The Quiche of Death - Struggling to adapt to life in a Cotswold village after a lifetime spent in Public Relations, Agatha Raisin determines to make her mark by winning the local baking competition. When the judge is poisoned by her e...

Fresh off his Man Booker prize-winning THE SEA, John Banville has donned the pseudonym of Benjamin Black and dipped into the dark waters of crime fiction. His protagonist is a Dublin pathologist named Quirke who, in the aftermath of h...

'Perfect for traveling in the car, this CD offers quick wit from David Brenner, George Carlin, Margaret Cho, Al Franken, Amy Sedaris, Paul Dinello and Stephen Colbert.'

A newly widowed woman returns to her father’s house in ancient Egypt, where she finds sudden death lurking behind every corner after the murder of her father’s manipulative and scheming concubine. Read by Emilia Fox. Book ...

The chief thing is that they all need him' -thus Dostoyevsky described Prince Myshkin, the hero of perhaps his most remarkable novel. As the still, radiant center of a plot whose turbulent action is extraordinary even for Dostoyevsky,...

A dazzlingly original, award-winning collection of visions and nightmares from the New York Times bestselling author of Heart-Shaped Box. Imogene is young and beautiful. She kisses like a movie star and knows everything about every...

A guide to confronting and resolving life's problems shows listeners how to reach a higher level of self knowledge, recognize true compatibility, distinguish dependency from love, become one's own person, and become a more sensitive p...

At the first of every month, when the office has reached its pinnacle of hysteria, Maggie, Roxanne, and Candice meet at London's swankiest bar for an evening of cocktails and gossip. Here, they chat about what's new in their lives and...

Amateur sleuth Isabel Dalhousie is a philosopher who also uses her training to solve unusual mysteries. Isabel is Editor of the 'Review of Applied Ethics, which addresses such issues as 'truth telling in sexual relationships,' and she...

The experts at the Love Lab introduce a series of effective tools and practical steps for couples looking to improve or preserve their relationships, explaining how to identify common problems and to develop positive ways to avoid the...

First published in 1929, Faulkner created his 'heart's darling,' the beautiful and tragic Caddy Compson, whose story Faulkner told through separate monologues by her three brothers--the idiot Benjy, the neurotic suicidal Quentin and t...

Becoming suspicious when a homeless client produces a large amount of cash just before a murdered body is discovered in the car in which the client lives, Miami attorney Jack Swyteck finds himself racing the clock to save the life his...

In 1985, 100 million pounds of gold bullion disappeared in a hijacking off the coast of England. However, the boat that carried the hijackers and the booty is believed to have sunk in an unexpected storm. Ten years later, the U.S pres...

Witness the rise and fall of the greatest medical con man of all time in this enormously entertaining story of how a fraudulent surgeon made a fortune by inserting goats' testes into impotent American men.

Casey Ellis's life changes dramatically when the father she never met dies and wills her his Boston townhouse. Determined to discover why her psychologist father left her such a wonderful gift, Casey searches through his papers and un...

David Anthony Durham presents the thrilling new installment in his ambitious Acacia trilogy, which has been praised by the Washington Post as 'gripping and sophisticated.

Bestselling author Yasmine Galenorn introduces three semi-supernatural sisters who are out to save the world in this first entry in her highly acclaimed Sisters of the Moon series.

Bad Dogs Have More Fun is an unforgettable collection of more than 75 newspaper columns by John Grogan, the #1 New York Times best-selling author of Marley & Me. Combining humor, wit, poignancy and affection, these columns provide ins...

An in-depth analysis of the classic spiritual guide, the Tao Te Ching, reveals how the wisdom of the ancient texts can be applied to everyday modern life, exploring such important issues as life, death, love, work, and fulfillment in ...

In BLUE OCEAN STRATEGY, two business writers propose an innovative and ambitious new way for companies to compete. W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne employ a visual metaphor: 'red ocean' is the crowded, traditional space where competing...

Outrageous, raw, and painfully funny true stories straight from the life of the actor, comedian, and much-loved cast member of The Howard Stern Show—with a foreword by Howard Stern.When Artie Lange joined the permanent cast of The H...

In this masterly work of synthesis, Peter Mansfield, drawing on his experience as a journalist and a historian, explores two centuries of history in the Middle East. He forms a picture of the historical, political, and social history ...

Unabridged, 7 CDs, 7 1/2 hours Read by Jonathan Davis Me is an intimate memoir about the very liberating and spiritual journey of one of the most iconic pop stars of our time.

In 1849 Baltimore, following the death of Edgar Allan Poe, Quentin Clark, a young city dweller fiercely loyal to his favorite author, discovers that Poe’s final days had been marked by a series of bizarre, unanswered questions a...

6 Sacred Stones picks up on the heels of the New York Times bestselling 7 Deadly Wonders and where super-soldier Jack West Jr., Professor Max Epper and their victorious band of elite mercenaries and treasure hunters are enjoying some ...

BEFORE THEY WERE THE WIDOWS OF EASTWICK, OUR HEROINES WERE A TRIO OF DELIGHTFULLY WICKED WITCHES.In a small New England town in that hectic era when the sixties turned into the seventies, there lived three witches. Alexandra Spoffard,...

In her 10th novel, Margaret Atwood creates an elderly woman named Iris Griffen, who looks back on her life life of privilege and wealth in Ontario, Canada. Alongside Iris’s story, we read a bizarrely futuristic novel about obses...

'Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, a collection of narratives a frame story, written between 1387 and 1400, tells of a group of thirty people from all layers of society who pass the time along their pilgrimage to Canterbury by telling s...

This authoritative manual provides valuable insights for turning conflicts inthe workplace into productive working relationships.