dearborn
Written by a well-known reporter who has reported and edited Chicago papers for the last thirty years, Fort Dearborn is…
Sharpe’s Fury
This twenty-first title in Cornwell’s Sharpe series brings the dashing, 19th-century rifleman to Spain during the Napoleonic wars. The drama…
Castro’s Curveball
In 1947, career minor leaguer Billy Bryan is in Cuba playing winter ball, chasing a dream of making it to…
Smonk
It’s 1911 in Alabama. The citizens of the small town of Old Texas have had enough of E.O. Smonk, a…
The King’s Women
1403. The middle of the Hundred Years War. The wolves are circling France. We follow the fortunes of the Dauphin…
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