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?

Few books have captivated the imagination and won the devotion and praise of readers and critics everywhere as has George R. R. Martin’s monumental epic cycle of high fantasy. Now, in A Feast for Crows, Martin delivers the long-awaited fourth book of his landmark series, as a kingdom torn asunder finds itself at last on the brink of peace...only to be launched on an even more terrifying course of destruction.

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.

In this nightmare vision of a not-too-distant future, fifteen-year-old Alex and his three friends rob, rape, torture and murder - for fun. Alex is jailed for his vicious crimes and the State undertakes to reform him - but how and at what cost?

The author of the runaway "New York Times" bestseller "TheNotebook" pens a tale of self-discovery, renewal, and the courageit takes to love again. When a 36-year-old single mother finds alove letter in a half-buried bottle while jogging along the shoresof Cape Cod, she decides to take a dramatic leap that will foreverchange her life.

A classic work that has charmed generations of readers, thiscollection assembles Carson McCullers's best stories, including herbeloved novella "The Ballad of the Sad Cafe." A haunting tale of ahuman triangle that culminates in an astonishing brawl, the novellaintroduces readers to Miss Amelia, a formidable southern womanwhose cafe serves as the town's gathering place. Among other fineworks, the collection also includes "Wunderkind," McCullers's firstpublished story written when she was only seventeen about a musicalprodigy who suddenly realizes she will not go on to become a greatpianist. Newly reset and available for the first time in a handsometrade paperback edition, The Ballad of the Sad Cafe is a brilliantstudy of love and longing from one of the South's finestwriters.

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.

1348.The Black Death is sweeping through Europe.In Florence,plague has carried off one hundred thousand people.In their Tuscan villas,seven young women and three young men tell tales to recreate the world they have lost,weaving a rich tapestry of comedy,tragedy,ribaldry and farce.Boccaccio's Decameron recasts the storytelling heritage of the ancient and medieval worlds into perennial forms that inspired writers from Chaucer and Shakespeare down to our own day.Boccaccio makes the incredible believable,with detail so sharp we can look straight into the lives of people who lived six hundred years ago.His Decameron hovers between the fading glories of an aristocratic past-the Crusades,the Angevins,the courts of France,the legendary East-and the colourful squalor of contemporary life,where wives deceive husbands,friars and monks pursue fleshly ends,and natural instincts fight for satisfaction.Here are love and jealousy,passion and pride-and a shrewd calculation of profit and loss which heralds the rise of a dynami

Four tales of holiday love and danger from Nora Robertswriting as J.D. Robb, and bestselling authors Susan Plunkett, DeeHolmes, and Claire Cross.

The first book in a new post-apocalyptic trilogy from "amaster of the genre" Heather O'Grainne is the Assistant Secretaryin the Office of Future Threat Assessment, investigating rumorssurrounding something called "Daybreak." The group is diverse andradical, and its members have only one thing in common-their hatredfor the "Big System" and their desire to take it down. Now,seemingly random events simultaneously occurring around the worldare in fact connected as part of Daybreak's plan to destroy moderncivilization-a plan that will eliminate America's top governmentpersonnel, leaving the nation no choice but to implement itsemergency contingency program...Directive 51.

The story of Oedipus has captured the human imagination as few others.It is the story of a man fated to kill his father and marry his mother,a man who by a cruel irony brings these things to pass by his very efforts to avoid them.But these plays are not about fate,and not about irnoy.They are about character,choice and consequence.In Antigone we see a woman who will defy human law ,and die for it ,rather than transgress the eternal ,unwritten laws of the gods.Oedipus the Tyrant is the story of a ruler destroyed by those qualities-pride,determination and belief in his own ablitities-which made him ruler in the first place.Finally,in Oedipus at Colonus,written late in Sophocles' life,the aged and blinded king achieves a personal reconciliation,but at a cost-a son who will die in battle against his country,and a daughter who will die burying her brother.

A full-length novel by Charles Osborne adapted from Agatha Christie's stage play, in which a diplomat's wife finds a body that mustn't be discovered...Following BLACK COFFEE and THE UNEXPECTED GUEST comes the final Agatha Christie play novelisation, bringing her superb storytelling to a new legion of fans. Clarissa, the wife of a Foreign Office diplomat, is given to daydreaming. 'Supposing I were to come down one morning and find a dead body in the library, what should I do?' she muses. Clarissa has her chance to find out when she discovers a body in the drawing-room of her house in Kent. Desperate to dispose of the body before her husband comes home with an important foreign politician, Clarissa persuades her three house guests to become accessories and accomplices. It seems that the murdered man was not unknown to certain members of the house party (but which ones?), and the search begins for the murderer and the motive, while at the same time trying to persuade a police inspector that there has been

In 1795 Mungo Park, a twenty-four year old surgeon, set out from the Gambia to trace the course of the Niger, a river of which Europeans had no first-hand knowledge. Travels in the interior districts of Africa is his Journal of that extraordinary journey. He travelled on the sufferance of African rulers and soon came to depend for his survival on the charity of African villagers. Before he reached the Niger, he endured months of captivity in the camp of a Moorish chief. Yet throughout his travels, Park maintained a remarkable empathy for African societies and beliefs. He recorded what he saw as accurately as he could, and without presuming European superiority. He prefaced his Jornal with the disclaimer that it has nothing to recommend it but truth.It is a plain unvarnished tale,withort any pretensions of any kind Park's truthfulness and lack of pretension will endear him to nodern readers.

A sharp, witty and hugely entertaining debut novel, The DevilWears Prada is The Nanny Diaries set in the world of high fashion.Welcome to the dollhouse, baby! When Andrea first sets foot in theplush Manhattan offices of Runway she knows nothing. She's neverheard of the world's most fashionable magazine, or its feared andfawned-over editor, Miranda Priestly. But she's going to beMiranda's assistant, a job millions of girls would die for. A yearlater, she knows altogether too much: That it's a sacking offenceto wear anything lower than a three-inch heel to work. But thatthere's always a fresh pair of Manolos for you in the accessoriescupboard. That Miranda believes Hermes scarves are disposable, andyou must keep a life-time supply on hand at all times. That eightstone is fat. That you can charge cars, manicures, anything at allto the Runway account, but you must never, ever, leave your desk,or let Miranda's coffee get cold. And that at 3 a.m. on a Sunday,when your boyfriend's dumping you because you're always

Plagued by a war between magic and technology, Atlanta has neverbeen so deadly. Good thing Kate Daniels is on the job.Kate Danielsmay have quit the Order of Merciful Aid, but she's still knee-deepin paranormal problems. Or she would be if she could get someone tohire her. Starting her own business has been more challenging thanshe thought it would be-now that the Order is disparaging her goodname, and many potential clients are afraid of getting on the badside of the Beast Lord, who just happens to be Kate's mate.So whenAtlanta's premier Master of the Dead calls to ask for help with avampire on the loose, Kate leaps at the chance of some paying work.Turns out this is not an isolated incident, and Kate needs to getto the bottom of it-fast, or the city and everyone dear to hermight pay the ultimate price.

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

Total Heat Sidney Archer has the world. A husband she loves. Ajob at which she excels and a cherished young daughter. Then, as aplane plummets into the Virginia countryside, everything changes.And suddenly there is no one whom Sidney Archer can trust. TotalDanger Jason Archer is a rising young executive at Triton Global,the world's leading technology conglomerate. Determined to give hisfamily the best of everything, Archer has secretly entered into adeadly game. He is about to disappear-leaving behind a wife whomust sort out his lies from his truths, an accident team that wantsto know why the plane he was ticketed on crashed, and a veteran FBIagent who wants to know it all...

This is knock-out classic horror about the loneliest town offNevada's Interstate 50-and the scariest.

There's a saying at Hollywood Station that the full moonbrings out the beast--rather than the best--in the precinct'scitizens. One moonlit night, veteran officers Dana Vaughn and"Hollywood" Nate Weiss get a call about a prowler who's beenbrutally attacking women. Meanwhile, a pair of cops with the surfersobriquets Flotsam and Jetsam are on the lookout for asmooth-talking player in dreads and a crazy-eyed, tattooed biker.But something bigger, more high-tech, and much more deadly is aboutto go down. After a dizzying series of twists, turns, and chases,the cops discover that they've stumbled upon a complex web of crimewhere even the criminals aren't sure who's conning whom. And forsome of the men and women in blue, public duty will exact theheaviest of tolls.

Part blistering espionage thriller, part riveting police procedural, and part piercing exposé on social injustice, The Girl Who Played with Fire is a masterful, endlessly satisfying novel. Mikael Blomkvist, crusading publisher of the magazine Millennium, has decided to run a story that will expose an extensive sex trafficking operation. On the eve of its publication, the two reporters responsible for the article are murdered, and the fingerprints found on the murder weapon belong to his friend, the troubled genius hacker Lisbeth Salander. Blomkvist, convinced of Salander’s innocence, plunges into an investigation. Meanwhile, Salander herself is drawn into a murderous game of cat and mouse, which forces her to face her dark past.

When Atlantic Monthly Press relaunched her Commissario GuidoBrunetti series. Donna Leon was hailed as "the best mystery writeryou've never heard of...She uses the relatively small andcrime-free canvas of Venice for riffs about Italian life, sexualstyles and--best of all--the kind of ingrown business and politicalcorruption that seems to lurk just below the surface" ("ChicagoTribune). Now "Blood from a Stone brings her celebrated characterCommissario Guido Brunetti back on the scene: On a cold Venetiannight shortly before Christmas, a street vendor is killed in ascuffle in Campo San Stefano. The closest witnesses to the eventare the tourists who had been browsing the man's wares before hisdeath--fake handbags of every designer label. The dead man had beenworking as a "vu cumpra, one of the many African immigrantspurveying goods outside normal shop hours, trading without workpermits. Commissario Brunetti's response is that of everybodyinvolved: Why would anyone kill an illegal immigrant? With fewsocial c