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#1 New York Times BestsellerIn 1989, Ken Follett astonished the literary world with The Pillars of the Earth, a sweeping epic novel set in twelfth-century E...

Presents The Classic Story Of The Orphan Pip, The Convict Magwitch, The Beautiful Estella, And Her Guardian, The Embittered Miss HavishamCategories: Literat...

In His Steps by Charles Sheldon is the first entry in 100 Christian Books that Changed the Century by William J. and Randy Peterson. And now this classic Ch...

Six years after the bestselling, Pulitzer Prize winning Empire Falls, Richard Russo returns with a novel that expands even further his widely heralded ach...

From An Award-acceptance Speech At A New England Liberal Arts College To A Lecture On Evil In Amsterdam, Elizabeth Costello Is A Distinguished And Aging Aus...

Dramatizes The Life Of The Renaissance Artistic Genius Michelangelo, Recalls His Love Affairs, His Disputes With Cardinals And Popes, And His Years Of Worki...

Sometimes, when you open the door to the past, what you confront is your destiny. Reclusive author Vida Winter, famous for her collection of twelve encha...

The electrifying follow-up to the phenomenal best seller The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. The fierce heart of this novel is Lisbeth Salander: the troubled...

Wilde's only novel, first published in 1890, is a brilliantly designed puzzle, intended to tease conventional minds with its exploration of the myriad inter...

A treasure worth killing for. Sam Spade, a slightly shopworn private eye with his own solitary code of ethics. A perfumed grafter named Joel Cairo, a fat m...

Gore Vidal.Categories: Literature & FictionContemporary

Cameron McDonald is the police chief of a small Massachusetts town. His cousin Jamie comes to him to confess outright that he has killed his terminally ill...

In His Final Semester Of Law School, Rudy Baylor Finds Himself Taking On One Of The Most Powerful, Corrupt, And Ruthless Companies In America -- And Exposin...

John Grisham.Categories: Science Fiction & Fantasy Science FictionCrime & Mystery

One of the greatest of the classic Greek tragedies and a masterpiece of dramatic construction. Catastrophe ensues when King Oedipus discovers he has inadver...

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. A collection of inspirational messages presents the author's insights into such topics as friendship, grace, spirit,...

Tragic tale of star-crossed lovers, feuding families, and timeless passion contains some of Shakespeare's most beautiful and lyrical love poetry. This inexp...

demonstrating Once Again Her Gift For Spellbinding Stoyrtelling, Anne Rice Makes Real A Family Of Witches--a Family Given To Poetry And Incest, To Murder A...

Still spry at ninety-three, Theodora has lived long enough to see her family grow into an insufferable bunch of truculent knuckleheads. Having finally gath...

the 1958 Novel Chronicles The Life Of Okonkwo, The Leader Of An Igbo (ibo) Community, From The Events Leading Up To His Banishment From The Community For A...

One Moment June Nealon Was Happily Looking Forward To Years Full Of Laughter And Adventure With Her Family, And The Next, She Was Staring Into A Future That...

brilliant, Beautiful Susan Fletcher discovers The Nsa Is Being Held Hostage By A Code So Complex That It would Cripple U.s. Intelligence If Released. Cate...

An Orphan raised in Valparaiso, Chile, by a Victorian spinster and her rigid brother, young, vivacious Eliza Sommers follows her lover to California during...

father Tim And Cynthia Have Been At Home In Mitford For Three Years Since Returning From Whitecap Island. in The Little Town That's Home-away-from-home T...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The fifth book in Diana Gabaldon’s acclaimed Outlander saga, the basis for the Starz original series. “A grand adventure writt...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A young scientist’s startling discovery plunges her into a twisted conspiracy with world-shattering implications in this electr...

“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains.” So begins Pride and Prejudice and Zom...

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...

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

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...

frodo Baggins Knew The Ringwraiths Were Searching For Him—and The Ring Of Power He Bore That Would Enable Sauran To Destroy All That Was Good In Middle-ea...

With an Introduction and Notes by Henry and Olga Claridge, University of Kent at Canterbury. War and Peace is a vast epic centred on Napoleons war with Russ...

In the fall of 1948 Hemingway spent several months in Italy on his first extended visit to that country in 30 years. His reacquaintance with Venice, a city...

The lawyer had not wanted the case at first -- it was too big, too complicated, too risky. It concerned a cluster of childhood leukemia victims in a small t...

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 Young Boy Is Given A Sweater By His Mother Before She Dies--a Final Gesture That Teaches Him The True Meaning Of Love. Glenn Beck ; With Kevin Balfe And J...

In 1992 Vernor Vinge amazed the science fiction world with this epic novel of star-spanning adventure. It won the Hugo Award for Best Novel, and has since ...

A Young Woman Looks Back At Her Childhood In A Harsh Orphanage And Describes Her Growing Love For The Man Who Employs Her As GovernessCategories: Romance Hi...

Leopold Bloom King has been raised in a family shattered—and shadowed—by tragedy. Lonely and adrift, he searches for something to sustain him and finds it a...

A Tale of Two Cities (1859), Dickens' greatest historical novel, traces the private lives of a group of people caught up in the cataclysm of the French Rev...

An ancient secret brotherhood. A devastating new weapon of destruction. An unthinkable target. San Francisco Chronicle A breathless, real-time adventure.....

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...

Fledgling vampyre Zoey Redbird has managed to settle in at the House of Night. She's come to terms with the vast powers the vampyre goddess, Nyx, has given ...

In 1976, a uniquely seductive world of vampires was unveiled in the now-classic Interview with the Vampire . . . in 1985, a wild and voluptous voice spoke ...

In The Hours, Michael Cunningham, widely praised as one of the most gifted writers of his generation, draws inventively on the life and work of Virginia Wo...

Ann Hamilton's family has moved to the western frontier of Pennsylvania, and she misses her old home in Gettysburg. There are no girls her age on Hamilton ...

From his first novel, Mohawk, to his most recent, Straight Alan, Richard Russo has demonstrated great affinity for the tragicomic human condition, and her...

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...