Geronimo Stilton is at it again. This time he is out to put the Pirate Cats in their place by travelling to Japan for a feud. Geronimo and his team are getting ready for their samurai battle and are out to show off their skills.
The heiress of Styles has been murdered, dying in agony from strychnine slipped into her coffee. And there are plenty who would gain from her death: the financially strapped stepson, the gold digging younger husband, and an embittered daughter-in-law. Agatha Christies eccentric and hugely popular detective, Hercule Poirot, was introduced to the world in this […]
Diana Taylors marriage to playboy Coburn Grant was short and passionate, and it blazed brightly until the reality of their different worlds set in. Now, years later, Coburn has finally agreed to a divorce. Except one last pleasurable night together seals their fate – with a baby! Diana knows Coburn will never sign the papers […]
Paige Fielding has waited ten years for Giancarlo Alessi to walk back into her life. But the man she was once forced to betray isn??t interested in asking questions, or hearing apologies?? Shocked to discover Paige working as his mother??s PA, Giancarlo??s thirst for vengeance reignites. So he lures her to Tuscany, where she will […]
Sookie Stackhouse is a cocktail waitress in small-town Louisiana, but she keeps to herself and doesnt date much because of her “disability” to read minds. When she meets Bill, Sookie cant hear a word hes thinking. Hes the type of guy shes waited for all of her life, but he has a disability, too–hes a […]
Lessons in passion?? Anna is moments away from securing her dream teaching job and a new life when it??s all ripped away. And there??s only one man to blame. Former racing driver Cesare Urquart believes Anna Henderson is the woman who nearly ended his best friend??s marriage. He??s never forgotten her lithe figure and flowing […]
Biographer Margaret Lea returns one night to her apartment above her fathers antiquarian bookshop. On her steps she finds a letter. It is a hand-written request from one of Britain??s most prolific and well-loved novelists. Vida Winter, gravely ill, wants to recount her life story before it is too late, and she wants Margaret to […]
A gorgeously written novel that marks the debut of an astonishing new voice in psychological suspense As dusk approaches a small Dublin suburb in the summer of 1984, mothers begin to call their children home. But on this warm evening, three children do not return from the dark and silent woods. When the police arrive, […]
A young, blond woman is found dead on the floor of Colonel and Mrs. Bantry??s library. Nobody seems to know who the woman is, let alone how she wound up murdered in the Bantry??s home. Jane Marple is called in and the chase is on.
Under cover of night in Richmond, Virginia, a human monster strikes, leaving a gruesome trail of stranglings that has paralyzed the city. Medical examiner Kay Scarpetta suspects the worst: a deliberate campaign by a brilliant serial killer whose signature offers precious few clues. With an unerring eye, she calls on the latest advances in forensic […]
“Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buend??a was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.” It is typical of Gabriel Garc??a M?rquez that it will be many pages before his narrative circles back to the ice, and many chapters before the hero of One […]
Despite its lascivious reputation, the pleasures of Lolita are as much intellectual as erogenous. It is a love story with the power to raise both chuckles and eyebrows. Humbert Humbert is a European intellectual adrift in America, haunted by memories of a lost adolescent love. When he meets his ideal nymphet in the shape of […]
There was a time when reading Joseph Hellers classic satire on the murderous insanity of war was nothing less than a rite of passage. Echoes of Yossarian, the wise-ass bombardier who was too smart to die but not smart enough to find a way out of his predicament, could be heard throughout the counterculture. As […]