From the bestselling author of Jurassic Park, Timeline, and Sphere comes a neurological thriller about the dangers of cutting-edge medical experimentation.Harry Benson suffers from violent seizures. So violent that he often blacks out...
A Modern, Poetic Classic About the Soul's Journey to Liberation --First Time Ever on CD. Harry Haller is a sad and lonely figure, a reclusive intellectual for whom life holds no joy. He struggles to reconcile the wild primeval wolf an...
In Sue Monk Kidd's The Secret Life of Bees, 14-year-old Lily Owen, neglected by her father and isolated on their Georgia peach farm, spends hours imagining a blissful infancy when she was loved and nurtured by her mother, Deborah, who...
Melanie was kidnapped by her biological father at the age of three. Six years later she was found wandering the streets of Los Angeles, just blocks from the home where her father's bloody corpse lay. What happened during those years? ...
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Ken KeseyPublished in 1962, ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST can be seen as a battle between the conventions of mainstream society and the anarchy of the counterculture. As a satirical critique of repressive authority figures, it pointedl...
Not a continuation of the Moonlight Bay series (Seize the Night and Fear Nothing) as many fans were expecting, False Memory is nonetheless just as powerful and compulsive as anything Koontz has written before. Martie Rhodes is a succe...
After the death of her rich and shady husband, newly impoverished widow Lillian Manville moves to a small town, where she moves into a farmhouse, renames herself Bailey, starts a quaint catering business, and rediscovers herself. She ...
Obsession: An Alex Delaware Novel
Jonathan KellermanWith scores of millions of books in print, translation into two dozen languages, and one of the most popular heroes in contemporary fiction to his name, #1 New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Kellerman is the unequivocal “...
Devastated by the death of his wife in a hit-and-run accident, deputy sheriff Miles, a single father, discovers new meaning in his life when he meets Sarah Andrews, a woman struggling to rebuild her own life, but a devastating secret ...
[A] delicately perceptive little novel....Chevalier draws the reader into the world of the painting, into the mood of the masterpiece she explores: moving, mysterious, at times almost unbearably poignant. Sometimes it seems so strong ...
Meridy Dresden was once a free-spirited, fun-loving girl. All that changed when the boy she loved was killed in a tragic fire. Now, years later, Meridy must return to the South Carolina Low Country and summon the courage to make a d...
On the night their mother drowns, sisters Marnie and Diana Maitland discover there is more than one kind of death. There is the death of innocence, of love, and of hope. Each sister harbors a secret about that night-secrets that will ...
Laura Brandon had promised her dying father she would visit Sarah Tolley, but her own agony is drowning out the old woman's ramblings. Her husband killed himself, and the only witness--her daughter, Emma--now refuses to speak. Despera...
Take the sensuous, fecund New Orleans setting, add a generous helping of tangled Southern family history, and season liberally with a sensitive teenage boy rejected by his friends and frightened of his own homoerotic impulses and you ...
Every time Gwen closed her eyes, she saw him in her nightmares. Now her eyes are open, and he's not going away.Gwen Proctor won the battle to save her kids from her ex-husband, serial killer Melvin Royal, and his league of psychotic a...
The Likeness: A Novel (Dublin Murder ...
Tana FrenchNew York Timesbestselling author Tana French,author of the forthcoming novel The Searcher, is “the most important crime novelist to emerge in the past 10 years” (The Washington Post) and “inspires...
The newspaper reported the case with relish. Jane (Jinx) Kingsley, fashion photographer and heiress, tried to kill herself after being unceremoniously jilted by her fiance, Leo Wallader. Leo has disappeared - together with Jinx's be...
'Lucid and magnificent.' --James McBride, author of The Color of Water 'Senna's remarkable first novel [will] cling to your memory. There's Birdie, who takes after her mother's white, New England side of the family--light skin, stra...
Turning Angel: A Novel (The Penn Cage...
Greg Iles#1New York Times bestselling author of Mississippi Bloodand The Bone Tree keeps the secrets of the South alive in this “powerful...heartfelt...entirely gripping” (The Washington Post) novel of infatuation, murder, and sexu...
From the legendary New York Times bestselling author of The Flowers in the Attic and My Sweet Audrina series comes the first book in a new series featuring identical twin sisters made to act, look, and feel truly identical by their pe...
Best known for the provocative and powerful novel, Midwives (an Oprah Book Club® Selection), Chris Bohjalian writes beautiful and riveting fiction featuring what the San Francisco Chronicle dubbed 'ordinary people in heartbreaking...
Killman Creek (Stillhouse Lake Series...
Rachel CaineEvery time Gwen closed her eyes, she saw him in her nightmares. Now her eyes are open, and he's not going away.Gwen Proctor won the battle to save her kids from her ex-husband, serial killer Melvin Royal, and his league of psychotic a...
The Wire in the Blood (Dr. Tony Hill ...
Val McDermidAcross the country, dozens of teenage girls have vanished. It's the job of criminal profilers Dr. Tony Hill and Carol Jordan to look for a pattern. They've spent years exploring the psyches of madmen. But sane men kill, too. And when ...
No matter what you see, no matter what you’ve heard, assume nothing.Adam and Sophie Warner and their three-year-old daughter are vacationing in Washington State’s Hood Canal for Memorial Day weekend. It’s the perfect getaway to ...
From their first meeting as new roommates at Oberlin College in 1973, the friendship of two very different women--one, the daughter of a Protestant working family in Ohio, and the other, a wealthy, sheltered Jewish girl from L.A.--spa...
Drowning Ruth (Oprah's Book Club)
Christina Schwarz[A]n absorbing tale in which, remarkably, the suspense comes from the unfolding of its characters--people as complex and surprising as anyone you might actually know. Schwarz keeps her reader guessing without resorting to cheap tricks.
The scent is unmistakable gardenias, sweet and delicate, the same perfume that his beautiful first wife, Jennifer, always wore. Opening his eyes in the hospital room where he's recovering from an accident, New Orleans detective Rick B...
MALICE opens with New Orleans Detective Rick Bentz in the hospital. He thinks he smells his first wife's perfume, and sees Jennifer in the doorway; but she's been dead for 12 years. Rick begins to see Jennifer regularly, as if she is ...
Back When We Were Grownups (Ballantin...
Anne Tyler...GROWNUPS...doesn't deliver. Its lightness isn't unpleasing and its story isn't unaffecting. But Tyler's darker books insinuate themselves more deeply into one's heart....It pains me to say this, but Tyler seems a little spent in GR...
Ever since her father was stabbed to death in a home invasion, Julia "Jules" Farentino has been plagued by nightmares. Her half-sister, Shaylee, now seventeen, has had her own difficulties since the tragedy, earning a rap sh...