The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Color Purple , Possessing the Secret of Joy, and The Temple of My Familiar now gives us a beautiful new novel that is at once a deeply moving personal story and a powerful spiritual journey. In Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart , Alice Walker has created a work ... more »

Moll Flanders is, according to Virginia Woolf, one of the few English novels which we can call indisputably great. Written by Defoe in 1722 under a pseudonym so his readers would think it an actual journal of the ribald fortunes and misfortunes of a woman in eighteenth-century London, the book remains ... more »

If you can't stand the heat...Get the hell out of New Orleans! Liquor has become one of the hottest restaurants in town, thanks in part to chefs Rickey and G-man's wildly creative, booze-laced food. At the tail end of a busy Mardi Gras, Milford Goodman walks into their kitchen--he's spent the last ten ... more »

What happens when your Prince Charming turns out not to be so charming after all? In To Have and To Hold , bestselling author Jane Green offers a sizzling, highly entertaining look at romantic relationships after we say "I do." Alice knows she should be happy. A charming twenty-eight-year-old ... more »

Expert guidance on exploring and choosing the perfect job Careers in Medicine explores specific professions within the medical field and helps you decide which job suits you best. more »

Jessica Mastriani walked two miles home from high school straight into a huge Indiana thunderstorm. And straight into trouble. Not that Jess had never been in trouble before. But this trouble was serious. Because somehow on that long walk home, Jessica acquired an amazing power that can be used for good ... more »

My Heart Is Afraid that it will have to suffer, the boy told the alchemist one night as they looked up at the moonless sky.Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams. Every few decades a book ... more »

E-book exclusive extras: 1) Christie biographer Charles Osborne's essay on Miss Marple's Final Cases; 2) The Marples: the complete guide to all the cases of crime literature's foremost female detective. Despite the title, the stories collected here recount cases from the middle of Misss Marple's career ... more »

As a lowly freshman named for The King, Presley Moran walks high school corridors paved with the stuff of family legend. Her cousin Barry, a senior heartthrob and brainy varsity letterman, insists that looking good on paper is the key to success. But Presley's young aunt Betsi, a former homecoming queen ... more »

Hailed as astonishingly powerful by The New York Times , and written perfectly by The Washington Post , Joe Klein's #1 bestseller, Primary Colors , was the most-talked-about political novel of the past century. Now acclaimed journalist and author Joe Klein returns with another brilliant and slyly subversive ... more »

Product Info Here is a complete self-teaching guide for anyone needing knowledge of math as it applies to engineering and technical fields. more »

Product Info The prologue to Knife of Dreams, Robert Jordan's eleventh title in the WHEEL OF TIME series, due out in October 2005. more »