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Biting, witty, provocative, and sardonic, Bernard Malamud's The Natural is widely considered to be the premier basebal novel of all time. It tells the sto...

A standout in the crowd of first novels, Ruth narrates a story that confronts real-life issues of alienation and violence from which Hamilton creates a stu...

In 1979, the legendary Acadian novelist Antonine Maillet won France's most coveted literary award, the Prix Goncourt, for the original version of this nove...

When Cassie moves from the tiny town where she has always lived to a suburb of Seattle, she is determined to leave her boring, good-girl existence behind....

Just recovered from a grave illness, Commander Adam Dalgliesh is called to the bedside of an elderly priest. When Dalgliesh arrives, Father Baddeley is dea...

On the heels of Under Orders, “Francis once again proves himself a master. Wow.” (BOOKLIST) Max Moreton is a rising culinary star—until his guests fall vi...

A Naive College Student Must Learn To Combat The Satanic Strategy At Work In Her Once-christian School. Annotation. Claire Rivers Races To The Mailbox To Re...

ancient Egypt Comes Alive In This Eagerly Anticipated New Series That's Breaking Sales Records In Europe! Ramses, Vol. I: The Son Of Light Recounts The Th...

The splendor and danger of ancient Egypt continues in the second volume of this magnificent saga. For Ramses, the Son of Light, the coronation has arrived. ...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE SERPENT WAR RAYMOND E. FEIST KRONDOR TEAR OF GODS Book Three of the Riftwar Legacy The realm's most sacred art...

First in the Kurt Wallander series. It was a senselessly violent crime: on a cold night in a remote Swedish farmhouse an elderly farmer is bludgeoned to d...

Paris, un atelier d'artiste au fond d'une allée verdoyante.Madeline, une ex-flic londonienne, y est venue pour panser ses blessures.Gaspard, un auteur misa...

It's the most annoying question and they just can't help asking you:Why are you single? On a brisk October morning in New York, Julie Jenson, a single ...

The uptown girls are headed downtown as Serena and Jenny take on their new fabulous roles as rock-star model girlfriends of New York's hottest band, The Rav...

Three Editors Conspire To Devise A Plan Of Their Own About European History. As They Feed All The Information Into Their Computer, They Think It Is A Terrif...

in Her 39th Best-selling Novel, Danielle Steel Brings To Life The Story Of Three Women, Old Roommates From College, Who Come Together After Twenty Years, ...

the Wild Boys Is A Futuristic Tale Of Global Warfare In Which A Guerrilla Gang Of Boys Dedicated To Freedom Battles The Organized Armies Of Repressive Pol...

interweaving Past And Present, Sweden And Zambia, Rich And Poor, the Eye Of The Leopard Is A Stunning Novel From A Modern Master. hans Olofson Arrives In ...

With guardian Angels at your side love conquers all! Henry couldn't get over the fact that he had purchased Jenny's home! It was all there in her diary th...

Finalist for the 2009 National Book Award in Fiction and the 2009 Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction: a major literary debut that ex...

New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award-winning author Peter Robinson delivers an unforgettable, compelling thriller of a lost village and the deadly se...

In the world of his large family, affluent Tamils living in Colombo, Arjie is an oddity, a 'funny boy' who prefers dressing as a girl to playing cricket wit...

The hero of Serpent and Blue Gold confronts a deadly global plot, in the breathtaking new Kurt Austin adventure. Book Magazine Kurt Austin is the dashing ...

Can a family's mannered traditions and cool emotions erase the horrors of war from a young couple's past? Now back in print from New York Times bestsellin...

In A New York Times Best-seller, The Queen Of Vampire Fiction Begins A New Erotic, Chilling Series With The History Of A Beautiful But Deadly Vampire From A...

in 1970, One Of Mississippi's More Colorful Weekly Newspapers, The Ford County Times, Went Bankrupt. To The Surprise And Dismay Of Many, Ownership Was Ass...

'I always wanted to be historical,' Gertrude Stein once quipped. In 1932, Stein began writing the 'autobiography' of her longtime friend and companion, Alic...

In the final episode in The Christmas Box collection, David and MaryAnne Parkin find a mysterious letter at the base of their child Andrea's grave that even...

Leland Gaunt probes the limits of people's desires when he moves to Castle Rock, Maine--opens his shop, Needful Things--and sets a high price on love, hope,...

Set on the Greek island of Cephallonia during World War II, this is the story of a beautiful young woman and her two suitors: a gentle fisherman turned ruth...

Three women learn that the heart of their historic home holds a mystery of years gone by, as number-one bestselling author Nora Roberts brings her In the G...

Telling Tales Is The Second Book In Ann Cleeves' Vera Stanhope Series - Which Is Now A Major Itv Detective Drama Starring Brenda Blethyn, Vera. Ten Years Af...

2004 Christy Fiction award winner! Paul Stepola, an agent working for the National Peacekeeping Organization (NPO), has been assigned to enforce compliance...

The hill people and the Mexicans arrived on the same day. It was a Wednesday, early in September 1952. The Cardinals were five games behind the Dodgers wit...

a Song Of Ice And Fire, Book Two: as A Whole, This Series Comprises A Genuine Masterpiece Of Modern Fantasy, Bringing Together The Best The Genre Has To O...

The Mulvaneys are blessed by all that makes life sweet—a hardworking father, a loving mother, three fine sons, and a bright, pretty daughter. They are con...

Louis Charles (lucy) Lynch Has Spent All His Sixty Years In Upstate Thomaston, New York, Married To The Same Woman, Sarah, For Forty Of Them, Their Son Now ...

In ancient Egypt, a forgotten princess must overcome her family’s past and remake history. The winds of change are blowing through Thebes. A devastating...

the Scarlet Letter Is The Story Of Three New England Settlers At Odds With The Puritan Society In Which They Live. Roger Chillingworth, An Aging Scholar, Ar...

Of the two hundred stories that Anton Chekhov wrote, the twenty stories that appear in this extraordinary collection were personally chosen by Richard Ford...

Introduction and Notes by Norman Vance, Professor of English, University of Sussex Jude Fawley is a rural stone mason with intellectual aspirations. Frustra...

When British And American Intelligence Catch Wind Of A Major Al Qaeda Operation In The Works, They Instantly Galvanize--but To Do What? They Know Nothing Ab...

Marian Forrester is the symbolic flower of the Old American West. She draws her strength from that solid foundation, bringing delight and beauty to her eld...

It began with Benny Hogan and Eve Malone, growing up, inseparable, in the village of Knockglen. Benny—the only child, yearning to break free from her ador...

*****Basil Johnston's rollicking tales about life on a modern Indian reserve put MOOSE MEAT & WILD RICE on the map of Canadian comedy along with Stephen...

“Erotic and absorbing…Written with startling power.”—The New York Times Book Review Nan King, an oyster girl, is captivated by the music hall phen...

The stunningly powerful novel of man s will to survive against all odds, by the winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize for Literature. A city is hit by an epidemi...

Running away from home into an unfettered new existence within Japan's underground youth culture, eighteen-year-old Liu befriends the seductive, body-pierce...