Cry, the Beloved Country is a beautifully told and profoundly compassionate story of the Zulu pastor Stephen Kumalo and his son Absalom, set in the troubled and changing South Africa of the 1940s. The book is written with such keen empathy and understanding that to read it is to share fully in the gravity of the characters' situations. It both touches your heart deeply and inspires a renewed faith in the dignity of mankind. Cry, the Beloved Country...

A gripping vision of our society radically overturned by a theocratic revolution, Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale has become one of the most powerful and most widely read novels of our time. Offered is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead, serving in the household of the enigmatic Commander and his bitter wife. She may go out once a day to markets whose signs are now pictures because women are not allowed to read. She must pray for the COmmander...

She has a crazy name, a heart full of hope, and a passion for making dreams come true.... Honey Jane Moon was a South Carolina orphan, discovered by Hollywood and made into a child star. Now she's all grown up, but her life is still a dramatic and passionate roller coaster. Two men -- Dash Coogan, a cowboy legend, and bad boy actor Eric Dillon -- know how fiercely she lives and loves. But what Honey wants most of all is the family she never had. And...

A novel on love whose protagonists are two married couples. In one case, a farmer's love for his sick wife leads him to kill her. In the second, love brings a police chief back to his wife after an affair. The two cases are linked, the setting is Massachusetts. By the author of Picture Perfect.

Four years after the sudden death of her husband, a powerful White House adviser, Lucy Blacker Swift finds her peaceful life with her teenage children in rural Vermont turned upside down by violence and calls in her late husband's former military buddy, Sebastian Redwing, to help her unravel the truth.

"There aren't many opportunities for young people in Llanfair, so when an exciting and glamorous American woman breezes into town talking of dormant psychic powers and important social research, barmaid Betsy Edwards is quick to take her up on an offer of employment at the recently opened Sacred Grove New Age center not far away."--Jacket.

White House staffer Joan DaCosta finds herself drawn to her Navy SEAL liaison, Lt. Mike Muldoon. As tension mounts between them, a far more sinister danger is lurking. Now, to protect their commander in chief, Joan and Muldoon must not only risk their hearts, but their very lives.

An autopsy reveals that the head of San Francisco's largest HMO was killed by a potassium overdose, placing suspicion on his attending physician. Dr. Eric Kensing turns to attorney Dismas Hardy for help, and Hardy begins looking for the real killer.

"Recruited to help the FBI and the Immigration and Naturalization Service perform the nearly impossible, Lincoln Rhyme and his partner, Amelia Sachs, manage to track down a cargo ship headed for New York City carrying two dozen illegal Chinese immigrants -- as well as the notorious human smuggler and killer known as "the Ghost." But when the Ghost's capture goes disastrously wrong, Rhyme and Sachs find themselves in a race against time to stop the...

An account of the events surrounding the conflict aboard the HMS Bounty focuses on the court-martial of its ten mutineers, citing the breakdown and exile of Fletcher Christian and Lieutenant Bligh's navigation talents.