In this tough, candid memoir, Anthony Bourdain, who has been a chef at several well-known restaurants, takes the reader backstage to reveal the secrets of restaurant kitchens--some of them not so appetizing, most of them hilarious, al...

I am Meredith Gentry, P.I., solving cases in Los Angeles, far from the peril and deception of my real home - because I am also Princess Meredith, heir to the darkest throne faerie has to offer. The Unseelie Court infuses me with its p...

A brilliant re-imagining and updating of the classic Frankenstein story that only Dean Koontz could conceive, PRODIGAL SON is the first volume in a four-book series that opens with the "monster"--Deucalion--coming to modern-...

When Artemis learns that his father has been kidnapped by the Russian mafia, he races to the Arctic Circle to make a daring rescue where he encounters an old acquaintance, Captain Holly Short, with whom he needs to team in order to be...

Christopher Snow suffers from a rare and fatal skin disease that keeps him out of the sun. Christopher’s mother and, more recently, his father both died from the same disease. But now his father’s corpse is missing, and th...

When a Los Angeles reporter is killed while investigating a series of murders, and a beautiful North Carolina medical intern suddenly disappears, Alex Cross learns that two clever serial killers on opposite sides of the country are co...

Loyal. Beautiful. Professional. Impeccably organized. Potentially lethal. Sarah Stevens is a woman with many distinct qualities. First and foremost a butler par excellence, skilled at running large households smoothly and efficiently,...

Twelve-year-old Meggie learns that her father, who repairs and binds books for a living, can 'read' fictional characters to life when one of those characters abducts them and tries to force him into service. Read by Lynn Redgrave. Boo...

From #1 bestseller David Baldacci comes a new thriller reminiscent of his phenomenal bestselling debut, Absolute Power.It was only a split second--but that's all it took for Secret Service agent Sean King's attention to wander and his...

This is book four of the humorous, romantic set of mysteries known as the FULL series. Jamie Swift, the owner of the local newspaper in Beaumont, South Carolina, is having a tough time suppressing her feelings--and her lust--for playb...

In Outlander, a 600-page time-travel romance, strong-willed and sensual Claire Randall leads a double life with a husband in one century, and a lover in another. Torn between fidelity and desire, she struggles to understand the pure i...

Three traveling companions--itinerant artist Dylan O'Conner, his autistic brother Shepherd, and Jillian Jackson, a stand-up comic--find themselves on the run, just one step ahead of deadly pursuers, as they race against time to uncove...

Fifteen-year-old Eragon believes that he is merely a poor farm boy—until his destiny as a Dragon Rider is revealed. Gifted with only an ancient sword, a loyal dragon, and sage advice from an old storyteller, Eragon is soon swept in...

Workaholic attorney Samantha Sweeting has just done the unthinkable. She’s made a mistake so huge, it’ll wreck any chance of a partnership. Going into utter meltdown, she walks out of her London office, gets on a train, an...

In the charming rural town of Trail Stop, Idaho, accessible to the outside world by only a single road, young widow Cate Nightingale lives peacefully with her four-year-old twin boys, running a bed-and-breakfast. Though the overnight ...

Tormented her entire life by inhuman voices, Jennsen seeks to end her intolerable agony. She at last discovers a way to silence the voices. For everyone else, the torment is about to begin. Richard Rahl and his wife, Kahlan, have been...

Mac is stunned to discover that her sister's murder had been far more than a random act of violence and resents the awakening of a mysterious ability to sense the Fae and their talismans, a talent that sends her on a quest to find the...

This pulse-racing work from a bestselling master of psychological suspense features a serial killer attending his 20th high school reunion. The killer, who identifies strongly with owls, has murdered several members of the class over ...

Blair Mallory lives the good life. She's pretty, confident, and the owner of a thriving upscale fitness center. But in the shadow of success, a troubled member of the club develops a strange fixation on her, imitating her style and dr...

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...

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 ...

Kidnappers have snatched the teenage son of super-star golfer Linda Coldren and her husband, Jack, an aging pro, at the height of the U.S. Open. To help get the boy back, sports agent Myron Bolitar goes charging after clues and suspec...

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...