Tirian, the last king of Narnia, is forced to make a stand against an Aslan imposter who raises forces both from within the land and without. Jill Pole and Eustace Scrubb are summoned to Narnia to help and ultimately to witness the last events.

The story of a widow and the young family who moves in with her ; together they discover the first gift of Christmas.

Fifteen-year-old Dashti, sworn to obey her sixteen-year-old mistress, the Lady Saren, shares Saren's years of punishment locked in a tower, then brings her safely to the lands of her true love, where both must hide who they are as they work as kitchen maids.

Under a new government program based on the saying "It takes a village to raise a child, " the Baudelaire oprphans are adopted by an entire town, with disasterous results.

When Dr. Kay Scarpetta, freelancing from South Florida, returns to Richmond, Virginia, at the request of the recently appointed Chief Medical Examiner, who claims that he needs her help to solve a crime, she finds that nothing is as she left it: her former lab is being demolished; the chief isn't really the one who requested her; her former assistant chief has personal problems that he refuses to reveal; and a glamorous FBI agent meddles with the...

The story follows the life of a suburban, white, middle-class man during a time of family crisis. Jerry's favorite diversion is to take his small plane and fly solo over Long Island. When his daughter and her fiance arrive from Oregon to announce their marriage plans--Theresa's dangerous pregnancy, he thinks back over his life and begins to face his disengagement with it and with his relationships with others: with his deceased wife, the circumstances...