Marine biologist Ballard chronicles some of his greatest journeys underseas in this illustrated examination of the relationship, throughout history, we have had with the sea. Included in this edition are profiles of oceanic pioneers through the ages, from the earliest Phoenician sailors to the late elder statesman of marine study, Jacques-Yves Cousteau.

Eddie and his older brother Turtle live in a downtrodden neighborhood in 1995 Arizona. When their father takes off, the boys are left with their mother and grandmother, and they are devastated. Turtle turns to drugs and crime and ends up in jail. Eddie has ambitions to be a boxer, but his attraction to a beautiful whore, and his struggles with God and Islam--and the hostile world around him--make his journey out of the ghetto a precarious one.

In the time of Inquisition, a young witch named Sybille tells her extraordinary life story to her inquisitor. The tale includes a star-crossed love affair, encounters with Knights Templar, terror of bubonic plague, and other travails. The author's deep knowledge of the culture, history and mythology of the Middle Ages makes the story come alive.

Fred Astaire needs Toby Peters help with a dancing matter. A mobster wants Fred to give his girlfriend dancing lessons, but Fred wants no part of it. When murder enters the picture, Toby needs to do some fancy footwork to stay alive.

With his grandson's bar mitzvah rapidly approaching, detective Abe Lieberman already has a lot on his plate: with several cases that need solving, including an ugly jewelry heist, and his partner's impending marriage, this looks to be one long, long week.

During the final months of World War II, on an isolated hilltop in the deserts of New Mexico, top-level government scientists are at work on the Manhattan Project. When a security officer for the Project turns up dead under mysterious circumstances, army intelligence officer Michael Connolly arrives to investigate. Could the dead man have leaked valuable information that would jeopardize the Project?

It's 1937, and New Jersey high school student Richard Samuels has landed a bit part in Orson Welles's JULIUS CAESAR--the Mercury Theater production that made Welles famous. As we watch Richard juggle school and theater, fall in love, and discover that Welles is cheating on his wife with Richard's girlfriend, we also see a portrait of Orson Welles as a creative genius.

In New York City, a homeless man is deliberately set afire and barely manages to utter two cryptic words: "The Sentry." A day later, a battered and tortured girl is found in an abandoned building--on a nearby wall, beneath a bizarre image of an eye are the words: "The Sentry rules from within and below." Confronted by these atrocities, fire Marshal Matt Kincaid is thrust into a deadly game against a ruthless and diabolical foe.

Sam Peck is devastated by the death of his wife of 57 years, and his children are afraid he won't survive the trauma. Then a white dog turns up and provides comfort--but is it real or imaginary?

Many years ago, Chief Constable H.R.F. Keating coerced a woman into a false confession of murder. Now her attorney, Deborah Brooke, unaware of his part in the injustice, asks him to help free her client. It becomes even harder for Constable Keating to fess up, once he begins an affair with Brooke.