In colonial Malaya, a young woman's desperate choice to become a ghost bride for a wealthy, deceased heir plunges her into a perilous afterlife of vengeful spirits, ancient customs, and a forbidden earthly romance.
With King Alfred's health failing, the Viking-raised Uhtred must choose between his personal quest for vengeance and helping to forge a unified England, as the land faces renewed pagan chaos.
Lieutenant Davenport must confront his own fractured psyche when he hunts two opposing killers—one monstrously scarred, the other chillingly charismatic—who reflect the very edges of his sanity.
A radio talk show host investigates the disappearances of lonely women on cruise ships. She soon discovers the killer is hunting her, and the men closest to her might be the predator she seeks.
As a storm hits the isolated Ellingham Academy, teen detective Stevie Bell must find a current murderer and solve a 75-year-old cold case before she is killed.
When 10-year-old Jackson's family faces homelessness again, his giant, imaginary cat, Crenshaw, reappears to help him navigate the harsh realities of poverty and the power of believing in the impossible.
Framed for treason and murder, a defiant female alpha must lead her mate and pack in a desperate fight for vengeance against a corrupt council, even if it means sacrificing everything she holds dear.
During the British invasion of Burma, a poor boy, Rajkumar, builds a teak empire and spends his life trying to reunite with Dolly, a woman exiled from the Glass Palace, as their lives reflect the making of nations.
In a world where the Great Library controls all knowledge and forbids personal books, a black-market smuggler's son must betray his family or join a dangerous rebellion when his friend's invention threatens to burn both heretics and forbidden texts.
Michael and his electrically-charged friends, the Electroclan, race to Peru's jungles to rescue his kidnapped mother and stop Dr. Hatch's global plot before their powers vanish.
Four uniquely talented children, each hiding a secret, compete in a national candy-making contest where the sweetest creations might just reveal the most unexpected truths about friendship and family.
Seventeen-year-old Janie unwillingly enters other people's dreams, a curse that turns her into an active participant in a terrifying nightmare, blurring the lines between observer and victim.
On an island of rich and poor, a summer of romance and family secrets makes a young woman face uncomfortable truths about her past, her future, and the boy she thought she knew.
From the hard streets of San Francisco, where he and his toddler son were homeless, Chris Gardner's strong spirit made a way to Wall Street, ending a family pattern of abandonment and showing what the American Dream can be.
In the cursed town of Sparrow, where drowned witch sisters return annually to steal bodies and lure boys to their deaths, a local girl must choose between saving a mysterious newcomer and succumbing to the town's wicked legacy.
Alain de Botton brings ancient wisdom from six philosophers to help modern readers with love, money, and self-doubt, showing how philosophy can still guide the soul.
Augusten Burroughs navigates the hilarious and harrowing tightrope of sobriety, trading his glamorous drunken Manhattan life for the fluorescent reality of rehab, only to face the ultimate challenge: returning to his old world, sober.
An 11-year-old, hurricane-found, quick-witted girl in a small Southern town must solve a murder to save her eccentric adoptive family, all while secretly searching for her birth mother.
Hercule Poirot investigates strange thefts at a student hostel, where a diamond ring in soup and cut rucksacks point to a complex plot beyond simple kleptomania, and a widespread fear suggests a killer lives among the eccentric residents.
A charismatic doctor's seemingly perfect life unravels into a chilling true crime saga when he is accused of murdering his pregnant wife and two young daughters, leaving the nation to wonder if he is a grieving husband or a cold-blooded killer.
