When a terrorist leader and a drug warlord form a dangerous alliance, three new Hendley Associates agents--FBI agent Dominic Caruso, his Marine captain brother Brian, and their cousin, Jack Ryan, Jr.--encounter unexpected dangers.

Offers a fictionalized narrative of the life and family of a girl rumored to be the illegitimate mulatto daughter of Thomas Jefferson, describing her escape attempts and encounters as she circulates through the American slave trade.

Her Harvard-student son just eloped with the First Daughter. CNN is parked on the road to her apple orchards. Secret Service agents have commandeered her country kitchen. The irate First Parents are threatening to have her taxes audited. The President's handsome, tough, ex-military nephew is setting up camp in her guest room. Hush McGillan's quiet Appalachian world of heirloom apples, country festivals, and carefully guarded family secrets has just...

"Washington City, 1862: The United States lies in tatters, and there seems no end to the war. Abraham Lincoln, the legitimate President of the United States, is using all his will to keep his beloved land together. But Lincoln's will and soul are tested when tragedy strikes the White House as Willie Lincoln, the love and shining light in the president's heart, is taken by typhoid fever. But was this really the cause of his death? A message arrives,...

When reform efforts in the Middle East culminate in a violent power struggle between two criminal underworld bosses, Jack McClure finds himself at the center of a multi-national uprising that is complicated by powerful enemies.

"This extraordinary volume brings together the first three novels written by Africa-Americans in the 1850s: The Heroic Slave, Frederick Douglass's powerful fictional account of an actual mutiny aboard the slave ship Creole in 1841...Clotel, a provocative expose of slavery by William Wells Brown, who was himself a fugitive slave...and the penetrating and eloquent Our Nig, which focuses on the struggles of one young woman to achieve economic independence...

Born a slave and kept functionally illiterate until he escaped at age nineteen, William Wells Brown (1814-1884) refashioned himself first as an agent of the Underground Railroad and then as an antislavery activist and self-taught orator and author, eventually becoming a foundational figure of African American literature. For his bicentennial, the Library of America presents the most comprehensive edition of Brown's writing ever published, an extraordinary...