Victor Hugo's classic adventure story tells of thetragic figure of Quasimodo, the hunchback bellringer of Notre-DameCathedral and his devotion to La Esmeralda, the flamboyant gypsydancer. When the demented archdeacon Claude Frollo plans to abduct LaEsmeralda, he employs Quasimodo to do the job for him. But the plangoes horribly wrong, and Esmeralda finds herself charged with themurder of Phoebus, the man she was in love with. In a thrillingscene of high drama, her kidnapper becomes her rescuer; but for howlong can she remain concealed from the evil Frollo? In awonderfully evocative novel, Victor Hugo brings medieval Paris toglorious, bustling life.

OVER THE NEXT DECADET, TW'O OUT of every three companies Will face thechallenge of their corporate lives: redefining their core business to stay competitive.Buffeted by ever-stiffening global competition,shifting global dynamics, andacceleratingchange, business leaders face an increasinglyuncertain future. More and more, executives will realize that they must m ke fundamental changes in their companies' ore to spur growth in the future--even as they continue to deliver the goods and services that keep their firms in business today. Unstoppable shows you how to look deep within your organization to find undervalued, unrecognized, or underutilizdd assets--in the form of business platforms, customer insights,and capabilities--that can serve as new foundations for sustainable growth. Drawing on extensive studies and more than thirty in-depth interviews with CEOs from firms as diverse as De Beers,American Express, Li & Fung, and Harman International, Chris Zook explains how to know when your company's co

Dreams are realized in the eagerly-awaited fourthnovel in Nora Roberts's Bride Quartet. As thepublic face of Vows wedding planning company, Parker Brown has anuncanny knack for fulfilling every bride's vision. She just can'tsee where her own life is headed. Mechanic Malcomb Kavanaugh lovesfiguring out how things work, and Parker is no exception. Both knowthat moving from minor flirtation to major hook-up is a seriousstep. Parker's business risks have always paid off, but now she'llhave to take the chance of a lifetime with her heart...

Love blooms in the second novel in Nora Roberts's celebratedBride Quartet series. As little girls MacKensie, Emma, Laurel, andParker spent hours acting out their perfect make believe "I do"moments. Years later their fantasies become reality when they starttheir own wedding planning company to make every woman's dream daycome true. With perfect flowers, delicious desserts, and joyfulmoments captured on film, Nora Roberts's Bride Quartet shares eachwoman's emotionally magical journey to romance. "In Bed of Roses,"florist Emma Grant is finding career success with her friends atVows wedding planning company, and her love life appears to bethriving. Though men swarm around her, she still hasn't found Mr.Right. And the last place she's looking is right under her nose.But that's just where Jack Cooke is. He's so close to the women ofVows that he's practically family, but the architect has begun toadmit to himself that his feelings for Emma have developed intomuch more than friendship. When Emma returns his pa

"Wicked and provocative...Vidal's purview of Hollywood in oneof its golden ages is fascinating." --"Chicago Tribune" In hisbrilliant and dazzling new novel, Gore Vidal sweeps us into one ofthe most fascinating periods of American political and socialchange. The time is 1917. In Washington, President Wilson is aboutto lead the United States into the Great War. In California, a newindustry is born that will transform America: moving pictures. Hereis history as only Gore Vidal can re-create it: brimming withintrigue and scandal, peopled by the greats of the silver screenand American politics, from Charlie Chaplin and Douglas Fairbanksto Franklin D. Roosevelt and the author's own grandfather, theblind Senator Gore. With Hollywood, Vidal once again proves himselfa superb storyteller and a perceptive chronicler of human nature'sendless deceptions. "From the Paperback edition."

The gripping international bestseller about motherhood goneawry Eva never really wanted to be a mother—and certainly not themother of the unlovable boy who murdered seven of his fellow highschool students, a cafeteria worker, and a much-adored teacher whotried to befriend him, all two days before his sixteenth birthday.Now, two years later, it is time for her to come to terms withmarriage, career, family, parenthood, and Kevin's horrific rampagein a series of startlingly direct correspondences with herestranged husband, Franklyn. Uneasy with the sacrifices and socialdemotion of motherhood from the start, Eva fears that her alarmingdislike for her own son may be responsible for driving him sonihilistically off the rails.

Olivia MacBride still has nightmares about the night herfather murdered her mother. Her parents had been Hollywood's goldencouple, until Olivia woke one night to see her raging father,scissors in hand, holding her mother's dead body. After herfather's imprisonment, Olivia is sent to live with her grandparentson the Washington coast. But as she grows older, she is tormentedby the need to discover what really happened that night. With thehelp of young writer Noah Brady, Olivia is compelled to revisit theghosts of her past. What she doesn't know is that the past is stillvery much alive - and a shocking truth is about to be uncovered...Strong women. Powerful suspense. Fall into the grip of a NoraRoberts novel and it will never let you go.

First in a brand new series from the "New York Times"bestselling creator of the Myth and Phule novels. A low-stakes conartist and killer poker player, Griffen "Grifter" McCandlesgraduated college fully expecting his wealthy family to have a jobwaiting for him. Instead, his mysterious uncle reveals a strangefamily secret: Griffen and his sister, Valerie, are actuallydragons. Unwilling to let Uncle Mal take him under his wing, so tospeak, Griffen heads to New Orleans with Valerie to make a livingthe only way he knows how. And even the criminal underworld of theFrench Quarter will heat up when Griffen lands in town.

The award-winning debut novel that “brings to mind theatmosphere and tension of Gabriel García Márquez.”( KatharineWeber, author of The Little Women) Nítido Amán knows he was born in Guatemala, but he doesn’t knowwhy his family left. Raised in the States by his immigrant parents,they never talked about it. When Nítido loses his father toAlzheimer’s disease, his despondent mother grows increasinglysilent and Nítido realizes that his links to the past aredisappearing. Seeking answers, Nítido travels to Guatemala against hismother’s wishes. Upon his arrival in the small town of Río Roto, heis mistaken for the new priest, and decides to play the part. Fromhis parishioners, he catches tantalizing and frightening glimpsesof the buried history he’s aching to know. In a place shrouded insecrets, Nítido is at once determined and frightened to unearth theunnamed horrors it has seen. With her elegant, hypnotic prose, this marks Sellers- García’sarrival a