The arrival of Augustin Meaulnes at a small provincial secondary school sets in train a series of events that will have a profound effect on his life, and that of his new friend Francois Seurel. It is Seurel who recalls the impact of le grand Meaulnes, disruptive and charismatic, on his schoolmates,[...]

In the spring of 1945, as the Allied victory in Europe was approaching, the shape of the postwar world hinged on the personal politics and flawed personalities of Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin. Roosevelt's Lost Alliances captures this moment and shows how FDR crafted a winning coalition by overco[...]

Experience Oz like never before in this collection of books ten through twelve in L. Frank Baum's classic American fairy tale series.
The tenth, eleventh, and twelfth titles of the iconic Oz series, now in one collection
In "Rinkitink in Oz," Prince Inga of Pingaree must rescue his parents [...]

In 1982 Russell E. Burrows, a treasure hunter in southern Illinois, stumbled on an incredible cache of ancient weapons, jewels and gold sarcophagi in a remote cave. In addition there were countless stone tablets inscribed with hieroglyphs and bearing the portraits of ancient Roman soldiers, Hebrews,[...]

Was America truly unknown to the outside world until Christopher Columbus "discovered" it in 1492?
Could a people gifted enough to raise the Great Pyramid more than four thousand years ago have lacked the skills necessary to build a ship capable of crossing the Atlantic?
Did the Phoenicians,[...]

Within is a masterful assembly of the most personal details and gorgeous minutiae of Frank Sinatra's way of living--matters of the heart and heartbreak, friendship and leadership, drinking and cavorting, brawling and wooing, tuxedos and snap-brims--all crafted from rare interviews with Sinatra himse[...]