Simon Schuster

In a riveting new thriller from America,s Queen of Suspense, a young woman is ensnared into returning to a place she had wanted to leave behind forever -- her childhood home. There, at the age of ten, Liza Barton had shot her mother, trying desperately to protect her from her estranged step-father, Ted Cartwright. Despite his claim that the...

Some of the strongest passages in 1776 are the revealing and well-rounded portraits of the Georges on both sides of the Atlantic. King George III, so often portrayed as a bumbling, arrogant fool, is given a more thoughtful treatment by McCullough, who shows that the king considered the colonists to be petulant subjects without legitimate...

Lincoln Rhyme, Deaver`s popular paraplegic detective, returns (after The Vanished Man) in a robust thriller that demonstrates Deaver`s unflagging ability to entertain. But even great entertainers have high and lows, and this novel, while steadily absorbing, doesn`t match the author`s best. Geneva Settle, who`s 16 and black, is attacked in a...

Mystery, intrigue and death combine in a riveting thriller that reveals the unknown secrets behind Leonado da Vinci`s "The Last Supper"....

In Our Endangered Values, Carter offers a personal consideration of "moral values" as they relate to the important issues of the day. He puts forward a passionate defense of separation of church and state, and a strong warning of where the country is heading as the lines between politics and rigid religious fundamentalism are blurred....

'All of us face hard choices in our lives,' Hillary Rodham Clinton writes at the start of this personal chronicle of years at the centre of world events. 'Life is about making such choices. Our choices and how we handle them shape the people we become.' In the aftermath of her 2008 presidential run, she expected to return to representing New York...