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...

Portsmouth, England. A ten-year-old boy. A British warship. The boy already knows what hunger can make someone do. When he is caught stealing food for his family, prison should end his troubles. Instead, it is only the beginning. Taken from his cell and forced aboard the British warship HMS Progress, the boy becomes a cabin boy under a brutal captain. Trapped at sea and subjected to unimaginable cruelty, he learns one lesson above all others: survive. Three years later, Boston changes everything. Then the ship reaches Boston. When fire tears through the city, the boy sees his chance. He ...

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?

In the age of myth, the world ended. The Titan Dethous and his son, Caydis, miraculously pulled it from the ashes, and then created the fragile paradise known as Elysium. Two centuries later, that miracle is failing. A slow, agonizing rot consumes the land, baffling The Vathnaer, the ancient stewards tasked with its preservation. Their leader, Mikhari, launches a series of desperate, last-hope expeditions across Elysium, including one to the uncharted continent of Grandis. Ethan Baker lives a simple life as a Hunter, but his quiet days are a poor leash on his insatiable wanderlust.

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.

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.

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...

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 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.

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...

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.

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.

In the tumultuous birth of the American republic, a new breed of hero emerged—and a new kind of villain. Founding Scoundrel plunges into the dark heart of one such figure: General James Wilkinson, a man of dazzling charisma and ruthless ambition who rose to the highest ranks of the nascent United States. A veteran of the Revolution, a commander of the United States Army, and the Governor of the Louisiana Territory, Wilkinson was, by all outward appearances, a paragon of patriotism. Yet, a profound "deformity of the soul" drove him to see every person as a tool and every situation as an ...

"These are the times that try men's souls." With these words, Thomas Paine began a series of 13 extraordinary pamphlets reporting on the American Revolution. Part newsfeed, part op-ed, these pieces were widely circulated in the States and in Britain during the war. They reported on the progress of the war, argued for the reasons for the war, made recommendations on the conduct of the war, and taught citizens of a new country just what their obligations and duties were in support of their new country. A sobering series of lessons on beginning American civics 101.

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 ...

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...