Simon Vance

When their mother reluctantly joins the Italian Resistance against Nazi occupying forces in World War II Florence, young Paolo and his sister, Costanza, devise a clever way to use their bicycle to assist the movement.

Centuries before the events of A Game of Thrones, House Targaryen, the only family of dragonlords to survive the Doom of Valyria, took up residence on Dragonstone. Their tale begins with the legendary Aegon the Conqueror, creator of the Iron Throne, and goes on to recount the generations of Targaryens who fought to hold that iconic seat, all the way up to the civil war that nearly tore their dynasty apart.

After a particularly bad streak of luck in Vegas, Charlie has retreated to Venice, having vowed to give up a life of crime to write crime fiction full-time. But inspiration has yet to strike. And to make matters worse, Charlie's agent Victoria shows up at his door just as his prized first edition of The Maltese Falcon flies out the window with a femme-fatale burglar. Blackmailed into committing a dastardly crime in order to get his book back, Charlie...

Charlie is a part-time writer and a part-time thief. He gets called upon by Her Majesty's Government. There are four embassy staff members that they suspect stole a vulnerable item. Charlie is charged with breaking into their residences and repossessing the item. The problem is, they don't tell him what the item is, but that he'll know it when he sees it. While on the first escapade, he happens to look across the street and sees a woman being killed....

Learn more about the importance of water conservation and the water cycle in this book that focuses on a single raindrop that has billions of stories to tell.

In the second installment of Frank Herbert's Dune series, Paul Atreides has ruled the Empire for nearly twelve years, bringing peace to the entire galaxy. However, this peace is the result of several wars which has left billions of people dead. Although things have not gone according to plan, Paul intends to set humanity on a path of enlightenment. Meanwhile, several religious zealots conspire to assassinate Paul for their own political and personal...

Shipwrecked and cast ashore in Japan with no memory of Temeraire or his own experiences as an English aviator, Capt. William Laurence finds himself tangled in deadly political intrigues that threaten not only his own life but England's already precarious position in the Far East.

Book Three in the Magnificent Dune Chronicles—the Bestselling Science Fiction Adventure of All Time

The Children of Dune are twin siblings Leto and Ghanima Atreides, whose father, the Emperor Paul Muad’Dib, disappeared in the desert wastelands of Arrakis nine years ago. Like their father, the twins possess supernormal abilities—making them valuable to their manipulative aunt Alia, who rules the Empire in the name of...

While three separate thefts are simultaneously investigated in three separate cities, Rome, Paris and London, the apparently unrelated crimes have more in common than anyone imagines. In each city, the authorities enlist the help of a renowned art investigator, police inspectors, and Scotland Yard. A trail of bizarre clues and intellectual puzzles reveals forgeries, over-paintings, thefts, and double-crosses leading ever deeper into a baffling conspiracy....

British ship's captain Will Laurence has created an international incident by snatching a dragon's egg meant as a gift from the Chinese emperor to Napoleon. Facing hanging for his unwitting role, Laurence is now trying to return the hatched dragon to the Far East, unaware that he may be facing even worse troubles if he manages to reach the Chinese court.