Fantasy Spy

Benvenuto Cellini, master artisan of Renaissance Italy, once crafted a beautiful amulet prized for its unimaginable power - and untold menace. Now the quest to recover this legendary artifact depends upon one man: David Franco, a brilliant but skeptical young scholar at Chicago's world-renowned Newberry Library.

Demons are taking over our world. To stop them, I need to embrace the black magic inside me. I hate the idea. And yet, I realize just how powerful the darkness can be. That it is probably the only thing standing between failure and success. And keeping those I love alive. Can I master the demon magic running through my veins? Or will I succumb to the darkness? What's more, if I fall, will the world fall with me?

The good news: I miraculously survived a would-be fatal fall. The bad news: A demon helped me do it. The worst news: Prince Alexander saw everything. Reverie is supposed to be paradise, but the power holding the floating city aloft isn't holy; it's demonic. Now, demons are attacking my classmates, and I think they're targeting me. If we can't find the source behind the attacks, the entire kingdom could be in danger of falling from the sky.

La gran serie de fantasía de todos los tiempos, escrita por uno de los mejores narradores de nuestra época. Will y Lyra, cuyos destinos están entrelazados en virtud de unas fuerzas radicadas más allá de sus propios mundos, se han visto separados de forma violenta. Deben volver a encontrarse, porque tienen por delante la mayor guerra que haya habido nunca… y un viaje a un tenebroso lugar del que nunca ha regresado nadie…

They're Baaaaack! The Base is where the military sends you when you have an exceptional skill, to work on the newest cutting-edge-top-secret inventions with the most top flight elite scientists ever. It is a remote location which they hope will prevent bad characters from finding them and their work but somehow the spies and thieves always prevail.

Sinai Tapestry, the brilliant first novel of the Jerusalem Quartet, is an epic alternate history of the Middle East in which the discovery of the original Bible links a disparate group of remarkable people across time and space. In 1840, Plantagenet Strongbow, the twenty-ninth Duke of Dorset, seven-feet-seven-inches tall and the greatest swordsman and botanist of Victorian England, walks away from the family estate and disappears into the Sinai Desert carrying only a large magnifying glass and a portable sundial.

Loser's Memorial is Apocalypse Now for a new generation. Two young men from different countries are driven to madness as they are dragged into the global war on terrorism. Through alternating perspectives across several years, Loser's Memorial takes you on a journey into the disturbing and surreal world of war without end, war without purpose, war for profit alone. Told with a masterful blend of intensity, humor, and humanity, Loser's Memorial is of that special breed of novel that spares no one from its skepticism, yet still remains entertaining and thrilling to the very last word and beyond.

With social unrest sweeping the country, Europe on the brink of war, and the US economy under siege by foreign nations, a new threat emerges. The nation is caught in the crosshairs of a power struggle between wealthy oligarchs and the political leaders who claim to have the country's best interests at heart.

After thwarting a disaster in the nation's capital, Mark Taylor captures the attention of the CIA. They want to know more about the mysterious camera and Mark's abilities, but Mark doesn't trust the agency - he would be crazy to after all they've put him through in the past. He finally agrees to demonstrate the camera when Jim convinces him that the CIA can put together a team to help prevent future catastrophes.

After ancient Rome fell to the barbarian hordes and its light went out, 500 years of economic and cultural deterioration followed in Europe - The Dark Ages. In the 14th century, the most brutal pandemic to ravage mankind finally pulled this part of the world out of the darkness. The Black Death decimated over 60 percent of the population, creating an immediate surplus of goods and land, which catapulted Europe into a new age of the rebirth: The Renaissance.

Ex-CIA assassin Jack Gregory has been hired for a singular mission: to journey to South America and rescue an imprisoned shaman. Beloved by the struggling masses and feared by the ruling elite, shaman Tupac Inti is destined to unite Bolivia's indigenous people and bring down the corrupt government. But Jack isn't the only one trying to track down the shaman.

When Iran finally develops nuclear weapons it triggers the Last World War, and it will forever change the surface of the Earth. A president impeached. A vice president murdered. A relatively unknown Speaker of the House... A mere congressman elevated to the most powerful office in the nation, if not the world. With all of the political chaos in the United States, one of the world's power hungry regimes decides to play a card it has held close to their chest. Iran unloads five nuclear weapons.

The United States is paying the piper for years of meddling in sovereign nation's affairs, absurd monetary policy, and self-serving corporate cronyism. The bloated government bureaucracy is slow and unresponsive. Political infighting and old-school tactics derail any attempt at reform. Old worn-out attitudes and methods aren't helping the American people deal with the runaway inflation and unprecedented joblessness.

Acclaimed Christian author Jerry Jenkins pens the startling prequel to the internationally best-selling Left Behind saga. After the horror of World War III, the world resolves to abolish religion. But is this new age of peace truly peaceful? Anti-religious witch-hunters are tracking down and killing the faithful in hiding, and now supernatural events that defy non-Biblical interpretation are beginning to occur throughout the world.

Rick Putnam is running for his life. A Vietnam veteran riding a motorcycle for a national news network, he's picked up something too hot to handle. So hot that a reporter and a camera crew has already been killed and a rogue CIA kill squad is on his tail. Stick with this charismatic character as he fights his way all the way to 1600 Pennsylvania in his battle for the truth.

Early in the next century, planetary alignment and the increasing ice mass combine to cause a shift in the Earth's poles and civilization is shattered. Travis Christian has miraculously survived nature's initial onslaught. As he faces the elements of a changed world and the baser ambitions of his fellow man, he navigates a battered sailboat toward safe harbor. Along the way, he gathers a remarkable crew of castaways. As one world ends, another begins, and they embark on the adventure of a lifetime.

With the final chapter of the Rho Agenda Inception, all secrets will be revealed. Who is the alien mind haunting Jack "The Ripper" Gregory? What is the purpose of the immensely powerful Sun Staff? And how will the culmination of these events set the stage for the Rho Agenda?

Allies = All Lies. America is burning. The unknown blinds the citizens from fighting. Dr. Rachel Parker's worst psychological designs are loosed on America by an unknown enemy. She leaves the safety of the mountains for the destruction of town to face her co-designer, Daniel, whose role is blurred by the smoke of deception. Captured by militia, Rachel has to find the answers she's seeking. She's not prepared to look within her own damaged mind for the solutions.

What would domestic terrorists do with a couple of nuclear bombs? Andy Kelsey is a reporter who may have just stumbled on the story of a lifetime. He's infiltrated a white separatist group in the Ozarks, an underground organization ready to fight and die - and kill - for their extreme beliefs. The deeper Kelsey gets in the group, the more he's trusted, and the bigger his story becomes. Until he realizes the shocking extent of their scheme.

President Virginia Belknap is one year into her second term when a NASA scientist discovers a new planet with an atmosphere similar to Earth. Embracing the event, Belknap turns a one-way mission to colonize this new world into her grand calling. It is the early 2030s - a time when Earth is struggling under the ill effects of climate change and a growing population, and the mission seizes the world's imagination. But religious conservatives - led by an earnest evangelical named Randall Reese - rise up in outrage and indignation.