Arkady Renko returns for his most enigmatic and baffling case: the death of one of Russia's new billionaires, which leads him to the Zone of Exclusion -- Chernobyl, and the surrounding areas closed to the world since the nuclear disaster of 1986. In his groundbreaking Gorky Park, Martin Cruz Smith created ... more »

From Martin Cruz Smith, author of Gorky Park and Havana Bay , comes another audacious novel of exotic locales, intimate intrigues and the mysteries of the human heart: December 6 . Set in the crazed, nationalistic Tokyo of late 1941, December 6 explores the coming world war through the other end of history ... more »

In her new novel, perennial bestseller Anne Rice fuses her two uniquely seductive strains of narrative -- her Vampire legend and her lore of the Mayfair witches -- to give us a world of classic deep-south luxury and ancestral secrets. Welcome to Blackwood Farm: soaring white columns, spacious drawing ... more »

From her sensational sleeper hit Patty Janes House of Curl to her heartwarming novel Welcome to the Great Mysterious , Lorna Landvik has won the hearts of readers everywhere by skillfully balancing hilarity with pathos, and bittersweet insights with heartwarming truths. Now she returns to her beloved ... more »

50 Irresistible True Accounts of Love in the Twenty-first Century. A young woman wryly describes a relationship that races from start to finish almost entirely via text messages. A Casanova is jilted after an idyllic three weeks and learns the hard way that the woman is, well, just not that into him ... more »

A Map of the World is the riveting story of how a single mistake can forever change the lives of everyone involved--in ways that are beyond imagination. One unremarkable June morning, Alice Goodwin is, as usual, trying to keep in check both her temper and her tendency to blame herself for her family ... more »

Adrienne Willis is 45 and has been divorced for three years, abandoned by her husband for a younger woman. The trials of raising her teenage children and caring for her sick father have worn her down, but at the request of a friend and in hopes of respite, she's gone to the coastal village of Rodanthe ... more »

The red tent is the place where women gathered during their cycles of birthing, menses, and even illness. Like the conversations and mysteries held within this feminine tent, this sweeping piece of fiction offers an insider's look at the daily life of a biblical sorority of mothers and wives and their ... more »

The first exploration of the sex lives of modern teens, as reported from the frontlines by twenty-year-old Marty Beckerman. Innovatively combining fact and fiction, the book is filled with mind-shattering stats, news reports, and confessions from adolescents nationwide about the new American Hook-Up ... more »

Risky, fiercely erotic and deeply touching, Davitt Sigerson's first novel is a revealing excursion into the shadowy territory where love and lust merge and the line between devotion and compulsion disappears. Nick is a trader on the London Stock Exchange, an honest, decent man. He has never been with ... more »

Ever since his parents drowned while crossing the Atlantic after a revival, Daniel Cooper has felt as if the world is out to get him. For the past year heâEUR™s had to live with his Uncle Asa and Aunt CamillaâEUR"and all their rules. One night, deciding heâEUR™s had enough, Daniel sneaks out his ... more »

The Vampire Chronicles continue with Anne Rices spellbinding new novel, in which the great vampire Marius returns. The golden-haired Marius, true Child of the Millennia, once mentor to The Vampire Lestat, always and forever the conscientious foe of the Evil Doer, reveals in his own intense yet inti- ... more »