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

Herbert Mason's best-selling Gilgamesh is the most widely readand enduring interpretation of this ancient Babylonian epic. One ofthe oldest and most universal stories known in literature, the epicof Gilgamesh presents the grand, timeless themes of love and death,loss and reparations within the stirring tale of a hero-king andhis doomed friend. A finalist for the National Book Award, Mason'sretelling is at once a triumph of scholarship, a masterpiece ofstyle, and a labor of love that grew out of the poet's longaffinity with the original.

Set during the Napoleonic wars at a time of national economicstruggles, Shirley is an unsentimental yet passionatedepiction of conflict among classes, sexes, and generations.Struggling manufacturer Robert Moore considers marriage to thewealthy and independent Shirley Keeldar, yet his heart lies withhis cousin Caroline. Shirley, meanwhile, is in love with Robert’sbrother, an impoverished tutor. As industrial unrest builds to apotentially fatal pitch, can the four be reconciled?

In 1993, Harry Bosch was assigned the case of a missing person, Marie Gesto. The young woman was never found - dead or alive - and the case has haunted Bosch ever since. Thirteen years later Bosch is in the Open-Unsolved Unit, where he still keeps the Gesto file on his desk, when he gets a call from the DA's office. A man accused of two heinous killings is willing to come clean in regard to several other murders in a deal to avoid the death penalty. One of those murders, he says, is the killing of Marie Gesto. In confirming the confession Bosch must get close to the man he has sought - and hated - for thirteen years. Bosch's whole being as a cop begins to crack when he comes to realise that he and his partner missed a clue back in 1993 which could have led them to Waits and would have stopped the nine murders that followed the killing of Marie Gesto...

"WHAT COLOR IS YOUR PARACHUTE? HOT AGAIN, 30 YEARS AFTER DEBUT." So ran the headline this past October in the Seattle Times. Actually, it has been "hot"—the best-selling job-hunting book in the world—year after year, for more than three decades now, so much so that it is referred to as "the job-hunters’ bible." Each year it is updated, and sometimes vastly rewritten, by the author, giving first-time and veteran readers alike something new to discover. For those who have not read an updated version in recent years, this is a reminder of why, in the words of Fortune magazine, "PARACHUTE remains the gold standard of career guides."

Fire investigator Reena Hale steps into an inferno of madnessas she tries desperately to trace the origins of the taunting phonecalls she's receiving, the fires, and the hatred aimed in herdirection.

A city is hit by an epidemic of "white blindness" that sparesno one. Authorities confine the first to go blind to an emptymental hospital, but there the criminal element holds everyonecaptive, stealing food rations and assault-ing women. There is oneeyewitness to this nightmare who guides seven strangers through thebarren streets to freedom--a procession as uncanny as thesurroundings are harrowing. Blindness is an unsettling portrait of man's inhumanity toman-and of humankind's resilient spirit. Discussion guide available at www.HarcourtBooks.com .

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Tami Hoag comes aclassic novel of mismatched lovers who give a whole new meaning tothe phrase “Fake it till you make it.” Sensible corporate lawyer Alaina Montgomery has been frustratingher matchmaking friends for years. But this time they’ve reallytried to set her up with the wrong guy: Dylan Harrison, afree-spirited single dad who runs a ramshackle bar and bait shop.Appropriately enough, she meets him on the way to ascience-fiction-themed masquerade party. When cops mistake the costumed pair for a lady of the eveningand her client, Alaina and Dylan end up in jail together. And soonthey hatch a plan to foil the matchmakers once and for all bypretending to be a couple. What begins as a good-natured rusequickly blossoms into a real romance, as these two polar oppositesdiscover that desire can’t be so easily disguised.

Torn between two vampire brothers Damon: determined to make Elena his, he'd kill his own brotherto possess her. Stefan: desperate for the power to destroy Damon, and protectElena, he gives in to his thirst for human blood. Elena: the girl who can have anyone finds herself in the middleof a love triangle . . . one that might turn deadly.

"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.

Becky Bloomwood, America's favorite shopaholic, is back in a hilarious, heartwarming tale of married life, best friends, and long-lost sisters (and the perils of simply having to own an Angel handbag!) What's a round-the-world honeymoon if you can't buy the odd souvenir to ship back home? Like the twenty silk dressing gowns Becky go on a budget. And worse: her beloved best friend Suze has found a new best friend while Becky was away. Becky's feeling rather blue -- when her parents deliver some incredible news. She has a long-lost sister! Becky is thrilled! She's convinced her sister will be a true soulmate. They'll go shopping together, have manicures together…… Until she meets Jessica for the first time and gets the shock of her life. Surely Becky Bloomwood's sister can't …… hate shopping?

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.

Robert Kincaid, a photographer and free spirit, and FrancescaJohnson, the farm wife waiting for the fulfillment of a girlhooddream, reveal what it is like to love and be loved so intenselythat life is never the same again. Reprint."

The book begins at midnight, 5-6 June 1944, when the first British and American airborne troops penetrated France and launched the invasion. What happens in between is covered from every perspective: the high command, the enlisted ranks, the French civilians the German defenders, and Allied attackers by land, sea and air. Drawing on more than 500 interviews and oral histories, the book looks at the individuals involved and their experiences rather than units. Moving from Ike's level to that of a French child, from Bradley to an American paratrooper, from Montgomery to a British private, from Rommel to a German sergeant at the point of the attack, the book tells stories from the people who were there.

Finest heroic poem in Old English celebrates character andexploits of Beowulf, a young nobleman of the Geats, a people ofsouthern Sweden. Narrative combines mythical elements, Christianand pagan sensibilities, actual historical figures and events tocreate a striking work of great power and beauty. Genealogies.

Nine-year-old Emily Anne Toussaint is shot dead on a Montreal street. A North Carolina teenager disappears from her home，and parts of what may be her skeleton are found hundreds of miles away. For Dr. Temperance Brennan, a forensic anthropologist in both Montreal and North Carolina, the deaths kindle deep emotions that propel her on a harrowing journey into the world of outlaw motorcycle gangs.

In a man's world,a wonman must use both her brains and her beauty… Jennifer Parker is brilliant,beautiful and bold.Alawyer,the most glamorous andsuccessful in America,she dominates the court with her sparkling intelligence and persuasive charms. When Jennifer falls in love she can hardly believe her luck.Adam Warner is handsome,smart,destined to the next President of the United States-and married… But the Jennifer finds herself pregnant and abandoned.Althought determined not to allow her broken heart to get in the way of her success,she soon realises that being alone makes her even more vulnerable to those who seek to destroy her…

Vehicles move through the murky night, carrying highly secret material. And that clandestine material will only be available--after midnight--to those who have signed non-disclosure notices. The plot of the new Dan Brown novel? No, it’s actually how reviewers such as myself obtained our copies of the much-anticipated The Lost Symbol, the follow-up to the Da Vinci Code. And as we read it in (literally) the cold light of dawn, we wonder: is it likely to match the earlier book’s all-conquering, phenomenal success? Firstly, it should be noted that The Lost Symbol has incorporated all the elements that so transfixed readers in The Da Vinci Code: a complex, mystifying plot (with the reader set quite as many challenges as the protagonist); breathless, helter-skelter pace (James Patterson's patented technique of keeping readers hooked by ending chapters with a tantalisingly unresolved situation is very much part of Dan Brown’s armoury). And, of course, the winning central character, resourceful symbologi

Sookie Stackhouse is a cocktail waitress in a little bar in a small town deep in Louisiana. She's funny and pretty and well-mannered, but she doesn't have that many close friends - mind you, that's not so surprising when you consider how few people can appreciate her abilities as a mind-reader. It's not a quality that has the guys beating down her door - well, unless they're vampires or werewolves or the like . . . but they're not just supernatural freaks, some of them are friends, even family . . . And much as Sookie might want a quiet life, when she's around, things just seem to happen . . . like her brother, who appears to be changing into a were-panther. He's not that bothered, but someone doesn't like it - someone's trying to wipe him out, as well as the rest of the shape-changing population, and that mean's Sookie's got just a month, before the next full moon, to find out who wants her brother dead, and stop the fiend.

Jeannette Walls grew up with parents whose ideals and stubborn nonconformity were both their curse and their salvation. Rex and Rose Mary Walls had four children. In the beginning, they lived like nomads, moving among Southwest desert towns, camping in the mountains. Rex was a charismatic, brilliant man who, when sober, captured his children's imagination, teaching them physics, geology, and above all, how to embrace life fearlessly. Rose Mary, who painted and wrote and couldn't stand the responsibility of providing for her family, called herself an "excitement addict." Cooking a meal that would be consumed in fifteen minutes had no appeal when she could make a painting that might last forever. Later, when the money ran out, or the romance of the wandering life faded, the Walls retreated to the dismal West Virginia mining town -- and the family -- Rex Walls had done everything he could to escape. He drank. He stole the grocery money and disappeared for days. As the dysfunction of the family escalated, Jea

Plutarch of Chaeronea is one of the great storytellers of antiquity, a writer whose ability to create unforgettable scenes matches the grandeur of his subject matter. The heroes of his Lives were the great men of antiquity, often greatly flawed, but with tragic depth and epic stature. Thomas North's translation, one of the most splendid works of sixteenth-century English prose, presents a vigorous and passionate version of the Lives whose qualities so attracted Shakespeare that he used North as his major source for Julius Caesar, Coriolanus and Antony & Cleopatra. This collection includes all the Lives which Shakespeare used and a selection of others which aim to show the variety and range of Plutarch's writing.

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