Life isn't fair--here's why: Since 1500, Europeans have, for better and worse, called the tune that the world has danced to. In Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond explains the reasons why things worked out that way. It is an elemental question, and Diamond is certainly not the first to ask it. However, he performs a singular service by relyin...more

From the creator of the critically acclaimed, award-winning Cork O'Connor mystery series comes a haunting, atmospheric, conspiracy thriller. When President Clay Dixon's father-in-law -- a former vice president -- is injured in a farming accident, First Lady Kate Dixon returns to Minnesota to be at his side. Assigned to protect her, Secret Service ...more

Miles To Go Before I Sleep, A survivor's story of life after a terrorist hijacking. On November 24, 1985, Jackie Nink Pflug was among five passengers singled out for execution by the hijackers of EgyptAir Flight 648. Shot in the head by her captors and shoved from the jet's boarding ramp, the 30-year-old teacher was left for dead on the airport tar...more

Tough-as-nails former small-town sheriff Cork O'Connor is forced into the center of an eerie mystery with a shocking twist in this "vivid and realistic" (Booklist) Anthony Award-winning novel from critically acclaimed author William Kent KruegerWhen the corpse of a beautiful high school student is discovered on a hillside four months after her disa...more

New York State Assemblyman, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Governor of New York, Vice President and, at forty-two, the youngest President ever—in his own words, Theodore Roosevelt “rose like a rocket.” He was also a cowboy, a soldier, a historian, an intrepid explorer, and an unsurpassed environmentalist. In Lion in the White House, histori...more

Andrea Labore is a beautiful, ambitious TV newscaster. She s hungry for a story that could make her career. At the same time, at the same station, two men are hungering for her. One is Rick Beanblossom, a star reporter who hides his disfigured face behind a cotton mask. The other is the station s uncanny weatherman, Dixon Bell, who appears a gentle...more