Winner of The Independent Foreign Fiction Award, this “hauntingly beautiful novel, written by a North Vietnamese Army veteran, manages to humanize completely a people who up until now have usually been cast as robotic fanatics.” —Sunday Time

A brilliant investigation into the debates surrounding Marilyn Monroe's life and the cultural attitudes that her legend revealsThere are many Marilyns: sex goddess and innocent child, crafty manipulator and dumb blonde, liberated woman

In this unforgettable story, British schoolchildren Polly and Digory inadvertently tumble into the Wood Between the Worlds, where they meet the evil Queen Jadis and, ultimately, the great, mysterious King Aslan. We witness the birth of Narnia an

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Jay, a young boy living in a small village in rural Ireland, just on the cusp of becoming a man, is given a letter from his long-dead mother which tears his world apart. Learning for the first time that his father may still be alive, the boy mus

With the horrific events of September 11th, 2001 still all-too fresh on the American consciousness, what do we do if something else happens? In "The Anti-Terror Checklist" security expert and former New York City police officer Bill Stanton expl

How do you tell the history of a war in which more than nine million combatants and nearly seven million civilians across the world died by bullet, fire, hunger and disease? How do you describe the experience of a war that ignited two revolution

Candy Quackenbush of Chickentown, Minnesota, one day finds herself on the edge of a foreign world that is populated by strange creatures, and her life is forever changed.

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As a woman, you have inherent skills that can make you a savvy and successful real estate investor - even if you have never owned property before. Wise Women Invest in Real Estate helps you to combine the skills you already have with real estate

A marvelous portrait of one of the 20th century's great eccentrics, Marion "Joe" Carstairs. Once the world record holder as the fastest female speedboat racer, Carstairs later led a fascinating, bizarre life that ended in 1993 at the age of 93.

In 1921 in Dillon, Texas, twelve-year-old Rose Lee sees trouble threatening her black community when the whites decide to take the land there for a park and forcibly relocate black families to an ugly stretch of territory outside the town. Ages

From the author "The Washington Post" called "marvelous . . . a real genius" comes his most explosive Danilov/Cowley thriller yet. Moscow's Organized Crime Bureau chief Dimitri Danilov once more teams up with William Cowley, head of the FBIUs Ru

You'll be dazzled by this tough, elegant, touching love story about a criminal father and his outcast son. Belmondo Style is a very rare thing indeed: a dark and violent novel punctuated by flashes of unexpected, incredible joy.

Four of today's hottest African-American authors offer sensual novellas for this new collection. The Hunter by Brenda Jackson: Mallory Standish and Hunter Sloan share a steamy one-night stand, but the next morning, Mallory learns that Hunter is

Pinkerton Agents Jane Turner and Philip Beaumont have just finished another difficult assignment abroad; now the office is sending them to Germany. Their job: to find the assassin who almost succeeded in killing Adolf Hitler when he was in Berli

In Shedding Years, Phyllis Greene explores the joys and challenges of the senior years with all the warmth, humor, poignancy, and hard-won insight that made It Must Have Been Moonglow a national favorite. From embracing the advantages and frustr

According to the official newspaper account, the recently deceased Wesley Sultan led a respectable but unremarkable life. Wesley's son, Luke, however, is determined to investigate the father he never knew, and what he discovers is a man whose li