"Bertie Wooster (a young man about town) and his butler Jeeves (the very model of the modern manservant)--return in their first new novel in nearly forty years: Jeeves and the Wedding Bells by Sebastian Faulks. P.G. Wodehouse documented the lives of the inimitable Jeeves and Wooster for nearly sixty years, from their first appearance in 1915 ("Extricating Young Gussie") to the his final completed novel (Aunts Aren't Gentlemen) in 1974. These two were...

"When lifelong best friends Shawn Spencer and Burton 'Gus' Guster stumbled into crime solving, they had no clue that their detective agency, Psych, would cause such a scene. With Shawn's fake psychic sleuthing and sidekick Gus' nose for clues, the unlikely duo tackles countless murders and mysteries, from the weirdly wacky to the daringly dangerous"--Container.

Domestic disturbance: A father discovers that his son's new stepfather is not who he pretends to be -- Face/off: Government agent Sean Archer, whose son was killed in an assassination attempt by Castor Troy, years later assumes Castor's face in order to bring down Troy's terrorist group, while Castor uses the same technique to assume Archer's identity -- The general's daughter: A military investigator is determined to uncover the truth behind a...

Belfast, 1909. The Harland and Wolff shipyard has been handed the greatest project in its history. It will build a great, unsinkable ship. And it will be called the RMS Titanic. The untold story of the building of a legend, and the many lives it affected during its 3-year construction. To its wealthy investors, it was a dream. To the middle class who oversaw the project, it was as challenge. But to the working class who built it, Titanic was the start...

December 1943. In the years before the rise of Hitler, the Gerber family's summer cottage was filled with laughter. Now, as deep drifts of snow blanket the Black Forest, German dissenter Franka Gerber is alone and hopeless. Fervor and brutality have swept through her homeland, taking away both her father and her brother and leaving her with no reason to live. That is, until she discovers an unconscious airman lying in the snow wearing a Luftwaffe...

"Between Casanova's time and ours stretch two centuries of ignorance and misunderstanding. This remarkable man has been thought of as a Don Juan of the salons, cold and indifferent to women, but in this new book Lydia Flem rediscovers him as he really was, an ardent man of the Enlightenment, a true friend and lover of women." "In Paris, Rome, Berlin, St. Petersburg, and London, this comedians' child could be found in aristocratic milieus or low dives,...

For more than two hundred years the Lake District has been regarded as one of the most beautiful regions of England. Today it continues to exercise a powerful hold on the imagination and, despite its popularity --- more than 20 million people visit every year --- has managed to retain its natural beauty and tranquility. But what is the source of its magnetic attraction and how did it come to exert such a spell? -- Ian Thompson, who grew up in nearby...

An orphan girl dreams of becoming a ballerina and flees her rural Brittany for Paris, where she passes for someone else and accedes to the position of pupil at the Grand Opera house.

A playboy and an interior decorator develop a dislike for each other when they share a party line, until he sees her for the first time and begins to romance her with a different identity; rivals from competing advertising agencies try to win the same client; a happily married hypochondriac thinks he is dying and tries to find a suitable new spouse for his unsuspecting wife; when housewife Beverly Boyer suddenly becomes famous as the spokesperson...

"Ed and Al come face to face with the 'father' of the homunculi, who just so happens to be a dead ringer for their own father, Van Hohenheim--a resemblance too uncanny for coincidence. And later, when the allure of immortality proves to be too much for Prince Lin of Xin, he lets Greed take over ... literally!"--P. [1] of cover.