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The Special Crimes Unit finds itself targeted by a monster intent on destroying both Noah Bishop and his people. With the body count rising, time is slowly ticking away.

Called "one of the most original talents to emerge in the '90s" by Kirkus Reviews, award-winning author Laurie R. King delivers an intelligent, terrifying, engrossing drama of good and evil,...

Brougham is the stateliest of stately homes, but for Lady Artemis Deverill it proves a lonely, loveless place. Eleanor Milligan, born in downtown Boston, knows only poverty and a continuing...

Brought up in smalltown America by a grandmother who despises her, Cassie McGann's childhood is one of misery and rejection. Fleeing to New York she falls in love with handsome...

Alentejo Blue is the story of the Portuguese village of Mamarrosa told through the lives of those who live there and those who are passing through men and women, children...

Clearings create colonial space. They transform landscape. And perhaps nowhere are these transformations clearer than in those spaces of artifice and artificiality, the colonial garden. These gardens, as microcosms of...

How did life on earth originate? Did replication or metabolism come first in the history of life? In this book, Freeman Dyson examines these questions and discusses the two main...

This is a fascinating and moving portrait of the people who are suffering in a more divided and less egalitarian Australian society. Based on the author's conversations with hundreds of...

At night in the city, anything is possible. Even the truth. For Porter Wren, the city is the story: of millionaires on the make and strippers on the clock. Of...

In the aftermath of the Mexican-American War, two French Jesuit priests travel to the American Southwest to establish a new Roman Catholic diocese. Upon arrival, Father Jean Marie Latour and...

The first African American to win the world heavyweight championship, Jack Johnson was a cultural lightning rod whose professional success and lavish lifestyle attracted both admiration and envy. Johnson recounts...

Studies show that office workers spend the equivalent of six weeks a year just looking for things. Add to that all the time spent trying to organize and prioritize work...

Assume the cow is a sphere. So begins this lively, irreverent, and informative look at everything from the physics of boiling water to cutting-edge research at the observable limits of...

Julian Rodriguez is on a mission for the Mothership. He's been sent to Earth to study human life forms and their bizarre habits - from their disgusting diet (orange sticks...

This is the third collection of the author's historical essays containing 15 essays ranging from an account of the Jesuit Matteo Ricci's mission in China in the 16th century to...

Reality is juggled with myth in three fantasies set in Paris, Pharaoh's Egypt, and the world of hobos. From the author of cult classics The Fan Man, Fata Morganna and...

Japan is the world's richest country in terms of per capita income. Even during a recession the country is in the black. Japan's school system produces a blue-collar work force...

The riveting inside story of college basketball's fiercest rivalry among three coaching legends--University of North Carolina's Dean Smith, Duke's Mike Krzyzewski, and North Carolina State's Jim Valvano--by the king of...

Over the course of his career, "New York Times "bestselling novelist Chris Bohjalian has taken readers on a spectacular array of journeys. "Midwives "brought us to an isolated Vermont farmhouse...

In his new book, , Steve Jones takes on the challenge of going back to the book of the millennium, Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species. Before The Origin, biology...

National Book Award Finalist * A superb novel that delicately unearths the myriad manifestations of extraordinary love between ordinary people, f rom "one of our most gifted writers" (Chicago Tribune)...

With the publication of "All Souls' Rising," Madison Smartt Bell was immediately acclaimed as being "as remarkable a historical novelist as we have in this country" (Harold Bloom). The novel...

Following his acclaimed book about football in the north-east,THE FAR CORNER, Harry Pearson vowed that his next project would not involve hanging around outdoors on days so cold that itinerant...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Janet Evanovich and Lee Goldberg, bestselling authors of The Heist, return in this action-packed, exciting adventure featuring master con artist Nicolas Fox and die-hard FBI agent...

'Their names are Karl, Lottie and Nev, and they work in a coffee shop. That s all you need to know. Actually, you don t even need to know their...

Krisztina is forced into marriage during the Nazi regime. Widowed by the war, she remarries and transforms her chateau into a hotel. Her daughter Ella leaves for New York to...

For twelve-year-old Mary Ann Clark life has always been tough. The pretty daughter of a wife-beating drunk, it is no surprise that she has grown up afraid of her own...

Sunday Simmons and Charlie Brick came to Hollywood to make a movie. They live off their looks and rely on their agents. Today they are stars, so why worry about...

Men, towards the end of the last millennium, felt a sudden tightening of the bowels with the news that the services of their sex had at last been dispensed with....