A sequel to ANGELS & DEMONS, THE DA VINCI CODE starts off with a bang and doesn't quit, leaving the reader gasping to keep up with the twists and turns of this amazingly popular academic thriller. The naked, spread-eagled corpse of a senior curator is found in the Louvre's Grand Gallery, next to a mysterious message written in his blood. The discovery and the subsequent investigation plunge Harvard professor Robert Langdon into the heart of a centuries-old religious conspiracy. Assisted by the brilliant and beautiful Sophie Neveu, a French police cryptologist who also happens to be the curator's granddaughter, Langdon races to gather clues about an ancient goddess-worshipping cult--purportedly once led by Da Vinci himself--whose members hold the key to one of the most sacred legendary objects, the Holy Grail. Meanwhile, the couple must dodge both the police, who believe Langdon guilty of the curator's murder, and an albino assassin from an extremist Catholic sect who is desperate to prevent Langdon and Neveu from uncovering a secret that could rock Christianity to its very foundations. THE DA VINCI CODE is a blockbuster bestseller that has gained legions of fans around the globe; the extremely obsessed can even take a special tour in Paris that points out all the key locations in the storyline. The book also has many detractors who say they have found significant flaws in the religious and historical research upon which it is based. The debate reached such a fever pitch that the Vatican even appointed a Cardinal responsible for refuting the book's claims. The controversy has only increased the book's popularity, producing a whole host of imitators as well as several books and videos purporting either to further explicate or to poke holes in the THE DA VINCI CODE's plot and historical background.

In the first book of the Deverry series, a young girl must reconcile her half-dreamed friendship with the Wildfolk and the 400-year-old legacy of the death of a pair of innocent lovers.

The saga of Francis Doyle and his gang of irreverent altar boys at Blessed Heart School in 1974.

In 1944, Polish rabbi, mystic, and physicist Yosef Kobinski, imprisoned in Auschwitz, wrote down the mathematical equations delineating good and evil. Then he disappeared. In the present day, a Jerusalem rabbi, a physicist, a journalist, and a member of a classified government organization attempt to track down Kobinski's manuscript--and Kobinski himself.

This second volume in the Engines of Light series picks up where COSMONAUT KEEP left off. The Second Sphere is inhabited by three species abducted from Earth millions of years ago: humans, saurs, and giant-squid krakens. Immortal computer engineer Matt Cairns arrived 200 years ago, and, joined by Gregor, his descendant, a saur, and an immortal astronaut, Cairns rebuilds his interstellar ship and travels to the planet Croatan in an attempt to open up the kraken-and-saur-monopolized trade routes to humans. When his ship is impounded, Cairns seeks out the Powers Above, the highly-intelligent, bacteria-sized beings who govern this realm of the universe, seeking an answer to why they abducted humans, and the other species, from Earth so long ago.

This second volume in the Engines of Light series picks up where COSMONAUT KEEP left off. The Second Sphere is inhabited by three species abducted from Earth millions of years ago: humans, saurs, and giant-squid krakens. Immortal computer engineer Matt Cairns arrived 200 years ago, and, joined by Gregor, his descendant, a saur, and an immortal astronaut, Cairns rebuilds his interstellar ship and travels to the planet Croatan in an attempt to open up the kraken-and-saur-monopolized trade routes to humans. When his ship is impounded, Cairns seeks out the Powers Above, the highly-intelligent, bacteria-sized beings who govern this realm of the universe, seeking an answer to why they abducted humans, and the other species, from Earth so long ago.

Diana Wynne Jones’s hilarious fantasy tale of a world under siege by tourists, Mr. Chesney’s Pilgrim Parties, who come to do battle with the locals disguised as good and evil armies, is wildly funny and packed with realistic human emotion. Derk, a wizard considered to be a freak by the magical community for his many well-publicized failures, must take on the role of the Dark Lord. Havoc ensues as the household--consisting of talking griffins, flying pigs, man-eating flowers, and the like--prepares to take on the challenge, while the powers-that-be secretly plot to bring down the whole enterprise.

Terror lurks in the water, be it flowing in the turbulent waves of Tokyo Bay or more prosaically through the bathroom pipes. This set of aquatic-themed horror tales is by the man known as the "Stephen King of Japan," the author of the international blockbuster THE RING. The story "Floating Water," concerning a woman who becomes convinced that the body and restless spirit of a little girl resides in the water tank of her apartment building, inspired both a 2002 Japanese film and a 2005 American film (DARK WATER, starring Jennifer Connelly). In addition, four of the stories from the collection ("Floating Water," "Dream Cruise," "Adrift," and "Forest Under the Sea") have been adapted into a one-volume manga.

This debut novel, the first installment of a complex high-fantasy trilogy entitled The Prince of Nothing. introduces the reader to a sorcerer-spy, an emperor, a disgraced tribal chieftain, a general, a prostitute, and the mentally disciplined heir to a long-vanished kingdom, who are caught up in an epic holy war.

In the second book of the Deverry series, while trying to retrieve the Great Stone, Jill and Rhody follow a path that will lead them into the very jaws of evil.

An archaeologist in Central Europe, a microbiologist in the Republic of Georgia, and a "virus hunter" in the United States, all working independently of each other, begin to see different parts of a puzzle that suggest a new phase of human evolution is upon us. Winner of the 2000 Nebula Award for Best Novel.