When his foster father, a wealthy merchant and bookseller, finances Johann Gutenberg and his printing press, Peter Schoeffer is ordered to become Gutenberg's apprentice and begins his education in the "darkest art" as they print copies of the Holy Bible, drawing the wrath of the Church.

Elaborates on the tale of "The Pied Piper," told from the point of view of a boy who is too ill to keep up when a piper spirits away the healthy children of a plague-ridden town after being cheated out of full payment for ridding Hameln of rats.

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"A new powerful and passionate novel--inspired by historical events--about two women, one European and one American, and the mysterious choral masterpiece by Johann Sebastian Bach that changes both their lives. In the ruins of Germany in 1945, at the end of World War II, American soldier Henry Sachs takes a souvenir, an old music manuscript, from a seemingly deserted mansion and mistakenly kills the girl who tries to stop him. In America in 2010,...

Germany, 1659: When a dying boy is pulled from the river with a mark crudely tattooed on his shoulder, hangman Jakob Kuisl is called upon to investigate whether witchcraft is at play in his small Bavarian town. Whispers and dark memories of witch trials and the women burned at stake just seventy years earlier still haunt the streets of Schongau. When more children disappear and an orphan boy is found dead, marked by the same tattoo, the mounting hysteria...

"When the young Felicity is searching for her mother, she comes across an agonizing secret about her family history. The investigation leads her back to the darkest chapter of our past and the dramatic fate of her great-grandmother and her great-grandmother's daughter. A network of Love, Crime and Punishment destroyed both women and threw their generation's shadow on Felicity's own life"--cataloger's translation of publisher's website....

Mortal fear: When the woman with whom he has been having an online love affair is murdered by a serial killer specializing in female clients of EROS, an exclusive, erotic online service, Harper Cole devises a deadly plan to impersonate his dead lover online, hoping to lead the killer out into the open. Spandau phoenix: The Spandau diary, what was in it? Why did the secret intelligence agencies of every major power want it? Why was a brave and beautiful...