Louis is a Trumpeter Swan, but he has no voice. Though he is frightened when his father explains to him that he is different from the other cygnets, Louis is resourceful and determined. Leaving his wi
Hailed by Henry James as "the finest piece of imaginative writing yet put forth in the country," Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter reaches to our nation's historical and moral roots f
I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together. I saw the hideous phantasm of a man stretched out, and then, on the working of some powerful engine, show signs
Under the summer sky, anything is possible....Author of the acclaimed novels Cloud Nine and Follow the Stars Home, Luanne Rice returns with another moving portrait of a family in crisis—as three siste
He was a riot of rockets and fountains and people, in such intricate detail and color that you could bear the voiced murmuring, small and muted, from the crowds that inhabited his body. The Illustrat
★A Brief History of Time, published in 1988, was a landmark volume in science writing and in world-wide acclaim and popularity, with more than 9 million copies in print globally. ★The original edition
James Joyce has been hailed as one of the great literary rebels of our time. He rebelled against social and literary conventions, against Catholicism, and against Dublin, the city at the center of thi
Mary Blayney, the acclaimed author of Courtesan’s Kiss, returns to the Pennistan family with this new historical romance—the delectable story of a free-spirited beauty with no interest in marriage who
An exotic dance that beguiles and entices... The enchanted and enchanting account of a??contemporary Scheherazade, a wide-eyed American??teller-of-tales who triumphs over harsh reality??through the cr
CELEBRATE THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE GLOBAL AUTHORITY ON WORLD RECORDS!Since 1955 Guinness World Records? has been documenting the fastest and slowest, biggest and smallest, heaviest and lightest–and
When carefree rake Ewan McLean inherits an earldom, his plans for his new fortune are entirely in keeping with his lifestyle: to expand his collection of erotic art and expensive mistresses. That is,
From the celebrated imagination of Dean Koontz comes a powerful reworking of one of the classic stories of all time. If you think you know the legend, you know only half the truth. Here is the mystery
“The dead don't talk. I don't know why.” But they do try to communicate, with a short-order cook in a small desert town serving as their reluctant confidant. Odd Thomas thinks of himself as an ordinar
Romeo.It was the courtship every woman dreamed of.It was the seduction no woman survived. Romeo.His victims were the city's most invulnerable women--professional, beautiful, smart. They eagerly embrac
She's a hard-boiled Sacramento P.I. with a soft spot for the unlucky, the unloved, and one special cop named Hank.??Her name is Kat Colorado, and in her business curiosity can be more than an occupati
It's five years after Return of the Jedi: the Rebel Alliance has destroyed the Death Star, defeated Darth Vader and the Emperor, and driven out the remnants of the old Imperial Starfleet to a distant
Two golden eagles mysteriously shot… A hypnotized lobster… A pizza parlor thief… A cheater in the state worm-racing championship… And a magician who hid his will before his final disap
Perhaps Joyce's most personal work, A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man depicts the intellectual awakening of one of literature's most memorable young heroes, Stephen Dedalus.Through a
Over three hundred years ago, Rachel Dobbs cursed the bloodline of her lover, Jonathan Nightingale, whose testimony condemned her as a witch. Only a journal and a golden locket hold the key to the spe
From award-winning author Patricia Potter comes a spectacular novel set in the wild Scottish Highlands, where a daring beauty and a fearless lord defy treachery and danger to find their hearts' destin
