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• Oliver Twist
  Cliffs Test Preparation Guides help students prepare for and improve their performance on standardized tests ACT Preparation Guide CBEST Preparation Guide CLAST Preparation Guide ELM Review GMAT Preparation Guide GRE Preparation Guide LSAT Preparation Guide MAT Preparation Guide MATH Review for Sta...
• Angels and Demons
  When a world renowned scientist is found brutally murdered in a Swiss research facility, a Harvard professor, Robert Langdon, is summoned to identify the mysterious symbol seared onto the dead man's chest. His baffling conclusion: that it is the work of the Illuminati, a secret brotherhood pre...
• Digital Fortress
  When the National Security Agency's invincible code-breaking machine encounters a mysterious code it cannot break, the agency calls in its head cryptographer, Susan Fletcher, a brilliant, beautiful mathematician. What she uncovers sends shock waves through the corridors of power. The NSA is being h...
• Home
  Do you believe that you can define a person by the home they live in and the possessions they surround themselves with? Do the books on their shelves and the paint on their walls give away their personality, and what would you think about someone who lived in a white, minimal space with nothing at ...
• Broken Angels
  For one woman, Nancye O'Reilly, this shocking path of events is real. Such tragedies would have destroyed a lesser woman, but Nancye took control of her life and made some crucial decisions to improve her lot and that of her two remaining sons. As a result of her extraordinary experiences, she is n...
• Vintage Postcards from Old Spokane
  This book contains over 200 Courrier-and-Ives-quality color postcard photographs of buildings, scenes and events in and around Spokane, Washington, in the early 1900s. In addition to being the only Spokane history book in color, it also includes entertaining and informative narrative along with a g...
• Heaven and Earth
  Through the lens of a microscope or the shaft of a telescope exists a universe of boundless life and beauty, that is entirely invisible to the naked eye. Atoms, ice crystals, grains of pollen, snowflakes, butterfly wings, cloud formations, searing comets, and showers of stars are born, live and die...
• Resistance
  As the grip of the German Occupation tightened on Paris in the summer of 1940, Agnes Humbert, a respected art historian, took a leap of blind faith and reckless courage. With a handful of her distinguished colleagues at the Musee de l'Homme in Paris, she helped to form one of the first organised gr...
• Pride and Prejudice
  Mr and Mrs Bennet live with their five daughters. Jane, the eldest daughter, falls in love with Charles Bingley, a rich batchelor who takes a house nearby with his two sisters and friend, Fitzwilliam Darcy. Darcy is attracted to the second daugher, Elizabeth, but a bad account of him is given to El...
• The Awakening
  First published in 1899, this beautiful, brief novel so disturbed critics and the public that it was banished for decades afterward. Now widely read and admired, "The Awakening" has been hailed as an early vision of woman's emancipation. This sensuous book tells of a woman's abandonment of her fami...
• Billy
  Meet Billy Butler. Heas been safely guarded from the evils (fun) of life by his overprotective parents, thereby spending his first 18 years on the planet moldering on the line of goodness and virtue. Meet Mirna, Billyas older sister who, now that her brother is out of school, wants to rectify that ...
• Never Say Never
  In "Never Before" and "Never Again, " award-winning author Jo-Ann Power evoked the drama and elegance of the Gilded Age with wonderful romances of American heiresses Victorian England would never forget. Now, in a tale as lavish as the age itself, she portrays the last and youngest of these ladies ...
• Julius Caesar
  More than two thousand years after his death, Julius Caesar remains one of the great figures of history. He shaped Rome for generations, and his name became a synonym for emperor -- not only in Rome but as far away as Germany and Russia. He is best known as the general who defeated the Gauls and do...
• Dracula
  A biography of the 15th Century Prince of Romania, Vlad Dracula (1431-1476), nicknamed the Impale and on whom Bram Stoker based his fictional character. It covers his career as ruler of Wallachia, terror of Transylvania and crusader against the Turks and examines how closely he compares to his fict...
• Macbeth
  Macbeth is Shakespeare's great tragedy of a fall into evil. The Norton Critical Edition text is based on the First Folio (1623), the only authoritative text of the play. It is accompanied by an introduction, detailed explanatory annotations, and textual notes. A rich "Sources and Contexts" section ...
• The Truth
  With over a million copies sold worldwide and translated into 22 languages, the Health Freak books have been a global publishing phenomenon, bringing both fun and vital health education to teenagers the world over. The Truth has the popular question-and-answer format of the Health Freak series base...
• Ghost Force
  Tensions between Siberia and Moscow are running high, but the sudden disappearance of leading top-tier Siberian politicians and oil executives sparks open outrage in the vast lands east of the Ural. Terrified that Siberia will sever their ties and deprive Russia of its most important oil source, Mo...
• The Bond
  What would happen if we had access to the blood of Jesus Christ? What would happen if we removed the DNA from that blood? What would happen if we cloned a human from that DNA, and who would that human be? The Bond: A Story of Love Between the Living and the Dead is the story of twin brothers, one o...
• All about Love
  The word love is most often defined as a noun, yet...we would all love to better if we used it as a verb, writes bell hooks as she comes out fighting and on fire in All About Love, Here, at her most provacative and intensely personel, the renowned scholar, cultural critic, and feminist skewers our ...
• More Than Words
  Good books inspire the imagination, jump-start creativity, and kindle new ideas. So it's no surprise that for these twenty-one members of the Chrysostom Society (a renowned contemporary Christian writers' group) the works of classic literary masters have played an influential role in shaping their ...
• The Red Tent
  'My name means nothing to you. My memory is dust. This is not your fault or mine. The chain connecting mother to daughter was broken and the word passed to the keeping of men, who had no way of knowing. That is why I became a footnote, my story a brief detour between the well-known history of my fa...
• The Visitor
  Sergeant Amy Callan and Lieutenant Caroline Cook had a lot in common. Both high flying army women, both victims of sexual harassment, they left the army under dubious circumstances. Both are now dead, their bodies discovered, unmarked and unscarred, in their own homes. Jack Reacher, former US milit...
• The Far Side of the World
  Tie-in edition of the major film from Fox due next Spring. Starring Russell Crowe as Jack Aubrey and Paul Bettany (A Beautiful Mind) as Stephen Maturin. Directed by Peter Weir. It is still the War of 1812. Patrick O'Brian takes his hero Jack Aubrey and his tetchy, sardonic friend Stephen Maturin on...
• Jigs and Reels
  Take your partners, please. Suburban witches, defiant old ladies, ageing monsters, suicidal Lottery winners, wolf men, dolphin women and middle-aged manufacturers of erotic leatherwear. In these twenty-two short stories from the author of HOLY FOOLS and FIVE QUARTERS OF THE ORANGE, the miraculous g...
• Les Norton and the Case of the Talking Pie Crust
  Set in Bondi and the Central Coast, this is vintage Les Norton - who has been called in to help Albanian would-be filmmaker, Bodine Menjou locate a missing script. Les is giving advice to Bodine, dealing with an enraged ice addict who won't stay down, and confronting a shot gun and an exploding bui...
• Arabella
  The English National Opera Guides were originally conceived in partnership with the English National Opera and edited by Nicholas John, the ENO's dramaturg, who died tragically in an accident in the Alps. Most of the guides are devoted to a single opera, which is described in detail--with many arti...
• Blue Beyond Blue
  An exploration of contemporary family dynamics, moral conundrums, and romantic love through one of our oldest literary forms--the fairy tale. Inspired and barbed, Slater's fairy tales are irresistible.--Donna Seaman, Booklist Mermaids, seal women, little girls born of eggs, old men born of premat...
• Deathgate: Hand of Chaos 5
  With the publication of their first fantasy novel, New York Times bestselling authors Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman were an instant success. Seven years later, there are nearly ten million copies of their novels in print around the world. Their most ambitious project to date, the Death Gate novel...
• The Reality Dysfunction
  Space is not the only void... In AD 2600 the human race is finally beginning to realize its full potential. Hundreds of colonized planets scattered across the galaxy host a multitude of prosperous and wildly diverse cultures. Genetic engineering has pushed evolution far beyond nature's boundaries...
• All in the Seasoning
  Celebrate the holidays lesbian style! Celebrate solstice with a firefighter on the job in New York City, Thanksgiving with a lesbian border patrol agent, Hanukah at a lesbian bar, and Christmas with a lesbian couple in South Africa. Here are the stories that celebrate our own traditions, storie...
• Best Gay Erotica 2002
  The Year's Steamiest and Most Thought-Provoking Gay Sex Writing Best Gay Erotica 2002 is a collection of 24 stories (14 never-before published) from some of the biggest names in gay fiction. Still the most literate and eclectic series on the market, past books have included the works of Felice Pica...
• Measuring the World
  "Measuring the World" recreates the parallel but contrasting lives of two geniuses of the German Enlightenment - the naturalist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt and the mathematician and physicist Carl Friedrich Gauss. Towards the end of the 18th century, these two brilliant young Germans set ou...
• Genghis
  Conn Iggulden's novels are grand historical tales of conquest and vengeance, cruelty and greatness. Now the acclaimed author of Genghis: Birth of an Empire delivers a masterful new novel of the mighty Mongol conqueror--as Genghis Khan sets out to unify an entire continent under his rule.... He ca...
• Abundance, a Novel of Marie Antoinette
  Marie Antoinette was a child of fourteen when her mother, the Empress of Austria, arranged for her to leave her family and her country to become the wife of the fifteen-year-old Dauphin, the future King of France. Coming of age in the most public of arenas--eager to be a good wife and strong queen-...
• Cell
  THERE'S A REASON CELL RHYMES WITH HELL. On October 1, God is in His heaven, the stock market stands at 10,140, most of the planes are on time, and Clayton Riddell, an artist from Maine, is almost bouncing up Boylston Street in Boston. He's just landed a comic book deal that might finally enable ...
• 999: Twenty-Nine Original Tales of Horror and Suspense
  Headlined by a short novel from William Peter Blatty, this acclaimed anthology features 29 horror and suspense stories by Stephen King, Neil Gaiman, Joyce Carol Oates, and others....
• Broken Trail
  Based on historical documents and more than five years of research, Broken Trail tells the story of a rancher who comes across five Chinese girls who are being transported from San Francisco to Wyoming, where they will be forced into prostitution in a mining camp. The story, written by Alan Geoffri...
• The Bride of Frankenstein
  Attempting to create life through dreadful experiments, Henry Frankenstein and Dr. Pretorius instead created unspeakable horror: two misshapen monsters, a brutish male and his female mate, stitched together from the bodies of cadavers. Crafted to be the monster's bride - an undead Eve to an equally...
• The Cylons' Secret
  After the devastating Cylon War, the Cylons retreated to parts unknown in deep space, and the twelve human colonies rebuilt that which was destroyed. For twenty years nothing was heard from the Cylons-but sometimes no news is bad news. For the humans, the aftermath of the war has created a new, alb...
• Four Walls
  Detectives Mac Taylor, Danny Messer, Sheldon Hawkes, and Don Flack are called in to investigate a double homicide at a medium-security facility on Staten Island. Racial tensions turned the prison into a pressure cooker that finally boiled over in an all-too-lethal fashion, leaving two inmates dead....
• Alhazred
  H. P. Lovecraft's compelling character, Abdul Alhazred, is brought to life in this epic tale detailing the mad sorcerer's tragic history and magical adventures. Alhazred tells his own life story, beginning with himself as a poor, handsome boy in Yemen who attracts the attention of the king for his ...
• An Angel's Story
  Spiritual beings populate the stories of Scripture. Angels singing. Demons infecting. Heavenly hosts fighting . . . Ignore the armies of God and Satan and you ignore the heart of Scripture. Ever since the snake tempted Eve in Eden, we've known: there is more to this world than meets the eye. In...
• Avenues of Spiritual Consciousness
  A fresh water spring flowing during high tide is the source available to Raven Janamanchias sheep. Upon her drinking from it, she perceives an unmistakable Spiritual uplift. Ravenas discovery on this remote Maine island opens a new vista. Her rapturous delight is severely challenged beginning with ...
• Ben-Hur
  Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1880) by Lew Wallace is one of the most popular and beloved 19th century American novels. This faithful New Testament tale combines the events of the life of Jesus with grand historical spectacle in the exciting story of Judah of the House of Hur, a man who finds extr...
• Devil in Winter
  A devil's bargain Easily the shyest Wallflower, Evangeline Jenner stands to become the wealthiest, once her inheritance comes due. Because she must first escape the clutches of her unscrupulous relatives, Evie has approached the rake Viscount St. Vincent with a most outrageous proposition: "mar...
• The Pleasure Seekers
  USA Today bestselling author Melanie George delivers a sexy new novel of dangerous delight, where England's most independent woman meets her match in the ton's most seductive gentleman.... Lovely Lady Bliss Ashton has her pick of the attractive, sophisticated men in Regency society...and she's r...
• Simple Abundance
  Especially newly adapted edition for Australian and New Zealand readers, Simple Abundance is a book of 366 evocative essays - one for every day of the year-written for women who want to live by their own lights. Sarah Ban Breathnach shows how your daily life can be an expression of your authentic s...
• Beowulf
  This magnificent new edition, which includes relevant shorter texts and key illustrations, is designed specifically to help those who, while already enjoying some acquaintance with Old English, come to Beowulf for the first time.As in their celebrated Guide to Old English, Fifth Edition, the editor...
• The Last Day
  A riveting history of how the cataclysmic Lisbon earthquake shook the religious and intellectual foundations of Enlightenment Europe Along with the volcanic destruction of Pompeii and the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, the Lisbon quake of 1755 is one of the most destructive natural disasters ever...
• All Shall Be Well
  ALL SHALL BE WELL exemplifies the spirituality of 14th century mystic woman, Julian of Norwich, England and makes it contemporary experience through the spirituality of 21st century young woman from Los Angeles, Bella. The central themes of the book are the issues of pain, suffering, and the love o...
• Priests
  Ireland, awash in cash and greed, no longer turns to the Church for solace or comfort. But the decapitation of Father Joyce in a Galway church horrifies even the most jaded citizen. Jack Taylor, devastated by the recent trauma of personal loss, has always believed himself to be beyond salvation. Bu...
• Origins
  Distills complex science in clear and lively prose.--Scientific American Book Club Origins explores cosmic science's stunning new insights into the formation and evolution of our universe--of the cosmos, of galaxies and galaxy clusters, of stars within galaxies, of planets that orbit those stars,...
• The God Particle
  Dubbed the God particle by Nobel Prize-winning physicist Leon Lederman, the Higgs boson is a hypothetical particle which, like divinity, is all pervading but undetectable. Scientists around the world race to find this clandestine particle. This book is about a different quest to find a different pa...
• Buddha
  In the twenty-five centuries since the Buddha's death, his profound teachings and path have guided and enlightened millions of lives. The Buddha also has inspired some of the most beautiful and magnificent artistic creations ever produced by humanity. Jon Ortner's photographs of more than 150 of th...
• The Afghans
  When British and American intelligence catch wind of a major Al Qaeda operation in the works, they are primed for action - but what can they do? They know nothing about the attack: the what, where or when. They have no sources in Al Qaeda, and it's impossible to plant someone. Impossible, unless......
• Harm
  It is the very near future. Paul Ali, a young science fiction writer, who has the perceived misfortune of a Muslim heritage, has been arrested for no compelling reason. He is held as prisoner B, without a lawyer and isolated. Whenever the powers-that-be fancy a diversion, they beat him up. A foul-m...
• Some Like it Hot
  Some Like it Hot is the ultimate guide for Southern gardeners who dream of colorful, continuously blooming annuals and perennials and peaceful garden settings. For those who live in the hot and humid Southeast, a profusion of blooms and high temperatures don't always go hand-in-hand. With the advic...
• The Forensic Mission
  Understanding forensics can be murder. But not with this novel approach. The Forensic Mission will draw you into a suspenseful mystery while you delve into forensic science and its role in solving crimes. Investigating a string of homicides, you'll search for clues alongside detectives at crime sce...
• The Missing
  The Missing is a fascinating literary meditation on missing persons by the acclaimed young Scottish writer Andrew O'Hagan. Writing with what one reviewer praised as "passion, eloquence, and honesty", O'Hagan explores one of society's most enduring, yet unexamined, concerns ...
• Sweeney Todd
  'Ladies and Gentlemen...I have to state that Mrs Lovett's pies are made of human flesh!' This shocking announcement provides the stunning denouement to a narrative first published over a period of four months in the winter of 1846-7. The revelation marked only the beginning, however, of the notorio...
• Warriors
  In this volume, the author not only investigates the stories behind some of the great myths, legends and real stories but places each within its context to the extent that we're able to distinguish the true elements and separate them from pure fable, are able to learn of lifestyles and other exploi...
• The Lady and the Law
  Despite the grave misgivings of both their families, Valeria Brinton and Eustace Woodville are married. But before long the new bride begins to suspect a dark secret in her husband's past and when she discovers that he has been living under a false name, she determines to find out why he is conceal...
• Searching for Fannie Quigley
  At the age of 27, Fannie Sedlacek left her Bohemian homestead in Nebraska to join the gold rush to the Klondike. From the Klondike to the Tanana, Fannie continued north, finally settling in Katishna near Mount McKinley. This woman, later known as Fannie Quigley, became a prospector who staked her o...
• Crashing America
  AN EXCITING DEBUT NOVEL ABOUT SEARCHING FOR HOME AND FINDING THE HEART OF THE HOMELAND When her best friend dies, Girl, the 17 year old street-punk narrator of CRASHING AMERICA, leaves San Francisco for the heartland in search of a place where she can breathe again. Torn between her innate restless...
• Leaving Paradise
  Native Hawaiians arrived in the Pacific Northwest as early as 1787. Some went out of curiosity many others were recruited as seamen or as workers in the fur trade. By the end of the nineteenth century more than a thousand men and women had journeyed across the Pacific, but the stories of these extr...
• What If God Were the Sun
  In What If God Were the Sun, John Edward, best-selling author of Crossing Over, weaves a warm and poignant story about one family and their way of dealing with life, love and death over the generations. John draws upon his vast experience with individuals throughout the world - and their loved ones...
• A Piece of My Heart
  As volunteers clean up after a huge outdoor rock concert in Yorkshire in 1969, they discover the body of a young woman wrapped in a sleeping bag. She has been brutally murdered. The detective assigned to the case, Stanley Chadwick, is a hard-headed, strait-laced veteran of the Second World War. He ...
• The Book of Shadows
  Reflecting the irresistible appeal of Charmed, one of the WB's most popular shows and designed to look like a real grimoire (a witch's book of spells), The Book of Shadows will delight the TV show's fans and anyone who is part of the current wave of fascination with magic and witchcraft. 54 photos....
• The Secret
  Judith Hampton was as beautiful as she was proud, as purposeful as she was loyal. The dear Scottish friend of her childhood was about to give birth, and Judith had promised to be at her side. But there was another, private reason for the journey from her bleak English home to the Highlands to meet ...
• King Solomon's Mines
  Allan Quartermain had been a trader and hunter all his life and knew Africa as well as any white man. He was returning to Natal, South Africa, when Sir Henry Curtis tracked him down and made him a proposition. Curtis's brother had heard of the famous, fabled diamond mines of King Solomon. He has ta...
• Wings
  Shortly after the Boy Scouts organized an American version of the successful English program, local organizations called councils began to operate. Composed of progressive community leaders, they offered a framework for Scouting to offer its program to boys. Along the way, councils acquired propert...
• Tales from the Thousand and One Nights: Tales from the Thousand and One Nights
  The tales told by Shahrazad over a thousand and one nights to delay her execution by the vengeful King Shahriyar have become among the most popular in both Eastern and Western literature. From the epic adventures of Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp to the farcical Young Woman and her Five Lovers and ...
• The Secret Garden
  Mary Lennox has no one left in the world when she arrives at Misselthwaite Manor, her mysterious uncle's enormous, drafty mansion looming on the edge of the moors. A cholera epidemic has ravaged the Indian village in which she was born, killing both her parents and the 'Ayah', or Indian servant, wh...
• Love Stories
  A new anthology of literary love stories--the third collection in the appealing Pocket Classics format--perfect for Valentine's Day. Here are nineteen stories from a rich array of writers, and here is every kind of romantic entanglement: from the raw, erotic passion of D. H. Lawrence and Colette ...
• Star Wars- Episode 2 Attack of the Clones
  Anakin Skywalker is now age nineteen and facing temptations of love, violence, betrayal, honor, and above all, the dark side of the Force. This is the only paperback novelization of Star Wars: Attack of the Clones available when the movie opens....
• Dark Waters
  This is a selection of deliciously spooky short stories from the Japanese master of suspense, the acclaimed author of Ring. The first story in the collection has been filmed as Dark Water, starring Jennifer Connelly. Suzuki demonstrates the power of his psychological insight into the mechanics of f...
• Invasion
  Napoleon's forces are poised to invade Britain, and Commander Thomas Kydd's ship is at the forefront of the fleet defending the English coast. His honour restored after temporary disgrace in the Channel Islands, and reunited with his ship Teazer, Kydd seizes the chance to fight for his country. The...
• Knitting
  Solutions to common knitting quandaries are at your fingertips - anywhere you go "Knitting Visual Quick Tips" has the answers you need - fast. With detailed color photos and concise instructions, plus time-saving tips, it covers: selecting tools and yarn; casting on and binding off; knitting and pu...
• Salem
  Long before the city of Salem got its name, the lush valley was a favorite winter camping location for the Kalapuya tribe. Jason Lee first ventured to Oregon in 1834, at the invitation of Northwest tribes, creating a mission and a settlement here. Native Americans called it aChemeketa.a William H. ...
• No Worries
  Brian Talbot, seventeen, virgin, high school dropout, nightshift worker at the local dairy, in love. When life is kicking you down, you need to kick back, but when your old man lives in the shed in the backyard, and your mum has problems of her own, that?s not always easy. Sometimes, though, you ju...
• An Eye for an Eye
  It is 1775 in Viginia, and 14-year-old Samantha Byrd is an excellent hunter, providing food for her family's table. She knows she will never raise her musket against a person. But when the winds of the Revolutionary War place her fingers on the trigger to shoot an enemy, will she pull it to find re...
• Tea for Two
  One of the hottest romance writers today, Cathy Maxwell joins forces with rising star Liz Carlyle to serve up an irresistible treat -- two deliciously sensual Regency novellas. IN A MOONLIT GARDEN CATHY MAXWELL Posing as a tea merchant, Colonel Michael Sanson inAltrates an eccentric chemis...
• Cross Stitch
  In 1945, Claire is back from the war and reunited with her husband on a second honeymoon in Scotland. Innocently, she walks through a stone circle, and finds herself in a skirmish taking place in 1743. Now, she is in danger from the shock of her own desire for James; and is torn between two vastly ...
• A Circle of Friends
  Bobbie is a woman trapped in an unhappy marriage. Follow her as she learns of the indiscretions of her husband and the betrayal of her best friend. Come with her as she meets a woman who will change her life and her attitudes about life. She comes to realize her life is to take some drastic turns. ...
• Portland
  Mountain bikers, beginner to expert, all share a common need - a place to ride. Mountain Biking Portland gives fat-tire enthusiasts the skinny on where to ride. Here are twenty-eight of the best rides in the Portland area, from the city's western hills and Vancouver's mountain loops to th...
• Anna Karenina
  This Second Norton Critical Edition of Leo Tolstoy's epic novel is again based on the Louise and Aylmer Maude translation (originally published in 1918; revised with notes in 1939), which has never been surpassed. This volume reprints the 1939 edition, which the editor has revised, making twenty-on...
• The Arabian Nights
  The Arabian Nights has become a synonym for the fabulous and the exotic. Every child is familiar with the stories of Aladdin, Sinbad the Sailor and Ali Baba. Yet very few people, even specialists in oriential literature, have a clear idea of when the book was written or what exactly it is. Far from...
• The Old Buzzard Had It Coming
  One winter evening in 1912, in the woods outside of Boynton, Oklahoma, abusive and drunken Harley Day surprises his son John Lee and the neighbor girl Phoebe Tucker in a lovers' tryst. An hour later, when John Lee walks his beloved home, Phoebe's mother, Alafair Tucker, suspects that something is a...
• The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps
  The biggest, the boldest, the most comprehensive collection of Pulp writing ever assembled. Weighing in at over a thousand pages, containing over forty-seven stories and two novels, this book is big baby, bigger and more powerful than a freight train--a bullet couldn't pass through it. Here are t...
• Angels Passing
  Why did a young girl fall to her death from a tower block? And is there a connection with a ten-year-old boy captured on the block's CCTV system? DI Joe Faraday is on the case, but his investigation is hampered when resources are switched to a murder enquiry prompted by the discovery of the body of...
• All Roads Leadeth
  When Francis Armstrong moves into his fussily designed Victorian house in the heart of the Vale of York, his August stretches before him in a haze of leisurely house refurbishments. His decision to move a pile of rubble, however, brings DCI Hennessey and Sergeant Yellich springing to the scene at t...
• The A.B.C. Murders
  There's a serial killer on the loose, bent on working his way through the alphabet. And as a macabre calling card he leaves beside each victim's corpe the ABC Railway Guide open at the name of the town where the murder has taken place. Having begun with Andover, Bexhill and then Churston, there see...
• The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: Novels v. 3
  The four classic novels of Sherlock Holmes now available in a separate, attractively priced individual volume. The publication of Leslie S. Klinger's brilliant new annotations of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's four classic Holmes novels in 2005 created a Holmes sensation. Available again in an attracti...
• The Best American Mystery Stories
  [Most of] these stories are portraits, in styles ranging from sly to harrowing, of how crimes occurred ... If you like all your characters living at the end of a story, this may not be the book for you. -- from the introduction by Scott Turow Best-selling author Scott Turow takes the helm for the...
• Best American Mystery Stories 2007
  The best-selling author Carl Hiaasen takes the reins for the eleventh edition of this series, featuring twenty of the past year's most distinguished tales of mystery, crime, and suspense. Laura Lippman introduces us to a suburban soccer mom who moonlights as a call girl and who has a fateful enco...
• Blueberry Muffin Murder
  Preparations are underway for Lake Eden, Minnesota's annual Winter Carnival - and Hannah Swensen is set to bake up a storm at her popular shop, The Cookie Jar. Too bad the honour of creating the official Winter Carnival cake went to famous lifestyle maven Connie Mac - a half-baked idea, in Hannah's...
• The Last Legion
  The story opens on the day that the Western Roman Empire collapses finally in 470AD, with the city itself over-run. In the preceeding months a small group of British Roman soldiers, led by a true hero, have journeyed to the city and have arrived just before the final climax. The task they have set ...
• Central Park, in the Fall
  Earth is a post-apocalyptic wasteland, Baby Sister has been kidnapped, and Pap must master the magic of his own universe, solving the riddle of another universe's magic. Wizards and witches want him dead, and his power for Master. The old man helps, but has a few secrets of his own. Mother Mary is ...
• Claimed by Shadow
  Clairvoyant Cassie Palmer has inherited new magical powers - including the ability to travel through time. But it's a whole lot of responsibility she'd rather not have. Now she's the most popular girl in town, as an assortment of vamps, fey, and mages try to convince, force, or seduce her - and her...
• Black Thorn, White Rose
  The award-winning editors of Snow White, Blood Red return us to distinctly adult realms of myth and the fantastic - with 18 wondrous works that cloak the magical fictions we heard at grandma's knee in mantles of darkness and dread. From Roger Zelansky's delightful tale of Death's disobedient godson...