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NOW THE ACCLAIMED HBO SERIES GAME OF THRONES Here is the first volume in George R. R. Martin’s magnificent cycle of novels that includes A Clash of Kings and A Storm of Swords . Amid plots and counterplots, tragedy and betrayal, victory and terror, the fate of the Starks, their allies, and their enemies hangs perilously in the balance, as each endeavors to win that deadliest of conflicts: the game of thrones. Whenever he's allowed to leave, he returns to Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he lives with the lovely Parris, a big white dog called Mischa, and two cats named Augustus and Caligula, who think they run the place.

Davina Porter's lyrical narration will launch listeners into an exhilarating world of heroism, pulse-pounding adventure, and breathtaking romance as one woman is torn between past and present, passion and love. For here, James Fraser, a gallant young Scots warrior, shows her a passion so fierce and a love so absolute that Claire becomes a woman torn between fidelity and desire...and between two vastly different men in two irreconcilable lives.

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Told in language of great simplicity and power, it is the story of an old Cuban fisherman, down on his luck, and his supreme ordeal -- a relentless, agonizing battle with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream. Written in 1952, this hugely successful novella confirmed his power and presence in the literary world and played a large part in his winning the 1954 Nobel Prize for literature. The tale concerns an old fisherman in a Cuban village who, after an especially bad fishing season, sets out in his skiff, determined to bring in a big fish.

By morning, the millionaire Samuel Edward Ratchett lies dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside. Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare.

One of the icons of modernism, Virginia Woolf is credited alongside James Joyce for redefining the novel and challenging the limitations of the form. She creates not a new but a more nuanced reading, following the interwoven streams of consciousness in a British English that lends authenticity to each voice. Leishman also draws our attention to Woolf's poetic prose: her rhythms and images, her use of hard consonants in monosyllabic words in counterpoint to long, soft, dreamy words and phrases.

The cold is returning, and in the frozen wastes to the north of Winterfell, sinister and supernatural forces are massing beyond the kingdom’s protective Wall. Sweeping from a land of brutal cold to a distant summertime kingdom of epicurean plenty, here is a tale of lords and ladies, soldiers and sorcerers, assassins and bastards, who come together in a time of grim omens. Two great leaders—Lord Eddard Stark and Robert Baratheon—who hold sway over an age of enforced peace are dead, victims of royal treachery. Six factions struggle for control of a divided land and the Iron Throne of the Seven Kingdoms, preparing to stake their claims through tempest, turmoil, and war. Here a princess masquerades as an orphan boy; a knight of the mind prepares a poison for a treacherous sorceress; and wild men descend from the Mountains of the Moon to ravage the countryside. A Storm of Swords: Book Three Of the five contenders for power, one is dead, another in disfavor, and still the wars rage as violently as ever, as alliances are made and broken. His most bitter rival, Lord Stannis, stands defeated and disgraced, the victim of the jealous sorceress who holds him in her evil thrall. A Dance with Dragons: Book Five In the aftermath of a colossal battle, the future of the Seven Kingdoms hangs in the balance—beset by newly emerging threats from every direction. From all corners, bitter conflicts reignite, intimate betrayals are perpetrated, and a grand cast of outlaws and priests, soldiers and skinchangers, nobles and slaves, will face seemingly insurmountable obstacles. George R. R. Martin is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of many novels, including the acclaimed series A Song of Ice and Fire— A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and A Dance with Dragons .

The collection includes:Riding for the Brand, The Black Rock Coffin Makers, Dutchman's Flat, The Nester and the Piute, Mistakes Can Kill You, Trail to Pie Town, and Big Medicine. Some equally famous friends--Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, and Kris Kristofferson--perform cameos in a well-produced multicast adaptation of RIDING FOR THE BRAND, complete with jingling spurs, war whoops, and gunshots.

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The #1 New York Times -bestselling author and master of the technothriller returns with his All-Star team. Mark Greaney is the national bestselling author of The Gray Man series of books, the most recent of which is Dead Eye .

Now we return to that famous courthouse in Clanton as Jake Brigance once again finds himself embroiled in a fiercely controversial trial-a trial that will expose old racial tensions and force Ford County to confront its tortured history. It is an act that drags his adult children, his black maid, and Jake into a conflict as riveting and dramatic as the murder trial that made Brigance one of Ford County's most notorious citizens, just three years earlier. Here, in his most assured and thrilling novel yet, is a powerful testament to the fact that Grisham remains the master of the legal thriller, nearly twenty-five years after the publication of A Time to Kill . "John Grisham is about as good a storyteller as we've got in the United States these days." "John Grisham is exceptionally good at what he does—indeed, right now in this country, nobody does it better."

Orwell's brilliant 1946 satire, chronicling a revolution staged by the animals on Mr. Jones's farm ( Animal Farm ). ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL. BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS. George Orwell's classic satire of the Russian Revolution is the account of the bold struggle, initiated by the animals, that transforms Mr. Jones's Manor Farm into Animal Farm--a wholly democratic society built on the credo that All Animals Are Created Equal. Out of their cleverness, the pigs Napoleon, Squealer, and Snowball emerge as leaders of the new community in a subtle evolution that proves disastrous.

Amelia Peabody, that indomitable product of the Victorian age, embarks on her first Egyptian adventure armed with unshakable self-confidence, a journal to record her thoughts, and, of course, a sturdy umbrella. Elizabeth Peters (1927-2013) was a New York Times bestselling author whose novels were often set against historical backdrops.

The cold is returning, and in the frozen wastes to the north of Winterfell, sinister and supernatural forces are massing beyond the kingdom’s protective Wall. Sweeping from a land of brutal cold to a distant summertime kingdom of epicurean plenty, here is a tale of lords and ladies, soldiers and sorcerers, assassins and bastards, who come together in a time of grim omens. Two great leaders—Lord Eddard Stark and Robert Baratheon—who hold sway over an age of enforced peace are dead, victims of royal treachery. Six factions struggle for control of a divided land and the Iron Throne of the Seven Kingdoms, preparing to stake their claims through tempest, turmoil, and war. Here a princess masquerades as an orphan boy; a knight of the mind prepares a poison for a treacherous sorceress; and wild men descend from the Mountains of the Moon to ravage the countryside. A Storm of Swords: Book Three Of the five contenders for power, one is dead, another in disfavor, and still the wars rage as violently as ever, as alliances are made and broken. His most bitter rival, Lord Stannis, stands defeated and disgraced, the victim of the jealous sorceress who holds him in her evil thrall. A Dance with Dragons: Book Five In the aftermath of a colossal battle, the future of the Seven Kingdoms hangs in the balance—beset by newly emerging threats from every direction. From all corners, bitter conflicts reignite, intimate betrayals are perpetrated, and a grand cast of outlaws and priests, soldiers and skinchangers, nobles and slaves, will face seemingly insurmountable obstacles. George R. R. Martin is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of many novels, including the acclaimed series A Song of Ice and Fire— A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and A Dance with Dragons .

Not only does that crime predate Jesse Stone’s arrival in Paradise, but the dead girls were close friends of Jesse’s right hand, Officer Molly Crane. Robert B. Parker was the author of seventy books, including the legendary Spenser detective series, the novels featuring Chief Jesse Stone, and the acclaimed Virgil Cole/Everett Hitch Westerns, as well as the Sunny Randall novels.

The cold is returning, and in the frozen wastes to the north of Winterfell, sinister and supernatural forces are massing beyond the kingdom’s protective Wall. Sweeping from a land of brutal cold to a distant summertime kingdom of epicurean plenty, here is a tale of lords and ladies, soldiers and sorcerers, assassins and bastards, who come together in a time of grim omens. Two great leaders—Lord Eddard Stark and Robert Baratheon—who hold sway over an age of enforced peace are dead, victims of royal treachery. Six factions struggle for control of a divided land and the Iron Throne of the Seven Kingdoms, preparing to stake their claims through tempest, turmoil, and war. Here a princess masquerades as an orphan boy; a knight of the mind prepares a poison for a treacherous sorceress; and wild men descend from the Mountains of the Moon to ravage the countryside. A Storm of Swords: Book Three Of the five contenders for power, one is dead, another in disfavor, and still the wars rage as violently as ever, as alliances are made and broken. His most bitter rival, Lord Stannis, stands defeated and disgraced, the victim of the jealous sorceress who holds him in her evil thrall. A Dance with Dragons: Book Five In the aftermath of a colossal battle, the future of the Seven Kingdoms hangs in the balance—beset by newly emerging threats from every direction. From all corners, bitter conflicts reignite, intimate betrayals are perpetrated, and a grand cast of outlaws and priests, soldiers and skinchangers, nobles and slaves, will face seemingly insurmountable obstacles. George R. R. Martin is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of many novels, including the acclaimed series A Song of Ice and Fire— A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and A Dance with Dragons .

The lives of these three women are set on a collision course when the unthinkable happens and Kasia is sent to Ravensbrück, the notorious Nazi concentration camp for women. This is a part of history—women’s history—that should never be forgotten.” —Lisa See, New York Times bestselling author of China Dolls “This is the kind of book I wish I had the courage to write—a profound, unsettling, and thoroughly captivating look at sisterhood through the dark lens of the Holocaust. It will haunt you.” —Jamie Ford, New York Times bestselling author of Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet “Rich with historical detail and riveting to the end, Lilac Girls weaves the lives of three astonishing women into a story of extraordinary moral power set against the harrowing backdrop of Europe in thrall to Nazi Germany. This impressive debut should appeal strongly to historical fiction readers and to book clubs that adored Kristin Hannah’s The Nightingale and Anthony Doerr’s All the Light We Cannot See .” — Library Journal (starred review) “[A] compelling first novel . “Inspired by actual events and real people, Martha Hall Kelly has woven together the stories of three women during World War II that reveal the bravery, cowardice, and cruelty of those days. This is a part of history—women’s history—that should never be forgotten.” —Lisa See, New York Times bestselling author of China Dolls “This is the kind of book I wish I had the courage to write—a profound, unsettling, and thoroughly captivating look at sisterhood through the dark lens of the Holocaust. It will haunt you.” —Jamie Ford, New York Times bestselling author of Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet “Rich with historical detail and riveting to the end, Lilac Girls weaves the lives of three astonishing women into a story of extraordinary moral power set against the harrowing backdrop of Europe in thrall to Nazi Germany. Martha Hall Kelly moves effortlessly across physical and ethical battlegrounds, across the trajectory of a doomed wartime romance, across the territory of the soul.

Davina Porter's lyrical narration will launch listeners into an exhilarating world of heroism, pulse-pounding adventure, and breathtaking romance as one woman is torn between past and present, passion and love. For here, James Fraser, a gallant young Scots warrior, shows her a passion so fierce and a love so absolute that Claire becomes a woman torn between fidelity and desire...and between two vastly different men in two irreconcilable lives.

[Read by Richard Poe]. Grand Master Elmore Leonard is justifiably acknowledged as ''the best writer of crime fiction alive'' ( Newsweek ) -- and, in fact, one of the very best ever, alongside other all-time greats like John D. MacDonald, Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain, and Robert Parker. ''Although known for his mysteries, Elmore Leonard has penned some of the best western fiction ever.''.

Private investigator Kinsey Millhone confronts her darkest and most disturbing case in this #1 New York Times bestseller from Sue Grafton. Moody, unrepentant, and angry, he is a virtual prisoner of his ever-watchful parents—until a copy of the missing tape arrives with a ransom demand. Y Is For Yesterday might make you wish the alphabet had a few more letters.”— Tampa Bay Times-Review More Praise for Sue Grafton and the Alphabet Series “Grafton’s endless resourcefulness in varying her pitches in this landmark series, graced by her trademark self-deprecating humor, is one of the seven wonders of the genre.”— Kirkus Reviews.

Above all, San Piedro is haunted by the memory of what happened to its Japanese residents during World War II, when an entire community was sent into exile while its neighbours watched. Fighting the distrust and prejudice of his neighbors on a remote island in Puget Sound, a Japanese-American man who spent time in an internment camp during World War II, finds himself on trial for murder.

Intelligence operations that were once the toast of secret London, and involved such characters as Alec Leamas, Jim Prideaux, George Smiley and Peter Guillam himself, are to be scrutinized by a generation with no memory of the Cold War and no patience with its justifications. “[Le Carré's] novels are so brilliant because they’re emotionally and psychologically absolutely true, but of course they’re novels.”— New York Times Book Review. Praise for John le Carré. “One of our great writers of moral ambiguity, a tireless explorer of that darkly contradictory no-man’s land.”. — Los Angeles Times “No other writer has charted—pitilessly for politicians but thrillingly for readers—the public and secret histories of his times.”. — The Guardian (UK). “I would suggest immortality for John le Carré, who I believe one of the most intelligent and entertaining writers working today.”. —Alan Cheuse, Chicago Tribune “The constant flow of emotion lifts le Carré not only above all modern suspense novelists, but above most novelists now practicing.”. — Financial Times “A writer of towering gifts.”. — The Independent (UK). --This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.

New York Times bestselling author Jeffery Deaver returns with his next blockbuster thriller featuring forensic detective Lincoln Rhyme. With an unmatched ability to create the perfect characters...Deaver takes fans to the edge in this one and dangles them over the cliff...One of the best books of 2016. "Clever...entertaining...Convincing characters and an unexpected closing twist will remind readers why Deaver is one of today's top thriller writers. "Deaver delivers another heart-stopping thriller in his Lincoln Rhyme series...The action, suspense and horrific crimes continue unabated. "Fans will marvel at the creative manner in which Deaver incorporates current technological and societal trends into the plots of his thrillers.

It’s going to be hard for Stephanie to keep her hands off all that ice cream, and even harder for her to keep her hands off Ranger. He lives alone in the back room of his auto body shop on Baker Street in north Trenton, and he hasn’t cut his hair in at least ten years. He has a reputation for drinking too much and abusing women, and he has a hotdog with testicles tattooed on his forehead. None of this would be any of my business, but a couple months ago Trenton’s finest caught Virgil hijacking an eighteen--wheeler filled with cases of premium bourbon. Virgil was arrested and subsequently bonded out by my bail bondsman cousin and employer, Vincent Plum. If Virgil isn’t brought back into the system in a timely fashion, Vinnie will lose his bond money. I’m a college graduate with virtually no marketable skills, so for the past several years I’ve been tracking down Vinnie’s skips. What I lack in expertise I make up for with desperation and tenacity, because I only get paid when I catch someone. It was ten o’clock at night in mid--September, and cool enough for me to need a sweatshirt over my T--shirt. I was currently pulling surveillance on Larry Virgil’s three--bay garage, hoping to catch him entering or exiting. “He isn’t answering his phone, and there aren’t any lights on in the building.”. Lula is a former ’ho who Vinnie hired as a file clerk a while back. When files went digital he didn’t have the guts to fire her, so now Lula shows up every day for work and pretty much does whatever she wants. I have shoulder--length mostly unmanageable curly brown hair that’s usually pulled into a ponytail, and I’ve been told I look a little like Julia Roberts when she played a hooker in Pretty Woman. Only time this man goes out is to hijack a truck, and he got a crimp put in that activity.”. Lights flashed at the cross street and an eighteen--wheeler chugged toward us and parked in front of the lot attached to the garage. The lot was enclosed by a six--foot--high chain link fence topped with razor wire. “It’s him,” Lula said, sticking her hand into her big bedazzled purse and rooting around in it looking for her gun. Lula was out from behind the wheel of her Firebird, running across the road, waving her gun and yelling, “Bond enforcement!”. Virgil went deer in the headlights for a moment, then bolted for the corner with Lula in pursuit. Even in the dark of night I could see that Lula was running flat--out in her spike--heeled Via Spigas. Her spandex miniskirt was up around her waist, and one of her basketball--sized boobs had popped out of her tank top. He reached Lula’s red Firebird, wrenched the door open, jumped in, and took off. And it got all my makeup in there.”. “Guess you left the key in the ignition,” I said, gasping for air, coming alongside Lula. “Then go around and pull me in.”. I climbed into the cab from the passenger side, crawled over, and gave Lula a hand up. “There’s a awful lot of doohickeys here.”. “I thought you said you knew how to drive one of these.”. “I’m just sayin’ this here’s a fancy rig. I used to drive my Uncle Jimmy’s dump truck before I got established as a ’ho.”. She planted a Via Spiga on the clutch pedal and shifted. “It don’t matter if we lose a gear or two on account of this baby got a lot of them.”. We slowly drove down the street. Good thing there weren’t any cars there.”. I caught flashing strobes in my side mirror. “It’ll waste my time and I gotta get to the chop shop before they start on my Firebird. He’ll come in handy when we get to Stark Street and we confront Larry Virgil. This is our lucky day.”. The cop car zipped past us and came to a stop just before the next intersection, blocking our way. The patrolmen jumped out of the way, and Lula punted the patrol car halfway down the block before bringing the semi to a stop. That moron Larry Virgil stole my car and I gotta get to Stark Street before my baby’s nothing but spare parts. “Lula didn’t totally have the hang of driving this thing.”. Eddie’s partner, Jimmy, was standing alongside him. “Her grandmother would make my life a living hell.”. “What do you want to do about the car?” Jimmy asked Eddie. And I can get him to check with the chop shop to make sure they don’t take Lula’s car apart.”. Ranger is a former Special Forces operative turned businessman and security expert. He owns Rangeman, an exclusive security firm housed in a stealth building in downtown Trenton. I made a short call to Ranger and joined Lula and Eddie at the side of the truck. “That would be if I had a gun,” Lula said, thinking twice about her offer since she didn’t have a permit to carry concealed. Eddie took the key, opened the door to the freezer truck, and a body fell out. It was a chocolate--covered man, sprinkled with chopped pecans, totally frozen. “I’m going to see if I can get the trunk open on the squad car so I can get some crime scene tape and rubber gloves.”. Lula looked into the trailer. Somebody’s gonna be real disappointed in the morning if they don’t get their ice cream delivery. Not that I’d turn my nose up at a carton of this here ice cream if it accidentally fell out of the truck.”. “That would be tampering with evidence,” Jimmy said. “Just sayin’.”. Eddie returned with some yellow tape and a box of disposable gloves. “They wouldn’t look good on me, and they’d ruin my nail varnish.”. A shiny black Porsche Cayenne drove up and eased to a stop, and Ranger got out. He’s the boss, but he still works alongside his men if the threat level is high or if they’re short--handed. “I don’t want to go through his pockets and ruin the chocolate.”. Eddie and Ranger pulled on rubber gloves, crammed the stiff back into the truck, and closed the door on him. We drove to Stark Street in silence, and Ranger parked in front of the chop shop. A Rangeman guy who looked like the Hulk except for the part about being green got out of the Explorer and walked over to us. Tonight it was said softly with an undertone of desire, as if he might take me home and stay awhile. It gave me an instant rush, and heat curled through a bunch of my internal organs. It was a good moment, but I think it’s a little like planning on winning the lottery or contemplating losing five pounds. What were you doing with the freezer truck?”. “Lula and I were staking out Larry Virgil, and he drove up in the semi. And Lula crashed the truck into Eddie Gazarra’s squad car.”. “And the deceased?”. “We opened the door to look inside and the guy fell out.”. “As it turns out,” Ranger said, “I’ve been hired by Harry Bogart. In the past it’s been confined to competitive pricing, ripping off recipes, ads that pushed the boundaries of libel, and occasionally a shouting match at a family function.”. “They’re related?”. “Cousins.”. “And I guess they don’t like each other.”. “Not even a little. Bogart is sure it’s Mo Morris out to ruin him, but he can’t prove anything.”. “So he’s hired you.”. “His factory is old--school. He says ice cream is happiness and comfort and his customers would turn to birthday cake and mac and cheese if they thought his ice cream was under siege.”. “He sounds like a nice man.”. “He’s ruthless and miserly. I’m told that everyone gets to take a pint of ice cream home with them at the end of the shift in Mo Morris’s plant.”. “Hard to pass that up.”. Ranger stopped in front of my apartment building’s back door. The kiss was light but lingering, sending a clear message of checked passion. “I’ll make the arrangements for you to start work at Bogart’s plant and be back in touch,” Ranger said. “Have a good night?”. “Eddie Gazarra called you, didn’t he?”. “Cupcake, everyone called me, including your mother and the Trenton Times.”. “News travels fast.”. “Not every day someone gets dipped in chocolate and sprinkled with nuts. Usually people in Trenton just get stabbed and shot.”. I squeezed between Morelli and Bob, flipped the lid up on the pizza box, and took a piece.

The second thrilling novel in the New York Times bestselling Under Suspicion series following The Cinderella Murder , featuring intrepid television producer Laurie Moran as she investigates the case of a missing bride—new from Encore at a great price! "Fans of MWA Grand Master Clark will find plenty of intrigue and excitement in this contemporary thriller...Clark keeps readers guessing and in suspense."

Hope to Die propels Alex Cross's greatest challenge to its astonishing finish, proving why Jeffery Deaver says "nobody does it better" than James Patterson. "Behind all the noise and the numbers, we shouldn't forget that no one gets this big without amazing natural storytelling talent--which is what James Patterson has, in spades. "It's no mystery why James Patterson is the world's most popular thriller writer: his uncanny skill in creating living, breathing characters we truly feel for and seamless, lightning-fast plots. "Twenty years after the first Alex Cross story, he has become one of the greatest fictional detectives of all time, a character for the ages."

In Jurassic Park , Michael Crichton taps all his mesmerizing talent and scientific brilliance to create his most electrifying technothriller. An island off Costa Rica will soon be the world's most ambitious theme park--a dinosaur preserve.

It’s Dr. Kay Scarpetta’s birthday, and she’s about to head to Miami for a vacation with Benton Wesley, her FBI profiler husband, when she notices seven pennies on a wall behind their Cambridge house. In this 22nd Scarpetta novel, the master forensic sleuth finds herself in the unsettling pursuit of a serial sniper who leaves no incriminating evidence except fragments of copper. "In her twenty-second Scarpetta novel, Cornwell's forensic knowhow is still at the cutting edge - even though Scarpetta was the prototype for most of TV's crack forensic investigators today - and her final scenes are both logical and shocking." "This is in many ways the best of the recent Scarpetta novels, boasting an involving story and some fine writing. This never-stop action plot is yet another gift to readers from Patricia Cornwell-a literary artist that is never going to stop writing some of the best and most memorable thrillers out there." Dr. Kay Scarpetta and her family and friends just keep growing as characters, and Cornwell's plots are still taut and tangled. VERDICT Deduction is the key to solving this mystery, and Scarpetta fans will relish this nail-biting novel, Cornwell's debut with publisher Morrow." "Dr. Kay Scarpetta... [is] an awesome force in the field of forensic science." "Bestseller Cornwell's thrilling 22nd novel featuring Dr. Kay Scarpetta . pits the chief medical examiner against a threat uncomfortably close to home. is an unslacking commitment to doing their jobs right-getting to the bottom of things, in Scarpetta's case; providing complexity and depth and suspense and thrills, in Cornwell's. This is in many ways the best of the recent Scarpetta novels, boasting an involving story and some fine writing. Everyone knows Scarpetta; she has the wit, intelligence, and strength that any forensic sleuth should own. This never-stop action plot is yet another gift to readers from Patricia Cornwell-a literary artist that is never going to stop writing some of the best and most memorable thrillers out there. Bestseller Cornwell s thrilling 22nd novel featuring Dr. Kay Scarpetta . pits the chief medical examiner against a threat uncomfortably close to home. Dr. Kay Scarpetta [is] an awesome force in the field of forensic science. In her twenty-second Scarpetta novel, Cornwell s forensic knowhow is still at the cutting edge - even though Scarpetta was the prototype for most of TV s crack forensic investigators today - and her final scenes are both logical and shocking. VERDICT Deduction is the key to solving this mystery, and Scarpetta fans will relish this nail-biting novel, Cornwell s debut with publisher Morrow. Dr. Kay Scarpetta and her family and friends just keep growing as characters, and Cornwell s plots are still taut and tangled. is an unslacking commitment to doing their jobs right-getting to the bottom of things, in Scarpetta s case; providing complexity and depth and suspense and thrills, in Cornwell s. I should warn you that there s a cliffhanger ending.

Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding audio transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. I can’t imagine American literature without it.” —John Leonard, Los Angeles Times. “A triumph.” —Margaret Atwood, The New York Times Book Review. “Toni Morrison’s finest work. [It] sets her apart [and] displays her prodigious talent.” — Chicago Sun-Times. An extraordinary work.” — The New York Times. Resonates from past to present.” — San Francisco Chronicle. “A brutally powerful, mesmerizing story. “Toni Morrison is not just an important contemporary novelist but a major figure in our national literature.” — New York Review of Books. “A work of genuine force. Beautifully written.” — The Washington Post. “There is something great in Beloved : a play of human voices, consciously exalted, perversely stressed, yet holding true. a glorious book.” — The Baltimore Sun. A profound and shattering story that carries the weight of history. rich, provocative, extremely satisfying.” — Milwaukee Journal. Toni Morrison has become one of America’s finest novelists.” — The Plain Dealer. A lasting achievement.” — The Christian Science Monitor. “Written with a force rarely seen in contemporary fiction. One feels deep admiration.” — USA Today. Morrison shakes that brilliant kaleidoscope of hers again, and the story of pain, endurance, poetry and power she is born to tell comes right out.” — The Village Voice. “A book worth many rereadings.” — Glamour. “In her most probing novel, Toni Morrison has demonstrated once again the stunning powers that place her in the first ranks of our living novelists.” — St. Louis Post-Dispatch. “Shattering emotional power and impact.” — New York Daily News.

It begins a magnificent tale of adventure that will plunge the members of the Fellowship of the Ring into a perilous quest and set the stage for the ultimate clash between powers of good and evil. As Bilbo's nephew, Frodo, and his friends take center stage to help dispose of the ring before some truly unsavory characters can obtain it, Inglis demonstrates he is up to the task of relating the original story's drama, suspense, and dark mysticism.

The Poisonwood Bible is a story told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959. Barbara Kingsolver is the bestselling author of the novels, The Bean Trees and Pigs in Heaven, as well as collected essays, High Tide in Tucson.

Riding with Call are an Eastern city slicker, a witless deputy, and one of the last members of the Hat Creek outfit, Pea Eye Parker, now married to Lorena -- once Gus McCrae's sweetheart. Accompanied by an inappropriate railroad accountant from Brooklyn, a reluctant Texas deputy and gangling, awkward Pea Eye Parker (who is trying to give up the Ranger life and settle down to farming and family with the lovely ex-whore Lorena), Call sets off, roaming the border country in his competent, unassuming fashion. As in some great 19th-century saga, the story has more than its share of improbable coincidences--people meeting fortuitously in thousands of square miles of empty territory, hearing vital news at appropriate and inappropriate moments--but these seem only mild contrivances to shape a story packed with action, terror, humor and pathos.