From the World Fantasy Award-winning author comes the suspenseful sequel to Pennies from HeavenThe bright spring weather in Old Orange is deceptive, with dark undercurrents shifting beneath the surface of the busy lives of Jane and Jerry Larkin. Jerry is restoring an old boarding house, exposing its dark history, and Jane's busy Co-op is victimized by malicious mischief that grows more mailicious by the day. Their troubles roil together, sinister forces rising from th...

During the course of most of Russia's turbulent history, czars ruled. The story of these men and women - as diverse as the lands they governed - is, in many ways, the story of Russia itself. From the birth of the Kievan state in the second half of the ninth century to the murder of Czar Nicholas II and his family in 1918, historians James P. Duffy and Vincent L. Ricci trace the long and twisted line of imperial rule in Russia, offering many insights into the uses and abuses of absolute pow...

BEGIN THE CELEBRATED "GIANTS" SERIES WITH TWO COMPLETE NOVELS BY A MASTER OF SCIENCE FICTION WITH REAL SCIENCE!Inherit the Stars:When they found the corpse in a grave on the Moon, wearing a spacesuit of unfamiliar design, his identity was a complete mystery. Analysis showed that the deceased was 50,000 years old-meaning that he had somehow died on the Moon before the human race even existed.The Gentle Giants of Ganymede

This vivid and impeccably researched book details the life and Civil War battles of Admiral David Farragut. It shines a spotlight and shares new details about the admiral's leadership of the mission to recapture the port of New Orleans from the Confederacy - a campaign historians consider one of the most daring in military history. Farragut is perhaps best known for his order to “Damn the torpedoes.... Full speed ahead." during the Battle of Mobile Bay, which has become a touchstone and ra...

The modern world is fighting for your attention. The question is whether you are willing to fight for it back.Every day brings another distraction, another comparison, another excuse to wait, and another opportunity to choose comfort over growth. We have more information, convenience, and connection than any generation before us, yet millions of people still struggle with self-doubt, validation, fear, procrastination, and the feeling that they should be further ahe...

Jerry Larkin discovers an age-old secret buried beneath the foundation of the house that he and his wife Jane, an avid reader of ghost stories, bought six months ago in the idyllic town of Old Orange in southern California.Jane Larkin, whose MacArthur grant led to the creation of public gardens and a farmers market in the town’s central park, works against time to save what she has built as a 100-year storm moves in off the coast.Lettie Phibbs, a strange librarian whose Ant...

A skeletal hand clutching an iron key lies hidden within a mermaid’s wooden sarcophagus; a hand-drawn map is stolen from beneath the floorboards of an old museum; an eccentric sleeping inventor dreams of a locked passage to the centre of the hollow earth, and by dreaming of the passage, brings it into being...Pursued by kidnappers thinking of riches and murder, Katherine Perkins and her two cousins, junior members of The Guild of St. George, must descend into the depths of the eart...

In a world filled with endless notifications, social media feeds, streaming content, and constant interruptions, focus has become one of the most valuable skills a person can possess.The Distraction Trap explores how modern technology, convenience, and the attention economy are reshaping our habits, productivity, relationships, and sense of purpose. Drawing lessons from history, psychology, and everyday life, James P Patterson examines why so many people struggle to focus and what ...

What if the biggest obstacle standing between you and the life you want isn't failure, bad luck, or a lack of talent?What if it's comfort?Every day, we make choices. Some move us closer to growth, purpose, and success. Others keep us trapped in routines, excuses, and habits that quietly limit our potential. The challenge is that comfort rarely feels dangerous. It feels safe. It feels familiar. It feels easy.In The Comfortable Trap, James P Patterson explores how the...

A mysterious airship orbits through the foggy skies above Victorian London. Its terrible secrets are sought by many, including: the Royal Society; a fraudulent evangelist; a fiendish vivisectionist; an evil millionaire; and an assorted group led by the scientist and explorer, Professor Langdon St. Ives. Can St. Ives keep the alien homunculus out of the claws of the villainous Ignacio Narbondo?

Calvin Bryson has hidden himself away from the world, losing himself in his work and his collection of rare and quirky books. But he never meant to let so much time go by without visiting his aunt and uncle. Their tiny town of New Cyprus, California - hemmed in by the Dead Mountains and the Colorado River - isn't the kind of place one just happens upon...Coincidentally, their invitation to visit comes at the same time Calvin is asked to deliver to his uncle a peculiar family heirlo...

Deep beneath the quicksands of Morecambe Bay lies a shifting graveyard of lost things, long sunk to the sea bottom. Pursued by the nefarious Dr. Narbondo, Langdon St. Ives and his stalwart companions descend beneath the sands in a diving chamber, and amid the debris of human bones and the wreckage of human lives, they search for an alien device, which, in the wrong hands,could change the course of human history and provide Narbondo with the means to enslave mankind….