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The most hated man in the most dour town in Scotland has been dumped into a tank filled with crustaceans--which is then shipped off to Britain's best restaurants.

Paragon of housewifery Trixie Thomas moves to Lochdubh, Scotland, and quickly convinces the local ladies to embrace a healthier, more refined lifestyle.

Darren Shan was just an ordinary schoolboy until his visit to the Cirque du Freak.

Educated, engaged, and the youngest in a prominent family, Whitney has everything she and her father have ever wanted.

A schoolmaster has been found beheaded and crucified in rural Arroyo, West Virginia. Ellery Queen, amateur sleuth, insists that he and his father take up the case.

The first volume of Will Durant's Pulitzer Prize-winning series, this volume chronicles the early history of Egypt, the Middle East, and Asia.

Wealthy Maggie Baird was not a popular woman. So when she dies in a strange car fire, there are five likely suspects right on the premises of her luxurious cottage.

Gorgeous Jane Wetherby has asked Hamish Macbeth to spend Christmas with her and her group of friends. On arrival, though, he's met with hostile locals and uncivil guests.

Jim Harrison's magnificent trilogy of short novels--Legends of the Fall, Revenge, and The Man Who Gave Up His Name--explores the theme of revenge and survival, adding up to an extraordinary vision

While visiting the city, Darren, the vampire's assistant, and his friend Evra discover blood-drained corpses and are determined to catch the creature responsible.

Debonair detective Ellery Queen is on the case of a topsy-turvy murder. A mysterious visitor is found dead in the anteroom of Mandarin Press and the room has been literally turned upside down.

Dashing detective Ellery Queen and his father find themselves at the home of a renowned surgeon after fleeing a forest fire.

Four kids are stranded on a deserted island in the middle of the South Pacific with no supplies. They just lost their only shelter and possibly their one chance at being rescued.

This volume chronicles the history of ancient Greek civilization. Here Durant tells the whole story, from Crete's vast Aegean empire to the conquest of Greece by the Romans.

Rich, old practical joker Andrew Trent summons his kin to his remote home to torment them with a new bag of unfunny jokes.