by Mary Higgins Clark · Simon & Schuster
Nell MacDermott discovers that the boat explosion her husband was killed in was not an accident, but a planned murder. She also discovers that he was not the man she thought he was as she finds out he was involved in illegal real estate deals.
by Tawni O'Dell · Viking Press
An Oprah's Book club, motherhood, backwoods life.
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 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 Sandra Brown · Warner
Ambitious TV reporter Tiel McCoy is driving through New Mexico when she hears over the radio that Sabra Dendy, the 17 year-old daughter of Fort Worth multimillionaire Russell Dendy, has been kidnapped.ááTiel calls her editor and learns that Sara was "kidnapped" by her boyfriend Ronnie and is pregnant.ááTiel is at a gas station store when an armed couple robs the cashier and orders all the customers to the floor.ááThe girl goes into labor and Tiel realizes that she has a huge story on her hands. A tense standoff begins as the FBI and Russell Dendy wait outside.ááTiel learns that Sabra and Ronnie are more afraid of her father-who plans to put the baby up for adoption-than of the FBI and would rather die together than surrender and be kept apart.ááNow it is more than just a story to Tiel as she fights to prevent these two kids from becoming a tragedy.
by Greg Bear · Lucas/ Del Rey/Ballantine
Twelve-year-old Anakin Skywalker and his mentor Obi-Wan Kenobi travel to the planet Zonama Sekot and sense a troubling disturbance in the force that tests the bond between them and makes Anakin face his dark potential.
by Seamus Heaney · Farrar, Straus & Giroux
A New York Times Bestseller. Composed toward the end of the first millennium of our era, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible monster Grendel and, later, from Grendel's mother. He then returns to his own country and dies in old age in a vivid fight against a dragon. The poem is about encountering the monstrous, defeating it, and then having to live on in the aftermath. In the contours of this story, at once remote and uncannily familiar at the beginning of the twenty-first century, Seamus Heaney finds a resonance that summons power to the poetry from deep beneath its surface.
by Johanna Lindsey · Morrow
From one of the most beloved and bestselling writers of romantic fiction in the world... Sabrina is young, lovely, and possesses a sparkling wit, but she feels dreadfully out of place in London Society. Luckily, Ophelia, the daughter of a family friend, has been chosen to usher Sabrina through the all-important first season. Even less keen to be in London is Duncan MacTavish, who has recently learned he is required to assume his grandfather's title and estates. Worse still, a betrothal has already been arranged without his consent to the ravishing, viper-tongued Ophelia. However, circumstances bring him to the enchanting Sabrina. Now this is a woman for whom Duncan would willingly abandon his beloved Scotland. But duty and station forbid Sabrina's and Duncan's desired union. And a secret dwells in the lady's past, and it threatens their romance. Under such adverse conditions a match that should be, a passion that must be, cannot possibly be--unless true love can somehow, miraculously find a way.
by Elizabeth Peters · Morrow
The 12th Amelia Peabody mystery opens in 1914, as the tides of World War I begin to rise. Espionage abounds, pulling in several members of the Peabody Emerson household.
by Jane Smiley · Knopf
In Horse Heaven the universe of horse racing is woven into a marvellous tapestry of joy and love, chicanery, folly, greed and reckless courage. Spanning two years on the circuit, from Kentucky and California to New York and Paris, Jane Smiley's wonderful novel puts us among trainers and track brats, horse-obsessed girls, nervy jockeys, billionaire breeders and restless track wives.
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.
Historical bestseller data sourced from the New York Times Book Review, archived by Hawes Publications.
