Contents: The goophered grapevine.--Po' Sandy.--Mars Jeem's nightmare.--The conjurer's revenge.--Sis' Becky's pickaninny.--The gray wolf's ha'nt.--Hot-Foot Hannibal. Note these stories were written...

Whitehead lays out the city of New York from the perspective of an inhabitant in 13 parts.

The Ellison sisters were proper young Victorian ladies. In the foggy streets outside their peaceful home, five women were found horribly murdered. And Police Inspector Pitt found himself wondering if the Ellisons were in fact too good...

Dostoevsky’s last work, about a family torn apart by greed and jealousy. Three, possibly four, brothers gamble, steal, commit patricide and talk to the devil. It’s like daytime T.V. mated with a tract on existential philosophy, but in...

Knowing that she alone can protect her sister from the Baron Harwood, their lecherous stepfather, Victoria Temple Whiting snatches the family's heirloom necklace-believed to hold the power to bring great happiness or terrible tragedy-to...

London 1815. Though newly-widowed Lily Adler is returning to a society that frowns on independent women, she is determined to create a meaningful life for herself even without a husband. She's no stranger to the glittering world of...

The newest installment of Alexander McCall Smith's perennially popular and irresistibly charming 44 Scotland Street series. Bertie's respite from his overbearing mother, Irene, is over. She has returned home from the Middle East, only...

As "Sherlock Holmes, consulting detective," Charlotte Holmes has solved murders and found missing individuals. But she has never stolen a priceless artwork--or rather, made away with the secrets hidden behind a much-coveted...

Journalist Michael Booth has lived among the Scandinavians for more than ten years, and he has grown increasingly frustrated with the rose-tinted view of this part of the world offered up by the Western media. In this timely book he...