"First came the mysterious attacks. Then the ice begins to crack and break away. Unless help comes quickly, even the farthest reaches of the kingdom will not be spared from Malvel's evil plans. Tom must stop Tartok the Ice Beast, and soon"--P. [4] of cover.

An exuberant travelogue involving visits to Cuba and various Middle Eastern locations, stories of Russia and the death of Czar Nicholas and family, and riding an elephant over the Alps!

A great archeologist might hope to make just one momentous discovery in his lifetime, but Adam Livingstone has already discovered two of the ancient world's greatest mysteries in the history of mankind--and in less than a year. Now he is on the verge of recovering what is probably the single greatest artifact ever lost.

Enslaved by the Goatlord Kesslar, young werewolf Drew finds himself on the volcanic isle of Scoria, forced to fight in the arena for the Lizardlords.

An electrifying puzzle, corporate sleuth Matt Cobb is set up in a TV-world murder. This Edgar Award-winning debut novel introduces Matt Cobb, vice president of special projects at a large television network - where "special projects" means anything sensitive, or even fatal, that the company wants to keep quiet. Cobb's no stranger to following mysterious orders, so when he receives a telephone call asking him to visit a hotel room he obliges. The invitation,...

"1945. In the waning months of World War II, Japan hid vast quantities of gold and other stolen valuables in boobytrapped underground caches all across the Philippines. By 1947 some of that loot was recovered, not by treasure hunters, but by the United States government, which told no one about the find. Instead, those assets were stamped classified, shipped to Europe, and secretly assimilated into something called the Black Eagle Trust. Present day....

Story of a young fighter pilot in his hour of desperate need as he heads home to England on Christmas Eve.

"A devastating story of one family's border-crossing adventure to rescue one another and make peace with the past, set in the former Soviet republic of Georgia, two years after the occupation of South Ossetia by Russia in 2008"-- Having fled conflict in the former-Soviet Republic of Georgia as children, Saba and his brother have fought to make peace with the past. In particular, they struggle with the sacrifices of a mother who remained in a war...

"For centuries, the Everlys have seen their best and brightest disappear, taken as punishment for a crime no one remembers, for a purpose no one understands. Their tormentor, a woman named Penelope, never ages, never grows sick - and never forgives a debt. Violet Everly was a child when her mother left on a stormy night, determined to break the curse. When Marianne never returns, Penelope issues an ultimatum: Violet has ten years to find her mother,...