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...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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...

The three daughters of colorful, difficult, filthy rich Jack Mercy gather to hear the reading of their father’s will--and find that before any of them can take possession of Mercy Ranch they must live there together for a year.

In the final days of World War II, the Japanese launch two submarines carrying a new strain of a deadly virus to the west coast of the United States, but years after the subs are lost at sea, someone plots to use their deadly cargo.

...[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...

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 ...