This companion volume to the successful Kinsey mystery series details the facts, figures, and trivia that intrigue fans of the collection.

The crippled stepson of the Barbarossa clan attempts to write the history of his strange family and their age-old feud with another family, the Gearys. Tracing the interlocked pasts of his family and their rivals further and further back in time, he unearths evidence of the supernatural, while in the present, he finds a suggestion of immortality.

Drawing from over 100 recently translated letters, this historical account chronicles the life of the Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei by examining his relationship with his eldest daughter, Virginia, a cloistered nun. This biography places their correspondence in historical context, detailing the religious and political climate of Galileo's time that led to his eventual conviction in 1633 for defending the Copernican system. A New York Times Notable Book for 1999.

Bernard Cornwell, author of the acclaimed Richard Sharpe novels set during the Napoleonic Wars, moves forward in history to tell the tale of a Regency hero, Rider Sandman, who must save a falsely accused murderer from the gallows.

This seventh novel in a series featuring the author's original character, Mary Russell, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's famed detective, Sherlock Holmes, borrows another character from the Victorian age: Rudyard Kipling's Kim (from the novel of the same title). When Kimball O'Hara, an English spy based in India, goes missing, the politically connected invalid Mycroft Holmes asks his more active brother Sherlock and Sherlock's wife Mary to investigate.

In each of the memories collected in this gathering of childhood anecdotes, a celebrity recalls the joys and complexities of playing games as a child. A diverse range of voices, including Esther Williams, Bill Clinton, Robert Pinsky, Jackie Collins, and others, poignantly reflect on the fantasies of childhood.

In turn-of-the-century Appalachia, Julie Harmon marries and faces a hard life of subsistence farming: a constant struggle against not only nature but the unpredictable humans who inhabit her world.

In turn-of-the-century Appalachia, Julie Harmon marries and faces a hard life of subsistence farming: a constant struggle against not only nature but the unpredictable humans who inhabit her world.