Nora Roberts returns to Chesapeake Bay and her beloved Quinnfamily for the story of Seth Quinn. The conclusion to thebreathtaking saga.
Only a few know the terrifying truth--an outcast Earthscientist, a rebellious alien inhabitant of a dying planet, alunar-born human intuitionist who senses the imminent annihilationof the Sun. They know the truth--but who will listen? They haveforeseen the cost of abundant energy--but who will believe? Thesefew beings, human and alien, hold the key to the Earth'ssurvival.
Frank, no ordinary sixteen-year-old, lives with his fatheroutsIde a remote Scottish village. Their life is, to say the least,unconventional. Frank's mother abandoned them years ago: his elderbrother Eric is confined to a psychiatric hospital; and his fathermeasures out his eccentricities on an imperial scale. Frank hasturned to strange acts of violence to vent his frustrations. In thebizarre daily rituals there is some solace. But when news comes ofEric's escape from the hospital Frank has to prepare the ground forhis brother's inevitable return - an event that explodes themysteries of the past and changes Frank utterly. Iain Banks'celebrated first novel is a work of extraordinary originality,imagination and horrifying compulsion: horrifying, because itenters a mind whose realities are not our own, whose values of lifeand death are alien to our society; and compulsive, because thehumour and compassion of that mind reach out to us all.
The phenomenal #1 bestseller is now a major motion picture:"Startling and addictive. . . . An epic story of love, family, andloyalty." - USA Today Melanie Stryder refuses to fade away. Our world has been invaded by an unseen enemy that takes over theminds of human hosts while leaving their bodies intact. ButWanderer, the invading "soul" who occupies Melanie's body, findsits former tenant refusing to relinquish possession of hermind. As Melanie fills Wanderer's thoughts with visions of Jared, ahuman who lives in hiding, Wanderer begins to yearn for a man she'snever met. Soon Wanderer and Melanie-reluctant allies-set off tosearch for the man they both love. Featuring one of the most unusual love triangles in literature, THE HOST is a riveting and unforgettable novel about thepersistence of love and the essence of what it means to behuman. THE HOST movie opens in theaters on March 29, 2013.
" Roberts] is at her best here" ("Publishers Weekly," starredreview) in the first book in her enchanting trilogy set in Ardmore,Ireland.
In the twenty-third century pioneers have escaped the crowdedearth for life in self-sustaining orbital colonies. One of thecolonies, Rotor, has broken away from the solar system to createits own renegade utopia around an unknown red star two light-yearsfrom Earth: a star named Nemesis. Now a fifteen-year-old Rotoriangirl has learned of the dire threat that nemesis poses to Earth'speople--but she is prevented from warning them. Soon she willrealize that Nemesis endangers Rotor as well. And so it will be upto her alone to save both Earth and Rotor as--drawn inexorably byNemesis, the death star--they hurtle toward certain disaster.
A deluxe omnibus edition of the "New York Times" bestsellingseries. Featuring three complete novels: Lightsabers Darkest KnightJedi Under Siege
Theodore Boone is back in a new adventure, and the stakes arehigher than ever. When his best friend, April, disappears from herbedroom in the middle of the night, no one, not even Theo Boone -who knows April better than anyone - has answers. As fear ripplesthrough his small hometown and the police hit dead ends, it's up toTheo to use his legal knowledge and investigative skills to chasedown the truth and save April. Filled with the page-turningsuspense that made John Grisham a number one internationalbestseller and the undisputed master of the legal thriller,Theodore Boone's trials and triumphs will keep readers guessinguntil the very end.
For Dr. David Beck, the loss was shattering. And every day forthe past eight years, he has relived the horror of what happened.The gleaming lake. The pale moonlight. The piercing screams. Thenight his wife was taken. The last night he saw her alive. Everyone tells him it’s time to move on, to forget the pastonce and for all. But for David Beck, there can be no closure. Amessage has appeared on his computer, a phrase only he and his deadwife know. Suddenly Beck is taunted with the impossible–thatsomewhere, somehow, Elizabeth is alive. Beck has been warned to tell no one. And he doesn’t. Instead,he runs from the people he trusts the most, plunging headlong intoa search for the shadowy figure whose messages hold out a desperatehope. But already Beck is being hunted down. He’s headed straightinto the heart of a dark and deadly secret–and someone intends tostop him before he gets there.
For the first time Asimov chronicles the life of Hari Seldon,the man who laid the framework for the universe that came to beknown as the Foundation. The long-awaited overture to the greatestscience fiction series of all time. "Asimov's storytelling skillshave never been keener."--Denver Post. HC: Doubleday.
Filled with exciting tales of the frontier, the chronicle ofthe Sackett family is perhaps the crowning achievement of one ofour greatest storytellers. In Treasure Mountain Louis L’Amourdelivers a robust story of two brothers searching to learn the fateof their missing father — and finding themselves in a struggle justto stay alive. Orrin and Tell Sackett had come to exotic New Orleans looking foranswers to their father’s disappearance twenty years before. Touncover the truth, the brothers enlisted the aid of a trailwisegypsy and a mysterious voodoo priest as they sought to re-createtheir father’s last trek. But Louisiana is a dangerous land, and with one misstep thebrothers could disappear in the bayous before they even set foot onthe trail that led to whatever legacy their father had left behind... and a secret worth killing for.
Dolores Claiborne has a story to tell. But it is not quite what the police had expected. Dolores Claiborne has a confession to make ...She will take her time. Won't be hurried. Will do it her way, sparing neither details nor feelings. Hers or anyone else's. This is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Truth that takes you to the edge of darkness. Dolores Claiborne has a story to tell and you'd better pay attention - or else.
In bestseller Robb's slick 26th not-so-near-future crimethriller to feature Lt. Eve Dallas (after 2007's Creation inDeath ), the New York City homicide cop investigates the murderof business tycoon Thomas Anders, whose strangled body isdiscovered tied to his bed, apparently the victim of a kinky sexencounter gone bad. Aided by her mysterious husband, Roarke, andlong-time sidekick Det. Delia Peabody, Eve doggedly questionsAnders's widow, Ava, and his nephew, Benedict Forrest, number twoat the victim's corporation, Anders Worldwide. Both Ava andBenedict have alibis that put them far from the crime scene at thetime of Anders's death. While the guilty party soon becomes obviousand the gimmick used by the culprit clear to anyone familiar with Strangers on a Train , Robb's strong, hard-nosed heroine onceagain generates the kind of heat that keeps fans turning the pages. (Feb.) Copyright Reed Business Information, a division of ReedElsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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
It is the dimension of the mysterious that makes Buchan’swriting so unfailingly compelling. -- John Keegan, from theintroduction It is the dimension of the mysterious that makes Buchan’s writingso unfailingly compelling. (John Keegan, from the introduction)
Tommy Phan is a successful detective novelist living theAmerican Dream in southern California. One evening he comes home tofind a small rag doll on his doorstep. It's a simple doll, coveredentirely in white cloth, with crossed black stitches for the eyesand mouth, and another pair forming an X over the heart. Curious,he brings it inside. That night Tommy hears an odd popping soundand looks up to see the stitches breaking over the doll's heart.And in minutes the fabric of Tommy Phan's reality will be tornapart. Something terrifying emerges from the pristine white cloth,something that will follow Tommy wherever he goes. Something thathe can't destroy. It wants Tommy's life, and he doesn't know why.He has only one ally, a beautiful, strangely intuitive waitress hemeets by chance--or by a design far beyond his comprehension. Hehas too many questions, no answers, and very little time. Becausethe vicious and demonically clever doll has left this warning onTommy's computer screen: "The deadline is dawn."Tickt
An odd, amusing and still provocative fantasy. The narrator is aSquare who lives in a world of two dimensions, and whose vision ofa third gets him into grave trouble with the authorities. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition ofthis title.
He saw her across the Piazza San Marco and fell in love fromafar. When he sees her again in a Venice café a year later, heknows it is fate. He knows little English; and she, a divorcedAmerican chef, speaks only food-based Italian. Marlena thinks sheis incapable of intimacy, that her heart has lost its capacity forromantic love. But within months of their first meeting, she haspacked up her house in St. Louis to marry Fernando—“the stranger,”as she calls him—and live in that achingly lovely city in whichthey met. Vibrant but vaguely baffled by this bold move, Marlena isoverwhelmed by the sheer foreignness of her new home, its ritualsand customs. But there are delicious moments when Venice opens upits arms to Marlena. She cooks an American feast of Mississippicaviar, cornbread, and fried onions for the locals . . . and takesthe tango she learned in the Poughkeepsie middle school gym to acandlelit trattoría near the Rialto Bridge. All the while, she andFernando, two disparate souls, build