The fight against the root of all evil requires a master! Despite being a time traveler and literal Renaissance man, Dr. John Dee has adjusted admirably to life on Earth in 2100. But his mercantile genius is once again put to the test when he and his twenty-second-century comrades, Morgan d'Winter and ... more »

Havoc's Sword , the eleventh novel in the acclaimed historical-naval adventure series by Dewey Lambdin, cuts a wide and wicked swath through the privateer-infested waters of the Caribbean. Lambdin's irrepressible Captain Alan Lewrie, Royal Navy, must uphold a friend's honor in a duel to the death, handle ... more »

The stock Market crash of 1929 abruptly thrusts the nation into chaos, as unemployed people grow more desperate for a livelihood. As nearly ever sector of the economy collapses and dust storms rage in the West, only the most determined can make it. While desperation and despair wrack the nation, Franklin ... more »

Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk is a novel made up of stories: Twenty-three of them, to be precise. Twenty-three of the most horrifying, hilarious, mind-blowing, stomach-churning tales you'll ever encounter--sometimes all at once. They are told by people who have answered an ad headlined "Writers' Retreat ... more »

"This is a startlingly good novel. Alexander Parsons is a hugely talented writer and unlike anyone else of his generation." - Robert Boswell, author of Century's Son In his poignant novel, award-winning writer Alexander Parsons has captured the brutality of war, both on the front lines and ... more »

After seventeen years, the girls from Willow Lake Camp reunite and find that some things have changed, while others will always remain the same. Meet Ali . . . Ali dropped her hand and slunk lower in her chair. Dafna and Beth were dressed like twins (of course) . . . What was it with that outfit? Was ... more »

* One * MANHATTAN On this day the light had disguised itself as the first ordinary orange rays of a September sunrise over the East River. It easily eclipsed the big red neon Tower Records sign and silhouetted all the sheets of newspaper scurrying over Broadway's empty sidewalks. It ricocheted off the ... more »

A riveting novel about loyalty and self-knowledge, and the conflict between who we want to be to others and who we must be for ourselves. Carrie Bell has lived in Wisconsin all her life. Shes had the same best friend, the same good relationship with her mother, the same boyfriend, Mike, now her fiance ... more »

The universally respected NPR journalist and bestselling memoirist Scott Simon makes a dazzling fiction debut. In Pretty Birds , Simon creates an intense, startling, and tragicomic portrait of a classic character-a young woman in the besieged city of Sarajevo in the early 1990s. In the spring of 1992 ... more »

It's the 70's and for Jane Teller Sidley, making love is both an escape and a journey. Tender twenty-year-old Jane is wise beyond her years because in that short span of time she has picked up one important trait: she is absolutely shameless. But she has everything else -- money, breeding, a tight young ... more »

With his fortune, his future, and his career on the line, former Desert Storm pilot John Jett Gavallan has dispatched his best buddy to Russia to scope out some very disturbing rumors. When his friend fails to return, Gavallan doesn't have time to suspect the worst. Instead, he must beeline it to Moscow ... more »

It's 1978, and Ave Maria Mulligan is the thirty-five-year-old self-proclaimed spinster of Big Stone Gap, a sleepy hamlet in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. She's also the local pharmacist, the co-captain of the Rescue Squad, and the director of The Trail of the Lonesome Pine, the town's long-running ... more »