The characters' lives are linked to each other by acts of generosity or cruelty. A daughter in early 20th century Chicago; a hobo during the Great Depression; an office girl in 1950s Manhattan; the young man reveling in 1960s San Francisco, then later tends to dying friends as the AIDS pandemic hits; as the new century opens, a man who has lost his way finds a measure of peace in a photograph he discovers in an old box-an image of pure and simple...

"The Unwilling is the story of Judah, a foundling born with a special gift and raised inside Highfall castle along with Gavin, the son and heir to Lord Elban's vast empire. Judah and Gavin share an unnatural bond that is both the key to her survival -- and possibly her undoing. As Gavin is groomed for his future role, Judah comes to realize that she has no real position within the kingdom, in fact, no hope at all of ever traveling beyond its castle...

For fans of Ben Winters and Sarah Pinsker, this mind-bending and thought-provoking novel pushes the limits of fiction, questioning the violence sewn into our DNA. Violence is a thing of the past--but do new horrors lie in wait? Imagine a world devoid of violence--a world where fists can't hit, guns don't kill, and bombs can't destroy. In this tantalizing novel of possibility, this has--suddenly and inexplicably--become our new reality. The U.S. president...

Imprisoned for a murder he did not commit, fourteen-year-old Alex Sawyer thinks that he has escaped the hellish Furnace Penitentiary, but instead he winds up in solitary confinement, where new horrors await him.

Once you let them in the lights are on at the Singleton vacation home on Lopez Island, Washington, illuminating the horror within. Scott Singleton, former NFL star turned television evangelist, lies dead. The bodies of his wife and four of their five children are found on the second floor, bound, gagged, and stabbed repeatedly.

Now available in a Grove paperback edition, The Shrine at Altamira by John L'Heureux has the simple shape and powerful impact of Greek tragedy. When Maria Corazon Alvarez meets Russell Whitaker at a school dance, she sees his blue eyes and solid American name as a ticket out of the ghetto into a better life. They dance, they touch, they tumble into a love so strong and elemental it should last forever. But gradually the balance shifts; he loves her...

A two-part novella, with stories that are interrelated and share themes which cross over a thousand years (a chiliad).

Piotr Kalwasik niczym z pozoru nie wyróżnia się na tle otoczenia. Jest zwyczajnym dzieciakiem, który letnie wakacje spędza na koloniach nad morzem. Idzie do dobrego liceum, póżniej się żeni i zostaje pisarzem. Ale od czasu do czasu zdejmuje z twarzy maskę szarego człowieka, stając się mścicielem. Mściciel nie zna litości. Jest wcielonym okrucieństwem i gdy morduje, robi to tak, aby ofiara czuła, że umiera. Niech więc umiera trucicielka...

Śmierć nie pozwala o sobie zapomnieć. Nie można od niej uciec. W Krakowie dochodzi do serii wyjątkowo brutalnych zbrodni. Ktoś naśladuje jednego z najokrutniejszych morderców wszechczasów. Zabójstwa przypominają wynaturzone dzieła sztuki. Morderca nigdy nie pozwala, by śmierć jego ofiar była zbyt szybka i mało spektakularna. Słynny Mortalista, Honoriusz Mond, wierzy w fizykę oraz w biologię. Odrzuca siły nadprzyrodzone oraz wiarę...