The first book in a new post-apocalyptic trilogy from "amaster of the genre" Heather O'Grainne is the Assistant Secretaryin the Office of Future Threat Assessment, investigating rumorssurrounding something called "Daybreak." The group is diverse andradical, and its members have only one thing in common-their hatredfor the "Big System" and their desire to take it down. Now,seemingly random events simultaneously occurring around the worldare in fact connected as part of Daybreak's plan to destroy moderncivilization-a plan that will eliminate America's top governmentpersonnel, leaving the nation no choice but to implement itsemergency contingency program...Directive 51.

The ultimate battle between good and evil

In the 8th century AD Ibn al′Arabi, the Moorish governor of Barcelona, bestowed a magnificent gift upon Charlemagne, Holy Emperor of half of the known world: a chess set with the power to transform the course of history. New York City, 1970. Catherine ′Cat′ Velis, a computer expert working for one of the world′s largest accountancy firms, is sent on a dangerous assignment to retrieve an object of immeasurable value from somewhere in the remote reaches of Algeria. Montglane Abbey, France 1790, Mireille de Remy and her cousin Valentine are young novices at the fortress-like Montglane Abbey. With France aflame in revolution, the two girls burn to rebel against constricted convent life - and their means of escape is at hand. Buried deep within the abbey are pieces of the Montglane Chess Service, once owned by Charlemagne. Whoever reassembles the pieces can play a game of unlimited power. But to keep the game a secret from those who would abuse it, the two young women must scatter the pieces throughout t

World-renowned Harvard symboligist Robert Langdon is summoned to a Swiss research facility to analyze a cryptic symbol seared into the chest of a murdered physicist. What he discovers is unimaginable: a deadly vendetta against the Catholic Church by a centuries-old underground organization - the Illuminati. Desperate to save the Vatican from a powerful time bomb, Langdon joins forces in Rome with the beautiful and mysterious scientist Vittoria Vetra. Together they embark on a frantic hunt through sealed crypts, dangerous catacombs, deserted cathedrals, and the most secretive vault on earth . . . the long-forgotten Illuminati lair. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher, or a colleague.Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you wereyoung and searching, helped you see the world as a more profoundplace, gave you sound advice to help you make your way throughit. For Mitch Albom, that person was Morrie Schwartz, his collegeprofessor from nearly twenty years ago. Maybe, like Mitch, you lost track of this mentor as you made yourway, and the insights faded, and the world seemed colder. Wouldn'tyou like to see that person again, ask the bigger questions thatstill haunt you, receive wisdom for your busy life today the wayyou once did when you were younger? Mitch Albom had that second chance. He rediscovered Morrie in thelast months of the older man's life. Knowing he was dying, Morrievisited with Mitch in his study every Tuesday, just as they used toback in college. Their rekindled relationship turned into one final"class": lessons in how to live. Tuesdays with Morrie is a magical chronicle of their t

Hired by a Massachusetts grand dame to prove the innocence of her grandson, who has been implicated in a school shooting during which seven people were killed, Spenser wonders why the boy seems unconcerned about his possible wrongful imprisonment and faces difficult obstacles in the wake of unhelpful school officials and a blackmail conspiracy.

When Atlantic Monthly Press relaunched her Commissario GuidoBrunetti series. Donna Leon was hailed as "the best mystery writeryou've never heard of...She uses the relatively small andcrime-free canvas of Venice for riffs about Italian life, sexualstyles and--best of all--the kind of ingrown business and politicalcorruption that seems to lurk just below the surface" ("ChicagoTribune). Now "Blood from a Stone brings her celebrated characterCommissario Guido Brunetti back on the scene: On a cold Venetiannight shortly before Christmas, a street vendor is killed in ascuffle in Campo San Stefano. The closest witnesses to the eventare the tourists who had been browsing the man's wares before hisdeath--fake handbags of every designer label. The dead man had beenworking as a "vu cumpra, one of the many African immigrantspurveying goods outside normal shop hours, trading without workpermits. Commissario Brunetti's response is that of everybodyinvolved: Why would anyone kill an illegal immigrant? With fewsocial c

The partners at Finley Figg often refer to themselves asa “boutique law firm.” Boutique, as in chic, selective, andprosperous. Oscar Finley and Wally Figg are none of these things.They are a two-bit operation of ambulance chasers who bicker likean old married couple. Until change comes their way—or, moreaccurately, stumbles in. After leaving a fast-track career andgoing on a serious bender, David Zinc is sober, unemployed, anddesperate enough to take a job at Finley Figg. Now the firm is ready to tackle a case that could make thepartners rich—without requiring them to actually practice much law.A class action suit has been brought against Varrick Labs, apharmaceutical giant with annual sales of $25 billion, allegingthat Krayoxx, its most popular drug, causes heart attacks. Wallysmells money. All Finley Figg has to do is find a handful ofKrayoxx users to join the suit. It almost seems too good to be true. . . and it is.

From #1 "New York Times" bestselling author Tami Hoagcomes this romance classic about a man in love--and the woman who'sdetermined to prove it to him... Maggie McSwain should have beenthrilled when Rylan Quaid asked her to marry him. Instead, she wascrushed. After all her romantic fantasies, Ry's proposal wasmissing one crucial element: "love. "But Maggie would prove to Rythat he had a heart--and then she'd use every teasing, temptingounce of seductive power she had to capture it. The next time heproposed to her--and there would be a next time--common sense wouldbe the last thing on his mind. As far as Ry was concerned, solidpartnerships made for lasting marriages--and that's what he couldhave with Maggie. Of course he wanted her, as any man with eyeswould want her. But he couldn't love her...because he'd vowed neverto fall in love again. Now it seemed that the only way to make herhis wife was to use reverse psychology. He'd just retract hisproposal--and pretend to be immune to her charms. He had no

With over eight million copies of her beloved books in print,Sophie Kinsella is a true phenomenon. Now Becky Brandon (neeBloomwood) is back, in a hilarious new" "Shopaholic novel Becky'slife is blooming She's working at London's newest big store, TheLook, house-hunting with husband Luke (her secret wish is a ShoeRoom)...and she's pregnant She couldn't be moreoverjoyed--especially since discovering that shopping cures morningsickness. Everything has got to be perfect for her baby: from thedesigner nursery...to the latest, coolest pram...to the celebrity,must-have obstetrician. But when the celebrity obstetrician turnsout to be Luke's glamorous, intellectual ex-girlfriend, Becky'sperfect world starts to crumble. She's shopping for two...but arethere three in her marriage?

Praise for A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE: 'In the grand epic fantasy tradition, Martin is by far the best …tense, surging, insomnia-inflicting' Time Magazine ‘An absorbing, exciting read … Martin’s style is so vivid that youwill be hooked within a few pages’ The Times ‘The sheer mind-boggling scope of this epic has sent other fantasywriters away shaking their heads …Its ambition: to construct theTwelve Caesars of fantasy fiction, with characters so venomous theycould eat the Borgias’ Guardian ‘Colossal, staggering … Martin captures all the intoxicatingcomplexity of the Wars of the Roses or Imperial Rome in hisimaginary world … The writing is always powerful …' SFX

Arthur C. Clark, creator of one of the world's best-lovedscience fiction tales, revisits the most famous future everimagined in this NEW YORK TIMES bestseller, as two expeditions intospace become inextricably tangled. Heywood Floyd, survivor of twoprevious encounters with the mysterious monloiths, must againconfront Dave Bowman, HAL, and an alien race that has decided thatMankind is to play a part in the evolution of the galaxy whether itwishes to or not.

Donna Leon has topped European bestseller lists for more thana decade with a series of mysteries featuring clever CommissarioGuido Brunetti. Always ready to bend the rules to uncover thethreads of a crime, Brunetti manages to maintain his integritywhile maneuvering through a city rife with politics, corruption,and intrigue. In "A Noble Radiance" a new landowner is summonedurgently to his house not far from Venice when workmen accidentallyunearth a macabre grave. The human corpse is badly decomposed, buta ring found nearby proves to be a first clue that reopens aninfamous case of kidnapping involving one of Venice's mostaristocratic families. Only Commissario Brunetti can unravel theclues and find his way into both the heart of patrician Venice andthat of a family grieving for their abducted son.

Without warning, giant silver ships from deep space appear inthe skies above every major city on Earth. Manned by the Overlords,in fifty years, they eliminate ignorance, disease, and poverty.Then this golden age ends--and then the age of Mankindbegins....

Kevin Bradley and his partners are uniquely qualified tohandle cases involving the occult-he and Evan Davis are far morethan the mere mortals they appear to be. Kevin is a powerful daemonlord, and Evan is his half-daemon, half-human son. Solving mortalcrimes should be a cinch for them. But somehow, they never get theeasy, open-and-shut cases.

To Don Raymonde Aprile's children he was a loyal family member,their father's adopted "nephew." To the FBI he was a man who wouldrather ride his horses than do Mob business. No one knew whyAprile, the last great American Don, had adopted Astorre Viola manyyears before in Sicily; no one suspected how he had carefullytrained him . . . and how, while the Don's children claimedrespectable careers in America, Astorre Viola waited for his timeto come. Now his time has arrived. The Don is dead, his murder onebloody act in a drama of ambition and deceit--from the deadlycompromises made by an FBI agent to the greed of two crooked NYPDdetectives and the frightening plans of a South American mobkingpin. In a collision of enemies and lovers, betrayers and loyalsoldiers, Astorre Viola will claim his destiny. Because after allthese years, this moment is in his blood. . . .

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

Twenty years ago, a boy named Jack Sawyer travelled to aparallel universe called The Territories to save his mother and herTerritories "twinner" from a premature and agonizing death thatwould have brought cataclysm to the other world. Now Jack is aretired Los Angeles homicide detective living in the nearlynonexistent hamlet of Tamarack, WI. He has no recollection of hisadventures in the Territories and was compelled to leave the policeforce when an odd, happenstance event threatened to awaken thosememories. When a series of gruesome murders occur in westernWisconsin that are reminiscent of those committed several decadesearlier by a real-life madman named Albert Fish, the killer isdubbed "The Fisherman" and Jack's buddy, the local chief of police,begs Jack to help his inexperienced force find him. But is thismerely the work of a disturbed individual, or has a mysterious andmalignant force been unleashed in this quiet town? What causesJack's inexplicable waking dreams, if that is what they are, ofrobins' eggs

George R. R. Martin has thrilled a generation of readers withhis epic works of the imagination, most recently the criticallyacclaimed "New York Times" bestselling saga told in the novels AGame of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, and A Storm of Swords. LisaTuttle has won acclaim from fans of science fiction, horror, andfantasy alike-- most recently for her haunting novel The PillowFriend. Now together they gift readers with this classic tale of abrilliantly rendered world of ironbound tradition, where arebellious soul seeks to prove the power of a dream. The planet ofWindhaven was not originally a home to humans, but it became onefollowing the crash of a colony starship. It is a world of smallislands, harsh weather, and monster-infested seas. Communicationamong the scattered settlements was virtually impossible until thediscovery that, thanks to light gravity and a dense atmosphere,humans were able to fly with the aid of metal wings made of bits ofthe cannibalized spaceship. Many generations later, among thes