SHERIDAN LE FANU "stands absolutely in the first rank as a writer of ghost stories", wrote M. R. James, Le Fanu"s great admirer and fellow author. A classic of occult literature, the remarkabl...
Twelve terrific stories starring Detective Inspector John an outstanding creation' (Daily Telegraph). His home city of Edinburgh is not just the tartan tearooms and cobbled streets of the tour...
After twelve years of marriage, the once fortuitous union of Henry Ⅷ and Katharine of Aragon has declined into a loveless stalemate. Their only child, Mary, is disregarded as a suitable hei...
Noah Baker never wanted to betray The Others. But if his "military commanders want him to covertly investigate a Lupine scientist--whose extraordinary research on Sensory perception in werewol...
King Lear has been widely acclaimed as Shakespeares most powerful tragedy. Elemental and passionate, it encompasses the horrific and the heart-rending. Love and hate, loyalty and treachery, cr...
Fireheart is a ThunderClan warrior cat now, but danger still lurks in the forest-and possibly closer than he thinks. With the chill of winter setting in, the cats of rival RiverClan are growin...
In Antony and Cleopatra the majesty of the characterization and the poetry of the language reveal Shakespeare in full maturity and sureness of touch. The unseemliness of the erotic obsession of...
Harry has been burdened with a dark, dangerous and seemingly impossible task: that of locating and destroying Voldemort's remaining Horcruxes. Never has Harry felt so alone, or faced a future ...
When Kenneth Earl realizes his memory is failing, he advertises for someone to help him catalogue his vast collection of music, and so create a record of his life. Maggie, the final candidate,...
It is Harry Potter's sixth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. As Voldemort's sinister forces amass and a spirit of gloom and fear sweeps the land, it becomes more and more cle...
Her husband refuses to respond to her mature delights, leaving her powerless as his interest strays elsewhere. But a chance encounter brings her the opportunity to escape and embrace the taste...
To Americans, Ronald Reagan was a president and a national icon, a man many revered for restoring our faith in ourselves and our country.To Patti Davis, he was a father, the man who taught her...
Barbara Everette, homemaker living in a small town in Mississippi, had the perfect life. She cooked and cleaned and managed all of the chores of the modern suburbanite.., perfectly.But Barbara...
INVESTIGATOR ARKADY RENKO the pariah of the Moscow prosecutor's office, has been assigned the thankless job of investigating a new phenomenon:late-night subway riders report seeing the ghost o...
The war with the Republic of Haven has resumed.., disastrously for the Star Kingdom of Manticore. Admiral Lady Dame Honor Harrington has been recalled from the Sidemore System to command Ei...
"I’M A FABULIST BY TRADE," warns GabrielNoone, alate-night radio storyteller, as he begins to untangle the skeins of his tumultuous life: his crumbling ten-year love affair, his disaffection f...
When Special Agent Kathryn Dance--a brilliant interrogator and kinesics expert with the California Bureau of Investigationmis sent to question the convicted killer Daniel "Son of Manson" Pell ...
"The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line,"Thus speaks WE B Du Bois in The Souls of Black Folk, one of the most prophetic and influential works in American literat...
In a country thick with paranoia and corruption, it's hard to separate rumour from reality. So when a British man's headless body is discovered in an icy, fetid lake in Beijing, it is unclear ...
Jeffrey Goldberg moved from Long Islan’d to Israel while still a college student. In the middle of the first Palestinian uprising in 1990, the Israeli army sent him to serve as a prison guard ...
Life is good for thirty-five-year-old lawyer Jack Hilliard. He has it all - Claire, the wonderful wife he adores, two gorgeous children and a job he loves - and he looks set to make the top sp...
The Phoenix and the Carpet is E. Nesbit"s secondfantasy novel and is the sequel to Five Childrenand It. From Robert, Anthea. Jane and Cyril"s newnursery carpet there falls a mysterious egg whi...
No autobiography was ever more eagerly awaited than Benjamin Franklin"s. Contrary to all expectations, the vast, seemingly primitive, continent of North America had produced in him a genius whose ...
Madeleine is the star of the show at the Pink Lady Cabaret Bar. Her angelic voice and striking looks capture the hearts of many. But she only has eyes for club owner, Steve Drayton, a devastat...
Shakespeare composed Julius Caesar in about 1599, using as his source Sir Thomas North"s translation of Plutarch"s Lives, which had been published about twenty years earlier. He constructed the...
When an offshore container turns up at Aberdeen Harbour full of human meat, it kicks off the largest manhunt in the Granite City's history. Twenty years ago 'The Flesher' was butchering peo...