In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his father, a figure he knows more as a myth than as a man, has been killed in a car accident. This sudden death inspires an emotional odyssey, first to a small town in Kansas, from which he retraces the migration of...

Four stunningly beautiful Connecticut-bred sisters pursue their disparate careers in prolific Steel's latest. There's Candy, 21, a supermodel with an eating disorder, on location in Paris; Annie, 26, a RISD-grad studying painting in Florence; Tammy, at 29 an L.A. TV producer with a new hit and no life; and Sabrina, 34, a workaholic, commitment-phobic family attorney. No matter what, all meet at Mommy and Daddy's for July 4, Thanksgiving and Christmas....

Two women--one American, the other Irish-- trade houses for the summer and the resulting change of scenery helps them remake their lives. The American is Marilyn of Connecticut, mourning the death of her son, the Irish woman is Ria of Dublin, a mother of two, whose husband had an affair and made the woman pregnant. By the author of The Glass Lake.

Unfairly convicted of murder, gunfighter Buck Fletcher is given a last chance at freedom if he can rescue Senator Falcon Stark's daughter from an Arizona cult, a situation complicated by Apaches and someone intent on killing the girl.

To save the life of a young girl who's being stalked by a ruthless hit man, Lincoln and his protégé, Amelia Sachs, are called upon to do the impossible: solve a truly "cold case" -- one that's 140 years old. The Twelfth Card is a two-day cat-and-mouse chase through the streets of uptown Manhattan as quadriplegic detective Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs try to outguess Thompson Boyd -- by all appearances a nondescript, innocuous man, but one whose...

In the Micronesian islands, a top-secret U.S. undersea lab conducting vital biomedical research on a rare jellyfish know as the Blue Medusa suddenly ... disappears. Off Bermuda, a bathysphere is attacked by an underwater vehicle. Austin and Zavala have been in tight spots before, but this timne it's not just their own skins they're trying to save - it's the lives of millions.

Isaac Bell against the Wrecker, who's been destroying trains and railroad facilities around the country for no apparent reason. These horrific incidents are wreaking havoc on the plans of Osgood Hennessy, who's constructing the massive Cascade Canyon Bridge in Oregon.