The lives of 4 women of privilege and unique achievement serve as points of entry into the changing world of American power from 1850 through 1950: Literary agent Elizabeth Marbury and her companion, interior designer Elsie de Wolfe; Anne Vanderbilt, founder of a World War I hospital in France; and activist and philanthropist Anne Morgan, who championed the cause of working women.

Supernatural acts, magical meddling, and the wiles of the fairy folk all play their part in Susanna Clarke's marvelous short stories. Clarke conjures a parallel reality where English history and enchantment go together as nicely as tea and crumpets. It's a world where Mary Queen of Scots employs (unsuccessfully) bewitched embroidery to get back at Elizabeth, and fairy folk help a town build a bridge. Also making appearances are characters from Clarke's JONATHAN STRANGE AND MR. NORRELL, including the Raven King, and Strange himself.

Yorsh is a hated elf in a dark, threatening world. But when he finds out about an ancient prophecy about the last dragon and the last elf joining to recreate the world anew, Yorsh sets off on an epic search. A Kirkus Best Children’s Book of 2006.

Set on the reservation where LOVE MEDICINE and its sequels took place, Erdrich's novel again takes on the Nanapush and Kashpaw families. This installment concerns Father Damien, a priest who is actually a woman, and who, nearing the end of his long and eventful life, wants to reveal his true identity and explore the climactic events of which he has been a part--and, specifically, the role of the Catholic church in obliterating the ancient traditions of the Ojibwe. LAST REPORT was nominated for a National Book Award in 2001 and was a New York Times Notable Book.

In this conclusion to the "Wizard of 4th Street" series, Professor Sebastian Makepeace and the wizard Merlin, reincarnated as Billy Slade, battle the cult of Talon.

Career burglar George "Pitty-Pitty" Patniks plots his crimes down to the last detail. He knows exactly what to expect when he hits the home of a wealthy suburban couple--that is until murder interrupts his "perfect" heist. The victim's grieving husband has a perfect alibi and all the evidence points to a burglary gone bad. But weary, wise police detective Abe Lieberman has seen it all--and his instincts tell him something doesn't add up.

Hired by a wealthy man to find a missing bracelet, vampire Jack Fleming ends up with more than he bargained for when he tangles with the obsessively jealous boyfriend of his client's daughter--not to mention the daughter herself. The fifth volume of the "Vampire Files".

In this hair-raising suspense thriller by the author of THE BURNING GIRL, Tom Thorne is back--but he's not exactly on top of the world. Devastated by the death of his father, put on enforced leave from his job as a police detective, Tom is grief-stricken and frustrated. Now, three of London's homeless have been murdered. Thorne, desperate for action of any kind, goes undercover on London's rough streets, hoping to find out who is responsible for the killings--and ends up uncovering the truth about a chilling incident that took place fifteen years earlier.

In this sequel to THE EYRE AFFAIR, literature rules in Fforde's alternate universe-- otherwise known as Wales. The Crimean War is far from over, huge crowds flock to Shakespeare's plays, kids trade bubble gum cards featuring literary figures, and Miss Havisham is still alive and working for the literary police. When Thursday Next's husband is imprisoned in a book, she goes in search of him, barging into everything from THE TRIAL to ALICE IN WONDERLAND in an attempt to get him back.