Kittling: Books

  First Line: Outside, the hillside is buffeted by an unseasonable wind, the brackeny undergrowth shifting and flattening, patternless . For...

  First Line: August 2020; Precise date uncertain. The woman paused and raised her head, looking over the wavering landscape toward the hori...

  From the Foreword by David Grann: The first thing you notice about these thirteen remarkable true tales by Douglas Preston is that they al...

  First Line: Dr. Marcelle Weingrau, president of the Santa Fe Archaeological Institute, slowly unfolded her hands on the glossy surface of ...

First Line: Since graduating from the Academy eight months before, Special Agent Corrie Swanson had learned to expect almost anything .   Ro...

First Line: There are places on the planet whose scale reminds us that we are but a crushed bug on the windshield of time . Anthropolog...

First Line: A group of middle-aged Japanese tourists gathered in a tight knot twenty feet from the edge of the Grand Canyon, focused on s...

First Line: The camel trod tentatively on a patch of cracked earth . It's every archaeologist's dream come true: Sarah Weston h...

First Line: The door of the house swung open before I had a chance to knock . Historian Jaya Jones has a lot of work to get done, but w...