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.

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.

For her exciting debut in hardcover, New York Timesbestselling author Karen Rose delivers a heart-stopping suspensenovel that picks up where DIE FOR ME left off, with a detectivedetermined to track down a brutal murderer. Special Agent Daniel Vartanian has sworn to find theperpetrator of multiple killings that mimic a 13-year-old murderlinked to a collection of photographs that belonged to his brother,Simon, the ruthless serial killer who met his demise in DIE FOR ME.Daniel is certain that someone even more depraved than his brothercommitted these crimes, and he's determined to bring the currentmurderer to justice and solve the mysterious crime from yearsago. With only a handful of images as a lead, Daniel's search willlead him back through the dark past of his own family, and into therealm of a mind more sinister than he could ever imagine. But hisquest will also draw him to Alex Fallon, a beautiful nurse whosetroubled past reflects his own. As Daniel becomes attached to Alex,he discover

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.

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.

Selden Edwards, apparently, took 35 years to write this dismal piece of drivel. He started writing at age 25, but I suspect that he conceived the idea at the age of 15. How else to explain the wholly un-ironic adoption of the puerile schoolboy nickname for the main character's guru - the Venerable Haze, a.k.a. the Haze - throughout the book? On page 6, Mr Edwards employs the word 'momentarily' to mean 'in a moment' - when in fact it means 'for a moment'. I would say that if it is English teaching that he has recently retired from, then it is just as well that he has retired. Time travel, I can (only just) live with, but the plot is contrived, and the story wholly devoid of humour, takes itself far too seriously, and employs tortured coincidences to allow the hero to make his way through life in 19th Century 'fin de siecle' (he loves that term!) Vienna. I managed 36 pages of this rubbish, and then gave up in disgust. I trust that Mr Edwards, if he ever does write another novel, will again take 35 years t

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.

From "the funniest important writer in America" (Miami Herald)comes a tale that is gleefully zany and incisively sharp and nowavailable in trade paperback for the first time.

Tock--your time is up Bennett enliststhe help of a former colleague, FBI Agent Emily Parker. As hisaffection for Emily grows into something stronger, his relationshipwith Mary Catherine takes an unexpected turn. All too soon, anotherappalling crime leads Bennett to a shocking discovery that exposesthe killer's pattern and the earth-shattering enormity of his plan.From the creator of the #1 New York detective series comes the mostvolatile and most explosive Michael Bennett novel ever.

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

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

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Tami Hoag comes thispowerful novel of passion, heartbreak, and redemption--a story thatcelebrates our capacity to love one time, for all time, even in theface of adversity and change. They say that each of us becomes anentirely new person every seven years. But Rebecca Bradshaw doesn'tfeel any different when an old lover shows up severely injured atthe hospital where she runs the physical therapy department. Sevenyears ago baseball player Jace Cooper left her without a secondthought or the chance to share the life-changing secret she sworeshe'd keep from him forever. Now he was back, wanting both her helpand a second chance. Becca hadn't changed, and she didn't believeJace had either, but as she helped him repair his broken body andhis fractured past, she would find she was wrong on both counts.The only thing that had stayed the same was the most importantthing of all--and now suddenly time was running out.

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. . . .

Shimamura is tired of the bustling city.He takes the trainthrough the snow to the mountains of the west coast of Japan tomeet with a geisha he believes he loves.Beautiful and innocent,Komako is tightly bound by the rules of a rural geisha and lives alife of servitude and seclusion that is alien to Shimamura - theirlove offers no freedom to either of them. Snow Country is both delicate and subtle,reflecting in Kawabata'sexact, lyrical writing the unspoken love and the understatedpassion of the young Japanese couple.

From the celebrated imagination of Dean Koontz comes a powerfulreworking of one of the classic stories of all time. If you thinkyou know the legend, you know only half the truth. Now themesmerizing saga concludes. . . . As a devastating hurricaneapproaches, as the benighted creations of Victor Helios begin tospin out of control, as New Orleans descends into chaos and thefuture of humanity hangs in the balance, the only hope rests withVictor’s first, failed attempt to build the perfect human.Deucalion’s centuries-old history began as the originalmanifestation of a soulless vision–and it is fated to end in theultimate confrontation between a damned creature and his madcreator. But first they must face a monstrosity not even Victor’smalignant mind could have conceived–an indestructible entity thatsteps out of humankind’s collective nightmare with powers, and apurpose, beyond imagining.

'I can imagine you at forty,' she said, with malice in hervoice. 'I can picture it right now.' He smiled without opening hiseyes. 'Go on then.' 15th July 1988. Emma and Dexter meet for thefirst time on the night of their graduation. Tomorrow they must gotheir separate ways. So where will they be on this one day nextyear? And the year after that? And every year that follows? Twentyyears, two people, ONE DAY. From the author of the massivebestseller STARTER FOR TEN.

Arguably the greatest science fiction writer who ever lived, Isaac Asimov also possessed one of the most brilliant and original minds of our time. His accessible style and far-reaching interests in subjects ranging from science to humor to history earned him the nickname "the Great Explainer." I. Asimov is his personal story--vivid, open, and honest--as only Asimov himself could tell it.Here is the story of the paradoxical genius who wrote of travel to the stars yet refused to fly in who imagined alien universes and vast galacticcivilizations while staying home to who compulsively authored more than 470 books yet still found the time to share his ideas with some of the greatminds of our century. Here are his wide-ranging thoughts and sharp-eyed observations on everything from religion to politics, love and divorce, friendship and Hollywood, fame and mortality. Here, too, is a riveting behind-the-scenes look at the varied personalities--Campbell, Ellison, Heinlein, Clarke, del Rey, Silverberg, and oth

The three laws of Robotics: 1) A robot may not injure a human being or,through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm 2) A robot must obey orders givein to it byhuman beings except where such orders would conflict with the FirstLaw. 3) A robot must protect its own existence aslong as such protection does not conflict with the First or SecondLaw. With this, Asimov changed our perception ofrobots forever when he formulated the laws governing theirbehavior. In I, Robot, Asimov chronicles the development of therobot through a series of interlinked stories: from its primitiveorigins in the present to its ultimate perfection in thenot-so-distant future--a future in which humanity itself may berendered obsolete. Here are stories of robots gone mad, ofmind-read robots, and robots with a sense of humor. Of robotpoliticians, and robots who secretly run the world--all told withthe dramatic blend of science fact science fiction thatbecame Asmiov's trademark.

Romance and magic meet by the light of the moon in thisall-new all-star collection of Celtic tales from #1 "New YorkTimes" bestselling author Nora Roberts and "New York Times"bestselling authors Jill Gregory, Ruth Ryan Langan, and MarianneWillman.

Waugh tells the story of the Marchmain family. Aristocratic,beautiful and charming, the Marchmains are indeed a symbol ofEngland and her decline in this novel of the upper class of the1920s and the abdication of responsibility in the 1930s.

From award-winning author Tami Hoag comes a warm, movingstory of two cultures in conflict and two hearts in love. Matt Thorne had come to his sister's rural inn to recover from aninjury far from the city and his fast-paced life as an emergencyroom physician. Drifting between sleep and waking, Matt didn'ttrust his eyes when he saw the young woman who sat at his bedsidein her plain cotton dress and apron, her chestnut hair tuckeddemurely beneath a white bonnet, like a beautiful vision from thepast century. Sarah Troyer had been warned about the womanizing Dr. Throne, butnothing prepared her for the shiver of desire that shook her to hercore when she gazed at him. Though her life was bound by the simpleAmish way, Sarah had always longed for the world outside. Her jobat the inn already branded her as a rebel in her community, andfalling in love with a stranger would mean the loss of her familyand the only life she knew. Yet something sparked within her withevery touch of his hand, each glance fr

From America’s #1 bestselling crime writers comes the extraordinary new Kay Scarpetta novel. Leaving behind her private forensic pathology practice in Charleston, South Carolina, Kay Scarpetta accepts an assignment in New York City, where the NYPD has asked her to examine an injured man on Bellevue Hospital’s psychiatric prison ward. The handcuffed and chained patient, Oscar Bane, has specifically asked for her, and when she literally has her gloved hands on him, he begins to talk—and the story he has to tell turns out to be one of the most bizarre she has ever heard. The injuries, he says, were sustained in the course of a murder . . . that he did not commit. Is Bane a criminally insane stalker who has fixed on Scarpetta? Or is his paranoid tale true, and it is he who is being spied on, followed and stalked by the actual killer? The one thing Scarpetta knows for certain is that a woman has been tortured and murdered—and more violent deaths will follow. Gradually, an inexplicable and horrifying truth