one "Table for McGregor?" "Let me see . . . Ah, yes, just for two?" Amy nodded and we were led through the restaurant to a table at the back, next to the toilets. "I thought I'd better book," she said as we sat down. "It can be tricky to get a seat in the smoking area ... more »

Can a down-on-her-luck princess really have it all? A whisper away from thirty, gorgeous Tess Hamilton has been the tennis world's top titleholder and celebrity since she won her first championship at fifteen. Now the headline-making party girl is getting her first taste of mortality-thanks to new teenage ... more »

For ten summers, the Seton family--all three generations--met at their country home in New England to spend a week together playing tennis, badminton, and golf, and savoring gin and tonics on the wraparound porch to celebrate the end of the season. In the eleventh summer, everything changed. A hunting ... more »

When Mario Alfieri, the greatest operatic tenor in the world, arrives in New York City in May of 1894, he begins a search for a house in which to prepare for his Metropolitan Opera debut. Having grown weary of Europe's adulation and plethora of women, he feels that a few months of relative quiet have ... more »

Matt O'Brien has a quiet life: A painting restorer with a particular love of the Quattrocento period of the Italian Renaissance, he toils away millimeter by millimeter, bringing old oils to new light. But one day he happens upon a painting in the basement of the Metropolitan Museum that is thick with ... more »

The Bug is a mesmerizing first novel about a demonic, elusive computer bug and the havoc it wreaks on the lives of the people around it. This rare combination-a novel of ideas and a suspense-is a story about obsession and love that takes readers deep into both the personal and virtual life. In 1984, ... more »

A virtuoso on the human heartstrings, New York Times bestselling author Father Andrew M. Greely offers another gem of a tale -a glowing Christmas love story guaranteed to warm the coldest heart and cure all cases of Humbug! Jack Flanigan, a harmless American of Irish origins, spotted Odessa Tatiana Alekseevna ... more »

An African American Breakfast at Tiffany's -a hip, refreshingly candid tale of identity and self--discovery from the critically acclaimed author of The View from Here and Walking Through Mirrors. Mason Randolph, a black preppie of impeccable Southern pedigree, is bound for Stanford Law School after graduating ... more »

In 1491, Leonardo da Vinci looked at his invention and knew he had to hide it. Centuries later, museum curator Rollo Barnett's Georgetown home burns to the ground. Only his son, Reb, survives. A Hollywood stuntman, Reb travels to Tuscanny, Italy on a quest to find da Vinci's Circles of Truth -- a coded ... more »

Introduction by China Miéville Long acknowledged as a master of nightmarish visions, H. P. Lovecraft established the genuineness and dignity of his own pioneering fiction in 1931 with his quintessential work of supernatural horror, At the Mountains of Madness. The deliberately told and increasingly chilling ... more »

A volatile U.S. ally has fallen prey to the terrorist beast. India is the target of radical Islamic jihadists, and the world watches breathlessly as tensions escalate between the uneasy giant and its longtime nemesis Pakistan--with China waiting in the wings, eager to flex its military might. A nuclear ... more »

Dear Reader, Have you ever gotten a letter that changed your life completely? It happened to me once. I still can feel the urgency that overtook me as I opened the envelope and the hunger I felt for whatever that letter would say. It seemed as if my entire life hung in the balance as I read. Sam's Letters ... more »