"Missing diamonds. Mysterious deaths. And all that jazz. London, 1925. With their band the Dizzy Heights, Jazz Musicians Ivor 'Skins' Maloney and Bartholomew 'Barty' Dunn are used to improvising as they play the Charleston for flappers and toffs, but things are about to take a surprising turn. Superintendent Sunderland has had word that a deserter who stole a fortune in diamonds as he fled the war is a member of the Aristippus private members' club...

Told in riveting, keenly observed poetry, a moving first person narrative as experienced by a young survivor of the tragic Donner Party of 1846.

When England entered WWII in 1939, legendary magician Jasper Maskelyne cajoled his way into the Camouflage Section and created a new type of warfare: applying the techniques of popular magic to the battlefield. This is the fact-based story of the illusion that won the war in the desert.

Private detective Olivia Welles hasn't been to her hometown since her childhood, not since the night she died. She has no memory of the world before the car crash or of coming back to life in the morgue. But now, years later, when fellow survivor Bonnie Ray calls from a Kansas jail begging for help, Olivia feels the tug of a dark and unremembered past. Bonnie looks guilty of murdering her young son, Bonnie's third child to die under suspicious circumstances....

A psychotic killer roams the city with a satchel of scalpels, fresh off a triple kill. A mysterious drug pumps through his veins, making him dance in the streetlight and twirl his cape like Jack the Ripper. Eve Dallas is the tough lieutenant hot on his trail, but it's unlike any case she's ever been assigned, or any killer she's ever pursued. A police sketch reveals the killer has green skin, swollen red eyes, goblin ears, and a dislocated jaw-structure...

A coming-of-age historical fiction novel about Gerda Taro, a vibrant, headstrong photographer with a passion for capturing the truth amid political turmoil and the first woman photojournalist killed in combat.

When three hungry soldiers come to a town where all the food has been hidden, they set out to make soup of water and stones, and the whole town enjoys a feast. Este viejo cuento francés relata la historia de unos soldados que regresan hambrientos a casa. Al pasar por una aldea piden algo de alimento, pero los avaros aldeanos han escondido todas las provisiones. Los soldados idean una ingeniosa treta que les permite comer. --Publisher.

Includes four audio documentaries on the Civil War, World War I, World War II and the Vietnam War.