Founding Fictions

Tricked into a world of banished gods, demons, goblins, sprites and magic, Richter must learn to meet the perils of The Land and begin to forge his own kingdom. Actions have consequences across The Land, with powerful creatures and factions now hell-bent on Richter's destruction. Can Richter forge allegiances to survive this harsh and unforgiving world or will he fall to the dark denizens of this ancient and unforgiving realm? A tale to shake "The Land" itself, measuring 10/10 on the Richter scale, how will Richter's choices shape the future of The Land and all who reside in it?

With such classic novels as Orphan Star and The Tar-Aiym-Krang, New York Times bestselling author Alan Dean Foster has captivated readers with his brilliantly imagined Humanx Commonwealth, the interstellar empire where intelligent aliens and humans live side by side. Now Foster takes us back to...

Two thousand light years from Terra, two brothers leave behind the shattered dreams of their father, the great General Aleksandr Kerensky. For a second time, war drives them into the dark and cold of the void, as the raging conflict engulfs the Pentagon Worlds and the nascent Star League-in-Exile. For nearly fifteen years on the world of Strana Mechty—the land of dreams—Andery Kerensky has watched his elder brother Nicholas shape an all-new society of warriors that follows their ilKhan with near religious fanaticism.

Life has dealt him an unfair hand, leaving him with few options. Will a chance encounter with a caring American colonial family provide a poor English boy with a stable home, or will the boy be lost in events that are spiraling out of control? Peter Smith, a boy of humble beginnings, is a testament to the human spirit. Despite his impoverished upbringing, abduction, and mistreatment, he refuses to be defined by his circumstances. Born into poverty and hopelessness on the streets of Portsmouth, England, Peter is forced into a life of crime just to survive. His resilience is tested when he is...

The Path of AdventureOssgard FoundingBarely a week after the system reshaped Earth as we know it, the power hungry began vying for dominance. Immediate survival, which had been the only initial concern, took a back seat. Matt Davis is a mage with Life magic, valuable enough to be worked to the bone as a healer, and despised for the second half of what he is: a Death mage with an obsession he refuses to bury. Neither conquest nor power calls to him. He wants an answer to the question that’s getting people killed. How do you hold the line without feeding it bodies?

General Aleksandr Kerensky is dead. The Pentagon Worlds are in flames. The dream of a Star League-in-Exile is over, shattered by civil war. Amid the chaos, Nicholas Kerensky leads those who will follow him on a second exodus to the world of Strana Mechty.

Jeff Shaara dazzled readers with his bestselling novels Gods and Generals, The Last Full Measure, and Gone for Soldiers. Now the acclaimed author who illuminated the Civil War and the Mexican-American War brilliantly brings to life the American Revolution, creating a superb saga of the men who...

100 million dead. 500 million wounded. One billion homeless. The worst war in human history is over—and has left the Star League shattered. Jealousy and infighting from the five Great House Lords over who will be the next First Lord has the entire Inner Sphere already teetering on the brink of all-out conflict again.

This annotated edition includes: • A critical study, "The Card Index and the Open Range" • On the two Hopalongs — Mulford's original and the one TV made • A full life of Clarence E. Mulford (1883–1956) • Nine complete Bar-20 novels, 1907–1922, in one volume • A reader's map of the saga and its reading order Everyone knows Hopalong Cassidy. Almost no one has met the real one. The Hopalong most people half-remember is a clean-cut, black-clad, teetotal hero of 1950s television — silver-haired, courtly, safe. Clarence E. Mulford's original, the one who came first and the only ...

In nearly two dozen novels about the Humanx Commonwealth, Alan Dean Foster has fascinated readers with his brilliantly imagined interstellar realm—where humans, thranx, AAnn, and other species strive to work together to put the common good above selfish ends. But renewed efforts at cooperation...

Esta apasionante novela retrata la vida del militar que triunfó en el campo de batalla, que negoció con Juan de O’Donojú y logró ser el primer gobernante del México independiente. Viajando desde los salones de la alta sociedad virreinal hasta los campos de batalla empapados de sangre, el oyente será testigo de las intrigas, las traiciones y los heroísmos que tejieron el destino de una nación.

Alan Dean Foster has written more than twenty novels set in the Humanx Commonwealth, an unforgettable world where humans, thranx, AAnn, and numerous other aliens live and work side by side. But the amicable relationships between species have always hung in a tenuous balance between distrust and...

What does it mean when the man who wrote the Declaration of Independence is your father and also your slave master? Beverly, Harriet, Madison, and Eston are Thomas Jefferson’s children, but their mother is a slave, so they must keep their father’s identity secret. They get special...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Travels with George . . . is quintessential Philbrick—a lively, courageous, and masterful achievement.” —The Boston Globe Does George Washington still matter? Bestselling author Nathaniel Philbrick argues for Washington’s unique contribution to the forging of...

In 1803, the United States made a deal to purchase a big area of land called the Louisiana Territory. Soon after, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark were asked to lead an expedition into the American Northwest to explore the new land. After the journey, many stories were told about it—but not all of them are true.

Before Tolkien. Before Lewis. Before every portal fantasy ever written — there was Dorothy, a cyclone, and a road paved with yellow brick. L. Frank Baum published The Wonderful Wizard of Oz in 1900. It was not the first fantasy novel, but it was the first distinctly American one: a story without the feudal hierarchies of European fairy tales, without the moralizing cruelty of Grimm and Andersen, without kings and princes and hereditary destinies. What Baum invented instead was something stranger and more radical — a fantasy in which an ordinary girl from Kansas, with no special lineage,...

Unlike most editions of Poor Richard, this one includes essentially all of the text, not just the aphorisms and sayings. This gives you, Courteous Listener, a much better appreciation of how Franklin wrote and thought. In particular, you will find that the full body of the Poor Richard almanacs contains a great deal of religious and spiritual thought in which Franklin laid out and propounded his understanding of Christianity as it stood in his day.

An "America 250" Read “Compelling and taut.” - Reader Review “Richly detailed and historically grounded.” - Reader Review A Most Revolutionary Watch blends action, suspense, and romance against the vivid historical backdrop of America’s founding. After a lifetime of studying time, seventy-year-old grandfather Gary Johnson invents a watch that can transport him to 1776 and back, retrieving an original printing of the Declaration of Independence to commemorate America's 250th anniversary. Powerful forces, however, prefer he didn’t make the trip. The FBI fears that a close reading ...

Thomas Jefferson believed in liberty as a mathematical certainty — a truth as clean and provable as a proof in Euclid. He built a house to prove it: a mountaintop mansion of perfect Palladian proportion, engineered down to the inch, a monument to the idea that reason could construct a more just world. He built it with the labor of people he owned. The Architecture of Freedom follows Jefferson across four decades — from a failed manumission petition in a Williamsburg tavern to the drafting of the Declaration, from the wreckage of his wife's death to the drawing rooms of revolutionary ...

PRE-WORLD WAR II JAPANESE SCIENCE FICTION Before Isaac Asimov, before Arthur C. Clarke, and before the golden age of American science fiction, a Japanese electrical engineer named Jūza Unno was writing novels about secret submarine bases, mechanical sea monsters, and the weaponization of the deep ocean. Published in 1939, The Devil Castle of the Pacific is the work of the man recognized in Japan as the founding father of Japanese science fiction, the author whose legacy runs from the pages of Shinseinen magazine through Space Battleship Yamato to the technological imagination of modern ...