Crown Publishing Group

A NovelThe return of a classic, by bestselling author Pamela Kaufman.Richly rewarding, superbly written. . . . The richness of the characters, the historical details, and the story as a whole make this novel a memorable reading experience.Chicago Sun-TimesEleven-year-old Alix is the daughter of the baron of Wanthwaite, whose lands along the...

A NovelLook Out for Falling StarsCharlotte Lottie Love has a thing for celebrity. Actually, its more of an obsession. All her life shes lurked in the shadows of Hollywood, desperate to step into the light. When she lands a job at Personality magazine, her dreams of red-carpet strolls, popping flashbulbs, and the attention of white-hot heartthrobs...

The ';master storyteller' (Publishers Weekly) and bestselling author of Gates of Fire, The Afghan Campaign, and Killing Rommel returns with a stunning, chillingly plausible near-future thriller about the rise of a privately financed and global military industrial complex.The year is 2032. The third Iran-Iraq war is over; the 11/11 dirty bomb attack...

A NovelAcclaimed author Anne Roiphe evokes the sights and sounds of 1880s Alexandria, Egypt, a bustling center of trade and travel. From teeming docks to overflowing market stalls, from grand homes to grimy narrow alleyways, cholera microbes rise and bob in streams of water and tiny droplets, clinging to moisture as man clings to air.With a keen...

A NovelKeith Donohue has been praised for his vivid imagination and for evoking ';the otherworldly with humor and the ordinary with wonder' (Audrey Niffenegger). His first novel, The Stolen Child, was a national bestseller, and his second novel, Angels of Destruction, was hailed as ';a magical tale of love and redemption that is as wonderfully...

A NovelWith over 10 million copies sold, bestselling author Robert James Waller returns with the haunting, evocative story of a small town, a beautiful and mysterious woman, and the man forever changed by both.The wild places are where no one is looking anymore. Out there on the high plains, among the Sioux reservations and the silent buttes, among...