Hardcover Fiction

by Patricia Cornwell · Putnam

by Anne Rice · Knopf

Anne Rice's richly told new novel for the first time weaves together two irresistible worlds - the witches' world and the vampires' world - in a dance of seduction, death and rebirth. Lestat's mesmerizing friend Louis de Pointe du Lac is tortured by the memory of the child vampire Claudia, whom he loved and lost. With the help of David Talbot, vampire and ultimate fixer from the secret Talamasca organization, Louis appeals to Merrick, the beautiful, mixed-race, illegitimate daughter of the New Orleans Mayfair clan. Merrick must use her black witchcraft to call up the ghost of Claudia - however dangerous this may be - and her search takes her close to the edge, through blood and terror, voodoo and violence. Sweeping from New Orleans to the Guatemalan jungle, this is vampire literature at its most hypnotic, exotic and splendid.

by Barbara Kingsolver · HarperCollins

Wildlife biologist Deanna is caught off guard by an intrusive young hunter, while bookish city wife Lusa finds herself facing a difficult identity choice, and elderly neighbors find attraction at the height of a long-standing feud.

by Christina Schwarz · Doubleday

by Nicholas Sparks · Warner

One of America's bestselling authors returns with a tale about the greatest commitment of all: loving someone forever. When a near-fatal car crash brings Taylor McAden together with Denise Holden, a new resident of Edenton, North Carolina, he must look into his past to see if it's not too late to take a chance on the future.

by Steve Martin · Hyperion

With more than 340,000 copies in print, Steve Martins Shopgirl has landed on bestseller lists nationwide including: New York Times, Publishers Weekly, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, San Francisco Chronicle, Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times. Filled with the kind of witty, discerning observations that have brought Steve Martin incredible critical success, this story of modern day love and romance is a work of disarming tenderness.

by Tom Clancy · Putnam

Time and again, Tom Clancy's novels have been praised not only for their big-scale drama and propulsive narrative drive but for their cutting-edge prescience in predicting future events.

by David Baldacci · Warner

David Baldacci has made a name for himself crafting big, burly legal thrillers with larger-than-life plots. However, Wish You Well, set in his native Virginia, is a tale of hope and wonder and "something of a miracle" just itching to happen. This shift from contentious urbanites to homespun hill families may come as a surprise to some of Baldacci's fans--but they can rest assured: the author's sense of pacing and exuberant prose have made the leap as well.

by Mary Higgins Clark and Carol Higgins Clark · Scribner/ Simon & Schuster

Mary Higgins Clark, America's beloved "Queen of Suspense," and her daughter, bestselling mystery novelist Carol Higgins Clark, team up to write a spine-tingling and heart-warming story. Combining Carol Higgles Clark's ongoing central character, the young and feisty Regan Reilly, and Mary Higgins Clark's Willy and Alvirah, featured earlier in the bestsellers The Lottery Winner and All Through the Night, the story begins when Regan's businessman father Luke Reilly goes missing just before Christmas, held hostage for ransom by his partner's angered and disinherited son. Regan turns for help to her parents' Central Park South neighbors, Willy and Alvirah, with whom she shares not only a talent for detection, but an unusually accommodating genius of a dentist who brings them together. Together, as New York City prepares for Christmas, the three of them join forces to find Luke, only to discover that he is not just missing, but kidnapped, along with the driver of the taxi in which he was riding, a Hispanic single mother of two. The result is a fast-moving novel of suspense for the Christmas season by a mother-daughter writing team that is bound to arouse enormous interest and to receive great publicity

by Richard Paul Evans · Simon & Schuster

The love story of David and MaryAnne Parkin and the storms that their relationship must face when the blissful state of romance vanishes into real-life challenges and difficulties.

by Sidney Sheldon · Morrow

Television news anchor Dana Evans is beautiful and intelligent. She is also fearless, having been a correspondent during the Bosnian war. But when she begins to investigate a string of murders that has wiped out one of America's most prominent families, she is shocked by evidence that points to powerful, international forces.

by John Sandford · Putnam

<b>The ultimate con game thriller from the internationally bestselling master of suspense, John Sandford</b><br><br> When Kidd’s colleague, the hacker Jack Morrison, is mysteriously killed, Morrison’s sister implores him to help her determine his fate. Kidd quickly realizes sinister forces are at work as other talented hackers meet their grisly ends. Will he and LuEllen be able to get to the bottom of this before they’re targeted as well?<br><br><b>***Praise for John Sandford***</b><br><br> ‘One of the <b>great novelists of all time</b>’ Stephen King<br>  <br> ‘A series writer who <b>reads like a breath of fresh air</b>’ <i>Daily Mirror</i><br>  <br> ‘Delivers <b>twists to the very last sentence</b>’ <i>Daily Mail</i><br>  <br> ‘Crime writer John Sandford is <b>one of the best around</b>’ <i>Sun</i><br>  <br> 'John Sandford knows all there is to know about detonating the <b>gut-level shocks</b> of a good thriller' <i>The New York Times Book Review </i><br><i>​</i><br> 'Sandford is <b>consistently brilliant'</b> Cleveland<i> Plain Dealer</i><br><br> ‘<b>Perfect</b> entertainment’ <i>Kirkus Reviews </i>on<i> Escape Clause</i>

by Johanna Lindsey · Morrow

by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson · Bantam

Book Two of the Epic Prequel to the Classic Novel Dune—A Major Motion Picture Sequel to the international bestseller Dune: House Atreides Before Dune . . . The epic tale of Duke Leto Atreides and his rise to power . . . The fierce ambitions of his mortal enemy, Baron Vladimir Harkonnen . . . The struggles of the young girl Jessica, the Baron’s secret daughter, under the harsh training of the Sisterhood school . . . The schemes of Shaddam Corrino to create a synthetic spice that may bring unlimited wealth, or cause the collapse of the Spacing Guild . . . And the implausible dream of Planetologist Kynes to turn the desert planet Dune into a paradise, uniting the desperate Fremen into a force unlike anything the Imperium has ever seen . . . Dune: House Harkonnen continues the epic story that lays the foundation for Frank Herbert’s masterpiece Dune, a complex tale of politics, religion, and the rise and fall of dynasties on a galaxy-spanning canvas. Look for the entire prequel series DUNE: HOUSE ATREIDES • DUNE: HOUSE HARKONNEN • DUNE: HOUSE CORRINO