Santeria markings. Hindu magick. Druidic runes. Japanese mysticism. And plain murder. Working with her boss, Dr. Slikowski, Jenna Blake is on the trail of the killer. But, with the death of a friend and growing feelings for a colleague, Jenna's mind isn't fully on the job. If she doesn't start paying ... more »

It had all started four weeks earlier, when she was jogging along the shores of Cape Cod Bay. This is the thought in 36-year old Theresa Osborne's mind as she sits in a plane heading for an unspecified direction, wondering if she has made the right decision. A columnist for a Boston newspaper, Theresa ... 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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

Dubliners was completed in 1905, but a series of British and Irish publishers and printers found it offensive and immoral, and it was suppressed. The book finally came out in London in 1914, just as Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man began to appear in the journal Egoist under the auspices ... more »

Catherine Rowan Montgomery has had a good life as an acclaimed artist, a much-loved wife, mother, and grandmother. But after her husband dies and her own ability to care for herself is lessened by illness, she begins to live a nightmare as a victim of elder abuse. Afraid of one thing above all else- ... more »

Journalist, wife, and mother of three, Claire Newman juggles work, soccer games, birthday parties, and errands. A successful writer at Nationweek, America's second largest newsweekly, she makes her living by being, as she says, a relentless snoop, but she never was able to figure out why her best friend ... more »

Howards End is a classic English novel . . . superb and wholly cherishable . . . one that admirers have no trouble reading over and over again, said Alfred Kazin. First published in 1910, Howards End is the novel that earned E. M. Forster recognition as a major writer. At its heart lie two families- ... more »