English literature

The Fall of Arthur

by J.R.R. Tolkien & Christopher Tolkien

The Fall of Arthur, the only venture by J.R.R. Tolkien into the legends of Arthur King of Britain, may well be regarded as his finest and most skillful achievement in the use of the Old English alliterative...

Hollywood Lies

by David Ambrose

Hollywood Lies is a collection of seven suavely bewitching stories, all with a Machiavellian twist at the end: Marilyn Munroe as virtual reality's most valuable asset . . . A fading film producer whose impending...

Twisted

by David Ambrose

Joe Turner is a penniless young artist in need of a break. One day, through a minor traffic accident, he makes the acquaintance of one of the richest couples in Europe.

Sergei Vanov is a Russian oligarch based...

The Things We Never Said

by Susan Elliot Wright

A powerful debut novel perfect for fans of Maggie O'Farrell.

In 1964 Maggie wakes to find herself in a psychiatric ward, not knowing who she is or why she has been committed. She slowly begins to have memories...

And a Puzzle to Die On

Puzzle Lady #6

by Parnell Hall

When nerdy cruciverbalist Harvey Beerbaum throws a birthday bash for Cora Felton at the Bakerhaven Library, it's no surprise that the centerpiece, a huge cake decorated like a crossword puzzle, is a complete...

Flashman and the Redskins

Flashman Papers #7

by GeorgeMacDonald Fraser

The seventh volume of the "Flashman Papers" records the arch-cad's adventures in America during Gold Rush of 1849 and the Battle of Bighorn in 1876, and his acquaintance with famous Indian chiefs, American soldiers,...

Pros and Cons: A Short Story

by Janet Evanovich & Lee Goldberg

Janet Evanovich and Lee Goldberg have teamed up for a dynamic new series featuring an FBI agent who’s on the hunt—and a master con artist who’s enjoying the chase. The con is on in this eBook original...

A Chain of Thunder: A Novel of the Siege of Vicksburg

Civil War Trilogy #2

by Jeff Shaara

Continuing the series that began with A Blaze of Glory, New York Times bestselling author Jeff Shaara returns to chronicle another decisive chapter in America’s long and bloody Civil War. In A Chain of Thunder,...

Siro: A Novel

by David Ignatius

"A riveting imagined world, so real in fact that one always wonders if it is imagined at all." -Scott TurowMade restless by the tightening restrictions of CIA bureaucracy, agent Alan Taylor oversteps moral and...

Restraint: A Novel

by Sherry Sonnett

A fast-paced novel hailed by Entertainment Weekly as a "well-crafted, suspenseful thriller [which] offers sex, erotica, and more sex."

In Sherry Sonnett’s compelling first novel, Vega Johnson, a successful...

A Pawn for a Queen

Ursula Blanchard #6

by Fiona Buckley

A quiet life at Withysham with her young daughter is all that widowed Ursula Blanchard desires. But as the waiting woman and spy for Queen Elizabeth I, she forfeits her needs for the sake of those she is pledged...

King of Cuba: A Novel

by Cristina Garcia

Vivid and alive, Cristina García’s new novel transports readers to Cuba, to Miami, and into the heads of two larger-than-life men—a fictionalized Fidel Castro and an octogenarian Cuban exile obsessed with...

To Shield the Queen

Ursula Blanchard #1

by Fiona Buckley

In this compelling debut of her historical mystery series, Fiona Buckley introduces Ursula Blanchard, a widowed young mother who has become lady-in-waiting to Queen Elizabeth I. Armed with a sharp eye, dangerous...

Drop Dead Beauty

Ghost Dusters Mysteries #5

by Wendy Roberts

Crime scene cleaner and amateur medium Sadie Novak's ability to talk to the dead is a sure-fire way to solve crimes, but sometimes Sadie thinks she'd prefer a channel into the minds of the living instead......

The Art Forger: A Novel

by B. A. Shapiro

Almost twenty-five years after the infamous art heist at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum-still the largest unsolved art theft in history-one of the stolen Degas paintings is delivered to the Boston studio...

And the Mountains Echoed

by Khaled Hosseini

An unforgettable novel about finding a lost piece of yourself in someone else.

Khaled Hosseini, the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns, has written a new novel...

The Red Plague Affair

Bannon & Clare #2

by Lilith Saintcrow

The service of Britannia is not for the faint of heart--or conscience...

Emma Bannon, Sorceress Prime in service to Queen Victrix, has a mission: to find the doctor who has created a powerful new weapon. Her...

The Winter Mantle

by Elizabeth Chadwick

Normandy 1067---William may have conquered England, but it is a conquest of a different kind that one English earl has in mind.

Fresh from his defeat of King Harold at the Battle of Hastings, William of Normandy...

The Tavern in the Morning

Hawkenlye Mysteries #3

by Alys Clare

At the end of a dark and dreary market day, Goody Anne's inn at Tonbridge is finally settling down for the night. But while Anne's serving maid and boy finish up their chores, a man lies dying in the guest chamber-poisoned...

Seaspray: The Quest for the Trilogy

by Mel Odom

Young halfer Juhg, the new master librarian, is still growing into his job as Grandmagister when an ally from the past returns. The wizened wizard Craugh bears warnings of an ancient threat that may resurface,...