Jonathan Clements His grandfather was the bloodthirsty Mongol leader Genghis Khan. Groomed from childhood for a position of authority, Khubilai snatched the position of Great Khan, becoming the overlord of...

Carl Hiaasen From "the funniest important writer in America" ( Miami Herald ) comes a tale that is gleefully zany and incisively sharp. October 30, 2007 by Grand Central Publishing...

Jonathan Guinness with Catherine Guinness The classic story of one of the twentieth century's most extraordinary families.Among the six daughters and one son born to David, second Lord Redesdale, and...

Jose Saramago When the Iberian Peninsula breaks free of Europe and begins to drift across the North Atlantic, five people are drawn together on the newly formed island-first by surreal...

Francine Prose Vera Perl, the bright, edgy heroine of "Bigfoot Dreams, " is the star reporter of a sleazy supermarket tabloid. At work, she conjures up stories about UFO sightings,...

Alex Rutherford 1530, Agra, Northern India. Humayun, the newly-crowned second Moghul emperor, is a fortunate man. His father, Babur, has bequeathed him wealth, glory and an empire which stretches 1000...

Jane Gardam The third installment in the Old Filth trilogy, Last Friends will surprise and delight Gardam fans and appeal to new readers as it concludes a portrait of a...

Harry Turtledove The dazzling story of a boy who rises from poverty and hardship to become the greatest leader his world has ever knownKRISPOS RISINGBorn a ragged peasant, Krispos lives...

Reay Tannahill In fifteenth-century Scotland, Bishop Gavin Cameron of Kinveil, the chancellor of Scotland, is determined to stop Archdeacon Columba Crozier's plot to destroy the king January 1, 1986 by...

Kaye Gibbons When Blinking Jack Stokes met Ruby Pitt Woodrow, she was twenty and he was forty. She was the carefully raised daughter of Carolina gentry and he was a...

Zoe Ferraris The one scalding afternoon, the mutilated body of a young woman, half naked beneath her burqa, is discovered on a Saudi beach; soon afterwards a Western woman's husband...

Sir Walter Scott Quentin Durward (1823), Scott's first "European" novel, was an experiment in transferring the historical romance to foreign soil. Fifteenth-century France, the French Revolution, and contemporary Britain all...