Samantha's husband has left her, and after a spree of overcharging at Tiffany's, she settles down to reconstruct a life for herself and her young son by taking in boarders. But her real work is this: to emerge from grief and the past, she has to learn how to make her own happiness…

Lovely but wallflowerish Mirabelle works behind the glove counter at Nieman Marcus. She captures the attention of Ray Porter, a wealthy businessman almost twice her age. As they tentatively embark on a relationship, they both struggle to decipher the language of love—with consequences that are both comic and heartbreaking…

The villagers of Chalktown communicate mostly through the chalkboards set up in the front yards of their houses. Down the road lives the Sheehand family and their disaffected and often cruel mother, Susan Blair.This is a story of a mysterious town and its inhabitants, each with afflictions and joys, each with secrets…

Cannie, a smart, sharp, plus-sized pop culture reporter, never wanted to be famous. Then she opened up a national women's magazine to find out that her ex-boyfriend had been chronicling their ex-sex life. Cannie is plunged into misery and into the heart of every woman.

Paris Minton is minding his own business when Elana Love walks in and asks a few questions. Within the next twenty-four hours, Paris has been beaten up, made love to, shot at, and robbed. He's in so much trouble that he gets his friend, Fearless Jones out of jail to help him.

When Kathleen's serene life is disrupted by breast cancer, secrets emerge and she desperately needs a friend. Forty-two-year-old Joyce Tabachnik, a sharp-witted freelance writer, is also at a fragile point in her life. Together, Kathleen and Joyce forge a once-in-a-lifetime bond and help each other confront scars left by old emotional wounds.

It's been eight years since Ave Maria married Jack. Ave Maria makes a life for herself and her growing family, hoping her fearless leap into commitment will make happiness stay.What she didn't count on was that fate, life, and the ghosts of the past would come to haunt her.

Ninety-nine elite American soldiers are trapped in the middle of a hostile city. As night falls, they are surrounded by thousands of enemy gunmen. This is the story of how they got there-and how they fought their way out.

If you feel that your life is incomplete, unbalanced, and altogether more difficult than it really should be, Dr. Phil has good news: It no longer needs to be that way.

Special Agent Will Graham finds himself locked in a deadly alliance with the brilliant Dr. Hannibal Lecter - the infamous mass murderer who Graham put in prison years ago. As the imprisoned Lecter tightens the reins of revenge, Graham's feverish pursuit of the Red Dragon draws him inside the warped mind of Lecter once again.

Ava Johnson has temporarily moved back home to Idlewind-her fabulous career and power plans smashed to bits by cold reality. But the end is a beginning, as she faces friends and family who sorely need her in the face of trouble and tragedy.

Kingsolver's latest collection of essays moves from one of history's darker moments to present an extended love song to the world we still have. Small Wonder is a hopeful examination of the people we seem to be, and what we might yet make of ourselves.

When Anna's lover betrays her, she returns home. Although her aunt Rose has struggled for 20 years to regain Anna's trust, Anna's feelings are as frosty as ever. And Anna is so dead-set on leaving again, she fails to recognize true love, even as it reaches up to grab her by the heart.

Rancher Chance Qualtrough is about to encounter his future: Hallie O'Rourke and her two young daughters. Chance doesn't know that Hallie is fleeing a danger so threatening she dares not ask anyone for help.

As seen through the eyes of a U.S. spy hours before the Japanese sneak attack, December 6 is a taut and suspenseful tale about a young American agent who infiltrates Japanese Intelligence-and uncovers knowledge about the imminent strike.

Kurt Ford, a former Secret Service agent, must prove that his son, assigned to guard the U.S. president, did not commit suicide. Ford's mission is to assassinate the president, who is the person behind the murders. He prepares to break through the fourth perimeter…

Reta has enjoyed a loving family, good friends, and success as a novel writer. Suddenly, her beloved daughter drops out of life to sit on a gritty street corner, silent. Reta's search for the cause becomes a funny meditation on where we find meaning and hope.

It's the holiday season but there's little reason for cheer at one of New York's most elite colleges when a respected professor is found dead. Opportunistic murder seems unlikely as assistant D.A.Alexandra Cooper, working with detectives Mike Chapman and Mercer Wallace, uncovers a distressing pattern of betrayal and terror.

What happens when a trained killer discovers, in the aftermath of war, that his true vocation is love? When Delphine Watzka meets Fidelis, the ground trembles. This momentous encounter changes the course of their lives, in this brilliant book by one of America’s most

Bonded tight since their days at Boston University, six friends form the Dirty Girls Social Club to dish, dine, and compare notes on the bumpy course of life and love.This can't-put-it-down novel is sure to linger with listeners long after the story is done.

A couple struggles in a modern marriage: he works days, she works nights. Then the woman receives an unexpected call telling her that her husband is having an affair, and their relationship is brought to the brink.

LAPD Officer Cindy Decker rescues a newborn abandoned in an alley dumpster. Now, the hunt is on for the mother, more than likely a desperate girl in need of medical care. But with each new lead, the twisted journey gets darker...

Bishop Blackwood Ryan heads to The University on the south side of Chicago to investigate the assassination of a Russian Orthodox Monk. Blackie soon finds himself the target of both threats and actual bullets as he seeks to unravel the deepening mystery surrounding the murdered monk.

The Cisco triplets are appalled by their widowed father's behavior. He seems to care more about his gold-digging fiancée and even worse, he put their spunky grandmother in a nursing home against her will. Setting out to spring Granny Cisco, college seniors Sara, Hannah, and Sam soon prove that trouble comes in threes.

Matthew and Harris are best friends-and bored. Until, that is, one of them discovers a secret game-the Zero Game. But what starts out as a fun wager between friends quickly become deadly when they find they're about to become the game's next victims.

In a small Greek island village, a group of travelers and local residents are brought together in unexpected ways when sudden tragedy strikes. Maeve Binchy shares these strangers’ hopes, dreams, and fears as they are forever changed by their experience.

Dupont University-the Olympian halls of learning housing the cream of America's youth...Or so it appears to beautiful, brilliant Charlotte Simmons, a sheltered freshman on full scholarship. But Charlotte soon learns, to her mounting dismay, that for the uppercrust coeds of Dupont, sex, cool, and kegs trump academic achievement every time.

The stories in this collection are about women of all ages and circumstances. The runaway of the title story is a young woman who is incapable of leaving her husband. Throughout, Alice Munro's understanding of the people about whom she writes makes their lives as real as our own.

As Private Detective Jackson Brodie investigates three cases, startling connections emerge. Inextricably caught up in his clients' emotions, Jackson finds their unshakable need for resolution much like his own.

In 1956, toward the end of Reverend John Ames's life, he begins a letter to his young son, an account of himself and his forebears. Reverend Ames tells a story of the sacred bonds between fathers and sons, which are tested in his tender and strained relationship with his best friend's wayward son.

Jonathan Strange is handsome, charming, and talkative-the very opposite of Mr. Norrell. Astonished to find another practicing magician in early 1800s England, Mr. Norrell accepts Strange as a pupil. But it soon becomes clear that their ideas of what English magic ought to be are very different…

At first, Maisie only suspects foul play, but she must act quickly when Lady Rowan's son decides to sign away his fortune and take refuge there. Maisie hurriedly investigates, uncovering a disturbing mystery, which, in an astonishing denouement, gives Maisie the courage to confront a ghost that has haunted her for years.

Julie is diagnosed with a serious illness, and her children try to find their father-before it's too late. As the known world sinks precariously from view, the Gillis clan must navigate their way through the trenches of love, guilt and betrayal, back to solid ground and a new definition of family.

Annabelle Granger wouldn't exactly call herself poised, polished, and sophisticated. But determined she is. Now that she's inherited her grandmother's matchmaking business, Perfect For You, she'll stop at nothing to make it a success.

One L, Scott Turow's journal of his first year at law school, has become a virtual bible for prospective law students. Turow leads us through the ups and downs in an absorbing and thought-provoking narrative.

Left virtually alone after the disappearance of her mother and death of her beloved older brother, Emily Parmenter has built a life around her remote father's plantation. Then Lulu arrives, with a powerful enchantment of her own and a dark secret that will inevitably blow Emily's world apart.

When Fat Charlie’s dad named something, it stuck. Even now, 20 years later, Charlie Nancy can’t shake that name, one of the many embarrassing “gifts” his father bestowed, because Mr. Nancy left Fat Charlie things. And all of a sudden, things start getting very interesting for Fat Charlie.

Howard and Kiki have been married thirty years. Their children pursue their own paths: Levi, authentic blackness; Zora, intellectualism; Jerome, faith in a family of atheists. Then Jerome falls for Victoria, the daughter of right-wing icon Monty Kipps, and the two families find themselves thrown together, provoking an honest-and honestly funny-look at people's self-deceptions.

Running with Scissors is the true story of a boy whose mother gave him away to be raised by her unorthodox psychiatrist, an outlaw childhood where rules were unheard of, and the Christmas tree stayed up all year round.

To his astonishment,Arthur Conan Doyle's career as a self-made man of letters brings him riches and fame. George Edalji, on the other hand, is irredeemably an outsider. A solicitor, he puts his faith in the value of British justice.Then crisis upsets the uneasy equilibrium of both men's lives and each becomes the other's salvation.

Former Detective Matt Cordell makes his home on the streets of New York. but trouble still knows how to find him, and when an old friend shows up begging for Matt's help, Cordell finds himself drawn into a case full of beautiful women and bloody murder.

Charlie Asher is a beta male, one of the countless guys who survive in the gene pool by doggie paddling in the shallow end. He doesn't take risks and he seriously hates change. But Charlie's safe life is about to take a really weird detour.

In 1963, suburban Belmont, Massachusetts, is rocked by a sex murder that fits the Boston Strangler's pattern. In this powerful narrative, Sebastian Junger chronicles one of America's first and most controversial serial murder cases.

D.A. Amanda Jaffe is representing an insane derelict charged with a hideous murder. When she starts looking too closely at the seemingly air-tight evidence, people start to die and she discovers that a madman with the power to alter the truth is on the loose.

Pregnant Sheriff Joanna Brady could deliver at any moment, but there are two serious crimes open for investigation. Then one of Joanna's officers is brutally attacked and left for dead, becoming the department's top priority.

Josie Tyrell, teen runaway, thinks she's found her chance at real love and a greater world in Michael Faraday-until she receives a call asking her to identify her lover's body. In the aftermath of Michael's suicide, Josie struggles to hold on to the world they shared. Then Michael's mother appears…

While Michael and Annie Keane taste the alternately intoxicating and bitter first fruits of the sexual revolution, their older, more tentative brother lags behind, until he finds himself on the way to Vietnam. Meanwhile, Clare, the youngest child of their aging parents, seeks to maintain an almost saintly innocence.

On a winter night on a remote Nebraska road, 27-year-old Mark Schluter flips his truck in a near fatal accident. His older sister, Karin, returns to nurse Mark back from a traumatic head injury. But when he emerges from a coma, Mark believes that this woman is really an impostor who looks just like his sister…

Tess Monaghan is willing to take any freelance job to pay the rent-including a bit of unorthodox snooping for her rowing buddy, Darryl Rock Paxton. But trying to prove her friend's innocence could prove costly to Tess.

When an exquisitely crafted, authentic imperial Fabergé egg mysteriously shows up at Laurel Swann's home studio, she knows it can only be from her father, who has drifted in and out of her life for as long as she can remember. But this time he leaves her something people will kill for.

This special audio edition presents this adventure in a compelling way-for the millions who have already taken this journey and want to travel these roads again, and for the many more who will discover for the first time the wonders and challenges of a journey that will change the way they think and feel about their lives.

After achieving victory at King Alfred's side, Uhtred of Bebbanburg is returning home, finally free of his allegiance to the King-or so he believes. But he soon discovers fate has another incredible surprise in store, and he embarks on an unexpected journey that climaxes in a battle more dangerous and dramatic than anything that Cornwell has written yet.

This Oprah Book Club pick is a spellbinding saga of young Calliope Stephanides's search for identity. Long ago, in a tiny village in Asia Minor, two lovers and one rare genetic mutation set in motion the metamorphosis that formed Callie into a being both mythical and perfectly real: a hermaphrodite.

Miami attorney Jack Swyteck gets more than he bargained for when he reluctantly takes on a new client, a curious man who calls himself Falcon. When the body of a brutally murdered woman is found in Falcon's car, there are dangerous secrets about to be revealed.

After torrential summer rains uncover a bizarrely tattooed body on a Lake District hillside, a long-disregarded old wives' tale takes on a chilling new plausibility.

Three stories are told: that of a young Southerner, Stingo, who wants to become a writer; of a turbulent love-hate affair between Nathan Landau, a brilliant Jew, and a beautiful Polish woman, Sophie Zawistowski; and of an awful wound in Sophie's past.

Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, who would become the mysterious man known as Maud'dib. He would avenge the traitorous plot against his noble family--and would bring to fruition humankind's most ancient and unattainable dream.

From an African village in 1750, to an Arkansas funeral two centuries later, an unforgettable cast of men, women, and children come to life, many of them based on the people from Alex Haley's own family tree. As an adult, he spent twelve years searching for documentation to authenticate his grandmother's stories. Roots is based on the facts of his ancestry, and the six generations of people-slaves and freedmen, farmers and lawyers-and one acclaimed author- descended from Kunta Kinte.

In “The Man Who Fought Roland LaStarza,” a woman’s world is upended when she learns the brutal truth about a family friend’s death. Meanwhile, a businessman is desperate to find his missing two-year-old grandson in Suicide Watch. In these and other stories, Joyce Carol Oates explores with bloodcurdling insight the ties that bind—or worse.

Stonewood Heights is the perfect place to raise children, but a small-town culture war is brewing. Ruth Ramsey teaches human sexuality at the high school. She believes pleasure is good, shame is bad, and knowledge is power. Her younger daughter's soccer coach is Tim Mason, a former stoner and rocker who hit rock bottom then reached out to be saved. Ruth and Tim instinctively distrust one another, but when a controversy on the playing field forces the two of them to actually talk, an uneasy friendship develops.

The mysterious Jay Gatsby embodies the American notion that it is possible to redefine oneself and persuade the world to accept that definition. Gatsby's youthful neighbor, Nick Carraway, fascinated with the display of enormous wealth in which Gatsby revels, finds himself swept up in the lavish lifestyle of Long Island society during the Jazz Age. Considered Fitzgerald's best work, The Great Gatsby is a mystical, timeless story of integrity and cruelty, vision and despair.

Tess Monaghan has learned how to survive and thrive on the streets of Baltimore. But a new case will force her to confront her own past, and a man she loved and lost.

On its 75th anniversary, this outstanding work of literature is more relevant today than ever before. Cloning, feel-good drugs, anti-aging programs, and total social control through politics, programming and media—Aldous Huxley weaves these ethical controversies in a compelling narrative.

One evening, Danny Cartwright and Spencer Craig cross paths and a few hours later, Danny is arrested for murder. Later he is sentenced to twenty-two years in prison, thanks to testimony from Spencer, the prosecution’s main witness. Danny spends the next few years in a high-security prison while Spencer Craig’s career as a lawyer goes straight up. All the while Danny plans to escape and wreak his revenge.

Reclusive Harry Haller struggles to reconcile the wild primeval wolf and the rational man within himself without surrendering to the bourgeois values he despises. His life changes dramatically when he meets a woman who is his opposite, the carefree and elusive Hermine.

Martin Reed is thoroughly average in every way. Martin has no friends, no lovers, and no respect. His sole source of excitement is the crime novels he cherishes. So immersed is Martin in these escapes that he fails to notice the crimes going on all around him. Center stage at last, Martin basks not in the glow of the spotlight, but in the harsh glare of interrogation…

Friedman brings a fresh outlook to the crises of destabilizing climate change and rising competition for energy-both of which could poison our world if we do not act quickly and collectively. His argument speaks to all of us who are concerned about the state of America in the global future. Friedman proposes that an ambitious national strategy is not only what we need to save the planet from overheating; it is what we need to make America healthier, richer, more innovative, more productive, and more secure. Hot, Flat, and Crowded is classic Thomas L. Friedman-fearless, incisive, forwardlooking, and rich in surprising common sense about the world we live in today.

Lively, absorbing, often outrageously funny, Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales is a work of genius, an undisputed classic that has held a special appeal for each generation of readers. The Tales gathers twenty-nine of literature's most enduring (and endearing) characters in a vivid group portrait that captures the full spectrum of medieval society, from the exalted Knight to the humble Plowman.

Jesus is a fresh and inspirational re-imagining of a young man’s transformational journey from carpenter’s son to the man many believe to be the savior of the world. With his characteristic ability for imparting profound spiritual insights, Chopra’s Jesus will capture the life of Jesus as never before.

Anita Margolis had vanished. There was no body, no crime, and nothing more concrete than an anonymous letter. according to headquarters, it wasn't to be considered a murder inquiry at all. But Inspector Burden saw a pattern in the case.

The formerly little-known Mary Bennet has decided to write a book on the plight of the poor, and sets out to travel around the country with more resolve than experience.

Grammy-nominated production! The Lincoln-Douglas Debates made history and changed its course through seven legendary match-ups between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas during the 1858 Illinois senatorial race.

As a dwarf,Trudi is set apart, the outsider whose physical otherness has a corollary in her refusal to be a part of Burgdorf's silent complicity during and after World War II.Trudi establishes her status and power, not through beauty, marriage, or motherhood, but as the town's librarian and relentless collector of stories.

A high-spirited New York comedy from the adored Lipman, where a successful but lonely man reconnects with a long-lost stepdaughter and her newly widowed mother and finds his life turned upside down.

Jaws is the classic, blockbuster thriller that inspired the three-time academy award-winning Steven Spielberg movie and made millions afraid to go into the water. Experience the thrill of helpless horror again-or for the first time! This timeless tale of man-eating terror is finally available on audio.

When reporter Ellen Gleeson gets a "Have You Seen This Child?" flyer in the mail, she almost throws it away. But something about it makes her look again, and her heart stops-the child in the photo is identical to her adopted son.

A small prison cell in India holds an 18-year-old penniless waiter from a Mumbai slum. But Ram Mohammad Thomas isn't a criminal. He is under arrest for correctly answering 12 tricky trivia questions on the show Who Will Win a Billion?

High above the planet Florinia, the Squires of Sark live in magnificent luxury. Below them, the Florinians labor ceaselessly in dire poverty to produce the precious kyrt that brings prosperity to their Sarkite masters.

Christopher Flynn is trying to get it right. After years of trouble and rebellion that enraged his father and nearly cost him his life, he has a steady job in his father's company, he's seriously dating a woman he respects, and, aside from the distrust that lingers in his father's eyes, his mistakes are firmly in the past...he hopes.

Behold the next Stephanie Plum novel, in which complications arise, loyalties are tested, cliffhangers are resolved, and donuts are eaten!

After Jason Bourne is ambushed and nearly killed while in Indonesia, he fakes his death to take on a new identity and mission-to find out who is trying to assassinate him.

It wasn't often that women resisted star quarterback J.J. Hennessy, but he was ready to trade all the cover girls he'd dated for the adorable lady next door.

Luckless thief Dortmunder and his gang agree to star in a reality show capturing their next heist. But as the cameras roll, Dortmunder comes up with an ingenious secret plan that's sure to end in hilarious hijinks.

Commissario Guido Brunetti's hopes for a refreshing family holiday in the mountains are once again dashed when a gruesome discovery is made in Marghera-a body so badly beaten the face is completely unrecognizable.

When thirty-five-year-old litigator Hunter Lee decides to turn his back on the rat race, he takes the advice of his brother and goes to Montana. There he joins the elite Smoke Jumpers, marines of the firefighting world, who parachute out of C-5 airplanes to contain the worst forest fires of the remote west. But escape from the ugly side of human nature is hardly what he finds when word reaches him of a small town's little secret.

Lauren Heller and her husband Roger, a brilliant executive at a major corporation, are attacked in a Georgetown parking lot after an evening out. When Lauren comes to, her husband has vanished without a trace. She calls the only person who can help: her husband's estranged brother, Nick Heller, a high-powered investigator with a corporate intelligence firm in Washington, D.C.

Tillison County, Oklahoma, 1938. Kathleen Dolan has high hopes for her investment in the Rawlings, Oklahoma, Gazette. But the feisty newspaper woman hasn’t even reached the city limits when trouble strikes. Although handsome rancher Johnny Henry comes to her rescue, the attack is only a taste of the perils to come.

Twenty-year-old Tassie Keltjin, a Midwestern farmer’s daughter, has come to a university town as a college student, her brain on fire with Chaucer, Sylvia Plath, and Simone de Beauvoir. As the year unfolds and she is drawn deeper into each of these lives, her own life back home becomes ever more alien to her.

Three years after her parents' devorce, Ronnie Miller remains angry and alienated from her parents, especially her father- until her mother decides it would be in everyone's best interest if she spent the summer in Wilmington with him.

Paris, July 1942: Sarah, a ten year-old girl, is brutally arrested with her family by the French police in the Vel’ d’Hiv’ roundup, but not before she locks her younger brother, Michel, in a cupboard in the family’s apartment, thinking that she will be back within a few hours. Paris, May 2002: On Vel’d’Hiv’s 60th anniversary, Julia Jarmond is asked to write an article about this black day in France’s past. Through her contemporary investigation, she stumbles onto a trail of long-hidden family secrets that connects her to Sarah. Julia finds herself compelled to retrace the girl’s ordeal, from that terrible term in the Vel d’Hiv’, to the camps, and beyond.

Mark Darrow grew up in a small Ohio town with no real advantages beyond his intelligence and his athletic ability. But thanks to the intervention of Lionel Farr-a professor at Caldwell, the local college-Darrow became an excellent student and, later, a superb trial lawyer. Now Farr asks his still-youthful protege for a life-altering favor.

Edward M. Kennedy is widely regarded as one of the great Senators in the nation's history. In this landmark autobiography, five years in the making, Senator Kennedy speaks with unprecedented candor about his extraordinary life.

Following a terrifying encounter in the quiet English countryside, a young woman flees to New York in search of a new life. Reinventing herself, she becomes a star model. But her fortunes are about to take another dramatic twist.

Shot in the head by an unknown assailant, Sharon McCone finds herself trapped by Locked-In Syndrome: almost total paralysis but an alert conscious mind. As the case draws to a surprising and even shocking conclusion, Sharon's husband, Hy, must decide whether or not to surrender to his own violent past and exact fatal vengeance when the person responsible is identified.

"My name was Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973."- So begins the story of Susie Salmon, who is adjusting to her new home in heaven, even as she is watching life on earth continue without her. Out of unspeakable tragedy and loss, The Lovely Bones succeeds, miraculously, in building a tale filled with hope, suspense, even joy.

Harry Bosch is in the middle of a major case in Los Angeles when his world is turned upside down with one phone call. His usual Sunday morning call to his daughter, who lives with her mother in Hong Kong, is answered by a stranger. His daughter is being held until her mother, Eleanor Wish, can win enough money in the poker rooms of nearby Macau to buy her back.

Mace Perry was a detective working narcotics...until she was kidnapped, and set up by her abductors to look like a criminal herself. She lost her job, her house, and finally her liberty. After serving time, she finds a job with a reclusive scientist who wants her to help with his research and also act as his de facto bodyguard. As she learns about the true nature of his work, his need for security quickly becomes clear.

The Gathering Storm, partially finished by Robert Jordan before his untimely passing in 2007, is the first in a sequence of novels that will complete the struggle against the Shadow. Bringing to a close a journey begun almost twenty years ago and marking the conclusion of the Wheel of Time, the preeminent fantasy epic of our era.

Alex Cross's niece is found brutally murdered. Overcome with grief, Alex vows to take down her killer before he strikes again. But shortly after he begins the investigation, Alex discovers that his niece had gotten mixed up with some very important, very dangerous people.

In these seven Christmas stories, previously published only in magazines, the call of justice (and a bit of excitement) leads Rumpole as far afield as a health farm in Norfolk and as near to home as a pantomime at the Tufnell Park Empire.