"Lila Kennedy has a lot on her plate. A broken marriage, two wayward daughters, a house that is falling apart, and an elderly stepfather who seems to have quietly moved in. Her career is in freefall and her love life is . . . complicated. So when her realdad-a man she has barely seen since he ran off to Hollywood thirty-five years ago-suddenly appears on her doorstep, it feels like the final straw. But it turns out even the family you thought you...

An impulsive good deed transforms the mundane life of Ridley Jones, a young New York City writer, when she receives a mysterious package that forces her to question everything she knows about herself and sends her on a dangerous quest.

In the summer of 1953, two 11-year-old boys--best friends--are playing in a Little League baseball game in New Hampshire. One of the boys hits a foul ball that kills his best friend's mother. Owen Meany believes he didn't hit the ball by accident. He believes he is God's instrument. What happens to Owen after 1953 is extraordinary and terrifying. He is Irving's most heartbreaking hero.

Thorvald, having always felt apart from the community of Norse warriors and gentlefolk inhabiting the Orkney Isles, learns upon coming to manhood that he is really the son of Somerled, a war leader exiled for treachery, and sets out in a boat to find his parent, not realizing the beautiful Creidhe, who has loved him since birth, has stowed away, determined to be with him.

Lonely, unfulfilled, and consumed with memories of his passionate affair with Francesca Johnson in Madison County, Iowa, ten years earlier, photographer Robert Kincaid takes to the road again to return to the bridge where it all began.

In the turbulent years after the rise of the Berlin Wall, Germany stood dangerously divided between freedom and Communism. Dodging border patrols and guard posts, a silent few were able to cross the borders of the Iron Curtain to deliver needed supplies, always at the risk of their own lives. This is the past Faith Whitney knew. The daughter of an active smuggler of religious paraphernalia, Faith was raised on the danger that such a life brought...

New York City private investigator Sydney Sloane has enough drama in her own family to make her normally shy away from such cases professionally. But this one is different. Her friend, and father of her godchild, Captain John Cannady of the NYPD has been critically shot in the hallway of his own apartment building, with few traces of the shooter left behind. Just after the shooting, his wife Peggy got a call from a man claiming to be the son she gave...