Dune Messiah

by Frank Herbert

Q: What led you to take your particular approach to a history of Muad’dib?

Wicked

by Gregory Maguire

From the crumpled bed the wife said, "I think today's the day.

The Farthest Shore

by Ursula K. Le Guin

IN THE COURT OF THE FOUNTAIN THE SUN of March shone through young leaves of ash and elm, and water leapt and fell throug...

The Woods

by Harlan Coben

I see my father with that shovel.

Split Second

by David Baldacci

The motorcade streamed into the tree-shaded parking lot, where it disgorged numerous people who looked hot, tired and ge...

Mystic river

by Dennis Lehane

WHEN SEAN DEVINE and Jimmy Marcus were kids, their fathers worked together at the Coleman Candy plant and carried the st...

Hour Game

by David Baldacci

THE MAN IN THE RAIN SLICKER WALKED slightly bent over, his breathing labored and his body sweaty.

The Red Thumb Mark

by R. Austin Freeman

CONFLAGRATAM An 1677. Fabricatarn An 1698. Richardo Powell Armiger Thesaurar." The words, set in four panels, which form...

Speaker for the Dead

by Orson Scott Card

Since we are not yet fully comfortable with the idea that people from the next village are as human as ourselves, it is ...

Xenocide

by Orson Scott Card

<Today one of the brothers asked me: Is it a terrible prison, not to be able to move from the place where you're stan...

In the Heart of the Sea

by Nathaniel Philbrick

IT WAS, HE LATER REMEMBERED, "the most pleasing moment of my life"-the moment he stepped aboard the whaleship Essex for ...

Brick Lane

by Monica Ali

An hour and forty-five minutes before Nazucen's life began-began as it would proceed for quite some time, that is to say...

Flow my tears, the policeman said

by Philip K. Dick

Ender's Shadow

by Orson Scott Card

Poke kept her eyes open all the time.

Tattoo Coloring Book

by Jenny Olsen

By the King

by King James VI and I

Kilmeny of the orchard

by Lucy Maud Montgomery

THE sunshine of a day in early spring, honey pale and honey sweet, was showering over the red brick buildings of Queensl...

Omnivore's Dilemma. A Natural History of Four Meals

by Michael Pollan, Richie Chevat

What should we have for dinner?

The One (The Selection #3)

by Kiera Cass

THIS TIME WE WERE IN the Great Room enduring another etiquette lesson when bricks came flying through the window.

Fundamentals of building construction

by Allen, Edward, Edward Allen

A building begins as an idea in someone's mind, a desire for new and ample accommodations for a family, many families, a...