Hardcover Fiction

by John Grisham · Doubleday

by J. K. Rowling · Levine/Scholastic

The summer after his first year at Hogwarts is worse than ever for Harry Potter. The Dursleys of Privet Drive are more horrible to him than ever before. And just when he thinks the endless summer vacation is over, a creature named Dobby the house-elf shows up issuing a grave warning to Harry not to go back to school or disaster will happen! Of course, Harry has to go back- and he does so in grand style, in a flying-car magicked by his friends Ron and Percy Weasley. But getting back to Hogwarts isn't the cure Harry expects it to be. Almost immediately a student is found turned to stone, and then another. And somehow Harry stands accused. Could Harry Potter be the long-feared heir of Slytherin?Harry and friends Hermione and Fred are stretched to their limits in a desperate fight against Draco Malfoy and his gang, the hideously stuck-up new professor Gilderoy Lockheart, the malevolent owner of the diary of Tom Riddle, giant spiders, and perhaps even...Hagrid!This is the book that proves J.K. Rowling is a talent that's here to stay!

by J. K. Rowling · Levine/Scholastic

FOR TWELVE long years, the dread fortress of Azkaban held an infamous prisoner named Sirius Black. Convicted of killing thirteen people with a single curse, he was said to be the heir apparent to the Dark Lord, Voldemort.Now he has escaped, leaving only two clues as to where he might be headed: Harry Potter's defeat of You-Know-Who was Black's downfall as well. And the Azkaban guards heard Black muttering in his sleep, "He's at Hogwarts ... he's at Hogwarts".Harry Potter isn't safe, not even within the walls of his magical school, surrounded by his friends. Because on top of it all, there may well be a traitor in their midst.

by Isabel Allende · HarperCollins

Le 15 mars 1832, dans le port chilien de Valparaiso, les Sommers trouvent à leur porte un bébé abandonné. Eliza va mener une existence de petite fille modèle au sein de sa famille d'adoption, jusqu'à ce qu'elle découvre l'amour à seize ans auprès d'un jeune homme pauvre et exalté, Joaquin Andieta. Quand, en 1849, le bruit court que l'on a découvert de l'or en Californie, Joaquin part tenter sa chance vers le nord. Eliza s'embarque clandestinement sur un voilier, à la recherche de celui dont elle porte l'enfant. Après un voyage infernal, cachée agonisante dans la cale du bateau, elle débarque à San Francisco. Déguisée en homme, elle entreprend un périple pour retrouver Joaquin dans un monde sans foi ni loi, peuplé d'êtres avides et de prostituées. Tao Chi'en, un jeune médecin chinois en quête de sagesse - que les hasards de la vie ont conduit de la Chine de Kuantung à Hong Kong, Valparaiso puis la Californie - l'aide à se frayer un chemin dans cette jungle fiévreuse où se côtoient et s'affrontent des individus de toutes nationalités et conditions. En toile de fond, on assiste à la naissance de San Francisco, à l'explosion soudaine du trafic commercial le long des côtes du Pacifique, entre le Chili et l'Amérique du Nord. Fille du destin est la fresque d'une époque aventureuse, marquée par la violence et l'appât du gain, où les personnages tentent, envers et contre tout, de préserver des parcelles d'amour et d'amitié. Dans cette traversée au long cours, Isabel Allende campe des personnages inoubliables, qui incarnent la tension entre les valeurs aristocratiques de la vieille société européenne et la conquête individualiste du Nouveau Monde... Entre le destin subi de l'héritage et le destin choisi de la liberté. Isabel Allende, journaliste et romancière chilienne, née à Lima en 1942, vit aujourd'hui en Californie. Fille du destin, traduit dans le monde entier, a reçu un accueil exceptionnel de la critique et du public. Traduit de l'espagnol par Claude de Frayssinet.

by Robert Morgan · Algonquin

During their first year of marriage, Julie and Hank move to Gap Creek, South Carolina, where a flood that nearly kills them tests the endurance of their relationship.

by J. K. Rowling · Levine/Scholastic

by Nelson DeMille · Warner

Detective John Corey, last seen in Plum Island, must somehow capture the worlds most dangerous terrorista young Arab known as The Lion who will stop at nothing in his quest for revenge against America for bombing Libya and killing his family.

by Carl Hiaasen · Knopf

Da den politisk indflydelsesrige Palmer Stoat forurener Florida's natur bestemmer miljøidealisten Twilly Spree sig til at give ham en lærestreg

by Michael Crichton · Knopf

Imagine the risks of such a journey.

by Lisa Scottoline · HarperCollins

by E. L. Doctorow · Random House

by Tracy Chevalier · Dutton

Griet, a sixteen-year-old maid, becomes the muse of the great seventeenth-century Dutch painter, Johannes Vermeer.

by Dean Koontz · Bantam

A woman and her husband scour the past for clues after she is gripped by an inexplicable fear of her own image.

by Nicholas Sparks · Warner

A high school rebel and a minister's daughter find strength in each other in this star-crossed tale of "young but everlasting love" (Chicago Sun-Times). There was a time when the world was sweeter....when the women in Beaufort, North Carolina, wore dresses, and the men donned hats.... Every April, when the wind smells of both the sea and lilacs, Landon Carter remembers 1958, his last year at Beaufort High. Landon had dated a girl or two, and even once sworn that he'd been in love. Certainly the last person he thought he'd fall for was Jamie, the shy, almost ethereal daughter of the town's Baptist minister....Jamie, who was destined to show him the depths of the human heart-and the joy and pain of living. The inspiration for this novel came from Nicholas Sparks's sister: her life and her courage. From the internationally bestselling author Nicholas Sparks, comes his most moving story yet....

by Steve Martini · Putnam

Tired of the corrosive politics of Capital City, hot-shot lawyer Paul Madriani has reached a watershed in his life. A new practice in San Diego, the mellow swells of the Pacific, and if things work out, a future with Susan McKay - that's the plan. But when Paul meets an old client, whose eight-year-old granddaughter has been abducted, he is drawn into a case which destroys everything he believes in.