A deluxe omnibus edition of the "New York Times" bestsellingseries. Featuring three complete novels: Lightsabers Darkest KnightJedi Under Siege
"Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the gloves herself. Big Benwas striking as she stepped out into the street. It was eleveno'clock and the unused hour was fresh as if issued to children on abeach." -from "Mrs. Dalloway in Bond Street" The landmark modernnovel Mrs. Dalloway creates a portrait of a single day in the lifeof Clarissa Dalloway as she orchestrates the last-minute details ofa grand party. But before Virginia Woolf wrote this masterwork, sheexplored in a series of fascinating stories a similar revelry inthe mental and physical excitement of a party. Wonderfullycaptivating, the seven stories in Mrs. Dalloway's Party create adynamic and delightful portrait of what Woolf called "partyconsciousness." As parallel expressions of the themes of Mrs.Dalloway, these stories provide a valuable window into Woolf'swriting mind and a further testament to her extraordinarygenius.
Agatha Christie's audacious murder mystery, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers. One minute, silly Heather Badcock had been gabbling on at her movie idol, the glamorous Marina Gregg. The next, Heather suffered a massive seizure. But for whom was the deadly poison really intended? Marina's frozen expression suggested she had witnessed something horrific. But, while others searched for material evidence, Jane Marple conducted a very different investigation -- into human nature.
In this delightful Christmas Chronicles tale, the first ladyof Christmas herself tells the story of how she and a very bravegroup of people once saved a treasured holiday from being lostforever. It's 1620, and Mrs Claus' dear husband is off in the NewWorld, planting the seeds for what will become a glorious Christmastradition. Meanwhile, Mrs Claus has chosen to stay in England,where the first signs of a dangerous threat to Yuletide cheer arein evidence. The Puritans have gained control of Parliament andappear determined to take all the joy out of Christmas. But MrsClaus knows that it's time for serious action when, in 1647, a lawis passed by Parliament that actually punishes anyone whocelebrates Christmas. Based on the actual events of a day in 1647,when ten thousand peasants marched through the streets ofCanterbury demanding their right to celebrate a beloved holiday,"How Mrs Claus Saved Christmas" is rich in historical detail,adventure and plain ol' Christmas fun.
A supernatural tale about girlfriends, boyfriends and a car called Christine. Christine was eating into his mind, burrowing into his unconscious. Christine, blood-red, fat, and finned, was twenty. Her promise lay all in her past. Greedy and big, she was Arnie's obsession, a '58 Plymouth Fury. Broken down but not finished. There was still power in her - a frightening power that leaked like sump oil, staining and corrupting. A malign power that corroded the mind and turned ownership into Possession.
Ovid's Metamorphoses, completed around AD8, shows the presence and prevalence of change in the world. Beginning with chaos and creation, Ovid embraces a vast array of mythological tales within his theme of transformation. Phaeton, Narcissus, Pyramus and This be, Daedal us and Icarus are only a few of the most famous. Passing through these to the serio-comic retellings of the Trojan War, the travels of Aeneas, and the events of Roman history down to Ovid's own times, his readers find infinite variety in a work that is, by turns, funny, pathetic and violent - always unpredictable and always engrossing. John Dryden's translations are featured in these collaborative Metamorphoses, first issued in 1717, to which eighteen translators contributed under the editorship of Sir Samuel Garth. Composed in a poetic idiom well suited to the satiric and mock-heroic aspects of this work, this is the only translation that can match Ovid's wit and stylistic sophistication.
In Zurich. . .in Moscow. . .in Washington. The machinery wasalready set in motion, while in a quiet suburb an odd assortment ofmen and women gathered for a momentous weekend. At stake was thevery existence of the United States of America. . .and the futureof the entire free world.
Kate Daniels cleans up the paranormal problems no one else wantsto deal with-especially if they involve Atlanta's shapeshiftingcommunity. And now there's a new player in town-a foe that may be too much foreven Kate and Curran, the Lord of the Beasts, to handle. Becausethis time, Kate will be taking on family.
These Comedies are among the best loved of Shakespeare's plays. In each a problem emerges, is then intensified to a point of maximum confusion and potential upset, before the chaos is resolved, however improbably, into general goodwill and a spate of marriages. The triumph of these plays lies in the way they mingle humorous stage business and dexterous word play with a more serious study of identity, gender, dreaming, the meaning of love, even of the theatre itself. They reassure us that with all its faults, the world will always in the end be redeemable. The Tragedies with Introductions by Emma Smith 'Not for an age but for all time.' So Ben Jonson established what we now take for granted: Shakespeare's unique place among the world's great authors. Romeo and Juliet shows us the archetypal story of fated young love; Hamlet, the tortured psyche of the young prince of Denmark; Othello, a strikingly modern representation of racial difference; King Lear, a man stripped of all material and psychologica
At midnight comes the point of balance. Of danger. The instant of utter stillness when between two beats of the heart, an alternative reality can slip through, like a blade between the ribs, and switch you into a new and terrifying world. FOUR PAST MIDNIGHT: four heart-stopping accounts of that moment when the familiar world fractures beyond sense, the fragments spinning away from the desperate, clutching reach of sanity ...
New York Times bestselling master of suspense Steve Martinireturns, ensnaring defense attorney Paul Madriani in a web ofterror and death being spun in the shadows of America's most sacredand secretive institution—the Supreme Court. A writer is savagely slain while on a publicity tour—a literaryprovocateur who craved headlines, but whose last book may have gonetoo far. His revelations about secret language buried in the U.S.Constitution—and hints about an explosive missing letter of ThomasJefferson's—may be enough to cause an irreparable tear in thefabric of the nation . . . and perhaps drove a volatile youth tohomicide. But Paul Madriani thinks a troubled young man with darkconnections has been chosen as a scapegoat to cover up somethingfar deadlier that festers in America's political heart. And in thewake of the strange disappearance of a Supreme Court judge,Madriani must survive long enough to find the devastating answershidden in the shadow of power.
GRIGORI BULGANOV ONCE SAVED GABRIEL ALLON'S LIFE INMOSCOW--AND ALLON REPAYS HIS DEBTS. SO WHEN THE FORMER RUSSIANINTELLIGENCE OFFICER VANISHES, ALLON GATHERS HIS TEAM OFOPERA-TIVES TO GO AFTER THOSE RESPONSIBLE. BUT, IN A RUNNING BATTLETHAT RAGES ACROSS THE GLOBE, HE SOON REALIZES THAT HIS ENEMY MAYALREADY HOLD THE KEY TO VICTORY--AND THAT IF HE CONTINUES,IT WILLCOST HIM MORE THAN HE CAN BEAR……
It was as if I had privately discovered life on another planet,or a paralldl universe where life was at once fecognizably similar but entirely different.I can't tell you how exciting it waw.Insofar as I had accumulatde any expectations of Australia at all in the intervening years,I had thought of it as a kind of a lternative southern California,a place of constant sunshine and the cheerful vapidity of a beach lifestyle,but wish a slightly British bent-a sort of Baywatch wish cricket.
A Templar treasure for mystery readers An honorable-yetworld-weary-Knight Templar solves the mysteries of MedievalEngland. After eight years of captivity in the Holy Land, TemplarBascot de Marins escapes with injuries to his body and soul. Now ona sojourn at Lincoln Castle, he hopes to regain his strength, andmend his waning faith-but not even the peace of God's countrysideis safe from the mortal crimes of man. For what appears to be thegrisly end to a drunken row is in fact a cunning and bafflingcrime.
Jeremy Marsh is a born skeptic and a science journalist whospecializes in debunking the supernatural. When he hears aboutghostly apparitions in a cemetery in Boone Creek, North Carolina,he leaves his beloved New York City for this small, rural town-andwhat his instincts tell him could make a great story. What hedoesn't plan on is meeting and falling hopelessly in love withLexie Darnell, who is sure of one thing: her future is here inBoone Creek, close to the people she loves. Now, if the younglovers are to be together, Jeremy must make a difficult choice:return to the life he knows in New York, or do something he couldnever do before... take a giant leap of faith.
A "powerfully rendered" ("Chicgo Tribune") tale from the #1"New York Times" bestselling author-now in a French flap tradeedition. Photographer Jo Ellen Hathaway thought she'd escaped thehouse called Sanctuary long ago. She'd spent her loneliest yearsthere, after the sudden, unexplained disappearance of her mother.Yet the sprawling inn off the Georgia coast continues to haunt herdreams. And now, even more haunting are the pictures someone issending her: strange close-ups and candids, culminating in the mostshocking portrait of all-a photo of her mother- naked, beautiful,and dead. Now Jo must return to the island, and to her bitterlyestranged family-and, with the help of one man, learn the truthabout the tragic past. But Sanctuary may be the most dangerousplace of all.
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
Gilbert Markham is deeply intrigued by Helen Graham, abeautiful and secretive young woman who has moved into nearbyWildfell Hall with her young son. He is quick to offer Helen hisfriendship, but when her reclusive behavior becomes the subject oflocal gossip and speculation, Gilbert begins to wonder whether histrust in her has been misplaced. It is only when she allows Gilbertto read her diary that the truth is revealed and the shockingdetails of the disastrous marriage she has left behindemerge...Told with great immediacy, combined with wit and irony,"The Tenant of Wildfell Hall" is a powerfully involving read.
When a mysterious young woman named Katie appears in the smallNorth Carolina town of Southport, her sudden arrival raisesquestions about her past. Beautiful yet self-effacing, Katie seemsdetermined to avoid forming personal ties until a series of eventsdraws her into two reluctant relationships: one with Alex, awidowed store owner with a kind heart and two young children; andanother with her plainspoken single neighbor, Jo. Despite herreservations, Katie slowly begins to let down her guard, puttingdown roots in the close-knit community and becoming increasinglyattached to Alex and his family. But even as Katie begins to fall in love, she struggles with thedark secret that still haunts and terrifies her . . . a past thatset her on a fearful, shattering journey across the country, to thesheltered oasis of Southport. With Jo's empathic and stubbornsupport, Katie eventually realizes that she must choose between alife of transient safety and one of riskier rewards . . . and thatin the darkest hour, lo
The charming adventures of the Mama of an immigrant Norwegianfamily living in San Francisco. This bestselling book inspired theplay, motion picture, and television series I Remember Mama.
For twelve thousand years the Galactic Empire has ruledsupreme. Now it is dying. But only Hari Sheldon, creator of therevolutionary science of psychohistory, can see into the future--toa dark age of ignorance, barbarism, and warfare that will lastthirty thousand years. To preserve knowledge and save mankind,Seldon gathers the best minds in the Empire--both scientists andscholars--and brings them to a bleak planet at the edge of theGalaxy to serve as a beacon of hope for a fututre generations. Hecalls his sanctuary the Foundation. But soon the fledgling Foundation finds itself at the mercy ofcorrupt warlords rising in the wake of the receding Empire.Mankind's last best hope is faced with an agonizing choice: submitto the barbarians and be overrun--or fight them and bedestroyed.
