Steven: 5874 books

Some people say Cornucopia isn’t real. But if you’ve been there, you know it exists... In this collection, Steven Pferdberg presents 15 light-hearted miner's poems, that deal with subjects as diverse as loss of packhorses, greed, metallurgy, giant spiders, farming life or philosophical trees. Cornucopia...

In Why Beethoven Threw the Stew, renowned cellist Steven Isserlis sets out to pass on to children a wonderful gift given to him by his own cello teacher - the chance to people his own world with the great composers by getting to know them as friends. Witty and informative at the same time,...

In Checkmate, critically acclaimed novelist Steven James offers a climactic chapter in his bestselling series, the Bowers Files. When a clandestine FBI facility is attacked, Special Agent Patrick Bowers is drawn into the vicious, ruthless story that a killer from his past is bent on telling...

Bill Furyk is an ex-cop with an anger management problem and an intimate relationship with Vicodin.  When a woman from his past is found hunched over the body of her still-bleeding husband, a knife in her hand, Furyk is pulled into the mystery. As he tries to untangle what happened, he discovers...

Homicide detectives Nate Leeman and Penny Segel investigate the murders of several people who were killed for their artificial body parts. They suspect the killer is selling the stolen body parts on the black market. Det. Leeman objects to the use of artificial body parts in humans, and his beliefs jeopardize his job and his safety during the investigation.

Two men working construction in San Diego are given the job of remodeling a La Jolla home once owned by mystery writer Raymond Chandler. When the story of Chandler's supposedly buried money resurfaces, their interest changes into finding out if those rumors were true, though neither have any intention...

Returning from an overseas assignment, Bernard Byrd finds two separate letters summoning him to the last place he wants to be - home. Due to a tragedy that occurred there, it’s been years since he’s shown his face and the idea of returning to South Florida doesn’t have him thinking about palm...

Steven Saylor's Roma Sub Rosa series of novels, set in the late Roman Republic and featuring Gordianus the Finder, has garnered unusual acclaim from readers and reviewers alike, establishing him as one of the pre-eminent historical crime writers. In A Gladiator Dies Only Once, the second collection...

"What a marvel!...Saylor's masterful storytelling puts you right there, wonderstruck and wide-eyed. Deliciously immersive, captivating entertainment from a justly celebrated writer." —Margaret George In The Throne of Caesar, award-winning mystery author Steven Saylor turns to the...

In 88 B.C. it seems as if all the world is at war. From Rome to Greece and to Egypt itself, most of civilization is on the verge of war. The young Gordianus—a born-and-raised Roman citizen—is living in Alexandria, making ends meet by plying his trade of solving puzzles and finding things out for...

Alexandria, Egypt, 246 BC – in a time of political conflict, a crime has been committed against the Temple of Aphrodite. To save the center of civilization from martial law, the royal astronomer Conon and the princess Arsinoe chase the perpetrator from the Great Library to the top of the...

"Like Elmore Leonard on speed . . ." - Lincoln Child. In a debut novel sure to both excite passions and elicit laughter, author Steven M. Forman has created a different kind of hero in a most unlikely criminal hotbed: Boca Raton. Eddie Perlmutter's career as a much-honored Boston cop has...

Who is the Piper? . . . ** ** Special Agent Patrick Bowers returns in an electrifying prequel to the Bowers Chess series from critically acclaimed, national bestselling novelist Steven James. ** ** A mysterious suicide and a series of abductions draw Patrick into a web of intrigue involving an international...

ABOUT THE BOOK In the study of Benjamin Franklin's life, one travels through a historical period in which the prosperous colonies of a mighty empire grow in anger from discontent to empowerment, finally rising in arms. Then from the ashes of war, there rose our nation. So surely, an equally...