This exciting historical novel is the story of the Queen of Sheba who rode out of the Arabian Desert on camel caravan 3,000 years ago carrying a magnificent treasure in frankincense and gold to King Solomon in Jerusalem. Who was Bilqis of Saba? Why did she undertake a journey across a vast and dangerous desert to meet the legendary king?The Queen of Sheba is one of the most famous women in history. She's portrayed in books, paintings, symphonies, movies, and religious texts, yet th...

Who was the Queen of Sheba? 3,000 years ago she traveled across the Arabian Desert carrying a magnificent treasure in gold and frankincense to King Solomon in Jerusalem. Her legendary visit with the king has been portrayed in books, paintings symphonies, movies, and religious texts, yet there's no evidence that she actually existed.Perhaps she did, and perhaps this is her story.350 pages

Ysabel the Summoner is on a new adventure helping er giant friend, Horace search for a golden tree that grows on an island in the middle of the frozen Northfast Sea. Ysabel is confident in her ability to summon magic, but is she powerful enough to lead Horace and their two companions from a pack of hungry wolves pursuing them across the ice-bound sea?Will Ysabel's magic be strong enough to save them when they discover that reaching the island is merely the beginning of their ordeal...

Ysabel hadn’t planned on becoming a hero, but when a gigantic bird called the Anthra abducts a baby princess in Ysabel’s care, it’s up to 14-year-old Ysabel to save the child before the rising of the full moon, Anthra’s Moon, when the great bird will feed the helpless baby to her newly hatched chicks.Along with her two companions, an old soldier and a friendly giant, Ysabel travels across a dangerous land battling an evil enchantress, poisonous snakes, ferocious sawfish, and fire-b...

Summoner's Fire: Book 3 of the Ysabel the Summoner trilogyYsabel's latest adventure takes her back to the White Woods in search of Jax. The boy she loves has been enthralled by Neva, a powerful frost nymph who has stolen the magical winterstone ring from the Queen of Snow. Neva intends to use the ring to free the frost nymphs from the snowlands, create permanent winter in the green lands of the forest nymphs, and entomb all warm-blooded creatures in eternal ice and snow.Ysa...

Ysabel the Summoner is on a new adventure helping her giant friend Horace, search for a golden tree that grows on an island in the middle of the frozen Northfast Sea. Ysabel is confident in her growing ability to summon magic, but is she powerful enough to help Horace and her two other companions: Daniel, an old soldier, and Jax, a young hunter, escape pack of hungry wolves pursuing them across the vast, ice-bound sea?Will Ysabel's magic be strong enough to save them when they disco...

The heir of ash and fire bows to no one.A new threat rises in the third book in this complete, #1 bestselling Throne of Glass series by Sarah J. Maas, author of the Court of Thorns and Roses (ACOTAR) series.Celaena Sardothien has survived deadly contests and shattering heartbreak, but now she must travel to a new land to confront her darkest truth. That truth could change her life-and her future-forever.Meanwhile, monstrous forces a...

An ambitious and mesmerizing historical novel from the bestselling author of Rules of Magic. The Dovekeepers is “striking….Hoffman grounds her expansive, intricately woven, and deepest new novel in biblical history, with a devotion and seriousness of purpose” (Entertainment Weekly).Nearly two thousand years ago, nine hundred Jews held out for months against armies of Romans on Masada, a mountain fortress in the Judean desert. According to the anci...

This irresistible first novel tells the story of a quiet boy who embarks on a dangerous quest in order to fulfill his destiny -- and find his father -- in a strange world beneath New York City. When Gregor falls through a grate in the laundry room of his apartment building, he hurtles into the dark Underland, where spiders, rats, cockroaches coexist uneasily with humans. This world is on the brink of war, and Gregor's arrival is no accident. A prophecy foretells that Gregor has a role to p...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A “compulsively readable” (Diana Gabaldon) novel teeming with love, betrayal, and religious conflict that brings ancient Egypt to vivid life, from the author of Cleopatra’s Daughter and Maria“Meticulously researched and richly detailed . . . an engrossing tribute to one of the most powerful and alluring women in history.”—The Boston GlobeNefertiti and her younger sister, Mutnodjmet, have been...

In this stunning novel of passion, power, and redemption, a forgotten princess in ancient Egypt must overcome her family’s past and remake history—from the internationally bestselling author of Nefertiti and Maria.“Moran’s careful attention to detail and her artful storytelling bring these people to vivid life, imbuing ancient history with suspense and urgency.”—The Boston GlobeThe winds of change are blowing thro...

A desert pit fighter plots to overthrow the immortal kings who terrorize her homeland in this first thrilling adventure in a blood- and sand-fueled epic fantasy series.“Breathtaking.” —Robin Hobb, New York Times–bestselling author of Fool’s AssassinSharakhai, the great city of the desert, center of commerce and culture, has been ruled from time immemorial by twelve kings—cruel, ruthless, powerful, and immortal. With their ...