"Perhaps the best written of all the slave narratives, Twelve Years a Slave is a harrowing memoir about one of the darkest periods in American history. It recounts how Solomon Northup, born a free man in New York, was lured to Washington, D.C., in 1841 with the promise of fast money, then drugged and beaten and sold into slavery. He spent the next twelve years of his life in captivity on a Louisiana cotton plantation. After his rescue, Northup published...

With "interesting characters and a twisting plot," this thriller introduces two women whose friendship that can withstand anything—except murder (Kirkus Reviews).
Kat Grant and Alice Campbell have a friendship forged in shared confidences and long lunches lubricated by expensive wine. Though they're very different women—the artsy socialite and the struggling suburbanite—they're each other's rocks. But even rocks crumble under...

During the French Revolution, a young Englishman gives up his life in order to save the husband of the woman he loves.

Jess needs a fresh start. She's broke and alone, and she's just left her job under less than ideal circumstances. Her half-brother Ben didn't sound thrilled when she asked if she could crash with him for a bit, but he didn't say no, and surely everything will look better from Paris. Only when she shows up, to find a very nice apartment, (could Ben really have afforded this?) he's not there. The longer Ben stays missing, the more Jess starts to dig...

Award-winning USA TODAY bestselling author Sarah Morgan delights again with this uplifting, emotional new novel about family, love and the life-changing power of female friendship When Grace's husband announces he wants a divorce, she packs up her tattered heart and travels to Paris alone, determined to have the holiday of a lifetime. When she meets her rebellious teenage neighbour, Audrey, they forge an unlikely friendship. Grace can't believe how...

A USA Today bestseller's small town romance between opposites is a "laugh-out-loud treat [that] is warmly emotional and richly satisfying" (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
A broken truck, a broken career, and a breakup heard around the world land superstar John Tennessee McCord in Hellcat Canyon. Legend has it that hearts come in two colors there: gold or black. And that you can find whatever you're looking for, whether...

Prince of the Night. Lord of the Damned. King of Vampires. He is Dracula, the most well-known vampire in the world--and this new illustrated edition of Bram Stoker's classic tale of terror offers Dracula as you have never seen him before. Brought to life through the stunning visual artistry of Eisner Award-winning illustrator Becky Cloonan (Demo, American Virgin, Victor Von Doom), this new graphically compelling novel offers a spellbinding, edition...

When the Chamber of Secrets is opened again at the Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry, second-year student Harry Potter finds himself in danger from a dark power that has once more been released on the school.

A young hero discovers her secret past as warlike tensions mount in this YA fantasy series written and illustrated by the author of The Thief of Always.
In the archipelago of Abarat, each island is governed by a different hour of the day. But the Lord of Midnight is determined to rule them all. Ever since Candy Quackenbush arrived here from Chickentown, Minnesota, she's been caught up in his devious schemes. But Candy's adventures...