James Crumley Author's debut novel, set during the Vietnam War.Crumley's disturbing Vietnam novel. In '62, Sergeant Krummel assumes command of a crew of rebellious, drunken enlistees. Surviving military absurdities only...

Sir Walter Scott Quentin Durward (1823), Scott's first "European" novel, was an experiment in transferring the historical romance to foreign soil. Fifteenth-century France, the French Revolution, and contemporary Britain all...

Zoe Ferraris The one scalding afternoon, the mutilated body of a young woman, half naked beneath her burqa, is discovered on a Saudi beach; soon afterwards a Western woman's husband...

Gerald Seymour Matthew Furniss is ordered to the Middle East by British Intelligence to fortify his remaining agents and stimulate a flow of information when the British spy network has...

Kaye Gibbons When Blinking Jack Stokes met Ruby Pitt Woodrow, she was twenty and he was forty. She was the carefully raised daughter of Carolina gentry and he was a...

Reay Tannahill In fifteenth-century Scotland, Bishop Gavin Cameron of Kinveil, the chancellor of Scotland, is determined to stop Archdeacon Columba Crozier's plot to destroy the king January 1, 1986 by...

Lisa Gardner   Flora Dane is a victim. Seven years ago, carefree college student Flora was kidnapped while on spring break. For 472 days, Flora learned just how much one...

Harry Turtledove The dazzling story of a boy who rises from poverty and hardship to become the greatest leader his world has ever knownKRISPOS RISINGBorn a ragged peasant, Krispos lives...

Emily Bronte Wuthering Heights is a wild, passionate story of the intense and almost demonic love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, a foundling adopted by Catherine's father. After Mr Earnshaw's...

Jane Gardam The third installment in the Old Filth trilogy, Last Friends will surprise and delight Gardam fans and appeal to new readers as it concludes a portrait of a...

Alex Rutherford 1530, Agra, Northern India. Humayun, the newly-crowned second Moghul emperor, is a fortunate man. His father, Babur, has bequeathed him wealth, glory and an empire which stretches 1000...

Francine Prose Vera Perl, the bright, edgy heroine of "Bigfoot Dreams, " is the star reporter of a sleazy supermarket tabloid. At work, she conjures up stories about UFO sightings,...