Neil Gaiman follows up his bestselling 2005 novel, ANANSI BOYS, with this collection of poems and short prose culled from the same imaginative territory as much of his work: a mix of modern popular culture, myth, and the tropes of sci...

This is the third book in the Tales of the Otori series, set in a land similar to feudal Japan. Takeo Otori is preparing to fight his adoptive father Shigeru's relatives in order to retake the lands he inherited from Shigeru. He has a...

The surprise fourth installment, the epic conclusion of Lian Hearn's beloved, bestselling Tales of the Otori. The Harsh Cry of the Heron: The Last Tale of the Otori is a truly epic novel. It is the rich and satisfying conclusion to t...

The World According to Garp is a comic  and compassionate coming-of-age novel that established John Irving as one of the most imaginative writers of his generation. A worldwide bestseller since its publication in 1978, Irvin...

The Spartan-II program has gone public. Tales of super-soldiers fending off thousands of Covenant attacks have become the stuff of legend.  But just how many Spartans are left? While the Master Chief defends a besieged Earth, and t...

In an evocative and fast-paced adventure on the high seas and on a faraway island an orphan boy named Peter and his mysterious new friend, Molly, overcome bands of pirates and thieves in their quest to keep a fantastical secret safe a...

The 13th and last book in the bestsellling Series of Unfortunate Events promises to answer all sorts of questions, from the identity of Lemony Snicket to the significance of the very mysterious Beatrice. Most importantly, what will be...

The 11th entry in the popular Series of Unfortunate Events books, THE GRIM GROTTO continues the darkly humorous, and very melodramatic, story of the unlucky Baudelaire orphans--Violet, Klaus, and Sunny. Illustrated with occasional B&W...

The first book in #1 New York Times bestselling author Sandra Brown's beloved Texas! trilogy introduces readers to a close-knit family struggling to go on without its patriarch—and to a man in pursuit of an elusive woman who may hol...

Investigating a chilling series of homeless Vietnam veteran murders in Los Angeles, detective Shane Scully and his partner stumble on a death that suggests the work of a copy-cat killer, in a case that is further complicated by a ten-...

"Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.' With these words, Daphne Du Maurier opens her gripping, psychologically complex tale, a modern Gothic that’s one of the classic thrillers of the twentieth century. The young,...

An indictment of the Bush-led radical Right's disdain for the principles of reasoned decision-making, and a reckoning with the degradation of the public sphere that facilitates their rule of unreason.

Son of a feared fighting man, Barnabas Sackett inherited his father's fiery temper, sense of justice and warrior skills. Declared an outlaw in his native England, Barnabas set his daring sights on the opportunities of the New World. T...

Economist Steven Levitt is a popularizer in the best sense of that term, and his reality-based view of economics encompasses both how it touches our daily lives (though we may not always see it) and how it can help bring clarity to th...

The beautiful unabridged audio edition of Mere Christianity, a book that uncovers common ground upon which all those who have Christian faith can stand together, now for the first time avaialbe on CD.

On a summer's day in 1922 Cora Carlisle boards a train from Wichita, Kansas, to New York City, leaving behind a marriage that's not as perfect as it seems and a past that she buried long ago. She is charged with the care of a stunning...

In this inspirational self-help guide, Joel Osteen, the pastor of Houston's Lakewood Church, offers a seven-step program, based on spiritual principles, to make life more meaningful and rewarding on a daily basis. He advises his reade...

A German Shepherd police dog witnesses a murder and if his owner--an Iraq war vet and former cop-turned-thief--is convicted of the crime, the dog could be put down. Few rival Andy Carpenter's affection for dogs, and he decides to repr...

At the height of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, two young boys are sent to the country for "reeducation" at a remote mountain village, where their lives take an unexpected turn when they meet the beautiful daughter of a l...

Ord Cestus, a planet mostly barren and inhospitable to life, was first colonized as a prison world—until a handful of hardy pioneers discovered its rich ore deposits and managed to build up a successful droid-manufacturing indus...

When an unexplained crisis sweeps out all of the electronics on the planet, the Brannings are faced with a choice--hoard their possessions to survive or put their trust in God and offer their resources and hearts to others--but when t...

Young Anna Frith, a vicar's maid, is faced with the loss of her family, the disintegration of her local community, and a passionate, illicit love as she and her village confront the horrors of the plague, in a historical novel based o...

New York Times bestselling author Terry Brooks became the master of epic fantasy with the publication of his legendary debut, The Sword of Shannara. Since then, each new novel in the Shannara saga has brilliantly built upon and deepen...

In barren desert lands and seedy spaceports . . . in vast underwater cities and in the blackest depths of space . . . unfolds a tale of good and evil, of myth and magic, of innocence and power. At last the saga that captured the imagi...

The Richest Man in Babylon' provides listeners with the secret to making money. The famous 'Babylonian Principles', dating back almost 6,000 years, show where the principles of wealth accumulation were founded.

“Uttering lines that send liberals into paroxysms of rage, otherwise known as ‘citing facts,’ is the spice of life. When I see the hot spittle flying from their mouths and the veins bulging and pulsing above their ey...

When FBI agent Dane Carver's twin brother, Father Michael Joseph, is brutally murdered in his San Francisco church, husband-and-wife agents Lacey Sherlock and Dillon Savich take a personal interest in the investigation. Then Nicola 'N...

In July 2003, in the midst of its maiden voyage, the Emerald Dolphin, a luxury cruise ship equipped with revolutionary new engines, and NUMA special projects director Dirk Pitt heads out to rescue the passengers and investigate the di...

WHO DO YOU LOVE?  One question, a split-second decision, and Brian Darby lies dead on the kitchen floor. His wife, state police trooper Tessa Leoni, claims to have shot him in self-defense, and bears the bruises to back up her tale. ...

A wildly entertaining first novel about good and evil, narrated by a cape-wearing superhero and a nefarious supervillain. Doctor Impossible—evil genius, mad scientist, diabolical time-traveler, wannabe world dominator—has ...