Charles Dickens In October 1843, Charles Dickens ― heavily in debt and obligated to his publisher ― began work on a book to help supplement his family's meager income. That...

Robin Wasserman Tween movie alert! Top teen Hilary Duff stars as a Valley-girl Cinderella!Once upon a Samantha, a San Fernando Valley teen, lived with her widowed dad. Then, he fell...

Jonathan Harr #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • The true story of one man so determined to take down two of the nation's largest corporations...

Jonathan Harr A Civil Action is a non-fiction book by Jonathan Harr about a water contamination case in Woburn, Massachusetts, in the 1980s.After finding that her child is diagnosed with...

Author: George RR MartinA comet the color of blood and flame cuts across the sky. Two great leaders—Lord Eddard Stark and Robert Baratheon—who hold sway over an age of enforced...

Alwyn W Turner "Superb" NICK COHEN, author of What's Left? "Tremendously entertaining" DOMINIC SANDBROOK, Sunday Times "Like his previous histories of the Seventies and Eighties, A Classless Society is an...

Josh Greenfeld Noah's family must cope with his transition to adulthood and the fact that he will mature in body only. Noah's inability to communicate and his tantrums and physical...

Anthony BurgessIn Anthony Burgess's influential nightmare vision of the future, criminals take over after dark. Teen gang leader Alex narrates in fantastically inventive slang that echoes the violent intensity of...

Author: Gwendoline Butler A series of strange murders, the disappearance of his niece, and a troubling threat to his new wife Stella become the ingredients to a new suspenseful mystery...

CV Wedgwood THE CHICAGO SUNDAY TRIBUNE has summed up the appeal of Dame Cicely Veronica Wedgwood (1910-97): Easily the most distinguished woman historian of our time, [she] is the dream of...

Raeanne Thayne A SOCIALITE WITH SECRETSBeing stranded in the middle of nowhere in a blizzard is not heiress Mimi Van Hoyt's idea of a fun time. On the run from...

Antonio Manzini Small towns can hide big secrets, but Rocco Schiavone will do whatever it takes to bring them into the light. The second novel in the internationally bestselling series...