Five years ago, Laura Townsend's life was nearly destroyedwhen a head injury impaired her ability to use language and forcedher to abandon a brilliant career. Her vivacious spirit intact, shehas found a great new job at an animal clinic-and a handsome newboss who fills her heart with longing. Now he's moving heaven andearth to convince her they belong together, but since she can'tfulfill all of his needs, shouldn't she love him enough to walkaway?

2005: Welcome to NoCal and SoCal, the uneasy sister-states ofwhat used to be California. Here the millenium has come and gone,leaving in its wake only stunned survivors. In Los Angeles, BerryRydell is a former armed-response rentacop now working for a bountyhunter. Chevette Washington is a bicycle messenger turnedpickpocket who impulsively snatches a pair of innocent-lookingsunglasses. But these are no ordinary shades. What you can seethrough these high-tech specs can make you rich--or get you killed.Now Berry and Chevette are on the run, zeroing in on thedigitalized heart of DatAmerica, where pure information is thegreatest high. And a mind can be a terrible thing to crash...

The year is 1889, and Rachel Hollister hasn't set foot outsideher house in five years. Ever since a savage attack left her familydead, she's cordoned herself off from the outside world, afraid tolet anyone into her home-or into her heart. But now trouble hasappeared on her doorstep-and suddenly she has no choice but to leta handsome rancher enter her well-guarded existence.

The FBI doesn't believe it. The Governor wants the problem todisappear. But agent Judy Maddox knows the threat is real: anextreme group of eco-terrorists has the means and the know-how toset off a massive earthquake of epic proportions. For California,time is running out. Now Maddox is scrambling to hunt down a petty criminal turnedcult leader turned homicidal mastermind. Because Judy knows thatthe dying has already begun. And soon, the earth will violentlyshift, bolt, and shake down to its very core. . . .

Lieutenant Commanders Matthew Reddy of USS Walker has found anunlikely ally in Commodore Jenks of the New Britain Imperial Navy.Now they are searching for a traitor who abducted nurse SandraTicker and young Princess Rebecca of the New British Empire. It issoon obvious that the New Britain Company is attempting tooverthrow the throne. And Reddy must navigate through a tempest ofpolitics, deception, and betrayal if he is ever going to save thehostages and live to fight another day...

In his debut novel， The Kite Runner， Khaled Hosseini accomplishes what very few contemporary novelists are able to do。 He manages to provide an educational and eye-opening account of a country’s political turmoil--in this case， Afghanistan--while also developing characters whose heartbreaking struggles and emotional triumphs resonate with readers long after the last page has been turned over。 And he does this on his first try。 The Kite Runner follows the story of Amir， the privileged son of a wealthy businessman in Kabul， and Hassan， the son of Amir’s father’s servant。 As children in the relatively stable Afghanistan of the early 1970s， the boys are inseparable。 They spend idyllic days running kites and telling stories of mystical places and powerful warriors until an unspeakable event changes the nature of their relationship forever， and eventually cements their bond in ways neither boy could have ever predicted。 Even after Amir and his father flee to America， Amir r

Through her research on twins and the genetic components ofaggression, scientist Jeannie Ferrami makes a startling discovery.Using a restricted FBI database, she finds two young men who appearto be identical twins: Steve, a law student, and Dennis: aconvicted murderer. Yet they were born on different days, todifferent mothers, in hospitals hundreds of miles apart. As Ferramidelves into their backgrounds, she unwittingly locks horns withsome of the most powerful forces in America, including theuniversity where she works, The New York Times, even the Pentagon.What secret has Ferrami uncovered? Can she trust her boss andmentor, or must she put her life in the hands of Steve Logan, thetwin she finds herself falling in love with--even though he'ssurrounded by intrigue and suspicion? But one thing is certain:There are those who will stop at nothing to keep their chillingconspiracy in the shadows. . . .

The fifth novel in Asimov's popular Foundation series openswith second thoughts. Councilman Golan Trevize is wondering if hewas right to choose a collective mind as the best possible futurefor humanity over the anarchy of contentious individuals, nationsand planets. To test his conclusion, he decides he must know thepast and goes in search of legendary Earth, all references to whichhave been erased from galactic libraries. The societies encounteredalong the way become arguing points in a book-long colloquy aboutman's fate, conducted by Trevize and traveling companion Bliss, whois part of the first world/mind, Gaia.

Mackenzie Allen Phillips's youngest daughter, Missy, has beenabducted during a family vacation, and evidence that she may havebeen brutally murdered is found in an abandoned shack deep in theOregon wilderness. Four years later, in this midst of his greatsadness, Mack receives a suspicious note, apparently from God,inviting him back to that shack for a weekend. Against his betterjudgment he arrives at the shack on wintry afternoon and walks backinto his darkest nightmare. What he finds there will change hislife forever.

All along the Mediterranean coast, the Roman empire's richestcitizens are relaxing in their luxurious villas, enjoying the lastdays of summer. The world's largest navy lies peacefully at anchorin Misenum. The tourists are spending their money in the seasideresorts of Baiae, Herculaneum, and Pompeii. But the carefreelifestyle and gorgeous weather belie an impending cataclysm, andonly one man is worried. The young engineer Marcus Attilius Primushas just taken charge of the Aqua Augusta, the enormous aqueductthat brings fresh water to a quarter of a million people in ninetowns around the Bay of Naples. His predecessor has disappeared.Springs are failing for the and#64257;rst time in generations. Andnow there is a crisis on the Augusta's sixty-mile mainline--somewhere to the north of Pompeii, on the slopes of MountVesuvius. Attilius--decent, practical, and incorruptible--promisesPliny, the famous scholar who commands the navy, that he can repairthe aqueduct before the reservoir runs dry. His plan is to travelto

Jane Austen (1775-1817) is considered by many scholars to be thefirst great woman novelist. Her novels revolve around people, notevents or coincidences. Miss Austen sets her novels in the uppermiddle class English country which was her own environment. Her novels have increased in stature over time. Her skills ofwriting, including a dry humor and a witty elegance of expressionhave attracted generations to her work. Miss Austen completed six novels and part of a seventh, "Senseand Sensibility", "Pride and Prejudice", "Mansfield Park", "Emma","Northanger Abbey", "Persuasion" and the partial "Lady Susan".Quiet Vision publishes all seven. --This text refers to an outof print or unavailable edition of this title.

He gave up the money. He gave up the power. Now all he hasleft is the law. Michael Brock is billing the hours, making the money, rushingrelentlessly to the top of Drake Sweeney, a giant D.C. lawfirm. One step away from partnership, Michael has it all. Then, inan instant, it all comes undone. A homeless man takes nine lawyers hostage in the firm's plushoffices. When it is all over, the man's blood is splattered onMichael's face--and suddenly Michael is willing to do theunthinkable. Rediscovering a conscience he lost long ago, Michaelis leaving the big time for the streets where his attacker oncelived--and where society's powerless need an advocate forjustice. But there's one break Michael can't make: from a secret that hasfloated up from the depths of Drake Sweeney, from aconfidential file that is now in Michael's hands, and from aconspiracy that has already taken lives. Now Michael's formerpartners are about to become his bitter enemies. Because to them,Michael Brock is the most d

His love was wild... his soul untamed... his touch forbidden....From acclaimed author Susan Krinard comes the second novel in amagnificent trilogy of a powerful clan whose sensual legacy iscloaked in secrecy-and a beautiful woman kidnapped by an outlawwhose forbidden embrace could reveal her true identity.... Once aWolf In the unspoiled expanses of the American West, Toma sAlejandro Randall was called El Lobo, the desperado and sworn enemyof powerful financier Cole MacLean. Few humans knew his trueidentity: heir to a wolf bloodline that made him as much an exoticbeast as a devastatingly attractive man. It was Toma s's plan tolure Cole MacLean's elegant fiance e, Lady Rowena Forster, from herNew York mansion to the wild frontier. There he planned to seducethe golden-haired beauty as revenge for the destruction of hisfamily at MacLean's hands. But once she was in his possession, ElLobo found himself unable to resist the call of his own untamedpassion-a passion that would claim the beauty for his own. As forLad

With several Hollywood Heinlein adaptations about to belaunched (including "Starship Troopers" by the director of "TotalRecall"), this SF superstar is shining brighter than ever. Tocelebrate his success, Del Rey is reissuing the author's classicworks back into the forefront, beginning with "The Door intoSummer", the story of a modern-day--and future-time--Rip VanWinkle.

"HYSTERICAL!" --The Philadelphia Inquirer The unhappy inhabitants of planet Krikkit are sick of looking atthe night sky above their heads--so they plan to destroy it. Theuniverse, that is. Now only five individuals stand between thewhite killer robots of Krikkit and their goal of totalannihilation. They are Arthur Dent, a mild-mannered space and time traveler, whotries to learn how to fly by throwing himself at the ground andmissing; Ford Prefect, his best friend, who decides to go insane tosee if he likes it; Slartibartfast, the indomitable vicepresidentof the Campaign for Real Time, who travels in a ship powered byirrational behavior; Zaphod Beeblebrox, the two-headed, three-armedex-head honcho of the Universe; and Trillian, the sexy space cadetwho is torn between a persistent Thunder God and a very depressedBeeblebrox. How will it all end? Will it end? Only this stalwart crew knows asthey try to avert "universal" Armageddon and save life as we knowit--and don't know it! "ADAMS IS ONE OF THOSE RARE TREASUR

A catastrophic, unexplainable plane crash leaves three hundredand thirty dead -- no survivors. Among the victims are the wife andtwo daughters of Joe Carpenter, a Los Angeles Post crime reporter.A year after the crash, still gripped by an almost paralyzinggrief, Joe encounters a woman named Rose, who claims to havesurvived the crash. She holds out the possibility of a secret thatwill bring Joe peace of mind. But before he can ask any questions,she slips away. Driven now by rage (have the authorities withheldinformation?) and a hope almost as unbearable as his grief (ifthere is one survivor, are there others?), Joe sets out to find themysterious woman. His search immediately leads him into the path ofa powerful and shadowy organization hell-bent on stopping Rosebefore she can reveal what she knows about the crash. Sole Survivorunfolds at a heart-stopping pace, as a desperate chase and ashattering emotional odyssey lead Joe to a truth that will forcehim to reassess everything he thought he knew about lif

From the celebrated imagination of Dean Koontz comes a powerfulreworking of one of the classic stories of all time. If you thinkyou know the legend, you know only half the truth. Now themesmerizing saga concludes. . . . As a devastating hurricaneapproaches, as the benighted creations of Victor Helios begin tospin out of control, as New Orleans descends into chaos and thefuture of humanity hangs in the balance, the only hope rests withVictor’s first, failed attempt to build the perfect human.Deucalion’s centuries-old history began as the originalmanifestation of a soulless vision–and it is fated to end in theultimate confrontation between a damned creature and his madcreator. But first they must face a monstrosity not even Victor’smalignant mind could have conceived–an indestructible entity thatsteps out of humankind’s collective nightmare with powers, and apurpose, beyond imagining.

Miles Ryan's life seemed to end the day his wife was killed in a hit-and-run accident two years ago. As deputy sheriff of New Bern, North Carolina, he not only grieves for her and worries about their young son Jonah but longs to bring the unknown driver to justice. Then Miles meets Sarah Andrews, Jonah's second-grade teacher. A young woman recovering from a difficult divorce, Sarah moved to New Bern hoping to start over. Tentatively, Miles and Sarah reach out to each other...soon they are falling in love. But what neither realizes is that they are also bound together by a shocking secret, one that will force them to reexamine everything they believe in-including their love.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of TALES OF THE SOUTHPACIFIC returns to the scenes of those tales, which won him worldrecognition. Once again he evokes the magic of the blessed isles inthe Pacific with stories and accounts glowing with color and alivewith adventure. "This is a book that should be read by everyone...and all whohave seen the South Pacific will find on every page the odors offrangipani, copra, blood, and beer."

From award-winning author Tami Hoag comes a warm, movingstory of two cultures in conflict and two hearts in love. Matt Thorne had come to his sister's rural inn to recover from aninjury far from the city and his fast-paced life as an emergencyroom physician. Drifting between sleep and waking, Matt didn'ttrust his eyes when he saw the young woman who sat at his bedsidein her plain cotton dress and apron, her chestnut hair tuckeddemurely beneath a white bonnet, like a beautiful vision from thepast century. Sarah Troyer had been warned about the womanizing Dr. Throne, butnothing prepared her for the shiver of desire that shook her to hercore when she gazed at him. Though her life was bound by the simpleAmish way, Sarah had always longed for the world outside. Her jobat the inn already branded her as a rebel in her community, andfalling in love with a stranger would mean the loss of her familyand the only life she knew. Yet something sparked within her withevery touch of his hand, each glance fr

In the latest installment of the universally beloved,bestselling series, Mma Ramotswe discovers the biggest miracles inlife are often the smallest. Under the endless skies of Botswana,there is always something Mma Ramotswe can do to help someone andhere she finds herself assisting a woman looking for her family.The problem is the woman doesn't know her real name or whether anyof her family members are still alive. Meanwhile, Mma Makutsi isthe recipient of a beautiful new bed that causes more than a fewsleepless nights. And, at Tlokweng Road Speedy Motors, Mr. J.L.B.Matekoni has come under the influence of a doctor promising amiracle cure for his daughter's medical condition, which MmaRamotswe finds hard to accept. Nonetheless, Precious Ramotswehandles these things in her usual compassionate and good-naturedway, while always finding time for a cup of red bush tea.www.alexandermccallsmith.com

The author of such classics as Tell Me Your Dreams and The Other Side of Midnight, Sidney Sheldon has sold more than 300 million copies of his books in 51 languages. The only writher to have won an Oscar, a Tony, and an Edgar award, he is—according to the Guinness Book of World Records—the most translated author in the world. Now this incomparable storyteller is back with another dazzling blockbuster guaranteed to enthrall fans everywhere. When five members of America's most illustrious family are all killed in separate accidents in less than a year, Dana Evans, a beautiful young anchorwoman for a Washington, D.C., television network, becomes suspicious. Investigating the deaths, the determined journalist uncovers a trail of blood that takes her to half a dozen countries around the world in search of a killer. In a startling turn of events, Dana becomes the hunted, and the terrible secret she's learned puts her and her young son into dire jeopardy from which they may not be able to escape