Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood,' writes Frank McCourt in Angela's Ashes. 'Worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood.' Welcome, then, to the pinnacle of the miserable Irish Catho...

Richard Mayhew is a young man with a good heart and an ordinary life, which is changed forever when he stops to help a girl he finds bleeding on a London sidewalk. His small act of kindness propels him into a world he never dreamed e...

This is the epic saga of an earthling, Valentine Michael Smith, born and educated on Mars, who arrives on our planet with many psi powers, including the ability to take control of the minds of others'and complete innocence regarding t...

Insane, fiendishly inventive genius Diogenes Pendergast's vendetta against his brother, FBI Agent Aloysius Pendergast, reaches fruition in the final volume of the trilogy that began with BRIMSTONE and DANCE OF DEATH. As Diogenes taunt...

After unsuccessfully diving back into the dating pool, forty-year-old divorcee Nina Askew finally realizes what Fred, her newly acquired part basset/part beagle canine companion, has known all along, that her downstairs neighbor, a go...

Present day: Julia Hamill has made a horrifying discovery on the grounds of her new home in rural Massachusetts: a skull buried in the rocky soil–human, female, and, according to the trained eye of Boston medical examiner Maura ...

When Anita Blake takes a trip with Jason, a young werewolf who is her friend and sometimes lover, there are consequences both in Jason's small hometown and in Anita's life with Jean-Claude. As master vampire of the city, Jean-Claude h...

On a hot July afternoon, a worker at an Antietam Creek construction site drives the blade of his backhoe into a layer of soil ' and strikes a 5,000-year-old human skull. The discovery draws plenty of attention and a lot of controversy...

NAKED EMPIRE. It begins . . . 'You knew they were there, didn't you?' Kahlan asked in a hushed tone as she leaned closer. Against the darkening sky, she could just make out the shapes of three black-tipped races taking to wing, beginn...

The three daughters of colorful, difficult, filthy rich Jack Mercy gather to hear the reading of their father’s will--and find that before any of them can take possession of Mercy Ranch they must live there together for a year.

In the final days of World War II, the Japanese launch two submarines carrying a new strain of a deadly virus to the west coast of the United States, but years after the subs are lost at sea, someone plots to use their deadly cargo.

...[I]It's not just King's stories and their indelible moments...that explains his tight connection to readers. IIt's the man's uncanny talent for carefully rendering everyday life....Sounds right, feels right, so we respond with grat...

Roses Are Red, James Patterson's sixth Alex Cross thriller, openswith the District of Columbia detective attempting to mend his nearly unraveledfamily. The year-long kidnapping of one's intended (1999's Pop Goes the Weasel) will dotha...

Until the phone calls came at three o'clock on a November morning, the Golds and their neighbors, the Hartes, had been inseparable. It was no surprise to anyone when their teenage children, Chris and Emily, began showing signs that th...

Every seven years, on the seventh day of the seventh month, strange things happen. It began when three young boys - Caleb, Fox, and Gage - went on a camping trip to the Pagan Stone. And twenty-one years later, it will end in a showdow...

From the bestselling author of 'The Da Vinci Code' comes the gripping story of the ultimate code. IIt's powerful, dangerous--and unbreakable . . . When the NSA's invincible code-breaking machine encounters a mysterious code it cannot ...

In his introduction to Everything's Eventual, horror author extraordinaire Stephen King describes how he used a deck of playing cards to select the order in which these 14 tales of the macabre would appear. Judging by the impact of th...

'Now a major motion picture, scheduled for release in March, 2001, starring Morgan Freeman, Patterson's chilling psychological thriller in his Alex Cross series that exploded onto hardcover bestseller lists nationwide is re-released i...

They watched Danilo Silva for days before they finally grabbed him. He was living alone, a quiet life on a shady street in Brazil; a simple life in a modest home, certainly not one of luxury. Certainly no evidence of the fortune they ...

Following the tremendous success of her first novel, Innocent Traitor, acclaimed historian and New York Times bestselling author Alison Weir turns her masterly storytelling skills to the early life of young Elizabeth Tudor, who ...

This groundbreaking trilogy will be the fiction publishing event of 2004. "Black was unleashed in February, followed by "Red this May, and concluding with "White in September 2004. Each book concludes in a dramatic clif...

The three daughters of colorful, difficult, filthy rich Jack Mercy gather to hear the reading of their father’s will--and find that before any of them can take possession of Mercy Ranch they must live there together for a year.

In July 1977, Ender’s Game appeared as a novelette in Analog magazine. The science fiction community immediately embraced it, nominating it for a Hugo award. Twenty-five years later, First Meetings celebrates Ender’s Game ...

'"Little Emily Steiner left a church meeting late one afternoon and strolled toward home along a lakeside path; a week later, her nude body was discovered, bound in blaze-orange duct tape. Called by the North Carolina authorities...

Kurt Vonnegut's absurdist classic Slaughterhouse-Five introduces us to Billy Pilgrim, a man who becomes unstuck in time after he is abducted by aliens from the planet Tralfamadore. In a plot-scrambling display of virtuosity, we follow...

12 cassettes / 12 hoursRead by Kate BurtonUnabridgedChyna Shepherd is a twenty-six-year-old woman whose deeply troubled childhood taught her the hard rules of survival, and whose adult life has been an unrelenting struggle for self-re...

Only Terry Pratchett could make ethnic conflict funny, and that's exactly what he does in this satiric fantasy novel, an addition to the long-running Discworld series. He also sends up art criticism and the hoopla surrounding the book...

Marlie Keen was trying to lead a quiet, ordinary life. She thought the knowing - the clairvoyance that allowed her to witness crimes as they happened - had been destroyed in the nightmare of her past. Then one night it returned with a...

From The New York Times bestselling author of White Lies, Amanda Quick's new Arcane Society novel reveals the passionate - and paranormal - secrets of proper Victorian London. Leona Hewitt, a gifted crystal worker, isn't the only one ...

After their epic journey across Europe, Ayla and Jondalar have reached his home, the Ninth Cave of the Zelandonii, the old stone age settlement in the region known today as southwest France. Jondalar's family greet him warmly, but the...