Adam BladeThe volcano at Stonewin is frozen over and the lands are blasted with a deadly cold. This is the work of Blaze the Ice Dragon, sent by wicked Wizard...

John GrishamHigh school All-American Neely Crenshaw was probably the best quarterback ever to play for the legendary Messina Spartans. Fifteen years have gone by since those glory days, and Neely...

Charles Dickens Considered by many readers, including Shaw, Chesterton, Conrad and Trilling, as one of Dickens's finest achievements, Bleak House tells the complex story of a notorious lawsuit in which love and...

Peter MillarTwo weeks before Christmas, Dr Rajiv Mahendra encounters a patient with rare symptoms that are sinisterly familiar. In India, the disease is known as bubonic plague, and the last...

Sara Paretsky In Kansas, on land that once saw some of America's bloodiest antislavery battles, three families have coexisted for more than one hundred fifty years: the Grelliers, the Fremantles,...

Jeffrey M Cohen The author offers the layperson a one-volume presentation of various aspects of prayer in Judaism. He looks at the historical development of prayer, the role of the...

Author: Danielle Steel In Danielle Steel’s remarkable new novel, one of her most memorable characters comes to terms with unfinished business and long-buried truths as the mother of three very...

Anna Quindlen   Late one night, a teenage couple drives up to the big white clapboard home on the Blessing estate and leaves a box. In that instant, the lives...

Belva Plain At thirty-six, Jennie Rakowsky's dreams were  coming true. She was about to marry a wonderful man,  her career as a lawyer was skyrocketing, and she  had never been more beautiful. And...

Adventure, ingenuity, courage and disaster beneath the sea: the remarkable reality of Cold War submarine warfareIn Blind Mans Bluff, veteran investigative journalist Sherry Sontag and award-winning New York Times reporter...

Editors:Paul A. Marshall, Lela Gilbert, Roberta Green-Ahmanson Why do the media so often miss or misunderstand major news stories? One reason is that, in today's complex and pervasively religious world,...

Haruki Murakami   A young man accompanies his cousin to the hospital to check an unusual hearing complaint and recalls a story of a woman put to sleep by tiny...