| The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Movie Tie-in Edition) (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)
| Stieg Larsson's #1 bestselling mystery featuring Lisbeth Salander is now a major motion picture directed by David Fincher, starring Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara, from Columbia Pictures/Sony. In theaters December 2011. The first volume in the Millennium Trilogy, and an international publishing sensation, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo combines murder mystery, family saga, love story, and financial intrigue into one satisfyingly complex and entertainingly atmospheric novel.
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| The Girl Who Played with Fire (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)
| Part blistering espionage thriller, part riveting police procedural, and part piercing exposé on social injustice, The Girl Who Played with Fire is a masterful, endlessly satisfying novel. Mikael Blomkvist, crusading publisher of the magazine Millennium, has decided to run a story that will expose an extensive sex trafficking operation. On the eve of its publication, the two reporters responsible for the article are murdered, and the fingerprints found on the murder weapon belon...More
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| Dodge the Bullet
| Two years after her husband’s death, Sarah Woodward moves her boys away from their fast paced life in suburban Atlanta to small town Hailey, Colorado. But Sarah doesn’t know a Colorado Senator has earmarked her ranch for purchase and he’ll do anything to get it. Unwilling to sell, she dismisses his continued offers and moves ahead by improving the land with the help of a sexy stranger. A.J. Dodge is a man with a past. He’s returned to his hometown ready to set down roots and make things ...More
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| Primary Justice
| The newest release from the author of Wrecker.Life after prison was already going badly for Billy Fargo, and that was before he found out he’s the skeleton in a very important person’s closet.When Billy Fargo walks out of prison he’s determined to take revenge on the man who framed him. But before he can, he’s back in trouble with the law. This time it’s a double murder charge. Living on the outside is hard, but why is it getting harder?Private eye Ricky Willmar is dead set on finding ...More
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| Rutledge Werewolves: Scent of Passion (Book 1)
| Book 1 in the Rutledge Werewolves series Sophie Briggs threw caution to the wind for one night, and found herself six weeks later staring at a scary line on her positive home pregnancy test. Now the biggest problem she has to face is whether or not to contact the father, a man she hardly knows. He may not know about her and the baby, but she is learning lots about him. Her nightly dreams are hot enough to ignite the bed sheets! Artemais Rutledge, as Alpha Werewolf for his Pack, had been se...More
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| Treasure Island (Illustrated Junior Library)
| A classic tale of buried treasure, pirates, and exciting adventure on the high seas returns in an illustrated reissue from the Illustrated Junior Library, featuring a striking new cover.
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| The Summoner: (The Dominic Grey Novels)
| "Favorite book of the year so far." --A Novel Source The Summoner A United States diplomat disappears in front of hundreds of onlookers while attending a religious ceremony in the bushveld of Zimbabwe. Dominic Grey, Diplomatic Security special agent, product of a violent childhood and a worn passport, is assigned to investigate. Aiding the investigation is Professor Viktor Radek, religious phenomenologist and expert on cults, a...More
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| Collision of Evil
| As evening falls against the majestic backdrop of the Bavarian Alps, Charles Hirter, an American tourist, is savagely murdered. In the peace, quiet and pastoral splendor of this magnificent setting, Charles Hirter draws his last breath. Was Charles simply in the wrong place at the wrong time?Kommissar Franz Waldbaer, the German detective in charge of the case, faces an investigation that yields neither clues nor suspects nor motives. A gruff, go-it alone detective, Waldbaer is dismayed by the ar...More
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| Yellow Crocus: A Novel
| Moments after her birth to the mistress of a sprawling Virginia plantation, Lisbeth Wainwright is entrusted to Mattie, an enslaved wet nurse. From then on, Mattie serves as Lisbeth's stand-in mother, nursing her, singing her to sleep, and soothing her in the night. And yet mothering Lisbeth tears Mattie away from her own baby, Samuel, who lives in the slave quarters. Growing up under Mattie's tender care, Lisbeth adopts her traditions of prayer, singing, eating black-eyed peas, and hunting for y...More
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| Stolen (The Madame X School of Sex)
| NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR: I apologize if anyone was confused by the description but I can see from some of the comments that people don't realize this is an erotic PREQUEL with characters in The Madame X School of Sex universe. It is also a SHORT STORY which is part of the description below. If you don't like short stories or erotica consider yourself warned. Please take this warning seriously because when I bring the dirty - I bring it :)Enjoy!~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~Another kinky tale from...More
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| Defending Jacob: A Novel
| Andy Barber has been an assistant district attorney in his suburban Massachusetts county for more than twenty years. He is respected in his community, tenacious in the courtroom, and happy at home with his wife, Laurie, and son, Jacob. But when a shocking crime shatters their New England town, Andy is blindsided by what happens next: His fourteen-year-old son is charged with the murder of a fellow student.Every parental instinct Andy has rallies to protect his boy. Jacob insists that he is innoc...More
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| Presentations in Action: 80 Memorable Presentation Lessons from the Masters
| This is the eBook version of the printed book.World-renowned presentation coach Jerry Weissman has spent 20 years helping top executives succeed in the most important business presentations of their lives. Here’s what he’s learned: the best way to get his message across is to show his techniques in action. Weissman does just that: he teaches how to make spectacularly successful presentations by showing exactly how great presenters have done it. Weissman dives into his library of outstanding ...More
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| For Everything
| Clay Savage, the ebony haired lead guitarist of the rock band Distracted, has wanted dusky eyed Lily Travis since the moment he met her over a year ago. No matter what he said or how hard he tried, Lily insisted on keeping their relationship as nothing more than causal friendship. Weary of her excuses and only wanting a chance, Clay resorts to manipulation and cons Lily into being his weeklong date. Now that Lily can no longer avoid him or conceal herself as a wallflower, Clay determinedly pursu...More
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| Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Dover Thrift Editions)
| This autobiographical account by a former slave is one of the few extant narratives written by a woman. Written and published in 1861, it delivers a powerful portrayal of the brutality of slave life. Jacobs speaks frankly of her master's abuse and her eventual escape, in a tale of dauntless spirit and faith.
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| How to Speak and Write Correctly
| This anthology is a thorough introduction to classic literature for those who have not yet experienced these literary masterworks. For those who have known and loved these works in the past, this is an invitation to reunite with old friends in a fresh new format. From Shakespeare s finesse to Oscar Wilde s wit, this unique collection brings together works as diverse and influential as The Pilgrim s Progress and Othello. As an anthology that invites readers to immerse themselves in the masterpiec...More
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| Jane Eyre (Barnes & Noble Classics)
| Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biog...More
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| Jane Eyre (Illustrated)
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| Water for Elephants: A Novel
| As a young man, Jacob Jankowski was tossed by fate onto a rickety train that was home to the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth. It was the early part of the great Depression, and for Jacob, now ninety, the circus world he remembers was both his salvation and a living hell. A veterinary student just shy of a degree, he was put in charge of caring for the circus menagerie. It was there that he met Marlena, the beautiful equestrian star married to August, the charismatic but twisted a...More
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| Hemingway's Ghost
| Someone’s killing Hemingways!On a whim, six Hemingway impersonators use a Ouija board at Hemingway’s house in Key West, trying to contact the great man himself.And then they start to die.Hemingway’s Ghost is a new Hitckcockian mystery novella (16,000 words, approximately 70 pages in print) by Layton Green, author of Kindle bestselling mystery/suspense novel The Summoner. You can visit Layton at www.laytongreen.com.Praise for the Works of Layton Green“Layton Green is a gifted writer.”...More
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| Castle Cay
| When her best friend dies in Key West, Julie O'Hara knows he never would have committed suicide. For her, there's only one question: Was it an accident, or was Marc Solomon murdered?A body language expert, Julie packs up her expertise along with her suspicion and flies to Boston for the funeral, where she meets Marc's handsome and treacherous brother, Avram, whose grief-stricken posture doesn't fool her at all.But the bombshell is Castle Cay. Julie learns an astounding fact from a prominent ...More
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