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"Astounding...Fast-moving, Intriguing...James Michener is back in huge, familiar form with MEXICO."LOS ANGELES DAILY NEWS Here is the story of an American...

Violently Attacked By A Stranger Six Months After The Brutal Killing Of Her Beloved Husband, Julia Ransom Is Narrowly Rescued By Special Agent Cheney Stone,...

Mortal CausesCategories: Science Fiction & Fantasy Science FictionCrime & Mystery

Poland's history from the thirteenth century to modern times overshadows a 1981 dispute between Janko Buk, the leader of a group of militant farmers, and Sz...

during A Crowded Service At A Cathedral In Germany, Armed Intruders In Monks' Robes Unleash A Nightmare Of Blood And Destruction. But The Killers Have N...

A Retelling Of Snow White Set In Renaissance Italy Draws A Link Between The Original Fairy Tale And The Borgia Family's Infamous Practice Of Poisoning Its E...

Owen Meany hits a foul ball while playing baseball in the summer of 1953 that kills his best friend's mother, an accident that Owen is sure is the result of...

The Countdown To Rapture Begins As Marilena Carpathia Unknowingly Gives Birth To The Antichrist, And Half A World Away, God's Plans Begin To Take Form In Yo...

One warm 1960s summer day Robert Kincaid walks into the quaint Iowa town of Winterset to photograph its beautiful old bridges for a photo essay for Nationa...

'What we were after ...was lashings of ultra-violence'. In Anthony Burgess' infamous nightmare vision of youth culture in revolt, fifteen-year-old Alex and ...

a Power Revered By Presidents And Kings, A Fortune Unsurpassed By Few People On Earth: All That Ended For Harry Stanford The Day He Mysteriously-and Fatal...

A stirring, sensual novel by the author of Chocolat follows a woman as she returns to Les Laveuses, the French village where she lived as a girl during the ...

The million copy bestseller. Some people wait their whole lives to find their soul mates. But not Holly and Gerry. Childhood sweethearts, they could finish ...

Jalopy Mechanic And Were-creature Mercedes Thompson Can Change Into A Coyote Whenever She Wants To. As A Favor, She Agrees To Back Up Vampire Friend Stefan ...

It is the year 1327. Franciscans in an Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, but Brother William of Baskerville’s investigation is suddenly overshadowed ...

The Small Town Of Chester's Mill, Maine, Is Faced With A Big Dilemma When It Is Mysteriously Sealed Off By An Invisible And Completely Impenetrable Force Fi...

When we first met him in Rabbit, Run (1960), the book that established John Updike as a major novelist, Harry (Rabbit) Angstrom is playing basketball with...

Winner Of The Pen/faulkner Award American Booksellers Association Book Of The Year Award San Piedro Island, North Of Puget Sound, Is A Place So Isolated Tha...

Narnia...where Owls Are Wise, Where Some Of The Giants Like To Snack On Humans (and, If Carefully Cooked, On Marsh-wiggles, Too), Where A Prince Is Put Und...

Narnia...the World Of Wicked Dragons And Magic Spells, Where The Very Best Is Brought Out Of Even The Worst People, Where Anything Can Happen (and Most Oft...

Heirs of Montana book 2, the sequel to the bestselling Land of My Heart. With the love of her life missing in the Montana wilderness, a young woman must ma...

Winner of an AudioFile Earphones Award Art restorer and sometime spy Gabriel Allon is sent to Vienna to authenticate a painting, but the real object of hi...

Today, the world as you know it will end. No need to turn off the lights. Your car suddenly stalls and won't restart. You can't call for help because your c...

One summer night, two men break into an isolated manor house and kill Lady Anne Robinson. Her son, Thomas, convinces the police that his father’s beautif...

For District Attorney Nina Frost, who specializes in the prosecution of child molestors, and her stonemason husband, Caleb, life becomes a nightmare when th...

In the first Alex Delaware novel, Dr. Morton Handler practiced a strange brand of psychiatry. Among his specialties were fraud, extortion, and sexual man...

The New York Times bestselling author takes a riveting new direction with this richly textured, multi-layered novel of friendship, murder, revenge, and cla...

from The African Coast To The Suburbs Of Ohio, From Sideshow Pageantry To Harsh Wilderness Survival, Doerr's Stories Explore The Human Condition In All Its...

today, Nearly Forty Years After His Death, Nobel Prize Winner John Steinbeck Remains One Of America's Greatest Writers And Cultural Figures. Over The Next...

The romance between Captain Wentworth and Anne, the daughter of Sir Walter Elliot, seems doomed because of the young man's family connections and lack of we...

colorado Congressman Evan Kendrick Is Trying To Live Out His Term Of Office Quietly—when A Political Mole Reveals To The World Kendrick's Deepest Secret.....

The Death Of A Journalist Leads Gabriel Allon To Russia, Where He Finds That, In Terms Of Spycraft, Even He Has Something To Learn. He's Playing By Moscow R...

Clive Cussler, creator of the bestselling NUMA and Dirk Pitt series, presents his latest and most intriguing high seas action hero: the enigmatic captain ...

With Army bases under attack by terrorists, Net Force's own crack troops team up with Army intelligence and the National Guard to track down who is behind ...

Sixty splendidly reproduced black-and-white illustrations attest to Leonardo's achievements in many drawing media, depicting plants, landscapes, animals, ba...

Michael Ondaatje’s Booker Prize–winning best seller lyrically portrays the convergence of four damaged lives in a bomb-riddled Italian villa in the last...

From the bestselling author of STARTER FOR TEN, ONE DAY and US, THE UNDERSTUDY is a scintillating comedy of ambition, celebrity, jealousy and love.For Josh ...

In 2000 Harcourt proudly reissued Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's masterpiece, The Little Prince, in a sparkling new format. Newly translated by Pulitzer Prize-...

New York Lieutenant Eve Dallas is up against a hit-man for the elite, whose next target may be her own husband, Roarke. Publishers Weekly This 12th instal...

In this prize-winning collection of short stories, Yiyun Li brings us a modern China facing up to a complex history of repression and guilt.Categories: Lite...

A Kiss For The Leper.--genetrix.--the Desert Of Love.--the Knot Of Vipers.--woman Of The Pharisees. Translated By Gerard Hopkins. Introd. By Wallace Fowlie....

A Miser Learns The True Meaning Of Christmas When Three Ghostly Visitors Review His Past And Foretell His Future. Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Charle...

A hauntingly beautiful quest for love and forgiveness. In the remote Australian outback during World War II the emotionally adrift child of an English co...

In David Sedaris's world, no one is safe and no cow is sacred. Sedaris's collection of essays and stories is a rollicking tour through the national Zeitgei...

The Prisoner of Heaven returns to the world of the Cemetery of Forgotten Books and the Sempere & Sons bookshop.It begins just before Christmas in Barcel...

The Death Of A Journalist Leads Gabriel Allon To Russia, Where He Finds That, In Terms Of Spycraft, Even He Has Something To Learn. He's Playing By Moscow R...

Relying on her intelligence and beauty as her only weapons, Tracy Whitney embarks on a personal vendetta against the untouchable crime lords who framed her ...

Atheist Jill Mcgavock, Struggling To Cope With Her Mother's Slow Death Due To A Degenerative Brain Disease, Turns For Counseling To Philosophy Professor Sam...