Henry Carter Hull

NUMA Director Dirk Pitt searches for a connection between the narrow escape of a Roman galley in AD 327, the mysterious explosion of a British naval ship in the middle of the North Sea in 1917, and the twenty-first century attacks on important mosques in Turkey and Egypt.

BESTSELLER - "Terrific... gripping... A literally shattering climax." -- The New York Times Book Review 

All along the Mediterranean coast, the Roman empire’s richest citizens are relaxing in their luxurious villas, enjoying the last days of summer. The world’s largest navy lies peacefully at anchor in Misenum. The tourists are spending their money in the seaside resorts of Baiae, Herculaneum, and Pompeii.

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Brought together by a mutual fascination with pigeons, Louisa, a young chambermaid at the Hotel New Yorker, forms an unlikely friendship with the hotel's most famous resident, eccentric and pioneering inventor Nikola Tesla, during his final days.

Tells the early life of the ancient Greek mathematician Archimedes from his education at Ptolemy's Museum in Alexandria to his home in Syracuse, as he gains fame and fortune as a royal engineer.

Murray Leinster (1896-1975) was a pen name of William Fitzgerald Jenkins, an American writer of genre fiction, particularly of science fiction. He wrote and published more than 1,500 short stories and articles, 14 movie scripts, and hundreds of radio scripts and television plays.--Wikipedia.

"Sometimes it seems nobody loves a benefactor ... particularly nobody on a well-heeled, self-satisfied planet. Grandpa always said Pirates were really

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"Construction engineer and world-renowned bridge builder Bartley Alexander has everything in mid-life: wealth, good looks, and fame. Yet he finds himself restless and discontented with life -- until he meets a former love from his student days and resumes his relationship with her. Living a double life, Alexander is torn between Winifred, his American wife -- a cold woman with clearly defined standards -- and Hilda Burgoyne, his alluring mistress...

An incisive inquiry into matters of fate and fallibility, Alexander's Bridge (1912) raises questions that trouble us still. Willa Cather examines questions of autonomy and responsibility as she explores the arc and descent of Bartley Alexander, a successful bridge builder who has surmounted humble beginnings to experience fame, wealth, and finally, a preventable death in the prime of his life. As such, Alexander's story may remind readers of the stories...

A young aspiring engineer must first conquer her fear of failure.

Critically-acclaimed author Katherine Reay's latest love letter to Jane Austen. Mary Davies finds safety in her ordered and productive life. Working as an engineer, she genuinely enjoys her job and her colleagues-particularly a certain adorable and intelligent consultant. But something is missing. When Mary's estranged childhood friend, Isabel Dwyer, offers her a two-week stay in a gorgeous manor house in England, she reluctantly agrees in hopes...