The Pagan LordThe seventh installment of Bernard Cornwells New York Times bestselling series chronicling the epic saga of the making of England, like Game of Thrones, but real (The Observer, London)the basis for The Last Kingdom, the hit television series. At the onset of the tenth century, England is in turmoil. Alfred the Great is dead and Edward, his son, reigns as king. Wessex survives, but peace cannot hold: the Danes in the north, led by Viking Cnut

cyber-linked by his own dark worldwide web

Known and admired by millions as the star of Man vs

and driving a dogsled across the tundra through a whiteout blizzard in order to avoid corrupt police—and grapples with both love and violence as she negotiates the complex demands of being a young woman in a man’s land

Ben Fountain argues that the United States may be facing a third existential crisis

Whipping Boy chronicles prize-winning author Allen Kurzweil’s search for his twelve-year-old nemesis

Kate and her allies receive word of a threat to their ambassador in the Rimish capital

she is very real—and his duty to the Crown means he's stuck with her

The Last Séance gathers twenty stories

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but a skilled observer of the human condition

called “the most famous undocumented immigrant in America

with the help of her devoted husband