The plagues of Egypt to the parting of the Red Sea, the story of Moses is one of the most interesting and colorful in the Old Testament. Now that story is brought vividly to life in a fictional setting. Stone Tables explores how God could take ordinary men like Moses and Aaron, with all their weaknesses, and transform them into prophet and priest. Nationally renowned author Orson Scott Card brings new insights to an age-old story. His creative

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A novel of chivalry and wit, bravery and love. Set in Louis XII's reign, it is a drama of one of the finest swordsmen in France, a gallant soldier, of brilliant wit, a tragic poet-lover, and has the face of a clown. His extraordinary lyric powers give birth to a universal hero.

The unacknolweged bastard daughter of the Earl of Torrington, Lily is haunted by visions of the future that she can never change. When she forsees the death of her closet friend, there's something familiar about the details. They're just like the circumstances of a series of recent murders. If she can find the Killer before he strikes, maybe this time she can finally thwart fate and save someone she loves.

Martha Carrier was one of the first women to be accused, tried and hanged as a witch in Salem, Massachusetts. Like her mother, young Sarah Carrier is bright and willful, openly challenging the small, brutal world in which they live. Often at odds with one another, mother and daughter are forced to stand together against the escalating hysteria of the trials and the superstitious tyranny that led to the torture and imprisonment of more than 200 people...

A very contemporary cynic, physically beautiful and sexually adept, crashes his car into a ravine and suffers horrible burns over much of his body. As he recovers in a burn ward, undergoing the tortures of the damned, he awaits the day when he can leave the hospital and commit carefully planned suicide--for he is now a monster in appearance as well as in soul. Then a beautiful and compelling, but clearly unhinged, sculptress of gargoyles by the name...