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The standard harcover edition of the concluding volume of The Lord of the Rings includes a large format fold-out map and extensive appendices. As the Shadow of Mordor grows across the land, the Companions of the Ring have become involved in separate adventures. Aragorn, revealed as the hidden heir of the ancient Kings of the West, has joined with the Riders of Rohan against the forces of Isengard, and takes part in the desperate victory of the Hornburg....

While doing research for a radio-talk show host, greeting-card artist Wollie Shelley dates lots eligible bachelors but doesn't find Mr. Right. That is, until she stumbles over a dead body en route to a state-run mental hospital and meets a charismatic "doctor" who is on the run from the Mob. Wollie decides to investigate the murder because she is afraid her paranoid schizophrenic brother may be involved.

Karen and Rob Burrows have always handled just about everything well - but what about divorce? Karen and Rob were always great partners, and together they built a life filled with success, good friends, and a beautiful son, Tommy. But as they each get caught up in the stresses of their careers, they realize they lack one thing - real, enduring love for each other. Can two parents who respect each other manage a pain-free separation? Mr. and Mrs. Burrows...

Now, seventeen years after the afternoon that changed her life forever, Jane has everything to live for. A series of reconstructive surgeries has restored her lovely face. She's the toast of the Dallas art community, her edgy sculptures lauded as both disturbing and beautiful. She and her husband, renowned plastic surgeon Dr. Ian Westbrook, are completely in love -- and overjoyed that Jane is pregnant. Then Jane's happiness shatters. A woman with...

A Massachusetts district attorney running for governor wants to use some radical new DNA technology to solve a long-ago murder. The result? A new round of violence.

"The book of the dead is the morgue log. For Kay Scarpetta, it has a new meaning. Moving to Charleston, she opens a forensic pathology practice in which she and her colleagues, including Pete Marion and her niece, Lucy, offer expert crime-scene investigation and autopsies to communities that lack access to modern technology. It seems like an ideal situation, until the battles start with local politicians, with entrenched interests, with someone whose...

The Garden of Eden -- Open house -- Bull's-eye -- A woman of mystery -- The stalker -- Mummy and Jack -- Bonding -- Discards -- Tendrils of love -- Malibu dog -- The back page -- Mr. Barton's head case -- Hot water -- Free parking -- The luck of the draw -- Small miracles -- The summer of my womanhood.

Fearful of emulating her isolated and timid widowed mother, Emma Roberts, herself circumspect, repressed, and brooding, leaves London for Paris to pursue her study of classical garden design. Emma is trying to live "according to the classical ideal, that of order and control and self-mastery," the very life that Brookner has so assiduously examined in each of her subtly powerful psychological novels, which now number 23. Brookner's melancholy but...

Fifty-year-old Susannah Nelson is returning to her hometown of Colville, Washington, to live with her mother, a recent widow who is having difficulties living alone. Susannah begins to regret some decisions she made in the past, including leaving her boyfriend, Jake, when she went abroad to go to school.

It is the 1940's. Rick Barron, a former Beverly Hills police officer, has risen to head of production of Centurion Studios. Professionally powerful and happily married to actress Glenna Gleason, Ricks's at the top of his game. The movie studios are a place where anyone with ambition can rise to fame and fortune--or scandal. But now tensions are running high in Hollywood, and the Red Scare is a sign of bad things to come. The witch hunt is spreading,...