Fearing that her high-level psychic abilities have irrevocably damaged her ability to have a healthy relationship, Clare Lancaster travels to California to assist her father's business and realizes that things are not as they appear u...

No one could understand why Colin and Roy were best friends. Colin was so shy; Roy was so popular. Colin was nervous around girls; Roy was a ladies' man. Colin was fascinated by Roy - and Roy was fascinated by death. Then one day Roy ...

A woman named Cannie Shapiro is (like the author) a columnist for a Philadelphia newspaper. Life is good until her ex-husband starts writing his own column, for a hip magazine, called 'Good in Bed,' in which he details the intimate tr...

In nineteenth-century England, all is going well for rich, reclusive Mr Norell, who has regained some of the power of England's magicians from the past, until a rival magician, Jonathan Strange, appears and becomes Mr Norrell's pupil.

Christopher Hitchens, described in the London Observer as 'one of the most prolific, as well as brilliant, journalists of our time' takes on his biggest subject yet'the increasingly dangerous role of religion in the world. In the t...

Read by John GloverTen CDs, 9 hoursTales from Gray Matter include:The BoogeymanI Know What You NeedStrawberry SpringGray MatterThe Woman in the RoomBattlegroundTales from Graveyard Shift include:Graveyard ShiftThe Man Who Loved Flower...

FIRST TIME ON AUDIO... An Unabridged Novella Unavailable In Any Collection! Tapping into our primal fears of modern technology that made Cell a #1 bestseller, Stephen King sets his sights on the latest high-tech gadget in UR, in w...

GARLIC AND SAPPHIRES is Ruth Reichl's riotous account of the many disguises she employs to dine anonymously. There is her stint as Molly Hollis, a frumpy blond with manicured nails and an off-beige Armani suit that Ruth takes on when...

The decision to bomb the office of the radical Jew lawyer was reached with relative ease.' So begins Grisham's legal leviathan The Chamber, a 676-page tome that scrutinizes the death penalty and all of its nuances--from racially motiv...

A collection of fantastical short fiction by the best-selling author of Danse Macabre features 'The Girl Who Was Infatuated with Death,' an Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter story, as well as 'House of Wizards,' 'Stealing Souls,' 'Winterkil...

A killer stalks two psychics posing as husband and wife in this suspenseful paranormal romance set in the Victorian era. Lonely spinster photographer Venetia Milton decides to seduce her employer, Gabriel Jones, who has hired her to t...

As a series of poison pen letters sweeps through the town of Lochdubh, Hamish Macbeth begins to suspect a sinister motive, a suspicion that is justified when the local postmistress is found hanged, a supposed suicide, but Hamish's inv...

In the third book of the Landover series, author Brooks shifts the focus slightly to a court wizard named Questor Thews. Questor, though, is not quite as skilled as he leads Ben--an ex-lawyer who owns the kingdom--and his queen, Willo...

The master humorist and bestselling author of A Walk in the Woods/b now guides us on an affectionate, hysterically funny tour of America's most outrageous absurdities.After living in Britain for two decades, Bill Bryson recently moved...

Jared Diamond--a modern-day Gibbon with a scientific perspective--has created an instructive study of the decline and fall of civilizations and societies. In GUNS, GERMS, AND STEEL, Diamond offered new and insightful reasons for the r...

Catherine 'Cat' Ferry is a forensic odontologist, a specialist in bite marks and the clues they provide. But while Cat's colleagues know her as a world-class scientist, she secretly attempts to manage her fragile psyche with alcohol, ...

The first of a four-part audio series from Stephen King's best-selling book, Four Past Midnight. On a redeye flight from Los Angeles to Boston, only 11 passengers survive—but landing in a dead world makes them wish they hadn't.

Penzler Pick, July 2001: Working in a mystery tradition that will cause genre aficionados to think of such classic sleuths as Melville Davisson Post's Uncle Abner or Robert van Gulik's Judge Dee, Alexander McCall Smith creates an Afri...

A red scarf. A roller coaster. A tidal wave of blood. Isabel Wright spends her days at the Belvedere Center for Sleep Research analyzing the dreams of others. Dr. Martin Belvedere, a pioneer in the field, recognized her unique talent ...

FROM THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLINGAUTHOR OF JOHN ADAMSOn May 15th, 2003 David McCullough presented The Course of Human Events as The 2003 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities in Washington, DC. The Jefferson Lecture is a tribute to...

A DA VINCI CODE-like search for ancient secrets drives this thriller by the bestselling author of THE AMBER ROOM. An attempt to get closer to her late husband by pursuing his research leads senior Justice Department official Stephanie...

Deepest night, Montana. An eerie light proclaims the arrival of a mysterious watcher in the woods. And one solitary man begins a desperate battle against something unknown—and unknowable.Broad daylight, Los Angeles. An ordinary ...

When high school teacher Caelum Quirk and his wife, Maureen, move to Littleton, Colorado, they both get jobs at Columbine High School. In April 1999, while Caelum is away, Maureen finds herself in the library at Columbine, cowering i...

Fifth Book in the Magic Kingdom of Landover series Former Chicago lawyer Ben Holiday was proud and happy. And why not? The Magic Kingdom of Landover, which he ruled as High Lord, was finally at peace, and he and his wife, the sylph Wi...

Al Franken's landmark bestseller, Lies, and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them'a Fair and Balanced Look at the Right, was praised as a 'bitterly funny assault' (The New York Times) that rang 'with the moral clarity of an angel's trumpet' (...

Carl Webster, the hot kid of the marshals service, is polite, respects his elders, and can shoot a man driving away in an Essex at four hundred yards. Carl works out of the Tulsa, Oklahoma, federal courthouse in the 1930s, the period ...

Journeying to wintry Montreal to testify at a murder trial, forensic anthropologist Tempe Brennan discovers three skeletons in the basement of a pizza parlor and realizes that she has stumbled into a crime from the past. By the author...

Despite knowing the doomed outcome of the apprentices before him, twelve-year-old Thomas Ward is determined to learn everything he will need to know to stay alive when his time comes to ward off boggarts, witches, ghosts, and other ev...

William Golding's classic novel of primitive savagery and survival is one of the most vividly realized and riveting works in modern fiction. The tale begins after a plane wreck deposits a group of English school boys, aged six to twel...

They're out thereWaiting. Watching. Unseen by normal eyes, but all too visible to Slim MacKenzie, a young man blessed – or cursed – by Twilight Eyes…They're out thereLurking in the darkest shadows of an eerie, moonlit carnival. ...