Don Quixote is practically unthinkable as a living being, said novelist Milan Kundera. And yet, in our memory, what character is more alive? Widely regarded as the world's first modern novel, Don Quixote chronicles the famous picaresque adventures of the noble knight-errant Don Quixote de La Mancha and ... more »

Just after devastating riots tear through Los Angeles in 1965 - when anger is high and fear still smolders everywhere--the police turn up at Easy Rawlins's doorstep. He expects the worst, as usual. But they've come to ask for his help. A man was wrenched from his car by a mob at the riots' peak and escaped ... more »

Celtic Revenge Young Irishman Time Carlow couldn't be more proud to be a Texas Ranger, riding with his uncle Kileen, a former bare-knuckle boxer. After Kileen, Carlow, and his best friend break up a vicious Texas gang, they bring their captives to the town where Carlow grew up. But hatred of the Irish ... more »

Home from college on break, Jenna Blake is horrified to discover that a childhood friend has murdered her entire famly. Soon, several other area teens are experiencing homicidal rages, unable to explain or even recall their actions. Someone is playing sinister head games with them -- and with her. more »

Paul and Joanna desperately want to have children, but their failure to conceive almost ends their marriage. Instead, they decide to adopt and arrange a trip to Colombia to bring home a baby girl. Joelle is everything they*ve hoped for. To help them ease into parenthood, a nanny has been sent. When they ... more »

Ann Beattie's work is peopled by characters coming to terms with the legacies of long-held family myths or confronting altered circumstances. Her ear for language, her complex and subtle wit, and her profound compassion are unparalleled. Perfect Recall is a riveting commentary by a spectacular prose ... more »

Samuel Butler was among the most wide-ranging of the accomplished crew of late Victorian writers to which be belonged -- a forceful controversialist in the debates that surrounded Darwin's theory of evolution, a painter who sometimes exhibited at the Royal Academy, an idiosyncratic critic and a gifted ... more »

Lorenzo Brown just wants to stay straight. After eight years in prison on a drug charge, heís come ìuptownîóback to the Washington, DC neighborhood where he grew up, where his old cohorts still work their corners and their angles, trying to get ahead and stay alive. But Lorenzoís had enough of the life ... more »

Suzann Ledbetter brings her unparalleled storytelling talents to a new mystery series in which one engaging heroine sets out to tame the Wild West with a woman's touch... The simple truth is, I was born clever.... So says spirited young Denver City detective Joby (Josephine Beckworth) Sawyer -- and she ... more »

She can cure the sick. She can give life to the dying. But can she save herself? Penny Chaney was a living miracle. The victim of a lethally sudden virus, no medicine could help her, and no doctor could bring her back. Then, in the realm between this world and the next, she was given a choice: enter ... more »