Fiction Genres

A God in Every Stone is a kaleidoscopic masterpiece of empire and rebellion by a storyteller of dizzying ambition and talent.

A rising star football player for the San Francisco 49ers is the prime suspect in a grisly murder. At the same time, Lindsay is confronted with the strangest story she's ever heard: An eccentric English professor has been having vivid nightmares about a violent murder and he's convinced is real. Lindsay doesn't believe him, but then a shooting is called in-and it fits the professor's description to the last detail.

Twelve-year-old Flavia de Luce, much to her dismay, has been forced to attend Miss Bodycote’s Female Academy, the boarding school that her mother once attended, across the sea in Canada. But all is not lost: On Flavia’s first day in captivity, a charred and mummified body tumbles out of a fireplace chimney in her bedroom. Now, while making friends (and enemies) and assessing the school’s stern headmistress, Flavia is on the hunt for the victim’s identity and time of death, as well as suspects,…

Is death the end . . . or only the beginning?" Ethan Wate has spent most of his life longing to escape the stiflingly small Southern town of Gatlin. He never thought he would meet the girl of his dreams, Lena Duchannes, who unveiled a secretive, powerful, and cursed side of Gatlin

Before Hardin met Tessa, he was a raging storm. During those first moments they met, he realized he needed to keep her for himself---his life depended on it. After they got together, the world would never be the same.

Violently pushed from their ancient farming village of Beit Daras, a Palestinian family tries to reconstitute itself in a refugee camp in Gaza. The men here, those who have escaped prison or the battlefields, worry over making ends meet, tend their tattered pride, join the resistance.

Equally self-aggrandizing and self-deprecating, our narrator, Oliver Otway Orme, is a painter of some renown, and a petty thief who does not steal for profit and has never before been caught. But he's pushing fifty, feels like a hundred, and things have not been going so well lately. Having recognized the "man-killing crevasse" that exists between what he sees and any representation he might make of it

Jenna Metcalf was with her mother the night she disappeared, but she remembers nothing.

Lirael is no longer a shy Second Assistant Librarian. She is the Abhorsen-in-Waiting, with dead creatures to battle and Free Magic entities to bind. She's also a Remembrancer, and wielder of the Dark Mirror. When Lirael finds Nicholas Sayre lying unconscious after being attacked by a hideous Free Magic creature, she uses her powers to save him

There will be three tasks, spaced throughout the school year, and they will test the champions in many different ways ... their magical prowess – their daring – their powers of deduction – and, of course, their ability to cope with danger.' The TRIWIZARD TOURNAMENT is to be held at Hogwarts. Only wizards who are over seventeen are allowed to enter – but that doesn't stop Harry DREAMING that he will WIN the competition. Then at Hallowe'en, when the Goblet of Fire makes its selection, Harry is…