Recent Arrivals from P.G's Storybook Emporium

The setting is Atlanta, Georgia - a racially mixed, late-century boomtown full of fresh wealth and wily politicians. The protagonist is Charles Croker, once a college football star, now a late-middle-aged Atlanta conglomerate king whose outsize ego has at last hit up against reality. Charlie has a 29,000-acre quail-shooting plantation, a young and demanding second wife - and a half-empty… Read more about this item

Settling into her new life as a private forensic consultant, Kay Scarpetta agrees to investigate a cold case in Louisiana--the baffling eight-year-old murder of a woman with a history of blackouts and violent outbursts. Then she receives news that chills her to the core: Jean-Baptiste Chandonne--the vicious and unrepentant Wolfman who pursued her to her very doorstep--has asked to see… Read more about this item

Ex-cop Elena Estes once worked for the narcotics division in Florida- until she took one risk too many. Her life shattered, she lives in a self-imposed exile where no one can reach her. But that's about to change when a twelve-year-old girl asks Elena to find her older sister. The wealthy Palm Beach jorsey set into which Erin Seabright has… Read more about this item

The legendary Hollywood Hills are home to wealth, fame, and power -- passing through the neighborhood, it's hard not to get a little greedy. LAPD veteran "Hollywood Nate" Weiss could take or leave the opulence, but he wouldn't say no to onscreen fame. He may get his shot when he catches the appreciative eye of B-list director Rudy Ressler, and his… Read more about this item

Remains were all that was left of the stowaway. He arrived in Richmond's Deep Water Terminal--the ghastly cargo of a ship from Belgium. The decomposed body gives Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta no clues to its identity--or the cause of death. But an odd tattoo soon leads her on an international search to Interpol's headquarters in Lyon, France--and towards… Read more about this item

Percy Jackson isn't expecting freshmen orientation to be any fun. But when a mysterious mortal acquaintance appears on campus, followed by demon cheerleaders, things quickly move from bad to worse. In this forth installment of the blockbuster series, time is running out as war between the Olympians and the evil Titan lord Kronos draws near. Even the safe haven of camp… Read more about this item

A peaceful Minnesota Town, where crime is something that just deosn't happen, is about to face its worst nightmare. A young boy disappears. There are no witnesses, no clues-only a note, cleverly taunting, casually cruel. Has a cold-blooded kidnapper struck? Or is this the reawakening of a long-quiet serial killer? A tough minded investigator on her first, make-or-break case... a local cop… Read more about this item

Welcome to Trenton, New Jersey, where bounty hunter Stephanie Plum's life is about to implode in Janet Evanovich's wildest, hottest novel yet! First a stranger appears while chasing down the usual cast of miscreants and weirdos, Stephanie discovers that a crazed woman is stalking her. Then, the stranger reveals her secrets The woman dresses in black, carries a 9mm Glock, and has a bad… Read more about this item

In this provocative thriller, forensic expert Kay Scarpetta is surrounded by familiar faces, yet traveling down the unfamiliar road of fame.... It is the week before Christmas. A tanking economy has prompted Dr. Kay Scarpetta--despite her busy schedule and her continuing work as the senior forensic analyst for CNN--to offer her services pro bono to New York City's Office of the… Read more about this item

In his brilliant follow-up to In Sunlight or In Shadow, Lawrence Block has gathered together the best talent from popular fiction to produce an anthology as inventive as it is alluring, including Joyce Carol Oates, Lee Child, Michael Connelly, David Morrell, and Jeffery Deaver. Even before Lawrence Block could rest on his laurels from In Sunlight or In Shadow, a question… Read more about this item

"We're just here to look." Helen Brown had no intention of adopting a pet when she brought her sons. Sam and Rob, to visit a friend's new kittens. But the runt of the litter was irresistible, whith her overlarge ears and dainty chin. When Cloe was delivered weeks later, she had no way of knowing that her new family had just been… Read more about this item

Kurt Austin and the NUMA crew must stop a vengeful scientist from tearing apart the very surface of the earth in this fast-paced installment in the #1 New York Times-bestselling series. It is called zero-point energy--contained in all matter, it would become an unlimited resource for anyone able to tap into it. But so far, no one has. And even if… Read more about this item

Sensational Adventures... Spectacular Powers... Heroic Battles... Welcome to Spider-Man's World Discover everything you need to know about the amazing wall-crawler and his friends and foes!

On a quiet day, away from the hustle of Richmond, in a small cottage on the Virginia coast, Dr. Kay Scarpetta receives a disturbing phone call from the Chesapeake police. Thirty feet deep in the murky waters of Virginia's Elizabeth River, a scuba diver's body is discovered near the Inactive Naval Shipyard.As the police begin searching for clues, the wallet… Read more about this item

Messenger is the masterful third novel in the Giver Quartet, which began with the dystopian bestseller The Giver. Matty has lived in Village and flourished under the guidance of Seer, a blind man known for his special sight. Village was once a place that welcomed newcomers and offered hope and homes to people fleeing poverty and cruelty. But something sinister has… Read more about this item

Ruby is determined to have a better life when she leaves her bitter childhood behind for post-World War II Washington, D.C. Working for the navy as a secretary, she is young, pretty, and happy for the first time...and she falls in love. The harsh reality of life as a military wife-and the loneliness that comes with it- destroys her illusions but… Read more about this item

From the creators of the Hugely Popular BBC quiz show QI and the best-selling Book of General Ignorance: 1,227 mind bending facts. Did you know? -Cows moo in regional accents. -the international dialing code for Russia is 007 -The water in the mouth of a blue whale weighs more than it's body. -Pants are responsible for twice as many accedents as chain saws. -Saddam Hussein's bunker… Read more about this item

"Five hundred years before Christ in a little town on the far western border of the settled and civilized world, a strong new power waw at work... Athens had entered upon her brief and magnificent flowering of genius which so molded the world of mind and of spirit that our mind and spirit today are different...what was then produced of… Read more about this item

How would you feel if you found out your parents had been keeping a secret from you all your life? What if you got kidnapped in the middle of the night and were accused of being a witch or a wizard? And then you wer etold that everything you loved- your books, your music, your pictures, were banned forever? Meet brother… Read more about this item

The grand master of adventure fiction brings Kurt Austin back for his most dangerous mission: stopping a mining tycoon who plans to overthrow the Russian government while distracting the U.S. with a man-made natural disaster caused by a notoriously unstable compound known as "fire ice."