# 1 New York Times bestselling author Judith McNaught crafts a thrilling tale filled with unrelenting suspense, unforgettable characters, and powerful undercurrents of greed, ambition, and desire.
In five years of syndication, Calvin and Hobbes has become an American comic strip sensation, appearing in more than 1,800 newspapers daily and Sunday. The popularity of the strip is complemented by bestselling cartoon collections, which have sold more than one million copies apiece. In this latest collection, never before published in book form, C...more
In SENSE AND SENSIBILITY, Jane Austen writes about two ways of looking at the world in the personalities of two sisters, Elinor the determinedly practical and Marianne the madly romantic. Forced to live in reduced circumstances with their widowed mother and younger sister, the Dashwood girls must rely on marrying well if they are to survive in the ...more
While vacationing on a steamer headed down the Nile, Hercule Poirot gets the funny feeling that all is not well. His suspicions are confirmed when a shot wakes him in the dead of night, forcing him to assume the worst of each of the seemingly pleasant passengers.
The brothers Grimm--Wilhelm and Jacob--devoted their lives to collecting these German legends, originally published in 1812 as CHILDREN'S AND HOUSEHOLD TALES. They include such classics as "Cinderella," "Little Red Riding Hood," "The Sleeping Beauty," "Snow White," and "Rumpelstiltskin."
This collection stretches all the way back to the magazine's founding in the 1920s, gathering the best cartoons of every decade, selected by the New Yorker's cartoon editor. Each decade is prefaced by an essay from the magazine's top writers, including John Updike and Roger Angell. In addition, there are short bios of the most prominent cartoonists...more
Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterwork of honor and injustice in the deep South -- and the heroism of one man in the face of blind and violent hatred One of the best-loved stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has been translated into more than forty languages, sold more than thirty million copies worldwide, served as the basis of an ...more