Susan Niditch The people and culture behind the Hebrew Bible fascinate the public as never before. From Bill Moyers's PBS series on Genesis to the massive circulation of Biblical Archeological...

Michael E Stone Ancient Judaism questions a broad range of basic assumptions made by students of Second Temple Judaism and calls for a radical rethinking of approaches to Jewish history...

John Romer One of the best-known historians working today, and a world-renowned expert on the ancient world, presents a brilliant account of the lives of the stonemasons, scribes, and painters...

Walter Burkert The foremost historian of Greek religion provides the first comprehensive, comparative study of a little-known aspect of ancient religious beliefs and practices. Secret mystery cults flourished within the...

Susie Hodge Explore Roman art across the ages. Learn why the Romans built so many huge arches. This book is packed full of priceless works of art from this great...

Ann Leckie On a remote, icy planet, the soldier known as Breq is drawing closer to completing her quest.Once, she was the Justice of Toren - a colossal starship with...

Ann Leckie Breq and her crew must stand against an old and powerful enemy and fight for their own destinies in the stunning conclusion to the New York Times bestselling...

Ann Leckie JUSTICE FOR ALLBreq - the soldier who used to be a spaceship - is serving the emperor she swore to destroy. She's been given her own warship, her...

Lauren Belfer The New York Times-bestselling author of A Fierce Radiance and City of Light returns with a new powerful and passionate novel—inspired by historical events—about two women, one European and one American, and the...

Eoin Colfer "And Another Thing ..." will be the sixth novel in the now improbably named "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" trilogy. Eight years after the death of its creator,...

Dyan SheldonLana is fed up with everyone telling her what to do. She wants to be grown up. She wants her own flat, her own husband and her own children....

Piers Anthony After an overwhelming succession of tragedies, life has finally, mercifully ended for Orlene, once-mortal daughter of Gaea. Joined in Afterlife by Jolie -- her protector and the sometime...