By James A. Michener

Written to commemorate the Bicentennial in 1976, James A. Michener’s awesome saga of the West is a captivating party of the frontier. Brimming with the respect of America’s prior, the tale of Colorado—the Centennial State—is manifested via its humans: Lame Beaver, the Arapaho chieftain and warrior, and his Comanche and Pawnee enemies; Levi Zendt, fleeing along with his baby bride from the Amish kingdom; the cowboy, Jim Lloyd, who falls in love with a filthy rich and cultured Englishwoman, Charlotte Seccombe. In Centennial, trappers, investors, homesteaders, gold seekers, ranchers, and hunters are introduced jointly within the dramatic conflicts that form the future of the mythical West—and the full country.

Praise for Centennial

“A hell of a ebook . . . whereas he fascinates and engrosses, Michener additionally educates.”—Los Angeles Times

“An engrossing ebook . . . ingenious and complicated . . . teeming with humans and giving a wonderful experience of the land.”—The simple Dealer

“Michener is America’s top author, and he proves it once more in Centennial. . . . If you’re a Michener fan, this ebook is a needs to. And if you’re now not a Michener fan, Centennial will make you one.”—The Pittsburgh Press

“An soaking up paintings . . . Michener is a wonderful storyteller.”—BusinessWeek

By Alex Archer, Steven Savile

The face of evil.

And the face of greed…

The video confirmed a virtually bare guy bloodied and crushed. while archaeologist and television presenter Annja Creed watched, the clock on his suicide vest ticked down, and valuable seconds have been misplaced. yet this used to be no stranger. Garin used to be her buddy. Their fates have been certain through the secrets and techniques of Joan of Arc's sword. And Annja had lower than twenty-four hours to save lots of his life….

The cost for Garin's lifestyles was once the misplaced masks of Torquemada, rumored to were forged by way of the Grand Inquisitor himself, years in the past through the Spanish Inquisition. deserted crypts, misplaced palaces and a merciless and historical brotherhood: all clues to the mask's advanced and lethal secret that Annja, and her mentor, Roux—using all in their enormous assets and cunning—must clear up earlier than Garin runs out of time.

Annja Creed is dealing with her maximum trial. and never even the holy sword of Joan of Arc can spare her from the ultimate judgment.

By Wilbur A. Smith

Internationally bestselling writer Wilbur Smith returns with a heart-racing tale of kin secrets and techniques, greed, and revenge.

Hector pass left in the back of a occupation of excessive hazards and battle while he married his loved Hazel Bannock. yet after his new lifestyles is tragically upended, he acknowledges the ruthless hand of an outdated enemy in the back of the assault.

            made up our minds to struggle again, Hector attracts jointly a staff of his so much unswerving associates and fellow warriors to seek down those that pursue him and his household. For he and Hazel have a toddler, a important daughter, whom he'll visit the ends of the earth to protect.

Soon, in spite of the fact that, Hector learns that the hazard comes not only from his previous enemies, but in addition Hazel’s. Brutal figures from her family’s past—thought lengthy gone—are returning, with an schedule so sinister that Hector realizes he's dealing with a brand new form of adversary. One whose lethal tools and darkish secrets and techniques will lead Hector to a sequence of crimes so stunning that he has no selection yet to settle the ranking.

By Farley Mowat

Awasin and Jamie, brothers in braveness, meet a problem many mountain males couldn't endure.  When their canoe is destroyed via the fury of the rapids, they have to face the wasteland without nutrition and no desire of rescue.  To live on, they construct an igloo, conflict a towering grizzly undergo, tune numerous wolves, slaughter caribou for foodstuff and clothing.  Two misplaced huskies they tame deliver companionship--and possibly a fashion domestic from their risky event.

By Dan J. Marlowe

It wasn’t in any respect like Hazel to move off with no observe to Drake. yet she did. He attempted calling her on the hotel, yet they acknowledged she’d simply looked at. No, no messages.

Drake figured he’d higher do some checking on his own.

Which is why he went to determine Hazel’s company supervisor, Nate Pepperan, in Hudson. It were Pepperman’s cellphone name which had taken Hazel to Hudson within the first position. Nate could without doubt be aware of the place she was.

But Nate wasn’t telling. How may perhaps he, along with his throat slit?

Operation Whiplash—a demanding, blood-pounding story of mayhem, homicide, and the Mafia with Drake, the guy with Nobody’s Face.

By Clive Kristen

This selection of nearby conflict tales is delivered to you as an e-book particularly formatted via Andrews united kingdom for brand new eReaders. during this first publication of the 'Battle Trails' sequence, renowned nearby author Clive Kristen turns his hand to an exam of the battles that formed Northumbria and past.

By Ed Sutter

The myth suspense/thriller event all started within the MAGIC store maintains! whilst Alec Gavins and his pals examine a local American archaeological website in northern Arizona, they locate an historic steel statue the place no such artifact should still exist. This statue proves to be a clue that results in proof of an historical, high-tech civilization. Alec and his buddies needs to grasp the traditional expertise to save lots of the Earth from destruction.

By Kimberly Meyer

To a mom and daughter on an illuminating pilgrimage, this can be what the barren region acknowledged: hold in basic terms what you wish. Burn what can't be kept. go away the remnants as an supplying.

When Kimberly Meyer gave start to her first daughter, Ellie, in the course of her senior 12 months of school, the bohemian lifetime of exploration she had as soon as imagined for herself used to be misplaced within the tasks of unmarried motherhood. For years, either mom and daughter have been haunted via how Ellie got here into being-Kimberly via a stressed soreness for the area past, Ellie via a terror of abandonment.

Longing to bond with Ellie, now a school pupil, and longing, too, to rediscover herself, Kimberly units off along with her daughter on a quest for that means around the globe. abandoning the rhythms of standard existence in Houston, Texas, they commit a summer season to retracing the footsteps of Felix Fabri, a medieval Dominican friar whose written account of his travels resonates with Kimberly. Their mother-daughter pilgrimage takes them to unique locations infused with secret, spirituality, and wealthy history-from Venice to the Mediterranean via Greece and partitioned Cyprus, to Israel and around the Sinai barren region with Bedouin publications, to the Palestinian territories and to Cairo and Alexandria in Egypt.

In spare and beautiful prose, The e-book of Wanderings tells the tale of Kimberly and Ellie's trip, and of the intimate, lasting bond they forge alongside the way in which. A meditation on stripping away the distractions, on simplicity, on the best way to reside, this can be a bright memoir with the facility to either delivery readers to distant lands and to carry them in nearer reference to themselves. it is going to attract a person who has reflected the line now not taken, who has skilled the gnawing feeling that there's whatever extra, who has confronted the void-of offspring leaving, of mortality looming, of looking for somewhere that feels, eventually, like domestic.

By L. E. Modesitt Jr.

Whilst her mentor, Anna, all of sudden dies earlier than she has comprehensive her education, Secca, a tender sorceress, is thrust right into a place of strength, unprepared for the dissension and betrayal surrounding her as she battles the ocean clergymen and their lethal new dru..

By Valmore Daniels

On the finish of the twenty first century, a catastrophic twist of fate within the asteroid belt has left surveyors lifeless, however the asteroid itself is totally lacking, in addition to their younger son, Alex Manez, who was once accompanying them. at the periphery of the sunlight method, the 1st manned project to Pluto, led through the youngest girl astronaut in NASA background, has ended in an old discovery: there's a marker left there through an alien race for humankind to discover. we're not on my own! whereas learning the alien marker, it starts to react and, 4 hours later, the lacking asteroid seems in a Plutonian orbit, besides younger Alex Manez, who has built a few alarming side-effects from his publicity to the kinetic aspect they name Kinemet. From the depths of a felony empire in accordance with Luna, an expatriate seizes the chance to wrest regulate of outer area, and takes rapid motion. the key to faster-than-light pace is up for grabs, and the race for interstellar house is on!