Martin Langfield Sotheby's, London, 1936. A paper by Sir Isaac Newton is sold at auction to a bookseller's agent and within minutes of leaving the auction house, he is killed...

Frances Hodgson Burnett Mary Lennox was horrid. Selfish and spoilt, she was sent to stay with her hunchback uncle in Yorkshire. She hated it. But when she finds the way...

Juan Gabriel Vasquez London, 1903. Joseph Conrad is struggling with his new novel ('I am placing it in South America in a Republic I call Costaguana'). Progress is slow and...

Why has the War on Cancer" languished, focusing mainly on finding and treating the disease and downplaying the need to control and combat cancer's basic causes,tobacco, the workplace, radiation, and...

Santa Montefiore   The Secret Hours (Deverill Chronicles #4)   My curiosity is aroused. I realise, to my shame, that I know nothing about my mother, nothing at all... nothing...

Lauren Barnholdt Mom says karma always comes around to get you, and I guess it's true. Because last summer I was a total liar, and now, right in the middle...

Paul Harris One man's search for the truth in war-torn Sierra Leone, where the rules of civilized society don't apply...Journalist Danny Kellerman receives an urgent letter from an ex-lover in...

Steve Buddulph Full of simple, practical strategies, this book shows how parents can eliminate destructive messages while sending out positive ones that will help their children grow up happy and...

Deborah Johnson In 1946 Regina Robichard is a rarity. A young New York civil rights lawyer, working for Thurgood Marshall, Reggie stumbles across a letter asking her boss to investigate...

Robert Collier Joining the ranks of Tarcher's runaway editions of Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill, Public Speaking for Success by Dale Carnegie, and The Science of Getting Rich...

Author: Carolyn Keene Nancy Drew solves her first mystery when the accidental rescue of a little girl who lives with her two great-aunts leads on an adventurous search for a...

Elizabeth Adler A beautiful Jane Doe with no memory of who she is or how she got to the bottom of a treacherous ravine; and a psychiatrist who joins her...