Grant: 2643 books

After a career in the academy, Canadian-born Grant Allen struck out on his own to make his name as a writer. His early focus was on scientific topics, though he later expanded into fiction, as well. Allen was an early proponent of Darwin's theory of evolution and helped to popularize the idea through...

When a valuable but unpopular painting is stolen from a local museum, Detective Nick Bramble takes an unexpected plunge into the art world. Going into it, he actually has two problems. One is his . . . well . . . attitude about art. The other is his daughter, who is determined to have a career in...

Having waited more than five hundred years, Constantine knows the final chapter of his life is at hand. In accordance with the Book of Prophecy, he has come west to seek two very special young men, without whom the war against the ancient enemy will be lost, once and for all. Now that he’s found...

Naked, bound and aroused beyond their wildest imaginations, the women in these three stories prove how delicious complete surrender is. . . The Captain's Courtesan Melissa MacNeal A seafaring adventure turns wickedly sinful when stowaway Sophia Martine is caught and confined to the captain's...

Mr. Berlin captured Eva Mayhew’s husband in an attempt to establish leverage over her. The embattled spy finally catches up to Eva, but what happens when he takes her whole family hostage? This is the sixth novella of the I AM MERCURY series.I AM MERCURY is a nine-part serial suspense thriller...

In 2020, a passionate scientist conducts secret genetic manipulations to give human fetuses the ability to survive long periods of hibernation. He is supported by a pharmaceutical tycoon who believes in his genius and realizes the implications of his work: Cryogenics; to prolong life; a one-way time...

Is Eunice Tweed Sissons a monster or a victim of circumstance? To Finish a Quilt chronicles her journey from impoverished small-town Kansas teenager to wealthy Southern California matron and examines the human damage she leaves in her wake. Spanning 20th century America, the two-part book blends literary...

For Rogan the mission always came first...until her. Rogan’s dedicated his life to protecting the Seven Planes. So when an ancient evil rises, he doesn't hesitate to volunteer his team. But immediately, things start to go wrong. Their intel is leaked to a gang hunting creatures of the Myth....

A chance encounter between two California homicide detectives turns up a potential serial killer. The link? The murders of two, gay young men are found, both strangled with their hands left in a prayer position. John Acre of Sacramento and Craig Matthews of Fresno start putting together clues and...

One stormy spring morning, Kit O'Maley takes a swan dive to the pavement to avoid a speeding car in the Hazelnut Grove Primary School parking lot. She bandages her injuries and stoically faces another day of teaching, but it soon becomes apparent that the frightening incident is only a prelude of...

"Extremely impressive . . . . A wonderful read from a born storyteller." -Chris Cleave, New York Times bestselling author of Little Bee The setting: London, 1794. The problem: Four nouveau riche fathers with five marriageable daughters. The plan: Give the young women piano lessons....

Goat has always dreamed of having his very own space. But Goat lives in a petting zoo, surrounded by hugs and rubs and grabby little hands. Determined to find his perfect alone space, Goat escapes into the big zoo. But space is not an easy thing to find, in this humorous picture book from Jacob Grant, Through with the Zoo.

Thrilling tale of war in old Russia.  James Grant has written a number of tales about English and other regiments.  

A Beauty So Loud is an examination of life in the twenty-first century from three different perspectives, each of which offers a different question: What does it mean to be a man in an age wherein the world has already been conquered, or, what power do rites of passage have in a digital era? What...