Winner of the CWA Silver Dagger

The New York Times bestselling series continues with the murder of an American soldier in Venice. Rich with atmosphere and marvelous plotting, Death in a Strange Country is a superb novel in Donna Leon’s chilling Venetian mystery series.

The first three mysteries in the beloved series

From a “first-rate storyteller,” here are three full-length mystery novels featuring Miss Maud Silver, a retired governess and teacher who embarks on a new career in private detection (The Daily Telegraph).

It’s curtains for a famous Broadway director, and private investigator Nero Wolfe is on the case—but his assistant, Archie Goodwin, is the prime suspect.

Unpolished Pixie Robinson is the world’s worst choice of a wife for Greek playboy Apollo Metraxis. Yet her family’s mounting debts leave her defenseless and therefore uniquely suitable. But when the wedding night exposes Pixie’s untouched vulnerability, striking a chord in the dark reaches of his heart, Apollo is forced to think again.

After surviving both the failed chicken farm—and marriage—immortalized in The Egg and I, Betty MacDonald returns to live with her mother and desperately searches to find a job to support her two young daughters. With the help of her older sister Mary, Anybody Can Do Anything recounts her failed, and often hilarious, attempts to find work during the Great Depression.

New York Times bestselling author

When Royal returns to Bransford Castle after years abroad, he is shocked to find his father dying and the family treasury nearly empty. On his death bed, his father makes a final request of his guilt-ridden son: Royal must marry heiress Jocelyn Caulfield in order to restore the estate to its former glory. Although Royal wants to heed his father's dying wish, he's torn when he falls for Jocelyn's cousin, the penniless but beautiful Lily Moran...

A lecture course that Martin Heidegger gave in 1927, The Basic Problems of Phenomenology continues and extends explorations begun in Sein und Zeit. In this text, Heidegger provides the general outline of his thinking about the fundamental problems of philosophy, which he treats by means of phenomenology, and which he defines and explains as the basic problem of ontology.

Miss Withers investigates the attempted murder of a corrupt politician’s trophy wife during a train ride to Mexico City...

“The best of the Hildegarde Withers stories, and that is saying a good deal.” —New York Times

Edgar Award-winning author

At Moscow’s Metropole Hotel, four men share smoked salmon, caviar, and vodka. In the morning, all are found dead—and the Kremlin asks the famously discreet Porfiry Rostnikov to investigate, in this mystery by “the Ed McBain of Mother Russia” (Kirkus Reviews).

Lookalike cousins Jack and Jim Laydon were presumed to have perished in a raid during the war. Cotterell Laydon, the present owner of Laydon Manor, is stunned to discover that one of his grandsons might be alive. But is he Jack or Jim? Is it possible he isn’t a Laydon at all?

The first book in a supernatural series from the acclaimed bestselling author is “filled with murder, mystery, bad ass chicks and a good ole kick in the head twist” (Under the Covers Book Blog).

An English spy saves the life of a woman with a deadly secret in this gripping novel of political intrigue from the author of the Miss Silver Mysteries.

In 1929, a down-on-his-luck Londoner gets swept up in a game of deception and mystery. He plunges into a shadowy world of deceit and skullduggery where nothing is as it seems and one wrong move could cost him everything—including the woman he loves.

March 1870. London is in the grip of fog and ice. But Scotland Yard's Inspector Ben Ross has more than the weather to worry about when the body of a young woman is found in a dustbin at the back of a Piccadilly restaurant. As Ben pursues an increasingly complex case, his wife Lizzie reveals a vital piece of evidence that brings him one step closer to solving the crime...

Rip Cantrell is brought back to give the saucer one last flight. Charley Pine has started flying for a rich French tycoon, and there is believed to be another downed saucer somewhere in the area. Rip can't quite get over the fact that Charley has dumped him. But when push comes to shove Rip and the United States Government are going to go head to head with this crazy Frenchman in trying to be the first to the saucer.

This informative full-color guide uses short, easy-to-understand chapters, original maps, modern and historic photographs, tables, charts, and artwork to narrate the history of the Gettysburg Campaign for American Civil War and Gettysburg enthusiasts of all ages.