Hardcover Fiction

by Michael Crichton · Knopf

YA-Beautiful, bright, and talented Meredith Johnson arrives at Digital Communications Technology company to become the head of a division, a position that Tom Sanders thought was going to be his. Meredith, his former lover, invites him to her office after hours and attempts to seduce him. When he rejects her, she accuses him of sexual harassment. Tom hires Louise Fernandez to defend him and reverses the accusation to name Meredith as the aggressor. To this plot, Crichton adds computer-industry sabotage, corporate mergers, video-linkups, stock options, CD-ROM jargon, and even a trip on a virtual-reality simulator to help Tom save his reputation and career. YAs will love all the technology and the author's easy, readable style, but the graphic sex and obvious theme that harassment is power may make Disclosure.

by Danielle Steel · Delacorte Press

When Freddie chases a ball into the street, he is hit by a car and breaks his arm, and the experience teaches him a lot about safety

by Robert James Waller · Warner

Fall in love with one of the bestselling novels of all time -- the legendary love story that became a beloved film starring Clint Eastwood and Meryl Streep. If you've ever experienced the one true love of your life, a love that for some reason could never be, you will understand why readers all over the world are so moved by this small, unknown first novel that they became a publishing phenomenon and #1 bestseller. The story of Robert Kincaid, the photographer and free spirit searching for the covered bridges of Madison County, and Francesca Johnson, the farm wife waiting for the fulfillment of a girlhood dream, The Bridges of Madison County gives voice to the longings of men and women everywhere -- and shows us what it is to love and be loved so intensely that life is never the same again.

by Robert James Waller · Warner

Jellie Braden and Michael Tillman discover the bittersweet side of love and the boundaries of passion.

by Robin Cook · Putnam

Leaving their urban hospital for a modern medical facility in Bartlet, Vermont, Doctors Angela and David Wilson begin to notice puzzling details in the deaths of several terminal patients there

by LaVyrle Spencer · Putnam

by Laura Esquivel · Doubleday

by Jonathan Kellerman · Bantam

Child psychologist Alex Delaware returns in a story that begins with a childlike chant and finishes with Alex at the end of a chain of unexpected deaths

by W.E.B. Griffin · Putnam

As part of an American mission to sabotage Argentinean arms trading with the Nazis, a young U.S. Marine must deceive his own father, a powerful Argentinian known as "el Coronel." Reprint.

by Tom Clancy · Putnam

I Pentagon planlægges en aktion for at redde en gruppe amerikanere ud af en nordvietnamesisk krigsfangelejr, og Jack Kelly, vietnamveteran og specialuddannet flådeofficer, udses til opgaven. Han er imidlertid dybt involveret i en mere personlig redningsaktion

by Peter Hoeg · Farrar, Straus & Giroux

A Time Best Book of the Year · An Entertainment Weekly Best Book of the Year · A People Best Book of the Year · Winner of the CWA Silver Dagger Award · A Finalist for the Edgar Award for Best Mystery Novel First published in 1992, Peter Høeg's Smilla's Sense of Snow instantly became an international sensation. When caustic Smilla Jaspersen discovers that her neighbor--a neglected six-year-old boy, and possibly her only friend--has died in a tragic accident, a peculiar intuition tells her it was murder. Unpredictable to the last page, Smilla's Sense of Snow is one of the most beautifully written and original crime stories of our time, a new classic.

by Lawrence Sanders · Putnam

by Diana Gabaldon · Delacorte Press

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The third book in Diana Gabaldon’s acclaimed Outlander saga, the basis for the Starz original series. “Triumphant . . . Her use of historical detail and a truly adult love story confirm Gabaldon as a superior writer.”—Publishers Weekly In this rich, vibrant tale, Diana Gabaldon continues the story of Claire Randall and Jamie Fraser that began with the now-classic novel Outlander and continued in Dragonfly in Amber. Sweeping us from the battlefields of eighteenth-century Scotland to the West Indies, Diana Gabaldon weaves magic once again in an exhilarating and utterly unforgettable novel. He was dead. However, his nose throbbed painfully, which he thought odd in the circumstances. Jamie Fraser is, alas, not dead—but he is in hell. Waking among the fallen on Culloden Field, he is concerned neither for his men nor his wounds but for his wife and their unborn child. Lord, he prayed passionately, that she may be safe. She and the child. It’s a prayer he’ll utter many times over the next twenty years, never knowing but always hoping that Claire made it through the standing stones, back to the safety of her own time. Safe she is, but believing Jamie gone forever, she’s obliged to live without a heart, her only comfort their daughter, Brianna. But now, their daughter grown, she discovers that Jamie survived, and a fateful decision lies before her: Stay with her beloved daughter, or go back to search Scotland’s dangerous past for the man who was her heart and soul, sustained only by the hope that they will still know each other if she finds him.

by Jayne Ann Krentz · Pocket

"'Wait for me;' he said. 'When this is all over, I'll come for you.' Reva had fled the danger, left South America, longing for him, never believing he would make good his promise. But he had. Just when she thought she had her life in order, when she had found Bruce, the polished, sophisticated man she meant to marry, Jeff Corbett had walked back into her life. Tall, lean, hard, tough, he didn't mince words. She was his. He would never forget her rash, impulsive surrender. His lion like eyes commanded, compelled. Could she make him understand? She was her own woman. But how long could she resist his arrogant, urgent demands?" -- Back cover.

by Roddy Doyle · Viking Press

Es ist 1968. Patrick Clarke ist zehn Jahre alt, und abends sitzt er vor dem Fernseher, knabbert Chips und sinniert über die amerikanischen Soldaten, die im Mekong-Delta gegen 'Gorillas' kämpfen. Er liebt den Geruch seiner Wärmflasche und das Gefühl im Mund, wenn er eine Lebertrankapsel zerbeißt. Er haßt Zoos, läßt sich ungern küssen und empfindet die Jungs aus der neuerbauten Sozialsiedlung als seine natürlichen Feinde. Seinen kleinen Bruder Sinbad kann er nicht ausstehen, dafür ist Kevin sein bester Freund, mit dem er Fußball und Verbrechen spielt. Dennoch ist Paddys Welt alles andere als heil: Sein Vater trinkt zuviel und streitet immer häufiger mit seiner Mutter, und schließlich bekommt auch die Freundschaft mit Kevin einen Riß. Ohne Psychologisierungen, unsentimental und nüchtern, zeichnet Doyle das Leben dieses kleinen Jungen nach, der aus dem Paradies der Kindheit vertrieben wird. Ein einfühlsames, stilsicheres Portrait eines zehnjährigen Jungen und seiner Welt.