The Ruby Ring
A Novel
Written by Diane Haeger

Format: eBook, 384 pages
On Sale: April 5, 2005
Price: $13.95

From critically acclaimed historical novelist Diane Haeger comes The Ruby Ring, an unforgettable story of love, loss, and immortal genius . . .

Rome, 1520. The Eternal City is in mourning. Raphael Sanzio, beloved painter and national hero, has died suddenly at the height of his fame. His body lies in state... Read more >

Unimaginable Zero Summer
A Novel
Written by Leslie Stella

Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: April 26, 2005
Price: $12.95

Perhaps you too have experienced the nausea brought on by the arrival of an invitation to a high school reunion.

Bookstore clerk and culture junker Verity Presti will soon attend her fifteenth reunion with her boyfriend, the unfortunately but aptly named Charlie Brown, who lives with his parents while training to... Read more >

The Madonna of Las Vegas
A Novel
Written by Gregory Blake Smith

Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: August 23, 2005
Price: $13.00

It’s the hair-raising countdown to a new millennium, and Cosmo Dust watches in dismay as the wreckage of his life comes into garish focus in the glow of post-Sinatra Las Vegas. Surrounded by the simulacra of Western civilization, Cosmo finds himself strong-armed by the Golden Calf Casino into recreating the ceiling... Read more >

The Bright Forever
A Novel
Written by Lee Martin

Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: May 3, 2005
Price: $14.00

On an evening like any other, nine-year-old Katie Mackey, daughter of the most affluent family in a small town on the plains of Indiana, sets out on her bicycle to return some library books.

This simple act is at the heart of The Bright Forever, a suspenseful, deeply affecting novel about the... Read more >

The Loo Sanction
A Novel
Written by Trevanian

Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: August 23, 2005
Price: $13.95

A First-Rate Thriller from a Legendary Master

Jonathan Hemlock, the art professor and mercenary who first excited readers with his daring exploits in The Eiger Sanction, returns in an even more masterful adventure in The Loo Sanction, Trevanian’s second thrilling spy novel. Hemlock has gone to England to rest, but his vacation... Read more >

Zipporah, Wife of Moses
A Novel
Written by Marek Halter

Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: July 5, 2005
Price: $13.95

In the time of the Pharaoh, a tiny infant is rescued from the banks of the Red Sea. She is named Zipporah, “the little bird.” Although she is a Cushite by birth—one of the black people of the lands to the south—she is taken in by Jethro, high priest and sage... Read more >

The Linnet Bird
A Novel
Written by Linda Holeman

Format: eBook, 432 pages
On Sale: May 17, 2005
Price: $14.95

“For you, I will write of it all—part truth, part memory, part nightmare—my life, the one that started so long ago, in a place so far from here . . .”

India, 1839: Linny Ingram, the respectable young wife of a British colonial officer, settles down to write her life story. In... Read more >

Fan-Tan

Written by Marlon Brando and Donald Cammell
Edited by David Thomson

Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: September 13, 2005
Price: $13.95

A wholly unexpected, hugely entertaining work from one of the greatest actors of our time: the story of an eccentric early-twentieth-century pirate, on the high seas from the Philippines to Shanghai–a larger-than-life character that Brando could have easily inhabited himself.

Anatole “Annie” Doultry is in his early fifties, with an imposing... Read more >

Incendiary

Written by Chris Cleave

Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: August 16, 2005
Price: $12.95

A distraught woman writes a letter to Osama bin Laden after her four-year-old son and her husband are killed in a massive suicide bomb attack at a soccer match in London. In an emotionally raw voice alive with grief, compassion, and startling humor, she tries to convince Osama to abandon his... Read more >

The Lighthouse

Written by P. D. James

Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: November 1, 2005
Price: $15.00

A subtle and powerful work of contemporary fiction.

Combe Island off the Cornish coast has a bloodstained history of piracy and cruelty but now, privately owned, it offers respite to over-stressed men and women in positions of high authority who require privacy and guaranteed security. But the peace of Combe is violated... Read more >