Detective Alex Cross is pulled out of a family celebration and given the awful news that a beloved relative has been found brutally murdered.

A great recurring character in a series you love becomes an old friend. You learn about their strange quirks and their haunted pasts and root for them every time they face danger.

Jonathan Safran Foer spent much of his teenage and college years oscillating between omnivore and vegetarian.

LAPD Detective Harry Bosch is off the chain in the fastest, fiercest, and highest-stakes case of his life.

Thrust onto Egypt's most powerful throne at the age of nine, King Tut's reign was fiercely debated from the outset.

Margaret and Patrick have been married just a few months when they set off on what they hope will be a great adventure-a year living in Kenya.

In Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, there is a tragedy in the house next door to Lindiwe Bishop--her neighbor has been burned alive.