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Cover Her Face (Adam Dalgliesh Mysteries) by P D James Publisher Comments Headstrong and beautiful, the young housemaid Sally Jupp is put rudely in her place, strangled in her bed behind a bolted door. Coolly brilliant policeman Adam Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard must find her killer among a houseful of suspects, most of whom had... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Dark Voyage: A Novel by Alan Furst Publisher Comments “In the first nineteen months of European war, from September 1939 to March of 1941, the island nation of Britain and her allies lost, to U-boat, air, and sea attack, to mines and maritime disaster, one thousand five hundred and ninety-six merchant... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Chronicles of Narnia #02: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C S Lewis Publisher Comments They open a door and enter a world Narnia ... a land frozen in eternal winter ... a country waiting to be set free. Four adventurers step through a wardrobe door and into the land of Narnia -- a land enslaved by the power of the White Witch. But when... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price: $3.98 Sale - Mass Market
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The Comfort of Strangers by Ian McEwan Publisher Comments As their holiday unfolds, Colin and Maria are locked into their own intimacy. They groom themselves meticulously, as though someone is waiting for them who cares deeply about how they appear. When they meet a man with a disturbing story to tell, they... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Beat To Quarters :Hornblower 6 by C S Forester Publisher Comments "Before there was Patrick O'Brian, there was C. S. Forester, " said the Wall Street Journal in a recent review that described the eleven-volume series of Horatio Hornblower novels as "spellbinding."<P>This epic saga of turmoil and triumph on the... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Blue at the Mizzen (Aubrey-Maturin) by Patrick Obrian Publisher Comments Napoleon has been defeated at Waterloo, and the ensuing peace brings with it both the desertion of nearly half of Captain Aubrey's crew and the sudden dimming of Aubrey's career prospects in a peacetime navy. When the Surprise is nearly sunk on her way... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell Staff Pick Leave it to Sarah Vowell to roam across America in search of the motivations and culture of political murder. Obsessive, edifying, and, of course, witty, Assassination Vacation is unlike any other historical tourism or travel writing book you'll ever... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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On Chesil Beach: A Novel by Ian McEwan Publisher Comments A novel of remarkable depth and poignancy from one of the most acclaimed writers of our time. It is July 1962. Florence is a talented musician who dreams of a career on the concert stage and of the perfect life she will create with Edward, an earnest... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh Publisher Comments An outsider's account of a troubled aristocratic family, written by the celebrated English novelist. Charles Ryder, the narrator, is a dull and rather pompous undergraduate at Oxford when he meets Sebastian Flyte, a wealthy and sybaritic classmate. The... (read more) Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Secrets of Angels & Demons: The Unauthorized Guide to the Bestselling Novel by Dan Burstein and Arne de Keijzer Publisher Comments From the team that brought you the New York Times bestselling Secrets Of The Code: The Unauthorized Guide to the Mysteries Behind The Da Vinci Code, comes the first literary companion to Dan Brown's bestselling novel, Angels & Demons. Secrets Of... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $5.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Sandman, Volume 7: Brief Lives by Neil Gaiman Publisher Comments Brief Lives is the seventh volume in the story of The Sandman. Delirium, youngest of the extended family known as the Endless, prevails upon her brother Dream (the Sandman) to help find their missing sibling, Destruction. Their odyssey through the... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $9.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Lost Files of Nancy Drew (Nancy Drew) by Carolyn Keene Publisher Comments This stunning, interactive book is narrated by Nancy Drew herself. Inside youll learn all about Nancys favorite mysteries, meet the creators of Nancy Drew, and see the art from the 77-year history of the series. With interactive elements on each spread... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Selected Poems 1957-1994 by Ted Hughes Publisher Comments Poems from every phase of the career of a great poet This selection of Ted Hughes's poetry, made by the author himself in 1995, includes poems from every phase of his four-decade career. Here are poems from Hughes's first book, The Hawk in the Rain, and... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Charlotte's Web by E B White Publisher Comments In his classic and beloved novel, E. B. White tells the memorable story of Wilbur, a littlepig who becomes famous with the help of his clever friend Charlotte and their chatty animal neighbors. As the runt of the litter, Wilbur struggles to survive from... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Just a Dream by Chris Van Allsburg Publisher Comments Walter is a litterbug who does not appreciate the beauty of nature, or understand his role in keeping the planet healthy . . . until a fantastic journey shows him the tragic fate that could befall Earth if humans like him are not more careful. Are... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her by Melanie Rehak Publisher Comments Winner of the Edgar Award for Best Biography * A Chicago Tribune Best Book of 2005* Winner of the Agatha Award for Non-Fiction "A feat of daring worthy of Nancy herself." Los Angeles Times Nancy Drew has survived the Depression, World... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror by Richard A. Clarke Publisher Comments THE EXPLOSIVE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER With all-new excerpts from Richard Clarke's dramatic public testimony, and revealing corroboration from The 9/11 Commission Report From the 9/11 Commission Report: "On the day of the meeting [September 4, 2001... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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When Pride Still Mattered: A Life of Vince Lombardi by David Maraniss Publisher Comments More than any other sports figure, Vince Lombardi transformed football into a metaphor of the American experience. The son of an Italian immigrant butcher, Lombardi toiled for twenty frustrating years as a high school coach and then as an assistant at... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Metamorphoses of Ovid: A New Verse Translation by Ovid and Allen Mandelbaum Publisher Comments Through Mandelbaums poetic artistry, this gloriously entertaining achievement of literature-classical myths filtered through the worldly and far from reverent sensibility of the Roman poet Ovid-is revealed anew. “[An] extraordinary translation... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Ethan Coen and Joel Coen: Collected Screenplays 1: Blood Simple, Raising Arizona, Miller's Crossing, Barton Fink by Ethan Coen and Joel Coen Staff Pick Arguably the most talented filmmaking siblings around, the Coens have blessed the cinema with their unique blend of dark humor, kinetic insanity, and mid-western values. To open one of their screenplays is to behold some of the finest screenwriting... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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