As I Lay Dying is Faulkner's harrowing account of the Bundren family's odyssey across the Mississippi countryside to bury Addie, their wife and mother. As they carry Addie in a homemade coffin, pulled along by a team of mules, the Bundrens are haunted by greed and fear--their journey both mocks and confirms our humanity. Their story is told in turn by each of the family members--including Addie herself--as well as those they encounter on their way....

"Baltimore, 1849. The body of Edgar Allan Poe has been buried in an unmarked grave. The public, the press, and even Poe's family and friends accept the conclusion that Poe was a second-rate writer who met a disgraceful end as a drunkard. Everyone, in fact, seems to believe this except a young Baltimore lawyer named Quentin Clark, an ardent admirer who puts his own career and reputation at risk in a crusade to salvage Poe's."--JACKET.

In this account of the wars of the Plantagenets, a woman of extraordinary beauty and ambition, Elizabeth Woodville, catches the eye of the newly crowned boy king, marries him in secret and ascends to royalty. While Elizabeth rises to the demands of her exalted position and fights for the success of her family, her two sons become central figures in a mystery that has confounded historians for centuries: the missing princes in the Tower of London whose...

Los Angeles County coroner Ben Fitzgerald, having found Marilyn Monroe's diary in which she revealed details about her affair with "The General" while he was at the home of the actress on the night of her death, spends several days learning about a cover-up and the real woman behind the celebrity name and begins to suffer from paranoia about a conspiracy.

In 2000, restorers at the Palazzo Barberini x-rayed Raphael's famous nude portrait of Margherita Luti and discovered that someone had painted over her ring after the painter's death. Why was the ring hidden from view, and what became of its real-life counterpart? Haeger has created a superlative and mesmerizing historical romance.

While a young black porter struggles with first-day duties on board the Robert F. Kennedy funeral train, a woman sneaks away from her disapproving husband to pay respects to the assassinated senator, and a wounded soldier awaits a reputation-restoring interview.

Late in life, Clayton Elliot faces long-deferred hard choices. Circumstances force him to bury his recently deceased wife, Adelita, in the little West Texas border town of Solitario instead of next to their three-year-old daughter on their hardpan ranch. To pay for Adelita's cancer treatments, Clayton sold this marginal ranchland to water developers.By reuniting Serafina with her mother in Solitario, Clayton hopes to assuage his guilt about her death...

"Sheriff Pat Garrett claimed that he killed Billy the Kid on July 14, 1881. John Poe, Garrett's deputy on the scene that night, and others, suggest that he killed the wrong man and covered it up. The controversy persists because of contradictions, irregularities and unanswered questions. A Question of Bounty follows Billy the Kid's outlaw adventures right to John Poe's version of his fateful encounter with Pat Garrett. The story concludes with the...

For famous one-armed war correspondent Paddy Quinn, this is to be his final Civil War assignment: the funeral of the assassinated President Lincoln. Quinn and his new bride Felice are aboard the steamboat Sultana going up the spring-flooded Mississippi River toward Illinois to meet the Funeral Train, when their honeymoon vessel stops at Vicksburg and takes on a pathetic human cargo of 2,000 sick and ragged survivors of the hellish Andersonville prisoner-of-war...