The magnificent saga It began in Scotland, at an ancient stone circle. There, a doorway, open to a select few, leads into the past — or the grave. Claire Randall survived the extraordinary passage, not once but twice....
Updikes sixth collection of essays and literary criticism opens with a skeptical overview of literary biographies, proceeds to five essays on topics ranging from China and small change to faith and late works, and...
The long-awaited new novel by the award-winning, bestselling author of Startide Rising and The Uplift War - an epic novel set fifty years from tomorrow, a carefully-reasoned, scientifically faithful tale of the fate...
Darkness falls…despair abounds…evil reigns… Eragon and his dragon, Saphira, have just saved the rebel state from destruction by the mighty forces of King Galbatorix, cruel ruler of the Empire. Now Eragon must travel...
Elves of Cintra (Genesis of Shannara 2)
With his groundbreaking New York Times bestseller The Sword of Shannara and its acclaimed sequels, Terry Brooks brought a new audience to epic fantasy. Then he gave the genre a darkly compelling contemporary twist in...
Tragedy has struck His Majesty’s Aerial Corps, whose magnificent fleet of fighting dragons and their human captains valiantly defend England’s shores against the encroaching armies of Napoleon Bonaparte. An epidemic...
The multiple-award-winning science fiction master returns to the universe that is his greatest triumph--the world of "Hyperion and "The Fall of Hyperion --with a novel even more magnificent than its predecessors. Dan...
Set at the end of World War II, this novel explores the lives of four very disparate people who find themselves holed up together in a ruined villa north of Florence as the war retreats around them. The author was...
From the author of Fatherland comes an extraordinary World War II thriller about the desperate Allied attempts to crack the Germans` secret code. Historically accurate and suspensefully written, here is entertainment...
Essential Visual History of World TPB
From the dawn of civilization to the first decade of the 21st century, this straightforwardly written, superbly accessible reference distills the concentrated essence of world history into a single compact, 544-page...
Eternal Husband and Other Stories
Five classic short stories by Dostoevsky are collected in a single anthology for the first time, showcasing the author`s strange and intoxicating literary genius.
It was the quiet ones you had to watch. That`s where the real passion was lurking. They came together at Mountainview College, a down-at-the-heels secondary school on the seamy side of Dublin, to take a course in...
Nabokov`s fourth novel, The Eye is as much a farcical detective story as it is a profoundly refractive tale about the vicissitudes of identities and appearances. Nabokov`s protagonist, Smurov, is a lovelorn,...
One frozen January morning at 5am, Inspector Wallander responds to what he believes is a routine call out. When he reaches the isolated farmhouse he discovers a bloodbath. An old man has been tortured and beaten to...
Carol Beckwith and Angela Fisher have spent 30 years and travelled more than 270,000 miles to create this collection. Each image unfolds new and revealing perspectives; taken together, they create nothing less than...
Nowadays firemen start fires. Fireman Guy Montag loves to rush to a fire and watch books burn up. Then he met a seventeen-year old girl who told him of a past when people were not afraid, and a professor who told him...
Four men and a woman are reduced to a microscopic fraction of their original size, sent in a miniaturized atomic sub through a dying man`s carotid artery to destroy a blood clot in his brain. If they fail, the entire...
"Heinlein is more responsible for the development of modern science fiction than any other man!" - The New Yorker.
Christopher Snow is different from all the other residents of Moonlight Bay, different from anyone you`ve ever met. For Christopher Snow has made his peace with a very rare genetic disorder that leaves him dangerously...
In the days before the Civil War, there lived a Louisiana people unique in Southern history. For though they were descended from African slaves, they were also descended from the French and Spanish who had enslaved...
