From the bestselling author of The Double Bind, Midwives, and Skeletons at the Feast comes a novel of shattered faith, intimate secrets, and the delicate nature of sacrifice. 'There,' says Alice Hayward to Reverend Stephen Drew, ju...

THE PHENOMENAL EPIC OF GOOD AND EVIL LIKE IT'S NEVER BEEN EXPERIENCED BEFOREbr br Thirty-five years ago, Terry Brooks brought to life a dazzling world in The Sword of Shannara. Fourteen more Shannara volumes would follow, making the ...

Performance by Brian O'ByrneEight CDs, 9 hoursIn Desire of the Everlasting Hills, Thomas Cahill takes up his most daring and provocative subject yet: Jesus of Nazareth, the central figure of Western civilization.Introducing us first t...

This is the blistering new serial-killer thriller in Cain's 'Gretchen Lowell' series. A college student is found dead, floating in a rowing boat on a lake, a gaping wound in his abdomen. The autopsy reveals that his spleen was removed...

Jennifer Chiaverini's bestselling Elm Creek Quilts series continues with The Winding Ways Quilt, in which the arrival of newcomers into the circle of quilters heralds unexpected journeys down pathways near and far. Quilters have flock...

As a professional, six-sensory, intuitive consultant and teacher, Sonia Choquette has worked with thousands of people from all over the world who seek advice and direction, especially regarding their jobs. For many of her clients ...

In an extraordinary series of private interviews, conducted over sixteen years with the stipulation that they not be released until after Ford's death, the thirty-eighth president of the United States reveals a profoundly different si...

Returning to his home in Florida only to find himself facing the state's worst hurricane season and a pair of serial killers vying for 'most wanted' status, Serge A. Storms and his perpetually stoned companion, Coleman, tackle the mos...

The story-within-a-story device has been so overplayed in literature that as a twist, it runs the risk of tedium. Jennifer Egan, in her gripping and sophisticated novel THE KEEP, raises the bar and gives the screw a few more turns: he...

This wickedly funny, big-hearted novel about life in the office signals the arrival of a gloriously talented new writer. The characters in Then We Came to the End cope with a business downturn in the time-honored way: through gossip, ...

A phone call in 1975 changes Moon Mathias's life forever, as a voice on the line tells him his dead brother's baby daughter -- a child Moon never knew existed -- is waiting for him in Southeast Asia.A task he believes beyond his meage...

A leading communications expert explains how the tactical use of words and phrases influences what we buy, who we vote for, and what we believe, in a volume that encompasses sections ranging from 'The Ten Rules of Successful Communica...

In one of the first titles in the Atlantic Monthly Press's Books That Changed the World series, America's most provocative satirist, P. J. O'Rourke, reads Adam Smith's revolutionary Wealth of Nations so you don't have to.

With her reputation forever tarnished by a youthful indiscretion, lovely Emily Faringdon is resigned to a life of spinsterhood, until she embarks on an unusual correspondence and finds herself falling head over heels in love. Sensitiv...

From the bestselling author of A History of the World in Six Glasses, this is a riveting history of humanity told through the foods we eat.Throughout history, food has done more than simply provide sustenance; it has acted as a tool o...

WASPs finally get their due in this stimulating history by one of the world's leading geneticists. Saxons, Vikings, and Celts is the most illuminating book yet to be written about the genetic history of Britain and Ireland.

From out of the blue, here's a new collection of Vonnegut fiction--his first magazine stories from the 1950s in book form at last, with some charming reminiscences (and three new endings for old stories) by the author. Vonnegut says t...

In this early work by critically acclaimed mystery writer Lawrence Block, Joe Marlin, a con man, rogue, and confirmed bachelor, meets his match in Mona Brassard, who just may be more slippery then he is. Originally published in 1961 w...

From New York Times blockbuster bestselling author Barbara Taylor Bradford comes the astonishing final episode of the Harte family saga.Just Rewards is the dramatic conclusion of the extraordinary tale of Emma Harte’s great gran...

DIVAfter ten years in England, expatriate American Bill Bryson was gripped by an urge to return to the land of his youth. Borrowing his mother’s old Chevrolet, Bryson travelled 13,978 miles through thirty–eight states, seeing pret...

Beginning with the million-copy bestsellers First, Break All the Rules and Now, Discover Your Strengths, Marcus Buckingham jump-started the strengths movement that is now sweeping the work world, from business to government to educati...

Time ItseLf is SLIntERINg.Abducted to 1763, Peter Schock and Kate Dyer begin to understand that history has reached a tipping point. The antigravity machine is in the hands of the cruel and ambitious Lord Luxon -- who has set his sigh...

Though the head of a major multinational corporation -- and a key player in world affairs -- Samuel Walker Cox has a past that few people know about. But that group is about to get bigger. A computer disk has fallen into the hands of ...

Accepting a Newport internship that she hopes will launch her television journalism career, Grace Callahan confronts a fourteen-year-old mystery hidden beneath the city's mansions when a killer begins targeting her fellow contenders. ...

The rich, good-looking, fast-living members of the Castelli family return in DEADLY EMBRACE. Beautiful journalist Madison Castelli travels to New York to help her father, Michael, beat a murder rap. There, she teams up with her best f...

Available only on audio...a seven-step plan for understanding the power you were born with!In the #1 bestsellers The Secret and Notes from the Universe, Mike Dooley told millions of readers and listeners about the magic that the Unive...

Available for the first time on audio, a beautiful, heart-rending tale of love, loss, and honor from the bestselling author of Winter's Tale! On his last long walk, septuagenarian war hero, deserter, and professor Alessandro Giuli...

Lake of DreamsThea Marlow had encountered her soul mate in the depths of her overpowering, frightening dreams. Now, on the shores of a country lake, the stranger comes to her in the flesh - and lures her into a timeless love. Blue Moo...

Out of nowhere, like a fresh breeze in a marketplace crowded with advise on how to live, comes Byron Katie and what she calls 'The Work.' The Work is a revolutionary new way to resolve problems, so simple that even a child can do it, ...

Psychologist Alex Delaware hasn't been in private practice for a long time, but when the mother of a former patient calls and asks for his help, he can't turn her down. He couldn't help Lauren Teague when she was alive, but somethi...