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Alia Muhammad Baker is a librarian in Basra, Iraq. For fourteen years, her library has been a meeting place for those who love books. Until now. Now war has come, and Alia fears that the library--along with the thirty thousand books within it--will be destroyed forever. In a war-stricken country where civilians--especially women--have little power, this true story about a librarian's struggle to save her community's priceless collection of books reminds...

Explores the profound impact of conflict on global food traditions, blending travel writing, memoir and cookbook to uncover how war reshapes culinary practices and jeopardizes ancient recipes, while showcasing the resilience of home cooks and activists working to preserve their culinary heritage in the face of violence.

For the past two years Belinda King, along with her two grown daughters and teenage son, has been struggling to keep the family greenhouse running. Despite disconcerting events that have threatened to put them out of business, they have survived two growing seasons. And now Belinda can focus on the two suitors vying for her attention. Herschel Fisher, a new acquaintance, makes her feel relaxed, and Monroe Esh, an admirer from her past, reminds her...

Kurt Austin and the NUMA  Special Assignments Team search for an ancient Middle Eastern relic with secret ties to an American founding father in the #1 bestselling New York Times-bestselling series.
 
Years ago, an invaluable Phoenician statue known as the Navigator was stolen from the Baghdad museum, and there are men who would do anything to get their hands on it. Their first victim is a crooked antiquities dealer,...

"While the Nazi party was being condemned by much of the world for burning books, they were already hard at work perpetrating an even greater literary crime. Through extensive new research that included records saved by the Monuments Men themselves--Anders Rydell tells the untold story of Nazi book theft, as he himself joins the effort to return the stolen books. When the Nazi soldiers ransacked Europe's libraries and bookshops, large and small, the...

A hard-nosed officer during WWII discovers that behind German lines is a bank filled with gold. Now all he has to do to strike it rich is figure out how to get it without getting killed.

"History of Napoleon's art looting of Italy and the subsequent formation of the Louvre"-- Provided by publisher. Painted in 1563, Paolo Veronese's Wedding Feast at Cana was immediately hailed as a masterpiece. Lavish color built the illusion that the viewers' space opened onto a biblical banquet taking place on a terrace in sixteenth-century Venice. In 1797, under the command of a young Napoleon Bonaparte, it was torn from the wall of a monastery...