Sally BeaumanUnder the tablecloth, Frances's hand reached for mine and clasped it. I knew what it meant, that clasp and the mischievous grateful glance that accompanied it: it meant I...

Scarlett Thomas A cursed book. A missing professor. Some nefarious men in gray suits. And a dreamworld called the Troposphere?Ariel Manto has a fascination with nineteenth-century scientists--especially Thomas Lumas and...

Polly Berrien BerendsEleven-year-old Gilbert, self-styled private eye, takes on his toughest case when he finds a duck in the elevator of his housing project. In this easy-to-read mystery, "the solution...

David Guterson Penguin Readers is a series of simplified novels, film novelizations and original titles that introduce students at all levels to the pleasures of reading in English. Originally designed...

Sue LeatherEnglish Readers: Level 5Reporter Kate Jensen investigates the death of a karate master in a 'dojo', a karate training room in London. Another death quickly follows and Kate finds...

Melissa MarrWhen Rebekkah returns to her small-town home for her beloved Grandmother’s funeral, she little suspects that she is about to inherit a darkly dangerous family duty on behalf of...

Thomas HarrisFrom the creator of Hannibal Lecter and The Silence of the Lambs comes a story of evil, greed and the consequences of dark obsession.Twenty-five million dollars in cartel gold...

John ColapintoJust how did Cal Cunningham—a twenty-five-year-old bookstore stockboy who is new to Manhattan and who has never written anything—publish a bestselling novel that sells to the movies for a...

Julian FellowesDamian Baxter is hugely wealthy and dying. He lives alone in a big house in Surrey, England, looked after by a chauffeur, butler, cook and housemaid. He has but...

Steve Berry   Aleksandr Zorin is a man whose loyalty to the former Soviet Union has festered into an intense hatred of the United States.Ex-Justice Department agent Cotton Malone learns...

Liza Marklund   A family torn apart. Another trying to find a way to be as one.Ingemar Lerberg had it all: successful businessman, politician, husband, father. Until he is found,...

Jon ClearyIn the small town of Friendship, Missouri, the air is uneasy with expectation - a tornado is approaching. Unable to sleep, the Chief of police makes a tour of...