The setting of this extraordinary historical novel is medieval Paris: a city of vividly intermingled beauty and grotesquerie, surging with violent life under the twin towers of its greatest structure
Dan Galindo was once one of the best and brightest young lawyers in the U.S. attorney's office. That was before he refused to put a lying witness on the stand and lost the case. That was before he was
A new version of the classic comedy of separated twins and romantic misunderstandings includes an overview of Shakespeare's life and theater, an introduction to the play, selections from the play's so
Featuring a new introduction by a prominent scholar, a mass market edition of the classic American novel, first published in 1922, follows the ambitious Everyman, George F. Babbitt, from riches to rag
Ralph Roberts has a bad case of insomnia. But lack of sleep is the least of his worries. Each night he stays awake, Ralph witnesses more and more terrifying activity in his neighborhood. But is any of
A forensic psychiatrist who's built a career disproving insanity claims is shattered by the implications of a highly personal murder case. The accused is a woman from his past. To prove her innocence,
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Living a dangerous, hand-to-mouth existence, young runaway Hal Kailas is obsessed with his memories of bonding with a young dragon, an experience that could play a profound role in a war in which the
Cracked on the head by a crowbar in nineteenth-century Connecticut, Hank Morgan wakes to find himself in King Arthur's England. Branded by Twain's aptitude for broad comedy and biting social satire, t
With this breakout novel, the meg gardiner fan club is growing...A string of high-profile murder-suicides has San Francisco more rattled than the string of recent earthquakes. Hired by the SFPD to she
In 1896, at the age of forty-seven, Sarah Orne Jewett published this classic novel of a female writer looking for seclusion and inspiration in the coastal town of Dunnet Landing, Maine. Returning to t
The ancient Greeks tell the legend of the sculptor Pygmalion, who created a statue of a woman of such surpassing beauty that he fell in love with his own creation. Then, Aphrodite, taking pity on this
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE HORSE WHISPERER... returns with an epic new novel of the human heart. On a Montana morning, two skiers find the body of a woman embedded in the ice o
Marja was born a child of the fens, young, beautiful, and free. Her days were spent working with her poor family and communing with the ethereal olfs-the playful spirits of the land-until Lexander, a
Heiress to the Friarsgate manor, Philippa Meredith never expected to be turned down by the man she sought to marry, but her sudden change of fortune brings her back to take her rightful place in the c
In Markham's latest winning romance, rising actress Clara McCallum has just landed the part of her dreams, starring in a WWII film as a woman in love with a doomed soldier named Jed Landry. Unfortunat
Edited by Shakespeare scholars and printed in clear, legible type, the Bard's greatest tragedies are brought together, unabridged, in a collection that features detailed footnotes keyed to the text, t
Incorporating more than 5,000 new entries, this updated version of the world-famous guide to synonyms and antonyms presents thousands of easy-to-read entries in alphabetical order for easy access and
From the discovery of a strange parchment in an old bookseller's shop to the fantastic descent through a dormant volcano into a subterranean world of danger and beauty, A Journey to the Center of the
Determined to restore his family's name with his newfound wealth, Gideon Harwood, while searching for his missing brother, stumbles upon a dangerous scandal involving one of the ton's most respected a
When a seventeen-year-old model claims she was raped in the VIP room of a South Beach nightclub by three high-profile men, it's up to Sam Hagen, head of Major Crimes for Dade County, to decide if they
A smart and successful young attorney, Gail Connor is on the verge of a partnership at a major law firm in the "new" Miami, a city more Latin than Anglo, with a dark side that slides right into the Ev
Pennsylvania Dutch Inn owner Magdalena Yoder returns in the tenth book in the mouthwatering series... When an imprisoned con man meets his Maker after sampling a bowl of gruel laced with arsenic, it'
Luigi Pirandello is widely regarded as one of the foremost innovators in twentieth-century theatre. Six Characters in Search of an Author caused a riot when it was first produced in Rome in 1921 and w
Inspired by Anderson's Midwestern boyhood and his adulthood in early 20th-century Chicago, this volume gave birth to the American story cycle, for which Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and later writer
Master of the macabre Edgar Allan Poe brings his nightmare visions to vivid, dramatic life in this definitive collection of 14 of his classic stories, including The Pit and the Pendulum, The Tell-Tale
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Georgia magistrate, mother, wife, and sometime sleuth MacLaren Yarbrough has been invited to join the Magnolia Ladies' Investment Club and is plumb confused-she's definitely no heiress. But she tables
Including an updated bibliography, suggested references, and stage and film history, a revised and repackaged edition of the popular Shakespearian play set in ancient Rome features a new overview of S
Haley Lambert has moved back to her Kansas City childhood home to care for her orphaned niece, Molly-and to find the monster who murdered her own sister. Molly may have witnessed her mother's murder,
This 19th-century author created "some of the most colorful and haunting fiction of his century" (Kirkus Reviews). And with his special blend of comedy, social commentary, and fantasy, he paved the wa
An ordinary snapshot causes a mother’s world to unravel in an instant. After picking up her two young children from school, Grace Lawson looks through a newly developed set of photographs. She finds a
New York Times bestselling author Carly Phillips reunites two long-ago lovers for a bittersweet holiday reunion. But what will it take for them to forget the past, and warm up to the scintillating pro
When Tracey Sullivan's father dies, she is compelled to investigate the whereabouts of the mother who abandoned her years before. Soon she becomes embroiled in the dark and deadly secrets of an aging
When HMO executive Tim Markham is hit by a car during a morning jog through his exclusive San Francisco neighborhood, he has the bad luck to be transported to one of his own hospitals . . . and winds
With its uncensored observations of the mating rituals of Manhattan’s elite, Candace Bushnell’s Sex and the City created a sensation, becoming an international best-seller, spawning a worldwide hit TV
In his youth Mark Twain found himself adrift as a tenderfoot in the Wild West, working in a variety of professions. This is a record, fact and impression, of those early years.
