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In the final decades of the nineteenth century, three brilliant and visionary titans of America’s Gilded Age—Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, and George Westinghouse—battled bitterly as each vied to create a vast and powerful electrical empire. In Empires of Light, historian Jill Jonnes portrays this ex... More

"Far-ranging and deeply researched, Urban Forests reveals the beauty and significance of the trees around us." --Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sixth Extinction"A comprehensive look at the trees of American cities . . . this book deserves [great interest]; indeed, no one who... More

A modern American myth-buster finds the magic of love in seventeenth-century Scotland in this unique and “truly spectacular” romance (Romantic Times). Taylor Kincaid has made a career of debunking myths and legends as the host of her own TV show. When she inherits property in Scotland near a stori... More

Eiffel's Tower for Young People is a vivid, lively pageant of people and cultures meeting—and competing—on the world stage at the dawn of the modern era.The 1889 World's Fair was a worldwide event showcasing the cutting-edge cultural and technological accomplishments of the world's most powerful nat... More

In the final decades of the nineteenth century, three brilliant and visionary titans of America’s Gilded Age—Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, and George Westinghouse—battled bitterly as each vied to create a vast and powerful electrical empire. InEmpires of Light, historian Jill Jonnes portrays this ex... More

Thirty-five years after this landmark of urban history first captured the rise, fall, and rebirth of a once-thriving New York City borough—ravaged in the 1970s and ’80s by disinvestment and fires, then heroically revived and rebuilt in the 1990s by community activists—Jill Jonnes returns to chronicl... More

&“Voodoo, danger and romance all combine to construct an on the edge of your seat thriller!&” —RT BOOK REVIEWS Ex-cop Angela Donahue has traded a life of mystery and danger for one of tranquility when she ended her career with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. But when she&’s arrested for the mur... More

“Nail-biting suspense…a taut edge-of-your-seat thriller.” –RT BOOK REVIEWS Twenty years ago, Catherine Carmichael and her mother fled Ravenswood after Catherine’s father mysteriously disappeared. Now, Catherine finds herself back on the small peninsula to attend the reading of her eccentric uncle’s ... More

The discovery of an exotic scent sets the stage for a tale of love, revenge, and renewed passion in this “unique and utterly spellbinding . . . story to savor” (Romantic Times). Simone LeFevre will stop at nothing until she’s joined the exclusive ranks of the world’s top perfumers, even if it mean... More

The Louisiana bayou heats up when a grieving psychic returns home to find a new chance at love—and a foreboding message from the spirit realm. When Boston psychic Gabriella Deveaux’s husband is killed in a plane crash, she and her daughter head home to the Louisiana estate where Gabriella was rai... More

An FBI profiler and Scotland Yard inspector track a modern-day Jack the Ripper copycat in this “chilling . . . wonderful thriller” with a romantic twist (Heather Graham, New York Times–bestselling author of Echoes of Evil). On vacation in England, American FBI profiler Victoria Thomas attends a le... More

A Cornish island forgotten by time sets the stage for this thrilling romance cloaked in ancient secrets; “top-notch reading fun!” (RT Book Reviews) Keely Cochrane has never questioned the ironclad traditions of Keinadraig, the island where she was raised—until her best friend rebels, leaving the i... More

Bidden by a lovesick ghost to unearth Lord Byron’s secret diary, a Boston heiress finds a fiery passion of her own in this “spellbinding” novel (Romantic Times). Heiress Alison Cunningham, born into the upper echelon of Boston society, is shattered when her parents are killed in a tragic plane cra... More

An American scholar is out to solve the mystery of Emily Brontë’s death, only to discover a chance at love in this “delightful and visionary tale” (Romantic Times). American professor Alex Hightower isn’t looking for love when he travels to the small English village of Haworth, once home of the le... More

Since it opened in May 1889, the Eiffel Tower has become an iconic image of modern times: as much a beacon of technological progress as an enduring symbol of Paris and French culture. But as engineer Gustave Eiffel built the now-famous landmark to be the spectacular centrepiece of the 1889 World's ... More

"Superb. [A] first-rate narrative" (The Wall Street Journal ) about the controversial construction of New York's beloved original Penn Station and its tunnels\ As bestselling books like Ron Chernow's Titan and David McCullough's The Great Bridge affirm, readers are fascinated with the grand persona... More

Gayl Jones's special gift is to shape experience and make it seem unshaped. -John Alfred Avant, The New RepublicGayl Jones's first novel, Corregidora, won her recognition as a writer whose work was gripping, subtle, and sure. It was praised, along with her second novel, Eva's Man, by writers and cri... More

Here is Gayl Jones's classic novel, the tale of blues singer Ursa, consumed by her hatred of the nineteenth-century slave master who fathered both her grandmother and mother.... More

The stories in this collection traverse a broad range of historical and private subjects: the invasion of East Timor, the Titanic, astronomy, pregnancy, Tiananmen Square and life within a remote Aboriginal community. They all explore the most problematic issue of human experience, the nature of suff... More

On a radiant day in Sydney, four adults converge on Circular Quay, site of the iconic Opera House and the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Crowds of tourists mix with the locals, enjoying the glorious surroundings and the play of light on water. But each of the four carries a complicated history from elsewher... More

A Guide to Berlin is the name of a short story written by Vladimir Nabokov in 1925, when he was a young man of 26, living in Berlin.In this novel, a group of six international travellers, two Italians, two Japanese, an American and an Australian, meet in empty apartments in Berlin to share stories a... More

Victoria Morrell was once a great artist. She led the high life - living and working in Paris in the 1920s, mixing with the artists of the Surrealist movement. Her work, largely forgotten in the fifties and sixties, was rediscovered in the seventies when she became something of a cult figure in th... More

In 1860 Lucy Strange and her brother Thomas are orphaned, and so begins Lucy’s adolescent journey of discovery. It will take her away from her childhood home in Australia to London and Bombay and, finally, to her death, at the age of twenty-two. Lucy’s is a life abbreviated, but not a life diminishe... More

The art historian Noah Glass, having just returned from a trip to Sicily, is discovered floating face down in the swimming pool at his Sydney apartment block. His adult children, Martin and Evie, must come to terms with the shock of their father's death. But a sculpture has gone missing from a museu... More