"This remarkable true story follows a lock of Beethoven's hair from the time a young musician clips it from the composer's corpse as a keepsake, through three generations as it passes from father to son and beyond. this compelling tale provides insight into Beethoven's turbulent life as science unlocks the mysteries found in his hair"--Back cover.

"Halcyon faces a fifteen-year sentence after being charged with murder, so her younger sister Evadne offers to carry part of her sentence and tries to uncover the truth behind the supposed crime along the way"--

New York Times bestselling author Amanda Quick presents an Arcane Society novel that reveals the passionate-and paranormal-secrets of proper Victorian London. Attempting to recover a relic stolen from her family years ago, gifted crystal worker Leona Hewitt secretly makes her way into Lord Delbridge's private museum. But who she finds there is more entrancing than the crystal she seeks. Thaddeus Ware is a mesmerist with powerful psychic energy-that...

"On the day of Lia's university graduation party, her parents--wealthy art collectors with friends in high places--gift her a beautiful wine cup, a rare artifact decorated with roses. It's a stunning gift, and one that August Bowman, a friend of her parents and a guest at Lia's party, also has his eye on. The cup, August tells her, is known as the Rose Kylix, and it's no ordinary cup. It was used in the temple ceremonies of Eros, Greek god of erotic...

Look no further for your next Viking series. This is the first in the epic Oathsworn series, charting the adventures of a band of Vikings on the chase for the secret hoard of Attila the Hun. In time with the magnificent British Museum Viking exhibition, comes the Oathsworn series, by fiction legend Bernard Cornwell, and known for its blockbuster battles and powerful suspense. Life is savage aboard a Viking raider. Young Orm Rurikson is plucked from...

The bestselling American mystery writer of all time brings back his world-famous PI, Mike Hammer, for his biggest and most dangerous case yet.

In the midst of a Manhattan snowstorm, Mike Hammer halts the violent robbery of a pair of college sweethearts who have stumbled onto a remarkable archeological find in the Valley of Elah: the perfectly preserved femur of what may have been the biblical giant Goliath. Hammer postpones his marriage to

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What will a group of monks do when their two-century-old monastery in New York City is threatened with demolition to make a room for a new high-rise? Anything they have to. "Thou Shalt Not Steal" is only the first of the Commandments to be broken as the saintly face off against the unscrupulous over that most sacred of relics, a Park Avenue address. Returning to bookstores for the first time in three decades, Brothers Keepers offers not only a master...

Finn Voy is a faceshifter who got caught in a compromising position and now must steal a royal treasure or face the consequence of being stripped of her magic -- her only disguise and protection -- forever. When she runs into Alfehr, Crown Prince only because his perfect older brother was murdered, the two accidentally unleash an apocalyptic power.

Ivy and Adrian rekindle their alliance{u2014}and passion{u2014}as the struggle for the fate of the world begins{u2026}

In this heart-stopping novel by #1 New York Times bestselling author James Rollins, an elite team of ex-Special Forces soldiers turned scientific specialists must uncover a secret society and the treasure that could destroy the world.

When a group of parishioners are burned to death in a German cathedral, the U.S. sends in the Sigma force. The tragedy is more than a case of arson; someone has stolen the priceless treasure

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