...[I]It's not just King's stories and their indelible moments...that explains his tight connection to readers. IIt's the man's uncanny talent for carefully rendering everyday life....Sounds right, feels right, so we respond with grat...

Roses Are Red, James Patterson's sixth Alex Cross thriller, openswith the District of Columbia detective attempting to mend his nearly unraveledfamily. The year-long kidnapping of one's intended (1999's Pop Goes the Weasel) will dotha...

Until the phone calls came at three o'clock on a November morning, the Golds and their neighbors, the Hartes, had been inseparable. It was no surprise to anyone when their teenage children, Chris and Emily, began showing signs that th...

From the bestselling author of 'The Da Vinci Code' comes the gripping story of the ultimate code. IIt's powerful, dangerous--and unbreakable . . . When the NSA's invincible code-breaking machine encounters a mysterious code it cannot ...

In his introduction to Everything's Eventual, horror author extraordinaire Stephen King describes how he used a deck of playing cards to select the order in which these 14 tales of the macabre would appear. Judging by the impact of th...

'Now a major motion picture, scheduled for release in March, 2001, starring Morgan Freeman, Patterson's chilling psychological thriller in his Alex Cross series that exploded onto hardcover bestseller lists nationwide is re-released i...

Holly Barker, the small-town-cop-turned CIA agent, tracks a master of disguise-and a consummate killer. Unabridged CDs - 7 CDs, 8 hours

They watched Danilo Silva for days before they finally grabbed him. He was living alone, a quiet life on a shady street in Brazil; a simple life in a modest home, certainly not one of luxury. Certainly no evidence of the fortune they ...

Following the tremendous success of her first novel, Innocent Traitor, acclaimed historian and New York Times bestselling author Alison Weir turns her masterly storytelling skills to the early life of young Elizabeth Tudor, who ...

This groundbreaking trilogy will be the fiction publishing event of 2004. "Black was unleashed in February, followed by "Red this May, and concluding with "White in September 2004. Each book concludes in a dramatic clif...

In July 1977, Ender’s Game appeared as a novelette in Analog magazine. The science fiction community immediately embraced it, nominating it for a Hugo award. Twenty-five years later, First Meetings celebrates Ender’s Game ...

'"Little Emily Steiner left a church meeting late one afternoon and strolled toward home along a lakeside path; a week later, her nude body was discovered, bound in blaze-orange duct tape. Called by the North Carolina authorities...

Kurt Vonnegut's absurdist classic Slaughterhouse-Five introduces us to Billy Pilgrim, a man who becomes unstuck in time after he is abducted by aliens from the planet Tralfamadore. In a plot-scrambling display of virtuosity, we follow...

12 cassettes / 12 hoursRead by Kate BurtonUnabridgedChyna Shepherd is a twenty-six-year-old woman whose deeply troubled childhood taught her the hard rules of survival, and whose adult life has been an unrelenting struggle for self-re...

Only Terry Pratchett could make ethnic conflict funny, and that's exactly what he does in this satiric fantasy novel, an addition to the long-running Discworld series. He also sends up art criticism and the hoopla surrounding the book...

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The author of Sellevision describes his bizarre coming-of-age years after his adoption by his mother's psychiatrist, during which he witnessed such misadventures as a fake suicide attempt, a pedophile's life in a barn, and front-lawn ...

This set includes all seven volumes of the classic, allegorical, and greatly beloved children's fantasy series, the Chronicles of Narnia: THE MAGICIAN’S NEPHEW; THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE; THE HORSE AND HIS BOY; PRINCE...

Four lives knit together ...There's a little shop on Blossom Street in Seattle called A Good Yarn. You go there to buy knitting supplies and patterns -- and now it's offering a knitting class. The first lesson: how to knit a baby blan...

Taut with unrelieved tension and continual surprises, Unnatural Exposure is the case of Kay Scarpetta's life -- and a triumph for author Patricia Cornwell.When the body of an elderly woman is found dismembered in a Virginia landfill, ...

IIt's a business trip that takes attorney Maddie Fitzgerald down to New Orleans, but it's hardly business as usual when a man breaks into her hotel room and tries to kill her. Barely escaping with her life, the sexy, stylish thirty-tw...

In today's world of economic upheaval, even dual-income families can barely make ends meet. Corporate downsizing and restructuring make the future of every job uncertain -- how can you plan for the rest of your life when it's difficul...

JANET EVANOVICH'S BLOCKBUSTER BESTSELLER AT A NEW LOW PRICE!TWO FOR THE DOUGHRead by Lori PettyBounty hunter Stephanie Plum is back, packing a whole lot of attitude. This time around, she's on the trail of Kenny Mancuso, a boy from th...

Meredith Gentry struggles to fulfill her obligation to the world of Faerie by conceiving an heir to the throne of the Unseelie Court in order to restore magic and life to the fey kingdom, but her quest is threatened by the intrigues o...

With the same wicked humor and delicious charm that have won her millions of devoted fans, Sophie Kinsella, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Shopaholic & Baby, returns with an irresistible new novel and a fresh new heroine w...

Myron Bolitar's father's recent heart attack brings Myron smack into a midlife encounter with issues of adulthood and mortality. And if that's not enough to turn his life upside down, the reappearance of his first serious girlfriend i...

In TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE, sportswriter and best-selling author Mitch Albom chronicles his weekly conversations with his former college professor and mentor, Morrie Schwartz, in the months before the Brandeis University sociologist succ...

Here together for the first time on CD is the continuation of Kinsey Millhone’s adventures…'D' Is for Deadbeat Alvin Limardo hires Kinsey Millhone to deliver $25,000 to a fifteen-year-old kid. Seems pretty straightforward;...

Four English schoolchildren find their way through the back of a wardrobe into the magic land of Narnia and assist Aslan, the golden lion, in triumphing over the White Witch, who has cursed the land with eternal winter. Read by Michae...

Eric Van Lustbader brings one of the late Robert Ludlum's most popular characters, CIA agent/assassin Jason Bourne, out of retirement. Bourne has left the CIA and is living quietly as a Georgetown professor under his original name, Da...