The Toilers of the Sea tells of the reclusive Guernsey fisherman Gilliatt, who salvages the engines of a wrecked ship by performing great feats of engineering, matching wits with sea and storm, and doing battle with a great sea monster - all to win the hand of a shipowner's daughter.

"A true masterwork of storytelling, Dracula has transcended generation, language, and culture to become one of the most popular novels ever written. It is a quintessential tale of suspense and horror, boasting one of the most terrifying characters ever born in literature: Count Dracula, a tragic, night-dwelling specter who feeds upon the blood of the living, and whose diabolical passions prey upon the innocent, the helpless, and the beautiful. But...

"The Jesus DNA" is a thrill-ride depiction of the greatest conspiracy and coverup in all recorded history. What if Jesus had started a bloodline with Mary Magdalene before His crucifixion? Think of all the archaic stories passed down from one generation to another, and what truths might be hidden within them. The heroes of these stories, the "Royal Bloods," are the greatest superheroes the World has never known ... until now. With the advent of...

To Camilla, the trip up the Hudson to the Gothic mansion named Thunder Heights was a return to the home that had never been hers. Now her grandfather is a sick old man, anxious to make his peace with her before he dies. Impending danger, strange crosscurrents, and shadowy terror await her...

The "Woman in White" famously opens with Walter Hartright's eerie encounter on a moonlit London road. Engaged as a drawing master to the beautiful Laura Fairlie, Walter is drawn into the sinister intrigues of Sir Percival Glyde and his "charming" friend Count Fosco, who has a taste for white mice, vanilla bonbons and poison. Pursuing questions of identity and insanity along the paths and corridors of English country houses and the madhouse, The Woman...

"The immense talent, passion and literary brilliance that Conan Doyle brought to his work gives him a unique place in English letters."-Stephen Fry "Doyle's modesty of language conceals a profound tolerance of the human complexity"-John Le Carré "Holmes has a timeless talent, passion and literary brilliance that puts him heads, shoulders and deerstalker above all other detectives."- Alexander McCall Smith Arthur Conan Doyle's The Memoirs...

A popular beach town was torn apart when a teenage girl went missing. Now, one year later, her body is found--strangled and buried deep under the brush of a local beach. But, the cops find another body--a more recent victim--and call in the FBI to look for this serial killer. FBI Agent Tara Mills, still recovering from her last case, is pulled into her second. As she delves into the depths of this beach town, she soon realizes that no one can be trusted--and...

"Fans of golden-age mystery fiction, you're definitely in for a treat. This novel has it all: skillful writing, a drum-tight plot, and snappy, witty dialogue. The Circular Staircase is about Rachel Innes, a well-to-do woman of a certain age. Her Pittsburgh manse is in need of an overhaul, so she decides to spend some time at the country home of a friend to escape the hustle and bustle of the remodeling process. But what appears at first to be a quaint...

Kazan, a hybrid of a wolf and a dog, has been passed around from owner to owner since he was a young puppy. Suffering a long line of abuse at the hands of his previous owners, Kazan felt unloved until he met the wife of his current owner, Thrope. Happy in his new home, Kazan travels to Northern Canada with his owners, where he runs into trouble again. After meeting an unsavory man named McCready, Kazan feels uneasy, and distrusts him immediately....