Brilliant...One of the best books of the season.ASSOCIATED PRESSA triple murder in a Moscow amusement center: three corpses found frozen in the snow, faces and fingers missing. Chief homicide investigator Arkady Renko is brilliant, sensitive, honest, and cynical about everything except his professio[...]

Welcome to Madison Park, a small community in Alabama founded by freed slaves in 1880. And meet Eric Motley, a native son who came of age in this remarkable place where constant lessons in self-determination, hope, and unceasing belief in the American dream taught him everything he needed for his jo[...]

Amid the leafy avenues and comfortable houses of the English suburbs, the residents of Arlington Park live out the dubious accomplishments of their ordinary lives in a world rife with contentment and anxiety but empty of belief, in a novel that follows a single rainy day in the lives of the various [...]

"Nobody, I believe, has ever found it possible to like the heroine of "Mansfield Park."" --Lionel Trilling
In this ingenious new twist on "Mansfield Park," the famously meek Fanny Price--whom Jane Austen's own mother called "insipid"--has been utterly transformed; she is now a rich heiress who i[...]

Growing up in the 1930s, there is no more magical place than Palisades Amusement Park in New Jersey - especially for seven-year-old Antoinette, who horrifies her mother by insisting on the unladylike nickname Toni, and her brother, Jack. Toni helps her parents, Eddie and Adele Stopka, at the stand w[...]

In 1993 Marie Gesto disappeared after walking out of a supermarket. Harry Bosch worked the case but couldn't crack it, and the twenty-two-year-old was never found. Now, more than a decade later, with the Gesto file still on his desk, Bosch gets a call from the District Attorney. A man accused of two[...]

It's Rafe Khatchadorian's first day at Hills Village Middle School, and it's shaping up to be the worst year ever. He has enough problems at home without throwing his first year of middle school into the mix, but luckily he's got an ace plan for the best year ever--if only he can pull it off. With h[...]

Kuro begins her intensive training with a master Mototsumitama to learn a new style of martial arts. Though he compliments her form, she still has much to learn. Meanwhile, Excel has miraculously resurfaced. Her knowledge of the Kaionji group would be invaluable ...if she hadn't lost all her memory.[...]

With the danger in Okinawa now passed, Keita, Kuro, and Akane return to Tokyo. Though Kuro and he were ultimately victorious in Okinawa, Keita worries that his own weakness is holding back the team and begins training even harder to face the battles that lie ahead. Unfortunately, more than danger is[...]

Though Mana is somewhat able to counteract the effects of the Tribal Ends' tranquilizer, victory against Kaien seems impossible in her weakened state. But Mana would rather admit defeat fighting on her own than accept the help offered by Kuro, Keita, and Arie. Will the strict laws of her clan preven[...]

James Patterson's winning follow-up to the #1 "New York Times" bestseller "Middle School, The Worst Years of My Life"--which the "LA Times" called "a perfectly pitched novel"--is another riotous and heartwarming story about living large.
After sixth grade, the very "worst" year of his life, Rafe [...]

In this follow up to the #1 "New York Times" bestseller "I Funny," middle schooler Jamie Grimm has big dreams of being the best stand-up comic in the world--and he won't let the fact that he's wheelchair-bound stand in his way. After winning the New York state finals in the Planet's Funniest Kid Com[...]