When sculptor Edgar Tyrell's niece is reported missing, investigating P.I. Jake Keogh starts to turn up some very odd things about the Tyrell clan--odd enough that he calls a friend of the vampire Southland family for backup.

In the first of a projected trilogy, Stephenson explores alchemy as one of the roots of mathematics and computers. With the ancestors of characters appearing in CRYPTONOMICON (Stephenson's previous novel), this literary adventure traverses Europe of the 1700s, with stops in the laboratories of some of the most famous scientists of the day, while in a separate timeline set one hundred years earlier, a drifter attempts to help a young woman exact revenge against her former captors. Winner of the 2004 Arthur C. Clarke award and a New York Times Notable Book for 2003.

A companion to the Harry Potter series of books, this is a reproduction of the text Harry studies at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. A comprehensive look a the game of Quidditch, this title covers such subjects as the evolution of the game and rules and regulations of play. All proceeds from the sale of this book will go to Comic Relief U.K.

Originally published in Britain as "The Berlin Memorandum," this book introduces Quiller, an agent for a British spy agency that is so secretive that it has no official existence. Quiller spent World War II infiltrating Nazi camps to arrange escapes, and in this post WW II story, he exposes a neo-Nazi conspiracy group in Berlin.

The poet Maxine Kumin writes a mystery about an animal research lab that raises questions about ethics.