From an extraordinary discovery in a remote desert oasis to a desperate race against time in the ocean depths, a team of adventurers is about to find the truth behind the most baffling legend in history. The hunt is on for... Marine archaeologist Jack Howard has stumbled upon the keys to an ancient puzzle ... more »

Pay It Forward is a wondrous and moving novel about Trevor McKinney, a twelve-year-old boy in a small California town who accepts the challenge that his teacher gives his class, a chance to earn extra credit by coming up with a plan to change the world for the better -- and to put that plan into action ... more »

This controversial bestselling novel in the Arab world reveals the political corruption, sexual repression, religious extremism, and modern hopes of Egypt today. All manner of flawed and fragile humanity reside in the Yacoubian Building, a once-elegant temple of Art Deco splendor now slowly decaying ... more »

Tales of Passion, Tales of Woe is the much-awaited sequel to Sandra Gulland's highly acclaimed first novel, The Many Lives & Secret Sorrows of Josephine B. Beginning in Paris in 1796, the saga continues as Josephine awakens to her new life as Mrs. Napoleon Bonaparte. Through her intimate diary entries ... more »

Following his father's sudden death, twenty-three-year-old Rajiv Kothari finds himself alone and bewildered. While attempting to reconstruct his father's life to better understand his own, he chances to meet a new Indian immigrant. Their uncanny interaction grants Rajiv insight into his father's early ... more »

Divorce therapist Mel Krantzler approaches the subject of divorce from a unique perspective and offers an optimistic outlook and hopeful opportunities for personal growth to those struggling to recognize and renew their individuality. CREATIVE DIVORCE draws parallels between the relationship and the ... more »

The events of a December afternoon, on which a father and his daughter find an abandoned infant in the snow, will forever alter the 12-year-old girl's understanding of the world and the adults who inhabit it: a father who has taken great pains to remove himself from society in order to put an unthinkable ... more »

A collection of works from more than fifty African-American fiction writers. Edited by Marita Golden and E. Lynn Harris, this collection spans new and previously published work from writers such as: Edwidge Danticat, Eric Jerome Dickey, Kenji Jasper, John Edgar Wideman, Terry McMillan, David Anthony ... more »

Thew story revolves around Eva Crawford, who is unable to deal with her future until she resolves problems relating to her past. Journals she found in a family chest are now forcing her to relive past fears and triumphs, so much that she cannot bring herself to commit to a marriage. Eva's relatives, ... more »

Carnegie Kincaid plans weddings, not stag parties. When a client asks Carnegie to manage a pre-wedding blow-out--complete with a stripper--she tactfully refuses the job. So why is Carnegie peering through binoculars across the Seattle Ship Canal, watching a shapely Santa Claus turn naked inside a hip ... more »

This TRN story bundle provides you with an overview of today's biotechnology research, and in-depth explanations of important advances. Biotechnology research is aimed at using a wide range of natural forces to bend molecules to various useful ends, and at inventing the tools needed to do so. The Biotechnology ... more »

" Sweet and Vicious is funny, cool, surprisingly and wonderfully violent, has great characters, a ridiculously beautiful love story, a perfect ending. Read it." --James Frey, author of A Million Little Pieces Think Bonnie and Clyde as it might have been written by Tom Robbins --Publishers Weekly ... more »