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 […]
In picturesque nineteenth-century New England, tomboyish Jo, beautiful Meg, fragile Beth, and romantic Amy come of age while their father is off to war.
One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkeness bind them In ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elven-smiths, and Sauron, The Dark Lord, forged the One Ring, filling it with his own power so that he could rule […]
Working in a mystery tradition that will cause genre aficionados to think of such classic sleuths as Melville Davisson Posts Uncle Abner or Robert van Guliks Judge Dee, Alexander McCall Smith creates an African detective, Precious Ramotswe, whos their full-fledged heir. Its the detective as folk hero, solving crimes through an innate, self-possessed wisdom that, […]