When Decius, the highborn commander of the local vigils of Rome, investigates the garroting of a lowly ex-slaved and the disembowelment of a foreign merchant, he uncovers a world of corruption at the highest levels of his government.

Archaeologist Callie Dunbrook travels to a construction site where a set of 5,000-year-old human bones has been uncovered. Now overseeing the site, Callie must deal with disaster after disaster--leading some to believe that the site i...

* Mp3 CD Format *. The Emperor Justinian reunified Rome's fractured empire by defeating the Goths and Vandals who had separated Italy, Spain, and North Africa from imperial rule. At his capital in Constantinople he built the world's m...

Kitty Sewell's Ice Trap starts with a bombshell. Dafydd Woodruff, who's desperately been trying to conceive a child with his wife, receives a letter: 'Dear Doctor Woodruff, I hope you don't mind me writing to you. I think I'm your dau...

Now the sassy southern New York Times bestseller that started it all is available on CD!Meet Georgia, SuSu, Teeny, Diane, and Linda—five women who’ve been best friends through thirty years since high school. Sit in when th...

Four mysterious letters change Miranda's world forever.By sixth grade, Miranda and her best friend, Sal, know how to navigate their New York City neighborhood. They know where it's safe to go, like the local grocery store, and they kn...

Unburdened by the material necessities of the more fortunate, the denizens of Cannery Row discover rewards unknown in more traditional society. Henry the painter sorts through junk lots for pieces of wood to incorporate into the boa...

Most people know the system of Reiki as a healing art for treating others, but few realize that this increasingly popular energy practice also focuses on meditations for self-healing and personal empowerment. With Reiki Meditations fo...

It is widely accepted that meditation can result in reduced stress, greater health and a sense of calmness and balance. Studies show that in states of meditation we produce a greater quantity of slow frequency theta brainwaves. Pulses...

[Read by Carolyn McCormick]If J. J. Abrams, Margaret Atwood, and Alan Weisman collaborated on a novel . . . it might be this awesome. -- Area X has been cut off from the rest of the continent for decades. Nature has reclaimed the la...

Four very diverse women, all seeking revitalization from the dreary February rains of 1920s London, rent the small medieval castle of San Salvatore, nestled high above the bay of Portofino, Italy. Arriving at San Salvatore, they find ...

In this harrowing thriller from award-winning British crime writer Minette Walters, Reuters correspondent Connie Burns gets on the wrong side of a mercenary who is contracted to protect an important Lebanese personage. After voicing h...

The time is 1985. Benji, the son of a lawyer and a doctor, is one of the only black kids at an elite prep school in Manhattan. He spends his falls and winters going to roller-disco bar mitzvahs and trying desperately to find a social ...

When Alaric, Duke of Dunstable, decides to take the Empress of Blandings away from her loving master and get her fit, Lord Emsworth calls in the services of the redoubtable Uncle Fred. Fred arrives full of the joys of spring, with nep...

A leading historian of the American Revolution offers an incisive portrait of the complex, often contradictory figure of Benjamin Franklin, a man who was at once the quintessential American and a cosmolitan lover of Europe, a one-time...

In the dark and sexy debut of Laura Wright's Mark of the Vampire series, fate places Alexander Roman at the door of Dr. Sara Donahue---and when their worlds collide, one becomes hunter and the other becomes prey.

Counsels women on every stage of a relationship with a man, sharing intimate coverage of male psychology, from the reasons behind infidelity and the secret truths about a man's sexuality to the male code of silence that challenges ope...

Dark fantasy meets hard-boiled thriller in a stand-alone tale of revenge, set in the world of acclaimed author Joe Abercrombie's First Law Trilogy.

They only come when it snows, and nobody ever gets away. A group of close friends gathers at a secluded cabin in the wintry mountains of Colorado for a final holiday hurrah. Instead, it may be their last stand. First a massive blizzar...

The war between the alien hydrogues and the faeros rages, reducing suns to blackened shells - including one of the fabled seven suns of the Ildiran Empire. Instead of protecting themselves, the Ildirans engage in bloody civil war and ...

In this world you're surrounded by sexual images that open the door to temptation. They're everywhere - on TV, billboards, magazines, music, the Internet - and so easy to access that it sometimes feels impossible to escape their clutc...

Salon owner Julie Stanford wanted Nathan Tucker ever since she gave him his first massage. Getting paid to feel every inch of his body, stripped, oiled, and spread out in front of her? Stuff dreams are made of. But the sexy guy was ob...

Mister B. Gone marks the long-awaited return of Clive Barker, the great master of the macabre, to the classic horror story. This bone-chilling novel, in which a medieval devil speaks directly to his reader—his tone murderous one mo...

A self-anointed spinster at fifty-one, Myra Lipinski is reasonably content with her quiet life, her dog, Frank, and her career as a visiting nurse. But everything changes when Chip Reardon, the golden boy she adored in high school, is...

L. M. Boston's thrilling and chilling tales of Green Knowe, a haunted manor deep in an overgrown garden in the English countryside, have been entertaining readers for half a century. Now the children of Green Knowe--both alive and gho...

L. M. Boston's thrilling and chilling tales of Green Knowe, a haunted manor deep in an overgrown garden in the English countryside, have been entertaining readers for half a century. Now the children of Green Knowe--both alive and gho...

In The Martian Chronicles, humanity discovers an ancient civilization on the verge of ruin. This classic work presents tales of human interaction with one another and with the Martians.

Ex-conservative and media watchdog David Brock examines the broad spectrum of conservative discourse that he thinks dominates the media and distorts the debate in America. His list of conspirators includes Fox News, talk radio, Christ...

Juliana Anderson is perfectly content running her bed and breakfast in small town Massachusetts; she doesn't think there's room in her life for romance or adventure, and she's okay with that...until a handsome, rugged stranger arrives...

Patrick J. Buchanan, the famed (if controversial) journalist and former candidate for president, excoriates the neoconservative arm of the right wing for hijacking the Grand Old Party and betraying conservative ideals. Buchanan sees B...