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The Moghul

Doubleday, 2010

(Doubleday, 1983) Reviewers called it the best novel on India since Kipling. An immediate European bestseller, optioned by Indian/German producers who commissioned a six-hour mini-series, then Canadian producers with BBC. Based on real people (ca. 1620) ? an English ?sea dog? shoots his way through Portuguese gallons and into an Indian port to ...

Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President

Doubleday, 2011

James A. Garfield was one of the most extraordinary men ever elected president. Born into abject poverty, he rose to become a wunderkind scholar, a Civil War hero, and a renowned and admired reformist congressman. Nominated for president against his will, he engaged in a fierce battle with the corrupt political establishment. But four months after ...

The Dressmaker: A Novel

Doubleday, 2012

Just in time for the centennial anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic comes a vivid, romantic, and relentlessly compelling historical novel about a spirited young woman who survives the disaster only to find herself embroiled in the media frenzy left in the wake of the tragedy. Tess, an aspiring seamstress, thinks she's had an incredibly ...

The Night Circus

Doubleday, 2011

The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within the black-and-white striped canvas tents is an utterly unique experience full of breathtaking amazements. It is called Le Cirque des Rêves , and it is only open at night. But behind the scenes, a fierce competition is ...

Calico Joe

Doubleday, 2012

A surprising and moving novel of fathers and sons, forgiveness and redemption, set in the world of Major League Baseball? Whatever happened to Calico Joe? It began quietly enough with a pulled hamstring. The first baseman for the Cubs AAA affiliate in Wichita went down as he rounded third and headed for home. The next day, Jim ...

Top of the Rock: Inside the Rise and Fall of Must See TV

Doubleday, 2012

Seinfeld , Friends , Frasier , ER , Cheers , Law & Order , Will & Grace ?Here is the funny, splashy, irresistible insiders? account of the greatest era in television history -- told by the actors, writers, directors, producers, and the network executives who made it happen?and watched it all fall apart. Warren Littlefield was the NBC ...

The Good Father: A Novel

Doubleday, 2012

An intense, psychological novel about one doctor's suspense-filled quest to unlock the mind of a suspected political assassin: his twenty-year old son. As the Chief of Rheumatology at Columbia Presbyterian, Dr. Paul Allen's specialty is diagnosing patients with conflicting symptoms, patients other doctors have given up on. He lives a ...

The Racketeer

Doubleday, 2012

Given the importance of what they do, and the controversies that often surround them, and the violent people they sometimes confront, it is remarkable that in the history of this country only four active federal judges have been murdered. Judge Raymond Fogletree just became number five. His body was found in the basement of a lakeside cabin ...

The Third Gate: A Novel

Doubleday, 2012

Under the direction of famed explorer Porter Stone, an archaeological team is secretly attempting to locate the tomb of an ancient pharaoh who was unlike any other in history. Stone believes he has found the burial chamber of King Narmer, the near mythical god- king who united upper and lower Egypt in 3200 B.C., and the archaeologist has reason to ...

The Litigators

Doubleday, 2011

The partners at Finley & Figg?all two of them?often refer to themselves as ?a boutique law firm.? Boutique, as in chic, selective, and prosperous. They are, of course, none of these things. What they are is a two-bit operation always in search of their big break, ambulance chasers who?ve been in the trenches much too long making way too little. ...

More Than You Know: A Novel

Doubleday, 2012

It all comes down to love or money in a harrowing custody battle over a little girl, set against the glossy backdrop of the magazine and advertising worlds in 1960s London. A privileged girl from a privileged class, Eliza has a dazzling career in the magazine world of the 1960s. But when she falls deeply in love with Matt, an edgy ...

In the Shadow of the Sword: The Birth of Islam and the Rise of the Global Arab Empire
Tom Holland

Doubleday, 2012

The acclaimed author of Rubicon and other superb works of popular history now produces a thrillingly panoramic (and incredibly timely) account of the rise of Islam. No less significant than the collapse of the Roman Republic or the Persian invasion of Greece, the evolution of the Arab empire is one of the supreme narratives of ancient ...

Caribbee

Doubleday, 2010

?This action-crammed, historically factual novel . . . is a rousing read, ably researched by Hoover? Publishers Weekly Barbados and Jamaica 1648. The lush and deadly Caribbean paradise, domain of rebels and slaveholders, of bawds and buccaneers. Colonists fight a wishful war for freedom against England. CARIBBEE is the untold story of the first ...

Don't Put Me In, Coach: My Incredible NCAA Journey from the End of the Bench to the End of the Bench

Doubleday, 2012

An irreverent, hilarious insider's look at big-time NCAA basketball, through the eyes of the nation's most famous benchwarmer and author of the popular blog ClubTrillion.com (3.6m visits!). Mark Titus holds the Ohio State record for career wins, and made it to the 2007 national championship game. You would think Titus would be all over the ...

To Bless the Space Between Us: A Book of Blessings
John O'Donohue

Doubleday, 2008

From the author of the bestselling Anam Cara comes a beautiful collection of blessings to help readers through both the everyday and the extraordinary events of their lives. John O?Donohue, Irish teacher and poet, has been widely praised for his gift of drawing on Celtic spiritual traditions to create words of inspiration and wisdom for today. ...