The author of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel pens “the happiest, saddest, funniest, most perceptive truth about growing up since The Catcher in the Rye” (Over 21). Laura and Claire Jenkins were born just a few years apart, b...
From the Nobel Prize-winning author: “A capacious, funny, threatening novel” of wandering souls and political upheaval in 1930s Portugal (The New York Times Book Review). The year is 1936, and the dictator António de Oliveira Salazar is establis...
THE WAR FOR THE SURVIVAL OF THE PLANET LUSITANIA WILL BE FOUGHT IN THE HEART OF A CHILD NAMED GLORIOUSLY BRIGHT. On Lusitania, Ender found a world where humans and pequininos and the Hive Queen could all live together; where three very different i...
Six women have bought the old Beckett place near Little Creek, Wyoming. Rancher Tom Kennedy figures he can easily chase 'em off and add their land to his own spread -- but that's before he learns the gals have got the Gunsmith on their side! Even ...
Crash course in love... If there's one boy at Maplesville High that Darby Haynes can't stand, it's Bruce Edwards. Darby first met him when his car plowed into hers at a busy intersection. She's been running into him - literally - ever since. It...
A high-born lady and her servant girl defy scandal with friendship and courage in this historical Scottish saga based on true events. Veronica Hay is an acclaimed beauty, but her downward spiral begins the moment she enters a loveless marriage...
Planning officer Arnold Landon begins to research a book about his hobby, medieval architecture, but when the writer of the book is murdered, Landon is suspended from his job, and must clear his name before the real killer finds him...
Every city has its favorite blood sports. Some cities prefer the traditional cruelties of bearbaiting or cockfights, while others indulge their baser appetites with gladiators and arenas. The city port of Haven gets its thrills from the dirtiest, blo...
A PEN/Faulkner Award Finalist A New York Times Notable Book In eleven glorious stories, Allan Gurganus, author of the highly acclaimed Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All, gives heart-breaking and hilarious voice to the fears, desires, and triu...
After a near fatal knife attack, criminal psychologist Dr. Kate Berman vows to stay out of the most recent case involving a sadistic killer of women--until an old police buddy draws her into the investigation. Reprint....
Kate Berman, an expert in fathoming the minds of deranged killers, comes out of her early retirement to track a serial murderer who targets women with sexy voices, and who turns his attention to Kate's family...
THERE ARE DARK PLACES IN THE FOREST...Cold, sun-starved places where man wasn't meant to go. But the hunters didn't—couldn't—know that. They just knew what their leader had told them that the expedition was meant to test their mettle, t...
What's a girl to do? Megan Summers, TV-ratings coordinator and mother of two, was just getting her life in order when a uniformed killer -- dubbed the Grim Reaper by the media -- donned a badge and caused chaos in the cozy hamlet of Melbourne...
Preston Scott was only twelve years old when his father killed his mother. He never saw it coming. Despite his parents’ constant fighting, Preston always thought they were perfect together. He never dreamed his father would be capable of murder. Th...
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Years ago, the sacred Book of Kyrie prophesied that a champion would lead the Three Kingdoms in battle against the demonic sorcerer Taws and his barbarian Horde--sent by the wrathful war-god Ashar to tear the kingdoms apart. When the young prince ...
THE JUDGE TOUGH-AS-NAILS FEDERAL JUDGE CLAYTON TORN IS MORE THAN A JUDGE. SOMETIMES HE HAS TO BE THE JURY... AND THE EXECUTIONER. WAR CLOUDS Dakota is a powder keg with a short fuse. The Cheyenne are painting for war, the army is shining steel a...
This special new edition of the much-loved autobiographical picture book about World War II touches on life during wartime with humor, candor, and factual information. The author recreates childhood in Suffolk with his family during the war, includin...
Waiting for their husbands who are off fighting in Vietnam, Abbra turns to her husband's brother for love, Serena forsakes her decadent life for work in a Saigon orphanage, and Gabriella finds fame as a singer...
Published for the first time as Chopin intended, this is a collection of her most innovative stories, including "The Story of an Hour," "An Egyptian Cigarette," and "The Kiss."For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of cla...
Where life begins, terror lurks... In the eyes of her envious peers, Marissa has it all: a superb professional reputation, a flourishing pediatrics practice, even a fairytale marriage with the man of her dreams - Robert Buchanan, an entrepreneur invo...
When a computer virus threatens the country's computer network, Scott Vandenberg, a computer security expert, and Nancy Delacorte, a government agent, match wits with a techno-genius and a Columbian drug dealer...
A young American in modern Africa becomes involved in the death and the continued mystic powers of a German soldier who had fled World War II for Africa where he was tormented and tested by nomads and branded a super-human witch....
Vincent Vespers, a Philadelphia schoolteacher, meets a Mafia boss through his brother, the family black sheep, agrees to help write his memoirs, and finds himself pursued by various parties eager to steal the Don's confidences...
The way Marcus Didius Falco sees it, no one can claim the monopoly on sleaze and corruption in the Eternal City because the competition is so keen. Most recently a Palace spy for the Emperor Vespasian, Falco is now in private service, trying to preve...
The Borg--half organic being and half machine, they are the most feared race in the known galaxy. In their relentless quest for technological perfection, they have destroyed entire star systems, enslaved countless peoples, and, in a single brutal att...
There are some pretty weird grown-ups living in Bailey City. But could the new third grade teacher from the Transylvanian Alps really be a vampire? The Bailey School Kids are going to find out! The third grade at Bailey Elementary was very hard...
ALL THE RIGHT MOVES The minute she walked into his bar, Thomas Murphy knew he was in trouble. She was Newport high society, a real class act. But she handled a pool stick like a pro, and she had a wicked left hook -- he could testify to that. Yes,...
THE CAPRICORN MAN The sexy, sensible Capricorn man doesn't fall in love overnight. He'll wait for a woman with warmth, sparkle...and patience. And just when you think he'll never be yours, the mysterious Capricorn's sensuous side slo...
HOME IS WHERE THE HEART IS Abbey Baird was coming home--to the small town she'd vowed to escape forever, and to face the man she'd once adored. Ten years had passed since she'd left behind the shadow of her past--and Travis Matthews--to make somet...
WORLDS APART The world looked at Prince Jamal and saw only a wealthy globe-trotting playboy, but Reba Davis knew better. This fascinating, mysterious man had struggled all his life to find a balance between his people's ancient customs and the way...
In 1588, the illegitimate son of the Woodfall family, trained by a secret fraternity to protect the Queen, discovers his relatives are behind a plot to assassinate Her Majesty, forcing him to choose where his loyalties truly lie...
DYING TO GET AHEAD A large office is like a small town: you have to be an insider in order to know who is doing what to whom. And at the plush, elegant offices of HH&H Advertising, executive Simona Griffo observed plenty going on-cutthroat competiti...
You have to love good more than you hate evil, otherwise there's no point in our being alive.... When Kitty Conway is orphaned at the age of eight, she is sent to live with her aunt and uncle, who live with their six children in a state of eccentr...
Briskin ( A Boy Like Astrid's Mother ), winner of the PEN Center USA West Award for short fiction, has created a sensitive, realistic and memorable novel of a Jewish girl's experiences during WW II. Through the eyes of young Ruth Levy we observe the ...
ROGUE STARSHIP When the U.S. government tried to claim the research ship Starfarer for the military, the crew risked all to hijack her. They did manage to escape...with a nuclear missile embedded in the hull. Yet, they kept to their original missi...
The beast that walkslike a man feeds beneath a blood-red Texas moon.
Billy Ed and Dory Barnes left the honky-tonk in Tombley''sWalk on a warm Texas night. They were looking for a little privacy. They neverreturned.
Billy Ed''s body was...
Did Winston Churchill betray a French Resistance network in order to appease Joseph Stalin? Philip Maclean, an Englishman, loved both France and a lovely young Frenchwoman, Anne-Marie Duchard. After the German invasion he escaped to England, but h...
A fifty-four-year-old bank manager, struggling against the confines of his over-controlled world, and an eighteen-year-old woman, seeking to heal wounds from a troubled past, find unlikely love together...
Pulsating with local color, this passionate novel of Italian-American life in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, tells the story of two Sicilian brothers, brothers, Mario and Gene Leone, looking for the American dream after WWII, but finding tragedy, betrayal, a...
Following a bloody train holdup that left one man dead and resulted in the theft of a cargo of gold, Cam Holgate is determined to retrieve the booty and win the reward that could save his failing ranch, but the only witness to the crime, greedy Tina ...
While the sun set on the British Empire, they discovered that desire can be as unquenchable as a desert wind... The exquisitely beautiful daughter of an English missionary, Annalise Devon had a simple life-- until her dying father passed her desti...
In the pursuit of profit, some of the inhabitants of Smyrna, New York, are considering turning their town into a theme park. And at least one of them is getting away with murder, or so it seems when two corpses--one of them dead for 20 years, the oth...
ALL HE WANTED WAS ENOUGH WHISKEY TO FORGET Ravaged by grief after a car crash took his cherished wife and unborn child, Chase Tyler had abandoned his family business. He'd hit the rodeo circuit and the bars with equal disregard for his life, unwilli...
A loner private eye in the Sam Spade tradition, Jason Coulter is hired to find a teenager in Salt Lake City, a young girl who may be involved with the Church of the Four-Sided Triangle, a cult fond of ritual sacrifices...
Daniel Aragon knew trouble when he saw it, and Harmony Russell was more than he could handle. The auburn-haired beauty was a temptation from the moment he spotted her on the San Francisco pier ... a temptation, and a torment. For her uncle was one of...
While his girlfriend travels to Berlin to testify against the most dangerous TekLords, ex-cop Jake Cardigan is called to Brazil to speak to a witness and discovers that he has been tricked into leaving his lover's side. Reprint....
STEVIE’S GOT A QUADRUPLE DOSE OF TROUBLE -- CAN THE SADDLE CLUB GIRLS HELP? A riding team from Italy is coming to Pine Hollow, and Stevie volunteers to entertain them during their visit. It's a job that stuck-up Veronica diAngelo wanted for her...
The Producer thinks he''s God''s gift to women—whether they''re human or alien. The Director is delighted to work on a wild and woolly planet, where he can really behave like Attila the Hun. Some of the local natives are trying to steal the ...
A Gambler in Love... Katie Reynolds had loved Bill Logan ever since they were kids, but he'd never considered her anything more than his best buddy, his partner in crime. So when he came home to Cape May and invited her to dinner, she wondered if ...
All her life, daughter-of-the-help Darcy had idolized Roman Zachery, the congressman's son. Their one night of hot, reckless, teenage passion had rocked her world. But Roman had married a proper wife, and Darcy had fled, carrying her fateful secret. ...
SUMMER'S SWEET PROMISE Fancy Connors had one long, hot summer to find out if her love for Rader Malone was real or just a long-held dream. She was barely a teenager when her handsome, older stepbrother had been driven out of her life. And now,...
To relieve the tedium of jury duty, recently divorced Castle Winter and a beautiful computer expert named Pansy borrow a piece of evidence, a violin engraved with Arabic writing, and suddenly find themselves pursued by several menacing characters...
Antiques dealer Bedros Kasparian calls in his old friend Lady Margaret Priam to investigate when the body of a beautiful blackmailer and soon-to-be-ex-wife of a wealthy Hollywood lawyer, Sylvie Code, is found in his shop...
On the dark English moors, there is a legend of a fearsome horse-god, shipwrecked centuries ago with his Scythian masters…and then horribly sacrificed. It is a legend long forgotten -- but one that will never die… American Tom McEvoy and his f...
The Best-Looking Guy in Town... Dex Matthews was back, and Carly Winters still thought her ex-fiance was too handsome for his own good...and hers! The brilliant marketing director had challenged and charmed her like crazy when they'd first met, st...
IMPASSIONED CRUSADER Enraged over the pitiful plight of local miners, feisty flame-haired Carrie O'Leary decides to take action. Gun in hand, she bursts into the offices of the Crested Butte Courier and kidnaps editor Matt Worthington, the handsome ...
Taking on a seemingly routine murder case, L.A. attorney Ben green grows suspicious when the judge demonstrates an unusual interest in the acquittal of his client, and the assistant D.A. seems intent on botching the state's case...
CAUGHT BY FATE Cassandra Taggart was tired of obeying orders. Though her late husband's will required her to hire a man to run her Georgia plantation, the beautiful young widow was determined to manage things herself. To satisfy the lawyers, she i...
From the World Fantasy Award-winning author of The Bards of Bone Plain.The Wayfolk are a dark-haired, wandering people who shun doors and walls. Corleu is Wayfolk, albeit with hair the color of the moon. But when his companions and his own true love ...
When a stray black cat begins to follow Sophie around, she must convince her parents to let her keep him, and in the process, she learns a valuable lesson about making and keeping new friends. Reprint....
The party was supposed to be a celebration for the cast of the school play. For sisters Amy and Erin the night turns into a nightmarish tragedy. Erin and her family must find the courage to accept that Amy's life is hanging in the balance. Will Amy s...
It is a bloody game as old as nations and politics. And it has always been played with the lives of the most loyal and brave. Colonel "Wild Bill" Fogarty has been a dedicated soldier for most of his adult life---an able warrior who was bloodied but ...
"Morgan's coming home!" her stepfather cried Those three words should have released a flood of warm memories for Leigh. Instead, thoughts of their last disastrous encounter blotted out the rest. Just when she'd been coming to te...
"Anybody but Annie Page!" Newspaper publisher Nick Kimball needed a society columnist; Annie had the necessary contacts. But he didn't like her any more than he'd liked her late husband, Robert. According to Nick, Annie was a ...
In a chorus of voices David Grossman's The Smile of the Lamb tells the story of Uri, an idealistic young Israeli soldier serving in an army unit in the small Palestinian village of Andal, in the occupied territories, and his relationship with Khilmi,...
San Francisco Bay Area archaeologist Davis Lowry has everything -- success, a fascinating profession -- but he is troubled by a bout of sleepwalking. For a change of scenery, he travels to York, England, where a bog man has been unearthed. A series o...
CHINESE RIDDLE What was in the Chinese box that a student survivor of Tiananmen Square smuggled into the States? What fiend in human form left footprints pointed backward in the snow? Remo and Chiun found every answer led to a bizarre new riddle. ...
WELCOME TO FEAR STREET Don't listen to the stories they tell you about Fear Street. Wouldn't you rather explore it yourself... and see if its dark terrors and unexplained mysteries are true? You're not afraid, are you? Snowbound! "Red" Porter wa...
The Shoemaker's boy works alone in his father's shop, when his father goes off on a long quest to find a way to cure his wife's mysterious illness. At night Jem has some strange and frightening experiences. He has three strange visitors a...
"Ye have been here before, child. Ye cannot deny it" As an infant, she was left in a basket on the steps of a simple cottage in the South of Wales. Now, the kindly couple who raised her have died; Gwynneth Morys is an orphan again, totally alone i...
Only one human being could have gotten Kiowa Smith to quit his drifting ways -- Paddy Burke, the tomcatting hombre who offered to partner him on a new ranch outside the town of Galilee, Kansas. But Paddy lies dead at the hands of Sheriff Ben Clark, f...
Millionaire Derek Van Heusen believed only in what he could buy or build, and dreamy do-gooders rarely broke his stride. Until fiery Abigail Eldredge nearly stopped him in his tracks. Even as she slowed the mighty wheels of modern progress, his beaut...
In what is to be his last assignment, Mark Kenner sets out on a diplomatic mission to bring the Elspind into the Cooperative League of Systems, but he must first survive in an environment that is hostile to the pending alliance...
THE ONLY GOOD ELF IS A DEAD ELF Or so the militant order of Durandine monks thought, and they planned on making sure that all the elves in their world were very, very good. The elves of the Three Realms have sent out one last spell to bring help.....
She is called Cridilla--the youngest daughter of Leir Blatonikos, the mighty Celtic warlord who conquered three kingdoms. Beautiful, loyal and warrior-trained, she grows to womanhood in a magnificent, barbaric land--and learns lost secrets of the God...
SCIENCE IS A SERIOUS MATTER ... BUT SO IS LOVE! Wishing to pursue his scientific studies undisturbed, Lord Justin Darvey kept his life simple--and the hiring of charming Elizabeth Hanley as a companion to his elderly aunt seemed just the thing. El...
This novel of turn-of-the-century white "Florida Crackers" marks a daring departure for the author famous for her complex accounts of black culture and heritage. Full of insights into the nature of love, attraction, faith, and loyalty, Seraph on t...
The acclaimed novel featuring George Smiley, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Legacy of Spies and The Night Manager, now an AMC miniseries The rules of the game, and of the world, have changed. Old enemies ...
The moment Bert and Nan, Freddie and Flossie arrive at the old Wilson house, they have a feeling their vacation in Beachcliff Bay is going to be unusual. And they're right! Before the day is over, they're wrapped up in a mystery. Why does a mirror br...
The unique joys and passions that surround St. Valentine's Day are captured in an extraordinary collection of all-new stories by five of the most beloved and highly acclaimed Regency authors. Fair ladies ... courtly gentlemen ... romantic intrigue......
ISLAND GIRL Architect Lane Stafford had thought of his trip to Florida as a working vacation -- until his car broke down on the isolated main road of Caloosa Key. With no sign of civilization in sight, Lane knew the fierce mosquitoes and scorching...
In Depression-era Texas, the Dawson family loses their farm and possessions to the bank and takes to the road, where they discover a bullet ridden corpse and a truckload of whisky and find themselves in business once again...
When his father, his secretary, and even the thief who stole his car die under grisly circumstances, advertising executive Harry Buckingham comes under investigation and must go undercover to clear his name. Reprint....
On Halloween morning, Chicago news editor Danny Fain witnesses what may, or may not, be a crime. From the window of his commuter train, he thinks he sees a tiny, sheet-clad figure struck down by a car. It is a story that could save a newsman’s care...
Jack Mann, a middle-aged, honest detective, matches wits with crooked cop Tommy Day--a member of the special task force on organized crime and a secret employee of the Mob--as Jack tries to save the life of a D.A. targeted for assassination. Reprint....
Long-held and terrible family secrets threaten to destroy the Rothmans, New York’s premier publishing dynasty, in this witty and suspenseful novel by one of America’s foremost chroniclers of the wealthy. ...
It had all turned out to be so strange, so ironic. Angela Peterson's family had moved west because her mother had not been well and the doctor said the cooler, clear air of the region might be easier on her lungs. Her father sold the farm and loaded ...
A COWARD DIES A THOUSAND TIMES, BUT A BRAVE MAN'S DEATH IS REAL!That and Never Volunteer could have been Ryne Sangre's dual mottoes, but now that the Wholeth Empire is reaching out to annex the worlds of the Polar Cloud, it's time for all able-bodied...
Who's the new girl at Sweet Valley High? Looks can be deceiving………… Jessica can’t believe it! Her idol, rock star Jamie Peters, has moved to Sweet Valley. If only she could meet him, her career as a 'star' would really take off! Peek...
Facing the gallows for defending his honor-by killing the captain of the guard-the mighty Conan jumps feet first into a rescue attempt of one of his fellow prisoners. When Conan learns his rescuers are the daring Rebels of the White Rose, he joins th...
EDWINA CRUSOE, R.N. -- THE BEST MEDICINE FOR MURDER! Edwina Crusoe, top-notch nurse and super-sleuth, is called back to Chelsea Memorial when patients who survive routine operations start ending up in the morgue. With rumors flying of a "death a...
A SUMMER VACATION TREAT The three members of The Saddle Club -- Carole, Stevie, and Lisa -- are delighted when they get a chance to go to Moose Hill, a sleep-over riding camp in the hills of Virginia. It promises to be two wonderful weeks of riding,...
At the posh Lake Forest mansion where Reverend Randollph and his colleagues form an interdenominational panal on miracles, "miraculous" paranormal murders are occuring, and the minister-sleuth must find an earthly explanation--fast...
WAYLAID BY PASSION Golden-haired heiress Arielle Duplantier had no time for romantic dalliance! She had made a solemn vow: to find the man who killed her twin brother and stole her beloved plantation, farce the villain to pay for his crimes, and the...
Rachel McKendrick Phillips had nowhere left to run As a prisoner in a Vietnamese labor camp, Rachel had done things to survive that she couldn't bear to think about. Even safely home in the United States, her memories would give her no peace. S...
For nearly a hundred years, the planet Chrellkan IV has enjoyed a peaceful relationship with the colony on the third planet of its star system. However, relations between the two worlds take a deadly turn as rebel colonists take over Chrellkan III an...
Their love was the greatest peril of all... Belle Varens... Beneath her silk gowns and frilly corsets beat the steely heart of a spy. Sinclair Carrington... A master of deception, he possessed dark secrets of his own. In the stormy days of the French...
In the last decade, black women writers have come into their own. The voices of Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison & Alice Walker resonate throughout the world. Since the first slaves were taken from Africa to American in 1619, black women have been telling...
Retiring in Italy to pursue his love of Italian literature, former OSS operative Brian O'Hara's scholarly existence is disrupted when he is forced back into the deadly world of covert operations for a special mission...
ALL IN THE FAMILY Never trust a man were words Emily Hartley chose to live by. And except for occasional bouts with loneliness, she did just fine...until bachelor father Jed Sawyer made her an offer she couldn't refuse. The rugged farmer wante...
In 1829, Sam Houston was the thirty-six-year-old governor of Tennessee, a “beautiful…imperious giant genius of a man,” whose political horizons seemed limitless. The marriage of this charismatic, ambitious statesman to twenty-year-old Eliza All...
"It's simple -- we'll get married." Clay made it sound so easy, Dallas thought. But marriage to a virtual stranger was a daunting prospect, even if it was the best solution to little Nicky's problems. Clay also made it clear...
In the early years of the twenty-first century, Earth teetered on the brink of ecological destruction. Then the alien Hefn came, determined to save the dying Earth - and to the Hefn, the ends always justified the means. Humans were given nine years t...
THE MAGNIFICENT IVANOFF EMERALD It surfaced at Christie's in Geneva, "The Property of a Lady" -- a lady now sought by powerful men intent on seizing a legacy that could tilt the world balance of power... THE TERRIFYING IVANOFF SECRET She lived l...