Anchor Books

While in Paris, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is awakened by a phone call in the dead of the night. The elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside the museum, his body covered in baffling symbols. As Langdon and gifted French cryptologist Sophie Neveu sort through the bizarre riddles, they are stunned to discover a trail of clues...

Eliza Naumann, a seemingly unremarkable nine-year-old, expects never t o fit into her gifted family: her autodidact father, Saul, absorbed in his study of Jewish mysticism; her brother, Aaron, the vessel of his father's spiritual ambitions; and her brilliant but distant lawyer-mom , Miriam. But when Eliza sweeps her school and district spelling...

In his long-awaited and provocative new book, George Friedman turns his eye on the future-offering a lucid, highly readable forecast of the changes we can expect around the world during the twenty-first century. He explains where and why future wars will erupt (and how they will be fought), which nations will gain and lose economic and political...

Carrie may be picked on by her classmates, but she has a gift. She can move things with her mind....

Redemptive love, of a scurrilous type, is the theme of this edgy debut, in which a memorable cast of minor characters orbit Crow's troubled English protagonist. Nineteen-year-old Lee Trebilcock (pronounced "Tre-Bill-Coe") is a "tom-cat with the birds," a Swedish pornography enthusiast and a working-class everylad who lives with his dotty mother,...

This book recounts the events of a single day in The International Hotel in Belfast in January 1967. The inaugural meeting of the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association will take place the next day, setting in motion the events that will lead to the beginning of the Troubles. But for now Belfast is a small provincial city teetering on the edge...